Ruminations

To a guy, can there be anything more inaccessibly alien than mascara TV commercials?

My dentist, like every dentist the world over, has a copy of Ronald E. Goldstein's Change Your Smile book. I was sitting in the waiting room today waiting for my six-monthly check-up (once again a pillar of dental health, thanks very much) and as usual I found myself staring at the woman on the cover.

At first glance she looks like your typical 1980's US sitcom housewife with big hair and lots of make-up. But when she smiles you can see all of her teeth. Smile at yourself in the mirror - can you see all of your teeth? Looking at the cover a big longer the teeth became everything, and in the end she looked more like one of the monsters from one of my five year old's sci-fi cartoon DVDs.

As I was called to the dentist's chair my lasting impression was that she was about to eat a guinea pig. Whole.

Pizza Marketing Quarterly is the must read journal for pizzerias all over the country. Filled with adverts for industrial grade pizza ovens, and accounts of international pizza-making competitions.

The best pizzas are apparently cooked long and slow. In the world of fast food that means 255 celsius. For eight minutes...

Pizza in a cone: is the world really ready? If it is then it'll be satisfying our "inherent need to enjoy a pizza in an urban context" and fulfilling the pizza makers' "uncontrollable desire to revolutionize the habits and customs of a gourmet population".

Let's watch out for those uncontrollable desires.