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 …

“It’s a stupid name!”   “So’s your face!”
The UN free-rice vocab game, guaranteed time-suck for word-nerd know-it-alls like me (thanks to reader Smash for the tip).
The new TWoP blogs, with daily picks and random bitching …

The TWoP site director asked me to do a little write-up for TWoP of my adventures on Friday — presumably in exchange for disrupting the office — and you can read it here. When you’ve …

I think the animated clip to which that headline refers has gotten forwarded all over the internet in the last week, so some of you may already know what I’m about to link to, but …

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!”

It’s worth it, though: the singing-Jaws-theme guy is back with his version of the Halloween theme song.Skyrockets didn’t like this one as much, because it’s a dullish piece of music to work with, which I …

Finally getting around to my daily baseball-blog reads…
 
Bronx Banter on the possible line of succession (Davey JOHNSON?Wow).
 
Deadspin’s liveblog of the Torre press conference earlier.
 
Fire Joe Morgan makes fun of Buster Olney.You can’t go wrong with …

And you’ll have to settle it.Ready?If you haven’t gone over there already today, please head to the TWoP homepage.Then come right back here and post your initial reaction in the comments.
 
I apologize in advance — …

I love Rob The Bouncer’s blog. I know I’ve recommended it here, but I will do so again, especially for New York-area people who will read his descriptions of the local Guido talent, choke a …

There is so very much I do not understand about the mailing I received today from Pinelawn Memorial Park And Garden Mausoleums, starting with why I received it in the first place, and why it …