Evolution of Dance

A friend recently forwarded a video clip link - it's of this stand up comic mimicing pretty much every single popular dance move in the past fifty years in under six minutes. If you watch this, be sure to turn on your speakers.

The Evolution of Dance!

White Rabbit - best damned candy in the world

Outside of chocolate, I'm not a big fan of candy. Hard candy, in particular, is not very appealing to me. Those red and white peppermint hard candies you find at restaurants? Cannot stand them. Caramels? Creates a strange, bitter aftertaste in my mouth.

That was until a friend introduced me to White Rabbits. It's this taffy-like candy from China. Apparently, it's been made there for years and is well known there - kind of like M&Ms in the U.S.

Anyway, it comes individually wrapped - about the same size as the individually wrapped Tootsie Rolls. The exterior is wrapped in wax paper with the White Rabbit logo on it. Each candy is wrapped in a thin piece of rice paper - if you didn't know any better, you'd think it was a piece of waxed paper. Actually, it's rice paper and very edible - in fact, someone from Taiwan told me you eat the rice paper to make the candy chewier faster.

The original White Rabbit is basically a cream flavored Tootsie Roll - kind of. A bit chewier and definitely longer lasting. And DAMNED ADDICTING.

Someone gave me a bag of mango flavored White Rabbits last week - didn't think I'd ever say this but I think the mango flavored White Rabbits taste better than the original flavor.


P.S. I found the following "review" of White Rabbits on Amazon:

Larruping, September 5, 2004

• "WHITE RABBIT" is one of the most famous brands of Guan Sheng Yuan (Group) Co.,ltd.and belongs to candy product. This product is very larruping that the candy's surface swathe a very very thin velamen made from sticky rice and it can eat.People always are interesting in the sticky rice velamen.This product's sales volume is very hot in USA(Kmart,Walgmart)."
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My answer to the question above is a resounding NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Lilacs be a'bloomin' in central Ohio

My dad is a big fan of lilacs. He bought us a bush when we moved into the house - I think we planted the bush in March 2004.



Anyway, it hasn't produced a lot of blooms since then - I see the other lilac bushes in the neighborhood and they stand six to eight feet tall and are full of blooms. But those bushes are much older. So, the way I see it, our little lilac bush has plenty of time to catch up.