In which wine expert Gary Vaynerchuk confesses to Conan O'Brien that he ate cigars when he was little. They also eat grass soaked in grapefruit juice, lick rocks in salt water, munch some cherries mixed with dirt and cigar tobacco (best part) and taste sweaty socks wrapped in asparagus -- all apparently in effort to build their wine palates. Gary video blogs at tv.winelibrary.com. (via Serious Eats)
Somehow the Japanese have even made Ronald McDonald cool again, as evidenced by this description-defying ad mashup apparently originating from nicovideo.jp. Mind completely blown. Switching to reserve power. (via Boing Boing)
