The art from Loser Pet Shop allows you to root for the underdog. Well, there’s not actually a dog but there is a seasick goldfish, night blind owl and frog that fears the undead. All the prints are 8″ x 10″ and cost $20.00, though the cat and frog are also available in a 5″ x 7″ size for $12.00.

It is a rare occasion that I watch a movie outside the horror genre. I’ve read Fangoria, stopped in at Bloody Disgusting and squealed in delight when I discovered that my digital cable package included free movies from Fearnet. I know the territory well. It isn’t lost on me that the genre has some glaring flaws- namely misogyny and racial stereotyping (or exclusion). But there are a lot of horror films that don’t suffer from that at all.

Philadelphia based artist Roo Vandegrift discusses watercolors, scientific exploration, zygotes, truth seeking and Vivaldi in this installment of GalleryM.

With audibly noticeable influences like Low and Iron & Wine, Kadman’s debut album carves a comfortable niche in America’s neo-folk, sadcore sound.

Between Sociological Images over at Contexts Blogs & now Jezebel, we’ve got two sources looking at the themes present in pop provocateur Lady Gaga’s latest video for her song “Paparazzi. ”

Robertson: “I am not at all persuaded that so-called homosexuals are homosexuals because of biological problems…

Bigotry requires a certain level of cognitive dissonance among its practitioners. There needs to be a series of blind spots in place if someone is going to believe wholly in racial stereotypes that are very easily disproved. So it isn’t surprising when an act of bigotry is illogical. Take, for example, the National Review’s cover featuring SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

On May 28th, Officer Omar Edwards was shot and killed while out of uniform by fellow officer Andrew Dunton. Edwards is black, Dunton is white.

Although I cook often, my recipes are usually jotted down on scrap pieces of paper and slipped inside a notebook. I do love the idea of recipe cards but I’m a bit of a perfectionist and get frustrated when I run out of cards and there’s no way to buy matching replacement cards. That’s why these printable recipe cards appeal to me. You pay the (roughly) $5 and get a PDF file in the email that lets you print off as many recipe cards (or divider tabs or shopping lists) that you’d like.

Holiday weekends are good times to be lazy, crashed on the couch with your laptop and a marathon of the really cheesy SciFi channel original movies on the television. I haven’t been gaming much lately because I don’t have the time to really invest in a Half Life 2 or a Left 4 Dead. But I am master of the little online games that you start playing because the levels are relatively short, causing you to say to yourself: “Self, I’ll play two rounds then get back to work.” Only a good portion of the time, those two rounds turn into 45 minutes of game play when you really should be doing something else.