Chupaqueso.com

We’ll be doing our famous chupaqueso demonstration and eat-in at Penguicon 5.0. The con runs from Friday, April 20 through Sunday, April 22 in Troy, Michigan (Detroit metropolitan area). The chupaqueso panel will be in the con suite, from 4 to 5:30 PM on Saturday.

Come see how we do it. Come taste one for yourself. Come suggest even stranger things to put in them (the last person who did that invented the chocolate chupaqueso!). Come meet the two of us, and maybe even some really famous people.

The woman accused of hiring a hit-man to help her steal what she THOUGHT was cocaine just pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder. The 18-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The odds are good that she’ll be paroled, but not on her first request, which means this stupid, greedy, evil little girl will be off the streets for about six years.

I hope that while she’s in prison they make her eat some cheese, but somehow I doubt prison food includes cheese worth eating.

I swear, I didn’t plan this. It’s only been a couple of weeks since I posted about how much longer lasting cast iron is when compared to teflon… and now I hear that the EPA is seeking to eliminate teflon completely within 10 years.

Here are a few news links…

ABCNews.com - Dupont ceasing teflon-related emissions by 2010

MSNBC - Teflon emissions and cancer risks

Tuberose.com - (giving us a pile of anti-Teflon facts that I know to be true because I read them on the internet)

Apparently there is an increasing body of evidence linking one of the chemicals used in the production process, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), to cancers in laboratory animals, as well as to a number of health problems in humans.

The EPA and Dupont assure us that there’s no PFOA in teflon itself — the chemical is used in the PRODUCTION of teflon. But there’s also a growing body of evidence showing that when teflon overheats it emits ammonium perfluorooctane (also a potential carcinogen), among other (reportedly toxic) things.

I could read up on this all day, but I’ve got cartooning to do. Y’all go dig around and tell me what you think.

–Howard

(hat tip to “Dragon” for this one)