Y'know what, guys? I love great big obscure words, I love twee English major stuff, and I FREAKING LOVES ME SOME WHIMSY.  Not because I think I'm really "unique" or "quirky" or because I'm trying to look smarter than everyone else, but because that's just what I like.  I don't care what ya'll think

The problem is largely because newspapers have been squeezed to such an extent that space on the comics page comes at a high premium.  As a result, any relatively "new" comic is seen as a big risk.  It also means that the newspaper is stuck with only using the limited space to print comics expected to appeal to the…

Worked all weekend, so didn't have time to watch anything except for some Dr. Who very briefly through my eyelids.

Wasn't the whole "Satanic P&G logo" rumor later found to have been started by someone working for Amway?

I grew up with suburban churchgoing parents in the 80's and I don't recall them being especially paranoid about Satanism. I think it was thought of as something kids might get in trouble with, but they weren't exactly looking for Satanists around every corner (or fretting over my choices of music and reading material…

True story: For my first "research paper" assignment during freshman year of high school, I wrote all about the dangers of Satanism (I think the assignment was to write about some type of "current events" issue.)

Century City?
Wasn't that like a lawyer show, but in The Future? I tried watching it a couple of times since it sounded cool in theory. Not so much for real, though.

Dang. For a stupid TV show that you hate, you seem awfully emotionally invested in it. It's okay to change the channel, y'know.

I admit to having a Criminal Minds fixation, to the point that my husband and I started getting old episodes on Netflix to "catch up" (it's on the same time that we put our kid to bed, so we always end up missing the first half hour.) We're probably the only 2 people on earth watching it.

Thanks for reminding me
Of how eye-gougingly horrible made-for-network-TV Stephen King miniseries are. I remember being kind of excited about "Rose Red" when I saw the ads for it, but then it turned out to just be a mash-up of all the old tropes from his old stories—from the "autistic kid with special powers" to the…

All Muppets are great except for the Elmo, Zoe, Abby Cadaba and whatever annoying squeaky ones that they churn out to sell toys. Baby Bear and his freaking speech impediment sucks as well.

Norse God: You just reminded me of this sneaker commercial that runs during the cartoons on Saturday—it shows an animated kid putting on the sneakers and then turning into a robot and rocketing off into space.

Can't remember the name of it
But there was this Ed's Redeeming Qualities song that came to mind—

I liked it a lot but the kid's speech impediment really got on my nerves.

I've noticed the same thing watching reruns of the Muppet Show—I never paid attention to the celebrity hosts as a kid (well, maybe except for C3PO and Mummenschanz) because I was just watching the Muppets.

I know it's cliche and all
But Beth's death in "Little Women" was the first time a character's death really messed with me as a kid. I was depressed for days. It didn't help that the illustrated edition of it that I had had a picture of all four sisters together toward the back of the book, so I kept thinking, "Oh,…

"Where are we?"

WIRE—that thought occurred to me while I was watching it this week.

I took anatomy class, and the part that I had the hardest time dissecting was the feet. Apparently, when you cut through the really heavily calloused parts of the bottom of the foot, it sounds kind of similar to scooping through a pile of wet elbow macaroni. I had tuna cassarole for dinner that night and I couldn't…

By the way, nice of y'all to rip on the fat chick with a cooking show, when Food Network is full of fat dudes with cooking shows and no one seems to blink an eye.