You're awesome.

Attention:

Kellogg's is test-marketing whole-grain Pop-Tarts!!! [link]

Cary on.

whole-grain Pop-Tarts!!!

If you switch from regular Pop-Tarts to whole-grain, you could delay your fatal heart attack by hours.

(I originally typed that as "Pop-Tards").

I originally typed that as "Pop-Tards"

At least you didn't type "Pop-Turds".

I just went to the kitchen to wash out my coffee mug and whoever buys the supplies picked out an extremely perfumed dish soap. Why do dish soap companies think I want my dishes perfumed? I don't. Clean, yes. Faux floral scents, no.

The baying beagle pup vid led me to this excellent puppy v. kitty epic battle royale.

No fair sitting on the kitten, you cute lummox! The kitten had several flying Hobbes attack takedowns.

I don't even know how I feel about this:

Elementary Aged Girls and Mani/Pedis

But today, cosmetic companies and retailers increasingly aim their sophisticated products and service packages squarely at 6- to 9-year-olds, who are being transformed into savvy beauty consumers before they’re out of elementary school.

Sweet & Sassy, a salon and party destination based in Texas for girls 5 to 11, includes pink limo service as a party add-on, which starts at $150 a ride. And Dashing Diva franchises often offer virgin Cosmos in martini glasses along with their extra-virgin nail polish, free of a group of chemicals called phthalates, for a round of services for a birthday girl and her friends.

At Club Libby Lu, a mall-based chain and the most mainstream of the primping party outlets, girls of any age can mix their own lip gloss and live out their pop idol fantasies. Last year, the chain did about a million makeovers in its 90 stores nationwide, said Ari Goldsmith, the director of advertising and marketing.

“But now the parents of little girls — easily 6 years old — use these cards as invitations for their daughters’ birthday primping parties. And, the slightly older girls, say, 8 and 9, use them for makeover slumber parties,” she said. “Sometimes I want to ask, ‘makeover what?’ ”

In a study last year, 55 percent of 6- to 9-year-old girls said they used lip gloss or lipstick, and nearly two-thirds said they used nail polish, according to Experian, a market research company based in New York. In 2003, 49 percent of 6- to 9-year-old girls said they used lip gloss or lipstick.

Youth market analysts say this is part of a trend called KGOY, “kids getting older younger,” and cultural observers describe a tandem phenomenon, more-indulgent parents.

Really? You think so?

Are you kidding? I wasn't allowed to wear makeup until I was in high school! I used to put vaseline on my lips and pretend it was lip gloss!

I suppose Bonne Bell couldn't keep its monopoly forever.

It's not zombie, but it is necrophilia: Cold Ethel by Alice Cooper.

Continued activity with the dead gets some points, right?

Allyson--good to hear you're okay! Be extra gentle with your body the next few days.

Damn. It's late already. Need to figure out lunch.