A graph about cats.

I’m only sort of following the California governor’s republican primary race; all I know is that it’s gotten particularly malicious in the last few weeks as Meg Whitman has quickly lost her fifty point lead. I mean, candidates are now accusing each other of being “liberal” and (shock and horror) being approved of by Planned Parenthood! But this… this has to be my favorite attack ad thus far.

Good writing is good because the conflicts are strong and the plots are intriguing. Of course, this means it often has to include stuff that’s not part of the writer’s every day life. And so to learn more about these exciting, obscure, dangerous things, we writers do what every lazy, red-blooded American would, we Google. And this, of course, leads to an interesting cache of searches. For me, these have included:
From talking to other writers, I know I am not alone in my clandestine searches… if I’m not on some sort of government watch list, the Patriot Act is failing us.

This is what a cashew plant looks like. I will never eat a cashew without thinking about this ever again…
I guess I’ve never given much thought to what nut plants look like, choosing instead to focus on how delicious (or not) their products taste. But, whoa, I definitely never pictured the tiny kidney shaped nuts I so enjoy to start their lives as creepy poo-looking appendages to a bell pepper. The rainforest is a weeeeird place.

Like Shake Face photos on speed. Definitely one of the more glamorous elements of the sport…
Thanks, Jeremy.

Queso (cheese) + Tortilla (tortilla) = Quesadilla (deliciously cheesy snack wrapped in a tortilla).
It’s word play! In Spanish!
I don’t know if I should be proud for figuring out a portmanteau in a language I don’t really speak, or ashamed that it took me 26 years of eating Mexican food to come to this realization…
