late night with guy mondo

Cambodian rat butcher Louch Savoun holds up a handful of the skinned rodents to a customer in the provincial town of Battambang , some 290 km northwest of Phnom Penh on February 19, 2004. REUTERS/ Chor Sokunthea According to the Reuters News Service the price of rat meat has been significantly affected by the sagging global economy. Inflation in Cambodia is at about 37% and has quadrupled the price of rat meat to about $1.28US/kg putting it almost out of range for a lot of the nation's poor. Comparatively beef in Cambodia costs about $5.20US/kg. Of course, it must be noted that the rat meat we're talking about here is not the average urban scourge but is actually it's country cousin the wild field rat. On the positive side there appears to be an opportunity for some rat meat speculators to make a profit as flooding in the Mekong Delta has cause the rats to flee the lowlands making them an easy catch for villagers. Add this to the growing demand in neighboring countri...

I work in catering and have done quite a few wedding receptions. I've seen a couple of odd cakes (a coffin with a Slinky,and a Homer Simpson inside made by The Ace of Cakes) and cake decorations (full sized Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toys) but none like the pic above. I got this months ago from somewhere on the 'net but I don't recall where. I can only wonder what went on at the reception just based on the drunken abandon I've witnessed at the weddings I was bartending. Today on the Wheels-of-Steel: Pat Suzuki - Miss Pony Tail Method Actors - Dancing Underneath John Martyn - One World Dr. John the Night Tripper - The Sun, Moon & Herbs