Kara & Michael’s Blog

Kara’s Review

Summarize the plot in one sentence. The autobiography of a woman growing up within the tumult of revolutions in Iran.
Who would you take to see this movie? Explain. An indie friend who wouldn’t laugh at me for crying sometimes, someone who loves graphic novels because they’ll appreciate the medium of [...]

I’ve been trawling around on Yahoo! Answers for the last week or so, collecting what I like to call the “worst” of the questions and answers that appear on the site. For what it’s worth, I’ve also been answering questions — in an attempt to offset the negative karma I am doubtless accruing by poking [...]

I was feeling a little hungry this morning (odd, since I don’t usually). After sizing up the contents of the vending machine at work I decided to avail myself of a “Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain cereal bar” — at least, that’s what the manufacturer likes to call them.
I have vague memories of eating these things occasionally in [...]

WoDM and I are reviewing people. We review sunsets, car rides, movies, albums, magazines, food, etc. If the cat jumps, we hold up a sign rating the jump from one to ten. Inari’s jumps tend to average around 6.9 or so. We’ve discussed including reviews on the blog, mostly because we [...]

Anyone who knows me knows I can be a little bit of a reality tv addict. Especially if it involves Flava Flav. It started with The Surreal Life and ran all the way to I Love New York 2 (Flavor of Love 3 is coming out in February). I wasn’t particularly interested [...]

Like 23 million other Americans, I watched part of Fox’s tasteless new game show “The Moment of Truth” the other night. The format, which has apparently been a hit in Colombia and the UK, is this: Contestants are asked a series of increasingly embarrassing personal questions in a polygraph examination a few days before the [...]

Ahh, Yahoo! Answers. A place where anyone can ask a question and have it answered by…well, anyone. When pressing personal problems confront you, why wait for the sage advice of Abby, Margo, Carolyn, Amy or myriad others, when you can have your question answered right now by the unwashed masses?
Yahoo! Answers is simultaneously one of [...]

(In which we count the number of things that are wrong or suspicious within a scam e-mail message, just for sport.)
This showed up in my mailbox this morning, and I think it’s better than most:

To: lscfhafes@4d2.org
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:05:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Congratulations!!! You Have Won One Million Euro…Contact Your Claims Agent.
From: “Westdeutsche Lotterie [...]

If you’re like me, and you’re chock full of Simpsons knowledge and trivia, you find yourself attached to Simpsons’ Valentines ideas. Whether you favor Bart’s painted conversation hearts (bite me, etc) or Lisa’s punny valentines to Ralph Wiggum, there is something to treasure about the way the Simpsons do Valentine’s day.
Last year, WoDM found a [...]

I’m posting my recipe for chili, because I’ve been looking around the web and have found that people have some really strange ideas about chili. Honestly, I kind of expected that everybody that made chili without meat would do it pretty much the same way, but this is not the case. People put all kinds [...]