Shake shake shake!

Hearts for lovers, a barbell for your gym rat, or an old telephone ear and mouthpiece for the big talkers - take your pick!

Just had to show y'all some very cute salt and pepper shakers that I found on what

is becoming one of my favorite websites, Slashfood.com.

On that site you will find not only food recipes and trends, but some

rather unusual kitchen items...ie., not your everyday utensils and

accessories! The shakers above are just examples of some of the

neat stuff featured on the site. Furthermore, you can keep up on the

latest food news, such as the headline today about Martha Stewart.

Apparently, Martha Stewart Living Onmimedia and Costco reached

an agreement to market frozen and fresh foods to customers starting

in 2008. Now, as most of you know, I am a fan of Ms. Stewart, and

I still think she was unjustly incarcerated a few years back, but I

digress! But I am not so sure how the food thing will go over. As

much as I like some of her designs, the few times I watched her

cooking show didn't leave me impressed. The most recent one I

saw was a show dedicated to asparagus, one of my fave veggies.

Well, of the menagerie of recipes she displayed, I really liked only

one. Maybe I just caught Martha on a bad day, so I will definitely

give her the benefit of the doubt, even though I doubt I'll ever

sample her foods, considering there is no Costco here.

This just in...

Was just checking the headlines before I hit the hay, and I came across
an interesting tidbit - the 2 satellite radio operators, XM and Sirius,
have made a tentative agreement to merge. I say tentative because the
merger still needs to be approved by the FCC (Federal Communications
Commission); it would also need to meet the anti-trust standards set by
the U.S. Dept. of Justice. It was just a few years ago that a merger
between the 2 providers of satellite TV, Dish Network and Direct TV,
was attempted but rejected due to heavy opposition to such a monopoly.
The National Association of Broadcaster's have already urged policy-
makers to reject the satellite radio deal, calling it an "anti-consumer
proposal". Both XM nor Sirius, despite having a combined 14 million
subscribers, are still facing financial losses. Neither have determined a
name for the company if the merger goes through. It would not affect
programming, but simply give listeners more choices (and higher
subscription rates perhaps?), from shock jock Howard Stern to diva
Martha Stewart. It should be interesting to see how this will play out
over the next few months.