For Michelle,

who wanted to know, while watching Lost, why fickleness is always presented as a “female” quality.

First she wants to get rid of it, then halfway down the page she’s amazed by it.

Joe Weider Small

Joe Weider Big

The AV Club

has replaced deadspin as the one place where I read the comments. The first 100 or so in the earth-shatteringly important Square Pegs review are terrific. I’m guessing it’s as much a function of being close in age to the majority of the posters as …

FBoFW

There are a zillion stupid things I’m going to run into that make me realize how much I’ll miss my mom (yesterday’s twin headlines blared at me from the Foster’s paper box: “Super Mom” and “Secrets for a Long Life”), but the thing that’s …

Foodstuffs I Miss

Lays’ (Ruffles?) Bacon and Cheddar Potato Chips, as endorsed by Mark Messier (though not in the commercial seen here):

7up Gold, for obvious reasons:

Wise Crazy Calypso Chips

Bring them back.

So …

My mom died. I write this, not because I want to bring down the legions of people reading this, but because I need to write about it. Because it sucks, but it sucks in all sorts of weird ways. Some of it I can’t process yet, more than …

Shocking, Sharpening

Unbelievable for a Reality TV hater, but I want to talk about Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Such a revelation. Both Fox and BBCAmerica have spent a ton of time making Gordon Ramsay look like a gaping asshole. I finally tuned in like you do passing a car wreck …

Humorless

I always take a peek at the people who add me on Twitter to see if it’s someone I know, someone from the area (I’m interested to see how meatspace communities can spring up around virtual ones; hashtags is a great way to create brand-new communities on-the-fly …

Painfully Delicious

Quicktime 1.0 Development team channels Michael Jackson.