Read Receipts for Text Messages: Stalkery or Useful?
Text messages are a large part of the way we communicate with each other these days. Honestly, it's my preferred method for carrying on conversations and asking and answering questions, as I've grown to hate talking on the phone with most people. This is not to insult my friends, who I love very much, but why stop what I'm doing (pause Netflix, usually) to talk to you when we can just as easily get stuff done while talking with our fingers via our phones? Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Read more...Brides + Beer = Totally fine or a no-no?
Ladies, it seems the list of things on the Internet that make my eyes roll so far back inside my head (that I think they'll fall out my butt) grew a little today. A story on TheFW about a photo of a bride (wearing a white dress!) in New Zealand enjoying a beer (out of a bottle, no less!), caused a fuss online because we humans can't not pass judgment on people we don't even know. The act of consuming beer while wearing a...
Read more...Foamy the Squirrel's 2 cents on marriage equality
It's been a hectic week for marriage equality, with Obama's endorsement and North Carolina's writing bigotry into law. Naturally, Foamy the Squirrel has something to say about it. Hard to believe a cartoon squirrel possesses greater logic and reasoning skills than more than half of this country.
Read more...Incontrovertible Proof that Leggings are not Pants
Ladies, can we all agree that leggings are not pants? I hope we can. I've been shaking my fist and shouting to the heavens about this for what seems like forever, but apparently the message has not caught on. Leggings. Are Not. Pants. I still cannot get the image of all of the underwears I've seen through people's leggings-as-pants. One particularly stripey pair I could see while at Union Station some time last year still haunts me. Gentlemen, I have heard all of your arguments for leggings...
Read more...All Nyan, Every Nyan!
Alright, ladies, it's hard not to love a cartoon poptart cat with a rainbow tail/poop trail who flies through space, right? (It's even harder when your real-life cat son resembles the guy!) And that song! Let us not forget the glorious, melodious, effervescent song on endless repeat in our brains.
Read more...A funny cat video for your Friday
Happy Friday, everyone. Let's all learn something from this cat about making our daily tasks our bitch. He knows what's up. Let's not worry about being wasteful and instead concern ourselves only with how to get everything done with style.
Read more...Proke: An addicting web game for you word nerds
It's Friday. Our brains are probably most focused on getting paid, how long it is till we next get paid, and how we're going to blow a bunch of money on stupid crap this weekend. Right? Sure. Probably.
Read more...My Favorite Love Songs
Happy Valentine's Day, or if you prefer, just plain old Tuesday, everyone!
Read more...Don't Know What to Drink On Spotify? Try Drinkify.
"What are you listening to?" asks Drinkify.
Read more...Where's the Adderall? There's a Connecticut Shortage
If you've got a prescription for the attenion-deficit-disorder drug Adderall, it's likely you're not able to fill it here in Connecticut, or possibly lots of other places in the whole country.
Read more...People in Pizza-Slice Costumes Becoming PIzzas
Things are sometimes exactly as they seem.
Read more...Hilarious Photos of People Freaking Out at a Haunted House
At Nightmares Fear Factory Haunted House up in Niagara Falls, there's some unknown thing that seems to scare the CRAP out of every single person who sees it. The place takes rollercoaster-style pictures of the people who pass through this one room, and the photos are pretty funny. And if you can figure out what they're seeing, let us know.
Read more...Cool Right Now: This new Florence and the Machine video
Shake it out, "Shake It Out." (You'll like it.)
Read more...SLIDESHOW: Cool/Adorable Albino Animals
There's something kind of appealing about pigmentless animals. Here's a few pictures collected from Google Images -- so if you spot anything that looks 'shopped, drop us a note, bsnyder@hartfordadvocate.com.
Read more...Five Awesome Things to Do Today (Thursday 9/8)
With the weekend on the horizon, Thursday seems like as good as any night to get out there and do something fun. Your weekend is probably swallowed up by previous plans as it is, so here are five things to do tonight that you may have not known about.
