O.K. I'm going to lighten up a little and talk -- briefly -- about something that puzzles me. Amateur food pictures. Why? I guess to answer the questions that so many people have like, "Did the taco salad really come in a tortilla bowl, or are you just making that up?" or, "What do those dumpling innards look like, anyway?" (see above)

I don't know about you, but most of those pictures make food look more like disemboweled alien guts than anything else. I know most people don't have the services of a good food stylist when they go out to that little gem of a mom-and-pop bistro, but if it doesn't look appetizing, I usually hit the "Next" button while suppressing my gag reflex. On the plus side, bad food photos can be very funny, Just check out James Lileks' Gallery of Regrettable Food. Granted, Lileks has an almost unholy way of picking exactly the wrong thing to say about the food pictured, but he could just post it, sans captions, and I'd still LMAO.