The Poetry of Spam: Haikus About Lunch Meat

Spam, our favorite mystery meat.  I keep a can of it in the pantry at all times for when I get the occasional spam craving.  But as soon as I’ve swallowed the last bite, I get this gross feeling, like “why did I do that?“ Keola Beamer also has a fascination with spam, but his is [...]

Twilight – 6 Things You Didn’t Know About the Vampire Movie and its Stars

Twilight, the hit vampire movie based on the bestselling books by Stephanie Meyer, was described by salon.com as “the sweet spot where Gothic literature and the iPod meet and make goo-goo eyes at each other.”  Whether you’re a fan or not, you’ve probably been hearing a lot of buzz about Twilight, but here are 6 [...]

Tasty Turkey: Is Your Butterball Second Rate?

According to an article titled Talking ’bout Turkey in the Honolulu Weekly, the mass-produced turkeys that 99% of us eat at Thanksgiving… …are injected with saline solution and vegetable oils to make up for the lack of taste and moisture in the meat. The article goes on to state that heritage turkeys, the kind your [...]

Book Suggestions, A List of Modern Day Classics

Entertainment Weekly recently put out a list of the best 100 books published between 1983 and 2008, calling them the new classics.  The book list doesn’t give any type of description, so I decided to go through the list, do some research, pick out the books that look most interesting to me (minus those I’ve already [...]

Let Me on MySpace or I’ll Stab You

A man was arrested for cutting his mother with a knife after she wouldn’t let him get on MySpace.  According to myway news, during their fight regarding MySpace: The mother said she confronted her 6-foot 2-inch tall, 320-pound son, after which he became aggravated and packed his belongings to leave their home.  Police said he [...]

Funny Thanksgiving Poem — Toupee Souflee

This cute and well-written funny Thanksgiving poem, called The Thanksgiving Toupee Souflee, was created by Terry Lerdall-Fitterer and re-published here with her special permission: The day had arrived; ’twas exactly one year since my relatives, (moochers), had Thanksgiving here, poor Grandpa was already stewed to the gills, and Grandma–disgusted, was popping pink pills. The turkey [...]

Hamster Fiction — The Next Big Thing?

Time after time, people write to me and say, “Edie, where I can I go to find spectacularly written stories about hamsters?”  Okay, nobody has ever actually asked me that, but if they did, I would have to tell them:  Tooty Nolan. Tooty Nolan is the pen name of the eccentric and exceedingly funny author [...]

One of My Bodily Organs is Gone

The most intense pain I’ve ever felt in my life awoke me at midnight on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. What ensued can only be described as a vomitathon, and by 2:00 am, my husband was asking me if I wanted to go to the hospital.  I refused, thinking it had to be over soon.   By [...]

Science Fiction Books Free! Sci-Fi Geeks Rejoice

Free books!  Ahh — a bibliophile’s dream come true.  And for us science fiction geeks, the dream has become a reality in the form of the Baen Free Library. This sci-fi online bookstore, ready for the raiding, is based on the concept that if authors make their work available for free online, it will increase book sales.  How?  Most [...]

Flash Fiction: Dani-Girl’s Guide to Getting Everything Right

Author, Gay Degani, has a great flash fiction story out called Dani-Girl’s Guide to Getting Everything Right.  This short short story starts out: The minute the nose of my Honda Civic points north on the 5, my hands begin to sweat, my breath goes shallow, and somewhere down in my lower intestinal tract I feel [...]