Read more...Bye, Bye Summer!: 6 Things to Do Indoors as the Weather Cools
Most current lists of activities are for people who long for the summer and nice weather. I say, usher in the cold weather, 'cause I'm ready to sit inside for half a year. Here's a list of stuff you can do indoors while everyone else tries to salvage the remnants of the warm months.
Read more...The 20 Best Sheltering Suburban Moms
The Sheltering Suburban Mom is here to boss you around and not practice what she preaches. The woman in the image is the romance novelist Carly Phillips, from the portrait photograph that appears on her books. Although there is no clear reason why she was chosen, perhaps her black sweatsuit can provide the connection between her and the dreaded suburban mom. Here's a list of 20 of the best images, in no particular order.
Read more...Connecticut Light and Power's Facebook Page Should Be a Resource, Not a Complaint Line
Yesterday's tropical storm did a lot of damage in Connecticut, the force of which has resulted in the loss of power to more than 700,000 households. That means 700,000 people are taking cold showers and catching up on a lot of reading. And they're on the lookout for CL&P trucks.
Read more...The Best Tweets From Your @FriendFromHS
Joke accounts are vogue-y on Twitter, and I'm definitely a fan. Every time an animal escapes from a zoo, I get excited for the inevitable Twitter account(s) that pop up, chronicling the escapee's imagined romp around its region. (Remember the mountian lion that hoofed it here from South Dakota? Tweet,...
Read more...New York Times Magazine Writers Have Really Embarrassing E-Mail Addresses
There's a subtle snobbery I find myself indulging in when I see in my inbox e-mail accounts ending in @aol.com, @hotmail.com, @yahoo, etc. I realize this is a complex and unhealthy place of judgment. And I realize too that one day my own e-mail address -- a gmail account, duh -- will likely be on the list of dated domains, once the Next Big Thing comes around. And yet!
Read more...Where to Get Radiohead's Probably Boringly Earnest Newspaper 'The Universal Sigh' on March 29
Radiohead announced they're putting out a free newspaper, The Universal Sigh, this coming Tuesday.
Read more...So You Found A Way Around the New York Times Paywall! Who Cares?
Last week, the New York Times revealed its subscriber plans and paywall details, which will become significantly more pertinent once everything goes into effect on March 28. Since that announcement, though, bloggers and tweeters are getting all huffy and condescending about all the ways to get over the paywall, and trying to deconstruct the pay structures, and...
Read more...Real-Life Superheroes in Seattle.
Just saw this blogpost about a real-life superhero patrolling the streets of Seattle. The Daily Intel gives a really great breakdown of the "fatal flaws" in this guy's superhero routine, but this video clip of the guy rescued by one of the "Rain City Superhero Crime Fighters" is like mouthbreathingly hilarious. Can someone in Hartford PLEASE put on a rubber suit, live in a comic-book store...
Read more...The Like Button
I'm friends with a couple of other Brianna Snyders on Facebook (Brianna Snyders 4 life!) and my favorite is a 14- or 15-year-old Brianna Snyder who lives in Connecticut! She's always putting something awesome in her status updates like:
Read more...4chan Hits The Bigtime
The posters over at 4chan are sweating, finally, over the 11-year-old girl they harrassed near to death and now, following coverage of the 11-year-old girl's total meltdown as a result of the trolling, Gawker.com won't be the only ones with "mainstream"...
Read more...Old People Reviewing Young People Music
In "Breakfast at Sulimay's," three white elderlies listen to a Young Jeezy track and an Animal Collective track. They hate it! And what they have to say is pretty great. About the song "My Girls": "Repititious. It's too repititious. ... It's as bad as 'Rocket Man.'"
Read more...Katy Perry and Russell Brand Are Upsetting Me
Katy Perry's song for summer, "California Gurls," is disappointing, right? She's dressed like a cupcake and singing about daisy dukes. Even by my standards, which are not so high, the song falls flat and gets uninteresting...
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