Delicious and Nutritious

Everyone seems pumped about Pumpkin Spice Lattes, but what about the return of the best cereal ever? Where's the love for Count Chocula???

Obsession

Like a knee-jerk reaction, When I see a person I immediately comparing his or her face to a celebrity's. Maybe it's because people are constantly saying to me, "You look like ____." But true or not, telling people they look like famous faces wins you cool points. Unless that person is Clint Howard.

One of these men is Christian Slater. The other is Joseph Stalin. Can You tell me which is which?

Sporcle...

...is my new craze/obsession. Where else can you test your knowledge of presidents, states, and world capitals? Well, lots of places I guess. But Sporcle lets you test your knowledge of lesser-known Joss Whedon characters. Don't know him? I'd skip it.

Any bit of sports minutiae is covered, which bodes well for me. You can quiz your knowledge of the Opening Day lineups of 11 MLB franchises, or the top 50 male tennis players. Would people listed in these quizzes even get half correct?

I prefer the meta-lists: AFI's Top 100 films, AP Male Athletes of the Year, and Time's Most Important People of the 20th century. No one will score perfectly on these, but you can certainly do better than most if you have a good history knowledge base.

My favorite quiz? 100 Commonest English Words. I play it once per day and once answered 99. Now excuse me, I'm going for perfection.

What's the deal with:

1) "Toxins"? I can't find anything besides Wikipedia and 10000000+ advertisements to tell me what toxins are and how I can cleanse them from my body. So I eat only lemon juice and cayenne pepper for 21 days, and "toxins" are cleared from my "system." Does this mean I'll never get cancer? What are all the toxins currently living in my body up to: making cancer?

2) Genetically engineered salmon? This was all over the news yesterday and I have no idea why. Or again: what specifically will happen to you if you eat it? Looks fine to me, + if it can protect native species from overfishing, + if it can increase the world food supply, what's the problem?

I know these could be obvious things to most people, which is why I ask. I really want to know! Tell me what's up.

The Fall

This morning feels great. I feel like saying something really cheesy like "I can take on the world today!", but I won't. Everyone always is ready for fall - as every mom blog will tell you, but this year it seems like I am the most ready I've ever been. The weather this morning reminds me of Joe Fox from "You've Got Mail" writing about how fall in New York makes him want to send bouquets of sharpened pencils to Kathleen. What a great movie! I guess more than that, this time of year just makes me want to exercise more and take my multi-vitamins everday (it can be easy to forget!).

On another note - Happy 26th Birthday to JoP editor Kneeker! He hasn't written in awhile, but he's still alive & kickin'!

6 Pic Friday: The Forgotten Pic

Just kidding; it's not forgotten. I just saw this on noted Hi Fever and Gone Fashion' writer Breniecia's excellent twitter feed.

WHOA FOLKS!

@@------ CrUSh AlErT ----@@

Northern Exposure is rocking my world lately. What a great show! (Almost) Makes me want to move to Alaska! There are so many great things about this show - especially the fashion. Early '90's wilderness style never looked so good! Shelley's earrings are always a bright spot in any episode.

I'm watching Season 2 and so far Chris Stevens has pulled into the lead for hottest guy on the show. Chris is played by John Corbett who will later go on to become Carrie Bradshaw's hottest and best boyfriend ever on Sex & the City. What was she thinking cheating and breaking up with him??? On Northern Exposure, Chris is the DJ for the only radio station in town. Everybody loves "Chris in the Morning".

It's a morning show that's a mix of town announcements, book readings and overall life discussions. Apparently he even warrants a book. He is the town's only clergyman so he's your go to guy for all religious functions. Chris is a chill soul who has the hottest girlfriends in Cicely - and it's not hard to see why!

Also, he kind of bears a resemblance to David Foster Wallace at times.

5 pic 5riday

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Happy 75th Birthday Blue Ridge Parkway!




A JoP crush alert from way back celebrates NYC Fashion Week.

Did everyone get the memo? It's time to blog about fall decor. Get out your wagon wheels!

This pic is so awkward I couldn't resist it!

re: Crazy Pastor in Gainesville

I haven't followed "the crazy pastor is going to burn the Koran on Saturday" much because it sounds ridiculous. However, I was forced to hear about it on NPR this morning. Yes, it's crazy and clueless, but why are they giving this guy so much media time? I know he's doing it on the anniversary of September 11th, but does that warrant this becoming an actual story? Not to get all Sarah Palin on you, but - isn't the "main stream media" making this guy a celebrity? Aren't there intolerant people all over this country every day? Why is this guy getting coverage?

FRiDaY MyStErY TwEeT

It's time for a brand-new feature, one that has prizes! The first person to figure this out in the comments is the winner.

As a side note, I got a new phone this week and I can finally say I think I understand Twitter. If you're bored/stuck in traffic/waiting for someone, you know how you usually reach for your phone--just to look busy or send a text? Now that I can get it from my phone, I realize how Twitter is like a neverending stream of texts, to and from other people, that are occasionally funny!

That said, here's this week's Friday Mystery Tweet:

Parabéns @huckluciano feliz aniversário meu irmão!!Abraço para voce e outro para @angelicaksy! HAVE FUN BRO!

Pro tip: pay attention to context clues, and follow the links back to the source!

GOOD LUCK!