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By: Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:10:45 +0000

Joel, sauerkraut on a hot dog is an invasion, but I do fall in line with your other advice. I also admire your recognition of the One Thing—sometimes it doesn’t matter that you lit your hair on fire while you were chainsawing a life-sized representation of the Pieta out of marshmallows; your focus is rewarded.

By: Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:06:52 +0000

Jai, coming from a blogger with oodles of traffic already, I appreciate that! Thanks for stopping by (and let me know your secrets sometime).

By: Jai Joshi

Jai Joshi — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:51:25 +0000

There’s some great stuff here about generating traffic for blogs, Tom. Thanks!

Jai

By: Joel D Canfield

Joel D Canfield — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:01:58 +0000

Contributing to the necessary levels of disorientation: near the end of our 5-hour drive through the mountains Friday, I kept looking for a place to stop and eat the tiny watermelon Best Beloved had sliced up for us, but which we’d forgotten to eat during our picnic. (I kept looking because a small insistent voice from the backseat kept asking “Are you looking for a place to stop and eat the watermelon? Are you looking for a place to stop and eat the watermelon? Are you looking for a place to stop and eat the watermelon?” and I could neither stop on the 15% down grade on Iowa Hill Road, nor bring myself to put her out by the side of the road.

Finally, coming out of the mountains at the freeway in Colfax, she said “Look! Grass!” and we stopped and sat on the grass and ate the watermelon.

With the frontage road 12 feet away over in that direction, and the freeway 20 feet away in the opposite direction.

Note to parents: remember, kids only care about one thing. They do not care about The Other Things, just the One Thing. Do the One Thing, and they will be happy.

It’s that simple, folks.

Also simple: brown mustard on a hot dog, unless you’re having sauerkraut too, in which case it’s yellow mustard. Wasabi mustard should go with a heavily spinached grilled pepperoncini-marinated pork loin sandwich.

Chinese mustard is covered in our advanced class.

By: Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:47:27 +0000

Jodi, I knew you would see through all of this article marketing blather to the core of the matter: mustard! And the best place to eat a mustardly dog—the ballpark, on a sunny day. Heaven.

By: jodi Kaplan

jodi Kaplan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:22:01 +0000

My condiment recommendation is yellow or spicy brown mustard on hot dogs. Ketchup is an outrage.