At work, they've added a new snack to the vending machine-- fries & ketchup potato chips. And it's exactly what it says it is-- snack food item that tastes kind of potato-y (like potato sticks and a little like fritos) with the definite, walloping taste of ketchup. It is, as one would expect, just God-awful. Hideous even. The best part? It's a product apparently made by "Burger King" which, I guess, is now trying to break into the vending machine business. What's next? Whopper chips?

Oh, the chips have no "trans fats" so they're healthy!

And speaking of crazy, amazing products, Harlan and I saw some woman on BART reading a book called "Mandingo Love" The cover of the book consisted of a a picture inside a heart of the backside of a big, black guy with what is definately a woman in front of him, in a much lower position, with her hands reaching up his backside. You can see the picture here.

All you need to know about the book is the description given on Amazon: "African natives Martzu and De'shawntu Poitier are proud to have raised such a fine son. Ambitious and levelheaded, De'marco Poitier is on the right track straight out of high school. He and his sweetheart Jennifer are making wise decisions for their future. De'marco has what all the ladies want. After receiving hands-on love making lessons from Connie he is laying it down in between the sheets and loving every minute of it. ...After an unlikely admirer gets a piece of De'marco and sees firsthand that De'marco is packing the notorious Mandingo love-piece, a plot is devised to make De'marco their own."

Now you would think such a book would be from the '70s when things were a bit looser and books looked like that. But you would be wrong-- the book was written a few years ago. And you would also think that this little piece of erotica would be from like Playboy or Penthouse. But once again, you would be wrong: it's by "Penhouse Publishing."