It's not fair that our sister, LAist, gets all of the great writers strike coverage. Alas. But the Bay Area's own Sean Penn has joined the noble striking effort. He helped to create the above Writers Guild of America-conceived video for "Project Speechless," videos that feature A-list thespionic talent. What's more, they found a way of making Mr. Penn funny. (We kid, Sean. Please don't hit us. Not that you'll have the chance.) Anyway,......

This is little Gastronomique's first birthday! First column was on March, 3rd a year ago. This was 48 posts ago, which is one per week plus our Blog Writers Guild union-sanctified four weeks of rest and relaxation. We're looking forward to the second year, but we want to take a peek behind our shoulder, so we know what to say when we sit down for our year-end evaluation with our editors. And we want to......