Are you like me? Do you spend your nights wrapped in a blanket on the couch, when suddenly there’s a knock at the door or the phone rings and you realize, oh crap, I’m wrapped in so many blankets that I can’t move even the slightest, so you lay there paralyzed, a prisoner of cottony [...]

Join me tonight as I help to celebrate my oldest living friend - the television. Tonight is the Emmys, where the stars of the flat screen come together to congratulate themselves. Which is why I will, in turn, be performing my own self-congratulatory act - liveblogging. Feel the excitement, people. Feel it.

YARR!!! Happy Lame Internet Meme Day!
As a card-carrying member of the Internet community, it is my legal duty to celebrate all Internet-related holidays. As such, today being International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I am legally bound to speak like a pirate. Yar. Mizzenmast. So this is the obligatory pirate blog post, which will be [...]

An example of site’s content (seriously, this is worth the five minutes it’ll take to read):
Two white people from the Somerville, MA created an organization called “TEAL: Typo Eradication Advancement League,” and vowed to travel across the country fixing typos.  This is especially interesting since every other time two late 20s white males have traveled across the [...]

You ever had “Footloose” stuck in your head for three days in a row? Well, I do, and I’m here to tell you, it’s no picnic.
I don’t know how exactly it happened. I haven’t watched Footloose within the last seven years. I haven’t heard the song on the radio. As far as I can tell, [...]

As someone who spends most of his waking life reading other people’s blogs in search of ideas that I can steal inspiration, I happened to notice that one of the current trends in blogging is to take the copyrighted work of newspaper cartoonists, deface their work, and somehow profit from it. Some of the best [...]

Because we are very much influenced by our environment (or the hyper-local environment), I had to modify Fergus Henderson’s Welsh toasted cheese recipe just a bit, using what was in-house rather than making a special trip to the store. Instead of Coleman’s English mustard powder (who the hell has that on hand?), I used [...]

As you’ve probably already noticed, we are already in the midst of the four three-day Republican “Barack Obama Is A Pussy” National Convention, but since we all know that this is roughly as entertaining as a kitten strangling conference, I prefer to look back to the past, all the way to a whole week ago [...]

For whatever reason, I set out on an afternoon mission to find and purchase a reasonably priced cast iron skillet. I stopped first at T.J. Maxx, and found what we call Jack Shit for skillets. But it would only take two tries, as the next place, Kohl’s, I located a perfect model: [...]

According to the BBC, a spider has forced a family to move out of their home.
Spider forces family out of home
A soldier’s family have been frightened out of their home by a spider thought to have been brought to Essex from Afghanistan in a kitbag.
Lorraine Griffiths and her three children have moved out of their [...]