I do like the Swedish meatballs too.

Dear Meredith:

I have to say, I do like Ikea, even though I am sick to death of those damn allen wrenches. In this nifty video, watch a Lack table get made.

Such style!

Dear Meredith:

There are way too many "blogs" based on reader-submitted pictures, but I have to say, I sort of enjoy this one.

My Parents Were Awesome

Meep meep!

Dear Meredith:

Okay, I thought that the Muppets doing "Bohemian Rhapsody" was pretty awesome, but it might be out-awesomed by Beaker performing "Ode to Joy."

The unfortunate thing is that this song gets terribly stuck in your head.

Dear Meredith:

The Muppets do "Bohemian Rhapsody". Words can't do it justice.

There isn't possibly enough time for all this procrastination, is there?

Dear Meredith:

Of course, our site isn't the only one that can help you procrastinate. Check out this list of other internet vices, and their quite humorous descriptions.

Internet vices

Inglourious Basterds indeed.

Dear Meredith:

This is nothing less than awesome. Watch Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino on a Japanese cooking show. Need anything more be said?

(From SeriousEats.)

Part 2


Part 3

Pretty pretty letters.

Dear Meredith:

I'm a sucker for creative lettering - if I can't actually produce it, at least I can admire it, right?

Friends of Type

PANCAKES!

Dear Jennifer,

For some reason, I can only stomach waffles. But this collection of pancake photos is almost enough to make me a believer.

PANCAKES!
(found through Jezebel)

Watch Neo go!

Dear Meredith:

I mean, sometimes some people have just too much time on their hands - but then again, without them, who would recreate the bullet time dodge scene from The Matrix?

Does fine dining exist at Costco?

Dear Meredith:

I have a mad mad crush on Eric Ripert, the chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin in New York. Yes, I've featured him on this site before. But now he's on the small screen, with a cooking show, featuring Eric Ripert being inspired by nature and then cooking a dish based on this inspiration. In the link below, however, Alan Richman of GQ takes Eric Ripert to Costco (ie, NOT nature) to see his reaction.

Some choice quotations:

I am freaked out. Costco depresses me. I know everybody doesn’t have the same opportunities I do to visit farm stands and little markets, but I will fight to the end for inspirational shopping. Costco doesn’t even look like it belongs on our planet. It could be on the moon.

Alan asks me to push the cart, and I will not. Yes, I know I am being a spoiled brat, but for me it is an acceptance of the system. I do not want to be seen as somebody who supports this kind of store and this kind of system.

I just don't push shopping carts because I am lazy.

Avec Alan