I lost my gloves on New Years, and I went back to buy some more. But why would they sell men’s gloves after January 1? Especially when they’re making 33% more from lady gloves.
Glove-flation: Target’s buy-in-bulk gloves were 2 for $1.50 and now they’re 2 for $2. Still a good deal though.
When I was young-ish, I saw an episode of this on Nick at Night (which I just confirmed via Google search). I just remember thinking that it seemed so quintessentially “Nickelodeon”: slime, kids getting slimed, a bunch of kids hanging out. But the episode that I saw also involved the COMMUNISTS.
From Wikipedia:
In the “Enemies and Paranoia” episode from the 1986 season, the studio is taken over by Russian Communists. Uttering the word “free” (as in “freedom”) would send a cascade of red slime pouring over whoever said it.
I remember thinking “you shouldn’t do that on television.” (Groan.)
I had a teacher in school (middle sch or high sch?) who would constantly reference this show even though it was clearly before our time.
What I’ve heard of Sharon Van Etten’s new album is pretty outstanding. This will be a good year for new music: Punch Brothers, Sharon Van Etten, Bowerbirds … yes.
Yes.
Sorry Derrick, I’m just not interested in getting Groupon emails anymore.
I want a CUPPOW! (See what they did there? An exclamation point in the name means I have to sound enthusiastic. But this time I truly am.)
This little piece of plastic turns a mason jar into a relatively cheap travel mug. Very cool.
Looks like NPR discovered “grapples” — the curiously grape-flavored apple. Come on NPR, where’ve you been? Obviously not my local Upstate New York grocery store 4 years ago. (I’ve never had one but I wouldn’t mind a taste test.)
npr:
There is no escaping artificial flavor. It’s everywhere, and the people who invent it argue that it will enhance your experience of a food — making it more tropical, more floral, or more bitter, in a good way.
Artificial flavors of familiar favorites also have long tricked kids into eating things they think they don’t like. That’s part of the idea behind the Grapple (pronounced gray-pull), an apple product sold in grocery stories. The Grapple wears an aromatic disguise, thanks to “a relaxing bath” in natural and artificial Concord grape flavors. That is, it’s an apple that tastes like a grape. — Eliza Barclay
Why @TheAVClub commenters are the best, re: @LanaDelRey in #ReasDis: “Sounds like music written by a sentient Anthropologie store.”
— Kyle Ryan (@Kyle_Ryan) January 11, 2012
Steve Yelvington drew comparisons between Kodak and the journalism industry on his blog yesterday. His isn’t a new idea, but it’s an important one. And his not-so-subtle dig at Gannett stings (though I’d still like to remain optimistic about these kinds of decisions).
From “What newsrooms should learn from Kodak”:
Your business isn’t what you think it is. Kodak at its peak looked like a photography company, but it was really a giant chemical manufacturing company. Digital tech rendered the entire chemical photography business irrelevant. By comparison, newspapers looked like news and information companies, but they were really expensive commercial advertisement printing and delivery systems. If you have borrowed heavily to build and maintain capital-intensive processes that are suddenly rendered irrelevant, you’re in deep trouble no matter how smart you are and no matter what you do. Printing isn’t yet irrelevant, but it’s trending that way. This is not to the time to invest in a new three-around compact press line.
