I would have never come up on my own idea of dipping mozzarella in balsamic vinegar, nor would have I expected that culinary gem to come from a gansta rapper. I think Martha Stewart needs to start wearing Dew Rags, 'cause Coolio makes cooking look a whole lot easier than she ever did.

Andy3000 may remember Dave Buzzard, who took photos of Mushroom House 1.0 burning down almost 20 years ago. He said it was so well built that it smoldered for days. There's a scanned tearsheet of said photo here:

http://chief-ten-bears.blogspot.com/2008/01/little-known-whistler.html

It looks very similiar to an antique CNR 'message conveyance' stick I saw a while ago at an antique store here in Whistler BC (they wanted $225 for the damn thing). Paper notes were held in the clip and placed stratigically beside the rails at a height where railway employees would reach over and grab by the loop (or drop off) while aboard a moving train. These sticks quickly travelled back and forth across Canada, making a free and efficient national inter-office memo system of sorts.

It looks like an unhappy, drooling version of 'Ziggy'.