Blogger Beware: The Goosebumps Blog

I think most of us were a little too old for the Goosebumps craze, but this blog is still funny even if you've never read one*:

http://www.bloggerbeware.com/

The author is re-reading all the Goosebumps books and reviewing each one. He keeps track of recurring themes like platonic boy/girl friendships, lack of minority characters, questionable behavior by parents and teachers, werewolf appearances (it's always werewolves!), suspicious scientists, '90s cultural references (one parent worries if her son has become "a grunge"), and gives away each of R.L. Stine's famous twist endings. He also makes a lot of musical jokes, which I always enjoy. Anyone else who can identify the Leonard Cohen reference in the Scream School entry gets to be my new best friend. :)

This retrospective post is a good introduction to the blog, with the author providing a top 10 best/worst Goosebumps books.


*I actually have read one. My younger sister loved these books, and I know I did read one of her's that was about a boy and girl who went to a horror amusement park that turned out to be run by...Aaahh!!! REAL MONSTERS! But judging from the blog there were actually several different Goosebumps books with exactly this premise, including an entire spin-off series, so I don't know which one it was.

Cake Wrecks

I don't often laugh out loud at things I see on the Internet, even if they're really funny. But I was truly LOL over this blog, featuring photos of very...unfortunate...professionally decorated cakes.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

There's a wedding cake that is a life-sized replica of the bride, a psychedelic monstrosity intended for a Sweet 16 party, some truly hilarious errors in the messages written on cakes, and a disturbing number of baby shower cakes in the form of actual babies.

blog maintenance

As we are about to reach our 700th post, I have decided that it is time for a little blog maintenance. I would like to clean up the links and condense the tag cloud. If you use any of the links heavily, let me know so I keep them, or if you have any new ones to add, suggest away.

Also, there was talk a few weeks ago about a name change. Do we still want to do that? Please discuss!

I heart the internet

Just in case you haven't been following, Perez Hilton has the play by play of the latest Lindsay Lohan scandal here.