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.

Dear Dog,

I know summer’s coming and so, apparently, do you. However, I’m not willing to even nominate this as spring yet, so let’s hold off on the getting up at 5:30 for a while. Also, that deal where we let you in the bed so …

Usability, Defined