For me, home for the holiday meant catching up on some movie watching. I caught Thank You For Smoking and The Break-up, as well as my new annual tradition, Love Actually. (What holiday is complete without Colin Firth declaring love in broken Portuguese??)
But I also happened to catch Millions, a completely charming, if not a [...]

While staying with my sis over the long Turkey Day weekend, we popped in a DVD of Saturday Night Live holiday skits I purchased around this time last year. At the start of the infamous "Delicious Dish: Shweddy Balls" segment, fake NPR hosts Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer talked about what they planned to leave [...]

I finally finished it - my Songs for the First Snowfall mix CD. It’s been four years in the making (I tend to forget about it until it starts snowing, at which point it’s too late), but I finally have a darn good soundtrack for that magical winter moment when snow is still a novelty [...]

OK, I admit it. I am a total Lord of the Rings freak — just for the movies, though. I get fed up with all the drinking, eating and dancing the hobbits do in the books, and yes, I know that’s sacrilege to true fans.
But the movies are a different story. I was hooked from [...]

One minute you’re lighting those not-really-that-funny trick candles on the cake, the next you’re scrambling to put together a home defibrillator. Make sure the surprise party you give your loved one isn’t the biggest (and last) shock of their life with these handy tips from the Weekly World News.

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Life-size Lego Batman!
Seriously, that toy is worth more than my car.

A lot more.
If you have this much money to spend on your kid’s Christmas, don’cha think you ought to put it to better use?

Teresa’s finding wackiness on YouTube again. Must be Friday.
Here’s an unusual little video from My Barbarian called Unicorns L.A. I’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons or Magic: The Gathering, but I can say with near certainty that Jazzercise is not one of the standard powers your character can obtain, nor do changelings wear purple Spandex [...]

I check in on the Philly blogs and sites now and then. My roots are in the Keystone State, and I am a firm believer in not forgetting where you come from.
Every once in a while, in between updates on the good restaurants I could never afford and the blogs about the 76ers or the [...]

Overly self-aware musicians and their bad cliches plague the music industry. But sometimes, these artists (or, as I like to call ‘em, artIStes), cross a line into hilarious.

With that in mind, Cracked has listed the five most unintentionally hilarious albums of 2006.
My favorite is the writeup of Belle and Sebastian, of whom I am [...]

Uh-oh. It's the first Thanksgiving you'll be doing the cooking, and you have no idea where to start. Turkey? Stuffing? Pies? Your recipe box is useless when it comes to non-pasta-based meals. Don't panic - the Pop Diner is here for you.
First, we have some recipes from Cathleen's Kitchen. Her recipe for roast turkey contains [...]