So now the food conglomerates, after successfully inflating the portion sizes of the meals Americans eat outside the home, are trying to convince us that three square meals a day are not enough:

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/18/feeding_the_obesity_crisis/

The campaign is called “fourth meal” and was originally launched in a series of Taco Bell spots ( Read more... )

Robert Downey Jr.: "If Steve Rogers and Tony Stark’s relationship doesn't work, then the film doesn’t work."

Exactly!

This makes my heart burst, at the thought that the world at large will soon know how awesome Joss fucking Whedon is. May 4th, 12:01am cannot come soon enough.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/avengers/

I had been increasingly fuming about writers using "vice" when they mean "vise" but then my handy-dandy OED informed me that "vice" is the British spelling of "vise."

The English language makes my head hurt.

Veronica Mars, 3x11 "Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves":

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The Towers of Trezibond by Rose Macaulay. It's one of those slight, batty, slyly funny British novels that are terribly amusing, until there's a sharp turn to quietly devastating and deep. A quote ( Read more... )

Oh Jesus God -- this is ridiculous -- I'm too young to be hunched over the keyboard wincing and whimpering because my back feels crap and my neck won't bend left without *screaming pain*. In other related news, I've decided to name my laptop (only ONE YEAR after buying it) "Back Pain". It gets along swimmingly with my pillow, "Neck Pain". Together ( Read more... )

I'll be upfront and admit that I don't like most music videos. I think the ones that aren't actively offensive (boobies flying and ass-shots and jiggling girl bits) or pretentious (Hello, indie bands of the emo!) are boring (the rest of them). They rarely work as more than a fancified showcase for the song, rarely have the kinetic energy of a good ( Read more... )

I am so bad! I haven't posted fannishly in a long, long time, maybe because I've been missing the new season of SGA and not really caring, and just generally out of squee right now. I'm squee-deficient. I thought -- was really looking forward to -- Superman Returns stuffing me full to bursting of squee, but yeah, that didn't work out so well. I'm ( Read more... )

Living in San Francisco has many advantages (one of them: fabulous burritos) and one of the best ones has to be the fog. Oh, how I have missed you, you great gray beast on little cat's feet. The heat wave never got too bad here; it topped off around 90-ish degrees, and even with the heat, it was never truly unbearable because of the breezes coming ( Read more... )