Remembering the Sierra days

Someone on Ask Metafilter was asking about playing old Sierra games, and one of the answers pointed out that if you just want to see them again for the nostalgia factor, there are walk-throughs on YouTube.

Whoa. Here's King's Quest 5. I guess I didn't play this one, but I surely played others in the series, as well as Police Quest, Space Quest (remember that space burger stand?) and Leisure Suit Larry.

Potsticker panic

I'm a freak for potstickers, so I'll need to make time to peruse these blog posts, which all involve the cooks making potstickers completely from scratch, including the wrappers.

What were people reading during the Depression?

A Virginia Woolf book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel? Do not tell me this craze for all things fluff is new.

They're gonna need a bigger jet

This movie trailer seriously cracked me up, and not in a telling jokes way, but in an "oh that's SO DUMB and yet I MUST see this movie" way.

"Snakes on a Plane" nothing! (Thanks to Kurt for the link!)

Adventures in Cancerland

One of my MSNBC.com co-workers, Mike Celizic, was diagnosed with a non-Hodgkin's T-cell lymphoma this week. He's chronicling his cancer treatment in a series called "Adventures in Cancerland." Godspeed, Mike.

Helmet head

Now I'm a protective mom, but not THIS protective.

Kidding around

I always assumed the kids' shows of my childhood (hello, Bugaloos? Banana Splits?) were the weirdest of all time, but this slideshow shows that they've been pretty weird every decade.

However, someone at Boston.com should have checked their facts. ANITA Bizarre? The Bugaloos villain was BENITA Bizarre.

Makin' bacon

I also cut my packages of bacon in half before freezing them, but I like how Not Martha suggests freezing each piece separately in parchment so you can just peel off the ones you want. Obvious but smart!

Brains! BRRRRRRAAAAAINS!

A co-worker who knows my taste (ha!) for zombie movies sent me this trailer for a zombie flick called "Yesterday." I'd definitely check it out if I get the chance.

D-I-V-O-R-C-E!

Heh, I loved this Sweet Valley book, in which the oh-so-perfect Wakefield parents actually separate. Not because of money or sex or any reason like that, but because they both work too hard.

Also, Liz and Todd break up (hooray!) and Liz runs away from home, like she's four or something.

I loves these meeses to pieces

The world's weirdest computer mice.

Some of them are super-creepy (the woman's torso, the gun) but I do admit to loving the Mario Brothers.

Meat on your feet

Bacon shoes.

Via Two Bites in Suburbia.

Pasta delivered?

More and more pizza places are adding pasta to their menus, but Papa John's is resisting the trend.

I actually like pasta quite a bit more than I like pizza (I know, I know, I'm a traitor), but the one time we had a side dish of pasta delivered along with a pizza, it was just as gluey and chunky and yucky as you'd think it would be.

Pass the salmon squares

Yeeesh. This great Comics Curmudgeon post about throwaway panels is fun to read, but the most notable comic for me is the one where Mary Worth fishes (!) for compliments on her hideous SALMON SQUARES.

Josh says it best: "Has Mary taken moist, delicious, tender salmon and mercilessly baked it until it’s a series of hard, crispy pucks that are easy to pick up without getting your hands oily, and that taste like ashes in your mouth? Is the salmon inside some kind of pink pastry shell, resulting in an awful salmon-flavored Pop-Tart? Was this so-called “new recipe” written on parchment in human blood in the bowels of hell by Satan himself? Probably!"