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Product Crush: Jelly Fruit Slices
February 19, 2008 – 9:31 PM | 81 Comments
Product Crush: Jelly Fruit Slices

“Har dee har har.”
I just ate a package of Chuckles, and I hate myself a little bit for settling, because I didn’t really want Chuckles — I didn’t set out for the deli on a …

Thanksgiving Weekend News & Notes
November 24, 2007 – 1:29 PM | 19 Comments

First of all, thanks to Tomato Casual.com for the incoming link. The site is “everything tomato for people who love tomatoes,” so if you’d care to make a lycopene hat trick in your bookmarks with …

Pardon my French…but you’re a Spilborghs
October 26, 2007 – 4:37 PM | 14 Comments

Steven Pinker on why we curse.
And following a link from PCJM to an exhaustive Halloween-candy review, I found on the same site “The ‘I Don’t Like It’ List,” which had me rolling. “DaaaaAAAAAAAAAVE!”

TN Fall Contest: Friends, Romans, Awesomes
October 5, 2007 – 6:06 PM | 34 Comments

Lend me your…eyes? I don’t know. Anyway: 62 percent right now. I’ve spent four of my five grand and will probably drop the rest over the weekend. And now, to answer a few questions:
“How come …

A shirt that speaks my truth; shoes that don’t
August 28, 2007 – 4:21 PM | 13 Comments

Reader jenster tipped me to an awesome tee from Threadless. YEAH, RAISINS! BEAT IT!
Also, I wanted these cuties from Aerosoles the moment I saw them on the cover of the catalog, but: wow, ouchy. Too …

Pumpkin spice lat-yay!
August 28, 2007 – 12:19 PM | 52 Comments

It’s back at Starbucks, woo hoo! I had a grande one this morning, AND a slice of pumpkin loaf. So good, you guys, seriously.

Creamsicles Of The Crop
June 25, 2007 – 7:53 PM | 114 Comments
Creamsicles Of The Crop

 
I can’t quite pinpoint when it began, my search for the food or drink that best replicates the Creamsicle.

Recs Du Jour: Amusingly Screamy Edition
May 1, 2007 – 1:53 PM | 20 Comments

1. So, I go into the TN dashboard, see who’s linking to me, click on a link to some shteez called Yummy Turtle, and start reading a really long entry involving a) the author’s Hobeyesquely …

Signs
April 11, 2007 – 9:07 AM | 16 Comments

On my block, there is a deli.It is not a good deli; the coffee is awful, the ice-cream “selection” is buried in a grimy chunk of Hoth, and between the lottery people, the OCD bacon-sandwich …

Me, Myself, and Pie
December 11, 2006 – 11:47 AM | No Comment

When you first hear the old saw about never discussing sex, religion, or politics in polite company, you think to yourself, my God how dull. Your mother explains to you the reasoning behind the principle …