Rekiwi's Blog

There's been a trend of adverts for fast food restaurants (Carls Jr., Pizza Hut, etc.) presenting their product as actual food in an actual restaurant and "fooling" patrons, catching their reactions à la Candid Camera/Punk'd. What utter hogwash. T… more »

Milk is liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals. My Cheerios were soaked in milk this morning. Eww. more »

Yeah. The only thing good about that movie was Francesca Annis. Damn. Actually, I'm thinking of saffron. Delicate threads of vivid color plucked from crocus flowers by the deft fingers of Kashmiri virgins. And it's freaking expensive. I've alwa… more »

Marmite is the bomb! I'm not quite sure what about being the bomb is good, but my old white dude's pop-culture filter is stuck somewhere in the 90s and it assures me that I have the idiom correct. Having a Kiwi mom made Marmite unavoidable. As a k… more »

My family now drives to Washington State to visit with my parents. Sure, it's a 16- to 18-hour drive, but it: Saves money, both in airline tickets and rental cars. Gives us a chance to visit with friends on the way. Allows us the flexibili… more »