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5 Fandom Friday: Spin Spin Spinoff
I’m not a fan of spinoffs, generally, since Angel was such a disappointment after Buffy. Most of the things I love just happen to wrap up in tidy, complete packages. I can’t imagine, for instance, continuing the story of Les Miserables, or Battlestar Galactica, or Love in the Time of Cholera. So I struggled immensely…
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Living With Roommates vs. A SigOth
As soon as you announce that blissful decision: “We’re moving in together!” well-meaning advice mongerers will load your ears with fears about living with a partner. So much has been said about the drawbacks, that I want to preach the benefits! When you live with a roommate, you are a constant thorn in their…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Cheddar and Horseradish Flavored Potato Chips
Trader Joe’s Cheddar and Horseradish Potato Chips Tastes Like: Your new favourite potato chip. Extremely cheesy, with a spicy aftertaste. Look, these chips absolutely deliver on that flavor promise in a BIG way. Great With: Cold beers, seltzer, and possibly plain sour cream as a dip, but these are delicious all by themselves! Perfect For: …
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How I Want To Spend My Summer Vacation
What a ride the past nine months have been! It felt so much longer. I got incredibly drunk (one – ONE frozen mojito!) after school with my coworkers on Tuesday to put the year behind me and look forward to this summer. Of course, I’m looking for a new job – but I’m also going…
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5 Fandom Friday: Not Of This World…
This week’s 5 Fandom Friday features our Five Favourite Aliens! Kick it up to Warp Speed and join me, The Nerdy Girlie, and Super Space Chick and hashtag #5FANDOMFRIDAY and #FANDOM5 with your 5 favourite aliens – self included! 1. THE DOCTOR in all his various incarnations. I think my favourite has to be Tom…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: String Cheese
Trader Joe’s String Cheese Tastes Like: The perfect string cheese – strings delicately, not too much of that “processed” chemical taste, light and cheesy! Great With: moar cheese Perfect For: Folks who forage the fridge for a tiny, quick snack Must Know: Not vegan. Costs: $3.49 for twelve sticks. Gone in a flash.
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Five Times I Was The Coolest Teacher
Now that the school year is coming to an end, I feel like a soldier surrendering. Well, I tried. Well, it’s over. I feel like a failure, but there are students who brightened my outlook by sharing the times they enjoyed in my yearbook. You know, there were times when I actually kind of nailed…
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5 Fandom Friday: Fandom Guilty Pleasures
Normally I would say “Nothing you enjoy should make you feel guilty!” but there are those things you cringe to admit like… 1. I adore the Twilight series and I’m glad to see it popping up on other people’s lists too! I feel so bad because the books are a massive commercial success turned cultural…
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Greenpointing
My new neighbourhood is the greatest! I’m so excited to be a Brooklyner, especially in such a quaint, adorable part of town. Over the past weekend, I had the chance to explore and photograph just a small handful of places around town (and dine at them). No better way to beat the heat than with…
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5 Fandom Friday: Favourite Fictional Fashion
Favourite Fictional Fashion (or: “I just want to rock a jumpsuit): 1. Kaylee Frye from Firefly makes a jumpsuit look pretty…pretty, actually! 2. Batgirl of Burnside has some admittedly hipster but fashionable looks! I would absolutely raid her closet. 3. Friday from Friday normally I’d never want to dress (or is undress the word) like…
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Rice to Riches
After hearing nothing but AMAZING things on the internetz about Rice to Riches in Soho, I finally had the chance to check it out last weekend!! And it is everything you could dream of and more!Their signage boasted many flavours. But I was still shocked to see so many flavours available and guess what? All…
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Bringing Up Baby…Cacti
One of the things I was most looking forward to in my new Brooklyn apartment was using the big windows with lots of light to raise an indoor farm of plants! Well, maybe not a whole farm, but I have quite the lot of greenery going down on the kitchen windowsill at the moment. My…
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5 Fandom Friday: Favourite Fictional Fathers
In honor of Father’s Day, much as for Mother’s Day, we are listing out favourite fiction fathers this weekend! 1. Bob Belcher from Bob’s Burgers is sort of the “straight man” to his wacky family, but that’s what they need. Also, the burger puns. 2. Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer isn’t so much really…
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5 Fandom Friday: On The BIG Screen!
Sooo, Hollywood is all about making movies of things. And TV series. And that’s terrible. ART IS ART! Okay? Comics are a medium unto themselves. Who ever suggested making a pilot of the Mona Lisa, or turning Starry Night into a blockbuster? I can’t even wrap my head around how terribly stupid it would be…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Gluten-Free Plain Bagels
Trader Joe’s Gluten-Free Plain Bagels Tastes Like: These, you guys, are the best gluten-free bagels I have ever eaten! The texture of bagels usually comes from extra gluten, so making bagels that hit close to the right texture without gluten is tough. They usually taste like dry sponges. But these, guys, are so good I…
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5 Fandom Friday: I'm Cool Like…
This week’s prompt is to list fictional characters that you identify with. As much as I wish I was totall awesome like Buffy Summers and Donna Noble, I’m probably just lame like these guys: 1. Batgirl of Burnside probably the reason I keep reading is because despite how she makes me face palm every time…
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BROOKLYN!
Yes, it’s true, I’m officially moving to Brooklyn this weekend! The nightmare that is moving in NYC (don’t get me started) is more like a dream come true! As I write this, there is a perfectly passionate thunderstorm rolling overhead and my first thought is, “I can’t wait for my first thunderstorm in BROOKLYN!!” Just,…
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I Will Fear No Evil
What do you get when you put the brain of a dying old man into the body of an impossibly hot young woman? I Will Fear No Evil explores every possible angle of a horny old man being surgically implanted into the body of his secretary to prolong his life. Questions like, “Where is the…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Brown Rice Pasta Fusilli
Trader Joe’s Brown Rice Pasta Fusilli Tastes Like: Pasta! You probably would never know the difference if I snuck this to you on the sly and never tipped my hand. The uncooked brown colour fades and the pasta looks like regular wheat pasta…if maybe a little more translucent. Great With: Anything you normally pasta with. …
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5 Fandom Friday: Nerdiest Things I’ve Ever Done
Time to spill the beans: the nerdiest things you’ve ever done! I pretty much think everything I do is pretty nerdy, and I’m pretty sure I’d get a lot of backup on that one as well. 1. Work for a walking tour company unlike some items on this list, I’m really proud of this! I…