My little sister was logging some serious time on the computer the other night, to the extent that my mother’s polite requests for her to sign off and get ready for bed fell on deaf ears and she finally had to yell.
When Younger Sister scurried away to put on her PJs, I checked out the [...]

Tags: Internet fun, nostalgia

I recently discovered another site to add to my list of reliable news sources (which pretty much consists of The Onion now that the Weekly World News has gone under): Cracked. According to this gripping article, Hollywood has remakes for five of the most beloved films from the ’80s in the works.

Tags: '80s movies, remakes

I must confess, I have a deep appreciation for simple pop music that’s just plain fun - strong beats, good hooks, a chorus that’s easy to sing along with. Throw in a few backflips and you’ve got a winner.
Hence, the clip I’ve had on repeat on all week - Ya-Ya-Yah\’s \”Baby Babe.\” The costumes, the [...]

Tags: Japan, Jpop, pop music

Behold the power of bacon.
It comes in lollipop form.
It comes chicken-fried.

And it can wake you up in the morning. 
There is no better food.
Fo’ sizzle. 

Some randomness, you just can’t make up. Randomness like the unexplained insertion of a spaghetti-eating cat into a morning-show interview about binge drinking.
Joel McHale nailed it. "It was, for lack of a better word: art."
Check it out:

It’s almost time for school to start again, which means there will be naive young things posing for their yearbook photos, unaware that if fame ever grips them, that picture will haunt them for the rest of their natural lives.
If you’re not famous, but you regret your yearbook picture all the same, play around with [...]

While doing research for today’s Daily TWiP, I stumbled across a rather awesome blog by the name of Claudia’s Room. The blog’s author has decided to go back through and reread all of her old Baby-sitter’s Club books and write about how she views them now versus how she viewed them when she first read [...]

Have you ever been faced with a questionable cake?
I don’t mean one that tastes as if the baker might be moonlighting as a brick mason.  I mean one that makes you go, "Um. Well. That’s different."
And when I say "different," I mean it in the same way your cousin Charlie who ate paste and wore [...]

Okay, so I’m late.  We’re already three episodes into the fifth season of Project Runway, and I’m just now getting my stuff together.  Onward and forward.
 
Quick synopsis of season challenges so far:

First, the designers had to craft garments out of stuff from a grocery store. (The idea itself was recycled from season one.) Many of [...]