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Back of the Cereal Box

Back of the Cereal Box

http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com

What happens when my childhood love of cartoons and video games collides head-on with my pursuit to work as a journalist in the big scary grown-up world. Plus etymology trivia.

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  • 2,000 Additional Days of Things

    Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 20:23 in movies, zooey deschanel, 500 days of summer, all things verbal

    How I entertained myself during a moderately stressful afternoon of Christmas shopping and parking lot-navigating:500 Days of Slumber, starring Cozy Deflannelle and Snoozeph Nodoff Napitt500 Days of Slobber, starring Drooley Deslobelle and Jospit Glo...

  • True Story

    Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 17:27 in books, santa barbara, die wunderkammer, all things verbal

    Having worked at a bookstore, I know how easily this kind of booboo can happen. But that doesn’t mean I won’t make fun of the Santa Barbara Barnes & Noble for implying that The Time Traveler’s Wife is nonfiction.Also non-fiction, according ...

  • My Mother Has a Band Called Helicopter

    Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 08:09 in link dump

    Links of note. Probably the last one of the year.Ghosts of capitalism past: a photo gallery of abandoned shopping malls.The A.V. Club’s 2009 Year in Band Names.Crazy freaky Japanese mermaid illustrations.From Tofutti Break, one of my single favorit...

  • With Their Noses High in the Air

    Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 08:00 in grammar, words, strange and wonderful words, all things verbal

    It being so close to Christmas — and this post likely being the last word-of-the-week one before December 25 comes and goes — you’d think I’d try to find something holiday-related to put up. No such luck. I won’t be regurgitating the story ...

  • Questions Posed to the Hard-to-Shop-for Gift Recipient

    Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 15:59 in christmas

    “You have Netflix already, right?”“Oh, well, have you already purchased that coat you had your eye on?”“Model train set? Yes?”“Okay then, do you already own heirloom chickens, by any chance?”“And would you have any interest in ownin...

  • The Heart of Christmas Spirit

    Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 15:51 in TV, Dogs, one tree hill, the cw, pop culture minutiae

    I follow this TV blog, The Live Feed, which occasionally breaks news about shows I watch. Today, however, they have a post featuring the CW network’s “OMG Moment of the Year,” and I, lacking anything better to do, decided to see what that could...

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