Gettin driven around by that bit Deanna when I spot one of the best custom license plate I’ve ever seen. Yeeeah it says “ICY BLK” you know what I’m sayin. Shit was inspiring.

• Help find BONER!!!!!! http://tinyurl.com/yfqmpp3 #
• Due to LA being broke strip clubs tax higher but now can be all nude and serve booze. #

• Help find BONER!!!!!! http://tinyurl.com/yfqmpp3 #
• Due to LA being broke strip clubs tax higher but now can be all nude and serve booze. #

Ian is in town. You know what that means. Food tour! Eat eat. Puke. Poop. Eat. Damn. Sidenote Harley just farted real bad. I need to leave the room. Enjoy the fat burger.

Ex-’Growing Pains’ actor missing

Andrew Koenig played Richard “Boner” Stabone, at left, on the 1980s TV sitcom “Growing Pains.”

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — When former “Growing Pains” actor Andrew Koenig missed his flight home to Los Angeles from Vancouver, British Columbia, last week, his father became worried.

Walter Koenig, an actor known for playing Pavel Chekov in the original “Star Trek” series, had just received a letter from his son that had a “despondent tone,” according to a family statement on the father’s Web site.

STORY ON CNN!

I, Deanna, got to assist Roger in cooking everyone some eggplant Parmesan and spaghetti. We turned the Gastman kitchen inside out getting that dinner done. I also baked two, not one, TWO chocolate cakes with chocolate icing and it was DELICIOUS. The cake was a secret recipe from Roger’s mom and he made me swear to never reveal the ingredients or there would be consequences.
There was A LOT of food and everyone handled it like that fat kid who had the to eat the chocolate cake in Matilda.

P.S. Piper is dope for taking the biggest bite ever out of a big chunk of that chocolate cake at the end of the night when everyone was bitching out and saying they were to full to have some cake and ice cream. Well done Piper.

• Thrifty's Ice Cream, these bits are high class. #

The History of the Straw

In 1888, Marvin Stone patented the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws. Stone was already a manufacturer of paper cigarette holders. His idea was to make paper drinking straws. Before his straws, beverage drinkers were using the natural rye grass straws.

Stone made his prototype straw by winding strips of paper around a pencil and gluing it together. He then experimented with paraffin-coated manila paper, so the straws would not become soggy while someone was drinking. Marvin Stone decided the ideal straw was 8 1/2-inches long with a diameter just wide enough to prevent things like lemon seeds from being lodged in the tube.

The product was patented on January the 3rd, 1888. By 1890, his  factory was producing more straws than cigarette holders. In 1906, the first machine was invented by the Stone’s “Stone Straw Corporation” to machine-wind straws, ending the hand-winding process. Later other kinds of spiral-wound paper and non-paper products were made.

In 1928, electrical engineers began to use spiral-wound tubes in the first mass produced radios. All made by the same process invented by Stone. Spiral-wound tubing is now found everywhere — in electric motors, electrical apparatus, electronic devices, electronic components, aerospace, textile, automotive, fuses, batteries, transformers, pyrotechnics, medical packaging, product protection, and packaging applications.