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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.
Recent Posts
2,000 Additional Days of Things
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
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
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
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
“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
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...
