they're baaaaaack!!!!

NKOTB baby...oh...don't pretend you don't know what that acronym stands for....

New Kids on the Block are officially coming back and going on tour! New songs but of course they'll be playing the hits we all loved and cherished.

While I never idolized any one of the "Kids" I did however play their biggest album to death on my walkman because i truly appreciated their musical talents.

off the market!

ever wondered where lauren and audrina hang?

well...wonder no more.

gridskipper's a cool site that often incorporates my love of google, maps and food into visual landscapes of information (frilly and otherwise).

check it out.

Top Chef sightings

Went to the Mushroom Festival at Kennett, PA, today. http://www.mushroomfestival.org/

I feel like I had heard about this festival when I was at Swarthmore, but when I mentioned to a few Philly people about it, they'd never heard about it! Sadly, the festival felt more like any other street festival (with some of the fried food being made out of mushroom rather than something else) than something that really featured mushrooms.

It did have really good ice cream by a local place--Woodside Farm Creamery. http://www.woodsidefarmcreamery.com/index.htm

I also got to see part of a cooking demo by Ilan Hall and Miguel Morales---of course, I was one of like four people who raised their hands in the filled tent when Miguel asked who in the room had never watched Top Chef. They were both trying very hard to be funny and charming--and sometimes they succeeded. I had to leave to return to Philly before they actually made anything, but Miguel did discuss how to make the dish he was preparing (Monte Cristo sandwich with portabello mushroom caps as bread) vegan, so he got big points for that.

"Oh no you didn't...."

...said Ryan Gosling in a charmingly joking manner.

I am sure that Aging Cowgirl may be, er, disappointed, but that was one of my favorite moments in the movie "Half Nelson". Which she made me watch. But it's good. So I'd make you watch it too. But I'd make you watch "The Wire" first. Then I would ask you the difference between snorting, smoking, and freebasing because I still can't get my head around it.

Aging Cowgirl, I think you should definitely watch "Murder by Numbers" for another take on Ryan Gosling's scary/seductive quality. He does it so well.

But to tide you over until Netflix delivers it to you, here are scans of a recent article about him (sorry for the wrinkly pages):
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And something I made especially for you, with something else Goslingy to follow soon:

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Outing a couple more of my obsessions....

So I've confessed this recent one to numerous people:

This is another nice photo from that New York Times Magazine layout, for Aging Cowgirl:

But I'm betting it's already framed in the bathroom, or the bedroom.

But there are more where that came from upon which I promised to elaborate....
For lilbunny:
Now I don't know if they'll really be that funny for everyone who doesn't really like Saturday Night Live, but here goes....
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Lazy Sunday
The Best Gift Ever
Natalie Portman Raps
Andy's Excuse

And from a while back, randomly found on the internets somewhere:
Y'all, the dream is over! Let us remember them at their finest:
Britney Eats For Two (Radar Online)

And for Aging Cowgirl:
Yes, this is how I spend my time and use my valuable grapheeecs skeeelz....

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Irish fiddling! Part II

So a couple of you recommended the movie "The Departed" to me (a movie about Irish-American cops? Me? Who'da thunk?), and I saw it on Sunday because the Academy is gracious like that.... and thusly I have lilbunny and deedoubleyew to thank for my newfound crush on Leonardo DiCaprio (although come to think of it, he does look like a more emotive, rough-hewn, younger brother of preternaturally-soap-operatically handsome Eric Dane), and my resurrected crush on Southie(-esque) accents in general (see also: David of Real World Seattle; CT of Real World Paris).

THIS IS WHY I'M HOT THIS IS WHY THIS IS WHY THIS IS WHY I'M HOT

I SHALL CALL YOU MARKY MARK NO MORE. MAYBE.

I shan't go into further detail lest I "spoil" the movie for you. You can see it pretty soon since it releases on DVD on February 13 (awww, what a perfect Valentine's day gift! right, lilbunny?)... a fact that my mom told me as soon as I came home on Sunday. Ha ha. But I will say that Jack Nicholson and Alec Baldwin were pretty great too, y'know, for old dudes. And watch for Jack's favorite print motif in the movie, it's pretty funny.

I also have a major crush on this song which is AWESOME. Sorry, I meant WICKED AWESOME. Of course. It is even awesomer in the movie, I think, though I have a feeling this group would not make for a disappointing live show, so that might be the awesomest of all.

[Photos from rottentomatoes.com and I have turned into a PhotoShop addict. Help!]

so i just recently clicked on zuppe's links down below ....

and saw the mindy ephron blog. anyway, i noticed there was a little shout out to swarthmore under the post on Saturday, January 27, 2007 -- apparently she went to dartmouth, so i wonder what the connection is (and who is George Meyer?)