Hey, snickerdoodles. Last week was fun, wasn’t it? The sugar pimps made candy bars, some more successful than others. Then they went to a water park, and all of them pretty much sucked like Dysons when it came to creating frozen treats that would refresh customers on a hot day. Angry Montel made some sort of horrific interpretation of a root beer float that seemed to be nothing at all like a root beer float; his dessert was described as heavy and looked disgusting. Gaygent Smith made some stupid thing that required him to leave his customers waiting for minutes in the nuclear hot sun. This seemed to be a problem for the judges at the time. Later, of course, they faulted whatsherface for making her funnel cakes ahead of time, insisting it would have been better to make people wait. Sure, judges. Johnny Iuzzini talked a bunch about how his mouth was coated in this or how that was stuck in the back of his throat. Johnny, I get it. Call me. In the end, ole whatsherface was sent home. What’s happening this week? Join me after the jump, and I’ll tell you all about it.
Daily Archives: September 28, 2011
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The CDC reports that 16 people have died due to a listeria outbreak traced to Colorado cantaloupes. It’s being called the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade.
Fox’s dinosaur time travel family drama premiered this week.
Here’s the basic premise: In the year 2149, Earth is a polluted, overcrowded, dystopian crap-hole. Families are limited to two children. People wear breathing masks. Street urchins watch broken ipads. Everything is dirty. Fortunately, scientists discover a crack in time! What? Yes! A crack in time! And we can ease the burden of the surplus population by letting people go through the crack, to colonize the past. Not just any past, though–it’s the Dinosaur Past! You can become one of the lucky colonists in the Terra Nova settlement by winning a lottery, or by having special skills. Continue reading
This, the 115th Grand Final of Australian Football, has all the makings of one of the greatest games ever played. Geelong vs Collingwood. The two dominant teams of the past few years. Geelong the 2007 and 2009 champions and the 2008 runners-up. Collingwood the 2010 champions and home of reigning Brownlow Medallist (league MVP) Dane Swan. Both know what it takes, both have proven they can handle the pressure of playing in front of over 100,000 screaming fans and millions on TV, and both play football about as well as it has ever been played at both the offensive and defensive ends.
And that’s just the first storyline running through this one. Continue reading
HBO’s critically acclaimed Game of Thrones TV series introduced George R. R. Martin’s brilliant A Song of Ice and Fire series to a mass audience who may never have been interested in fantasy fiction. But it also happened to air at a particularly auspicious time, with the first season ending shortly before the long-awaited fifth book was released.
Considering that the 1510-page length of A Dance with Dragons (available on Amazon
Today in New York, Amazon.com is expected to launch its own tablet device. It is reportedly called the Kindle Fire.
It is expected to be a strong competitor against Apple’s iPad and iPad 2, which produced 75% of all tablets sold this year.
According to TechCrunch, in addition to surely being able to read Kindle e-books the Kindle Fire will: Continue reading
Consider today your personal Chutes and Ladders day, a game that has a more interesting history than my 10 year-old mind imagined. Continue reading