Is it a bug’s life after all?
Not if you’re a Madagascar hissing cockroach. If you are, the price on your head is free admission to Six Flags in Illinois. And of course, PETA has something to say about that.
Deep-fried crickets more your style? You are on the cutting edge of bar food, then.
And, of course, [...]

Some Monday mornings, you come to work feeling like the undead. Now you can look the part too - not in a messy I-just-rolled-out-of-the-casket way, but in a smooth, debonair, I-spend-my-nights-in-boudoirs-draining-the-blood-of-young-ladies way.
Here, New York Times writer David Colman gives stylish Wall Streeters pointers on how to look vampirishly handsome. He also claims that this [...]

God wants you to be free to smoke doobies, according to this guy.

They are all new listings in the Oxford English Dictionary.
See? The Pop Diner is entertaining and informative.
It’s two! Two! Two blogs in one!

Standing in the flowerbed and looking cute all day can be hard work. Even the most dedicated garden gnome needs a vacation every once in a while.
Shades of Amelie and Travelocity! If this keeps up, airlines and hotels are going to start offering special packages geared towards gnomes - like guaranteeing a room without a [...]

I don’t even care about the flames I am opening myself up to…
The Yanks have clinched the AL East!

Nine in a row, baby.
Sorry, Red Sox Nation, but I have been a fan since I was a tyke.
And I have to enjoy one bit o’ glee …
What’s the difference between a Fenway frank [...]

I hesitate to put this up, in case I arrive at work tomorrow to an in-box full of pleas to stop laughing, snorting while laughing, happy dancing, singing off-key, skipping and making general merriment in my corner o’ the newsroom.But ah, what the heck. Don’t say I never did anything for you!

Hey there, all you recent college grads still waiting to hear back from those 80-plus resumes and cover letters you sent out this summer.There’s hope for you yet. Maybe they got caught in your would-be employers’ spam filters — particularly if you graduated "cum laude."

They sing, they dance, they play tennis - and all at the same time. Another musical stage phenomenon, courtesy of Japan.
You wouldn’t think that "Prince of Tennis" would work as a musical. It started off as a manga chronicling the dramatic struggles and humorous misadventures of the tennis team at Seigaku. Japan, especially the female [...]

According to this nifty little website, John Parr’s "St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)", from the John Hughes movie of the same name (minus the parentheses), was the number one song on Billboard 21 years ago today. Please check my math on that - it hasn’t really been that long, has it?
If you’re feeling the [...]