What a wonderful idea! Fresh cookies and milk delivered to your door from CookiesNMilk.net. Yum yum yum. This business model may not scale well, but you don’t need to be a big success to make a nice pot of money. Maybe they’ll add freshly baked brownies too! That’d be awesome.

I’ll go to the Oscars with you, Trey Parker! I know who won the Civil War. And I forgive you for killing Kenny every week. Pick me, pick me!

I heard myself using the phrase “talk to the hand!” today and was appalled, because a) I hate using catch phrases even though I do it all the time and b) I have no idea where the expression originated from and it’s always good idea to know your sources. Being the good little web addict that I am, I did a search. Apparently we have Fran Drescher as “The Nanny” to thank for this contribution to American pop culture lingo. This article gave me the answer. How many of you know where the phrase “round up the usual suspects” comes from?

A favorite conversation starter: “What would you rather win? An Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Pulitzer, or how about one of the Nobel Prizes?” Hmm. Perhaps I need to add something like the Webby Awards to bring the choices into the new millenium. I guess I’d go for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but I’d certainly settle for a Pulitzer. I’m not too picky.

Just wanted to make sure no one missed the news that David Bowie and Iman are expecting a baby in August. I know — who really cares ‘cept me?

Via memepool: the New Yorker cartoon bank. Yippee!! Now I can search for old James Thurber cartoons — although I haven’t made the leap to actually register yet so I don’t know how well the service works.

Is the 70’s style rock’n’roll gig t-shirt back? Seems it’s appearing at the fashion shows in London. That means it’ll be coming to a teeny bopper near you. I never had any myself. I do own a few concert tees now, mostly from the nineties (Bowie’s Sound and Vision tour, Peter Gabriel’s Secret World tour — awesome show). I haven’t gotten around to writing about those yet (if you haven’t seen it, I have my own t-shirt web site).

(Warning: it’s childhood nostalgia day here at GirlHacker!) While doing my usual used bookstore perusal of the children’s section, I came across three old volumes by Thornton Burgess. I had forgotten about his books. My father used to read them to me at bedtime. I adored the loveably flawed animal characters he created. I think Grandfather Frog was my favorite. And he wrote many more books than I realized! 171 on this list.

EM.TV, a German company, has acquired 100% of The Jim Henson Company. “EM.TV is the world market leader in family and children’s programming and the European market leader in merchandising.” I guess I feel much nostalgia to be “losing” Kermit & Co to a bigger fish. But I’m sure the Hensons are probably thrilled to pieces over the $680 million deal. I watched The Muppet Show every week it was on, went to all the movies with my best friend, and sang along with the albums. How many of you sang “The Rainbow Connection” in plaintive little kiddie voices during elementary school choir? One of my favorite sketches is The Rhyming Song. Why? ‘Cuz it doesn’t rhyme. Ha!

Win a trip to Powell’s! Being a used book (or just book) freak, Powell’s Books is a mecca of mine. I hope to make a pilgrimage soon. As they aptly put it “Visit the best bookstore in the world.
How you cope with ordinary bookstores thereafter, well, that’s your problem.” And they say they’ll fly you from any major city in the world, so everyone can go for it. Heh…maybe I’ll win since I’m such a small hop away.