Lucas

One of my friends from work and I have been planning to watch a hockey game together for… oh, three years now. Though this rendez-vous for a Flyers-tastic evening has been delayed longer than the release of Guns N’ Roses’ album Chinese Democracy, it’s bound to happen this season. One thing’s for certain. When we […]

Happy belated Thanksgiving, everyone! Thanksgiving is a time to express gratitude for our wonderful friends and families, our health, and myriad things that we often take for granted. It’s also a time to eat insane quantities of food… including bruschetta. Not a common Thanksgiving staple, that bruschetta. note: nobody in this picture is eating bruschetta […]

Whenever Jess and I visit the local Boscov’s department store, it’s more or less obligatory for us to stop by a nook on the second floor where the As Seen On TV items are displayed. This occurs once or twice a month, each month.  Though the inventory rarely changes, and the prices seldom fluctuate, we follow the […]

Gandalf.  Merlin.  Albus Dumbledore.  All fine wizards. But could any of them cut a carrot into uniform chunks within a few seconds? Doubtful.  They’d be too busy apparating or shape shifting or conjuring fire or other wizard-type activities to bother with such trivialities. So, the Vidalia Chop Wizard is better than the finest literary wizards… […]

I’m convinced that the edges of our yard were treated with the herbacious equivalent of Minoxidil. The lawn can be trimmed so that the landscape is flatter than the half-empty cans of Natural Light lining the window sills of a frat house the morning following a party.  After a single heavy rainfall, the weeds along […]

Whenever I work on anything around the house, from painting walls to mowing the lawn to dusting the end tables, I like to wear my “project pants.” Here’s what they look like: Even with the extremely poor picture quality (sorry about that… couldn’t find Jess’s camera, and had to resort to the camera phone…), you […]

Every once in a while, a new snake oil salesman of late night bursts into the scene, complete with his own shtick. Back in the 90’s, the Grandfather of Infomercials Ron Popeil flashed his Joker-like veneered smile.  The early part of this decade was ruled by Billy Mays, his oxford shirt, and his perfectly groomed beard.   Now […]

I come from a long line of women who are hardcore about keeping a clean house. If you walked through my Grandmother’s living room as a kid, and you left foot imprints on her pristine carpet, you had to be prepared to pull the carpet wand through after yourself to make them disappear. My own […]

Oh, faithful readers of We Took the Bait (hereby christened “Baiters”) – I have to apologize for my lack of posts lately. In between preparing for graduate school and preparing for the holidays, I’ve been swamped and leaving most of the reviewing up to Jeremy. Yes, my evenings have been filled with spiked eggnog, financial […]