Archive for March, 2009

Deep Into Sports: The World Baseball Classic: Hey, At Least We Improved

Mar 26, 2009 7 Comments

. a blogumn by Nate Barlow Sunday night Japan eliminated Team USA in the Semi-Finals of the second World Baseball Classic by a score of 9-4. Finishing third was a huge step up for the United States, which finished a woeful eighth three years ago in the augural Classic, barely making it out of the [...]

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Dear Thursday: Is Heroes Back From the Dead? [Spoiler Alert]

Mar 26, 2009 2 Comments

Seriously, don’t read this if you haven’t watched Monday’s episode of Heroes yet. That all said… As you might remember Heroes got the most votes from FaN bloggers in our Worst TV of 2008 round-up. And this wasn’t just because it had gotten really bad in its second and third seasons, but more because so [...]

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Guess the Random Lyric: Me-1; You-2

Mar 26, 2009 Comments Off

Guess who didn’t know that yesterday’s lyric was from “Handle Me” by Swedish sensation Robyn. You! And guess who gets the point for Wednesday. Me! And today is you’re dodgiest subject, R&B and Hip-Hop and sometimes just plain ole Black Music Thursday, so there’s a very, very good chance that I will tie up the [...]

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One More Thing Before We Go: Tacky Weddings

Mar 25, 2009 Comments Off

Warning, do not go to this site unless you want to lose an hour of your life like I did, looking at pics from real-life and real tacky weddings. I love that some pics are seemingly so heinous that they blur out the faces.

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Notes For a Nester: Eat Your Veggies!

Mar 25, 2009 2 Comments

. a blogumn by Debra Barlow It’s hard enough to eat healthy when you work all day and drag yourself home in the evenings with just enough energy to throw together dinner. It’s even harder when money starts to get tight and the fast food drive through starts to look more budget friendly than that [...]

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Wonderfully Awful: Your Hedges Need a Trim

Mar 25, 2009 44 Comments

. a blogumn by Robin Rosenzweig Ever since I started musing on all that is Wonderfully Awful in the world, it seems that others have found fun in helping me discover these things. This is incredibly helpful on a day like today, when the sun is shining and the weather is warm and I have [...]

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Chic Geek: Throw a Party!

Mar 25, 2009 23 Comments

. a blogumn by Delia Hauser It’s spring!  (But we don’t have the money to go out with our friends anymore…) So, invite people over!  Bring the party home.  EVERYONE should throw more parties; breakfast parties, dinner parties, slumber parties, make your own pizza parties, cocktail parties…you get the point. Entertaining at home doesn’t have [...]

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Wow! It’s Wednesday! Tea with Hitler

Mar 25, 2009 2 Comments

So the one pregnancy symptom I had hoped to avoid happened yesterday. After 3 hours of sitting and writing on our back office futon, which doesn’t allow my feet to touch the ground, when I walked downstairs to join my husband for Heroes, I found that my feet were swollen. I complained as I usually [...]

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Guess the Random Lyric: You-2; Me-0

Mar 25, 2009 2 Comments

Sallie from Cali was embarrassed to know yesterday’s GTRL, but she did what she had to do and guessed correctly that the lyric from “The Sign” by the uber-Swedish Ace of Base. Hey Sweden’s on a roll, the 70′s had Abba, the 80′s had Roxette, the 90′s had Ace of Base. And the oughts get [...]

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One More Thing Before We Go: Thought Chuck for March 24

Mar 24, 2009 2 Comments

. Proof of Nerd ID by Charles Cron HOLD THE ANCHOVIES EDITION Citizens of the United States eat approximately eighteen acres of pizza combined every 24 hours. . flickr.com photo credit: indi endaya

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