Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast

Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27 - Dr. Toast plays a special set by the pond on Friday night at the 12th annual Friends and Family campout in Mendocino County, CA. Comfy chill space, firelight and more. Camp & Sons is a beautiful retreat, complete with a communal kitchen, a pond, orchards, three hot tubs (two of which are wood-fired), a well-maintained lawn area for lounging, beautiful gardens, outdoor showers, and much more. Hope to see you there!

For the July 4th weekend, come join Dr. Toast on the beautiful Feather River in Belden, CA for the 3rd annual Priceless campout. Dr. Toast will be joined by such musical luminaries as Chris de Luca vs Phon.o, Tom Burbank, Vibesquad, Deru, and many others. Activities for the weekend will include a Dr. Seuss birthday party, merit badges, a flame tree workshop, hand percussion workshop, 4th of July bbq, free Sunday breakfast, and more! Additional info available at priceless.false-profit.com

Amy pointed me to this item on Valleywag: “A friend of an animator laid off from a recently imploded East Bay videogames startup writes to pimp the newly unemployed buddy’s latest venture: selling toast on eBay. But not just any toast — it’s toast that will be lovingly sculpted into the shape of each of America’s 50 great states. First up? Texas. You laugh now, but you won’t think it’s such a terrible idea when the recession has you out on the street and your options underwater.”

From the Breakfast Institute, the research division of MrBreakfast.com, comes this exhaustive list of ways to enjoy toast. Have you considered cranberry-jalapeno jam? Or artichoke dip, or pimento cheese spread, or tangy lime butter, or sauteed mushrooms and chives, or brie with maple syrup, or homemade vanilla sugar spread? Check out all 326!

FilmThreat.com reviews this 10-minute gem from Neverthought Films:

“The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast” actually isn’t as serious a film as the name implies, which is a pretty telling statement.

In this absurd 10-minute short by writer/director/producer Danny Bourque (a University of New Orleans student filmmaker), two slackers stumble upon a magical toaster while shopping in a thrift store. The toaster, which has the power to turn any bread, muffin or bagel into gold, is the store’s prized possession - it was not intended for purchase.

The guys who acquired the toaster, upon realizing their good fortune, immediately begin buying bulk quantities of white bread. The irritated shopkeeper discovers it was sold by accident and sends out a devastating pair of henchmen (one kung fu master, one sumo wrestler) to reclaim it.

The jewel of the movie is a silly chase scene and dramatic rooftop fight sequence. While certainly not the only rooftop fight scene in motion picture history, the climax in “The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast” may in fact be the only one that prominently involves a toaster in the action. It’s a wonderfully shot scene, full of quick cuts and epic brawling that would make Chuck Norris proud.

The film even drops a lesson at the end as the shopkeeper, a petite but powerful woman, reminds her rivals that with great power comes great responsibility.

Bizarre? Sure. Funny? Yep. And it goes well with butter, margarine or jam.

Friday, June 20 - Sunday, June 22, 2008 - “Three day forest adventure on a 300 acre private campground * dancing * swimming * camping * hiking * learning * laughing * celebrating life. Dance all night under stars, giant redwooods, swim and rock the pool party by day, learn something new at the visionary forums. Music by Benga & Skream * Lawgiverz * Bassbin Twins * Nyxyss (Haj -Subswara & Hannah Thiem) * EPROM * An-Ten-Nae * The Phat Conductor * Mozaic * Little John * Kitty-D * Majitope * Mancub * Mr Rodgers * Aaron JAE * Digital Honey * Mr. Projectile * Shawna * Laura * EL *Timonkey * Rob Monroy * Dr. Toast * Dov *Audiovoid * and much, much more.” Dr. Toast plays on Friday evening! Tickets, Event Info.

Sunday, June 1, 2008, noon-8pm: Come get all toasty in the summer sun at Spring Training, at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland! Bring your snacks and your sunscreen and explore the pathways, meadows and reflecting pools. Then get your groove on at the dancefloor in front of the waterfall. Also featuring Alxndr (False Profit, DownLow), benchun (False Profit), DJJD (False Profit), Dov (Muti Music), F’kir (elderfae.net), Obi-J (False Profit), Rhythmystic (Rhythm Society). Price: free, brought to you by False Profit, LLC. Map: Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA

Another groundbreaking toast couture item from Archie McPhee - the Toast Wallet! “Keep your bread in bread.”

This Thursday, April 24th, 2008: Two DJs, one bus, one mobile soundsystem, cake, champagne! From Alxndr: “It’s hard to believe we launched this mobile adventure called Transported a year ago now. We do appreciate the support and your willingness to try new things. And we’re very excited to ask you to join us for our birthday party! We’ve asked a couple old friends to help us celebrate this Thursday: Dr. Toast & Piotron. We’ll be supplying plenty of champagne and birthday cake so don’t miss out. Note that we will NO LONGER be meeting at The Rite Spot. We are meeting at Shine for check-in at 7:30pm and our bus leaves at 8pm. We will return you there at 11:30pm.”

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased here:

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/33896

Dear Dr. Toast,

We accidentally found your website during our search for some information about the toast’s history and its consumer habits. We are 10 students from Germany who are participating at a famous marketing/design competition and our task is to create a complete new strategy/commercials for a very famous Toast Brand. To win this competition you could help us, as you are a famous toast doctor. We are sure you can help us to answer our questions [below]. It would be sooo helpful to get some answers. We will name your help in our presentation.

Thank you so much,

– Angela from Germany (angeladies@xxxxx.com)

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