Shelly Mazzanoble / Writer

I admit, every now and again I might not make the best choices when watching TV. My DVR is riddled with things like Say Yes to the Dress, The Real Housewives, Operation Repo (thanks, Dad!) and my recent discovery, Big, Rich Texas (thanks, Mom!) Every now and again I might find myself channel surfing and [...]

You’ve probably seen the website Text From Dog. It’s pretty freakin hilarious. If you haven’t seen it, go ahead and click that link and catch up. Go on. I’ll wait. Today a friend (ironically Zelda’s ex-daddy. Remind me to tell you that story another time) said he thought I should “teach Zelda to text” and start [...]

Today I was watching Revenge on Hulu while in the gym. Do you watch that show? Such drama! But I digress. A commercial came on for CiCi’s Pizza– a pizza franchise I’m not familiar with– but I was immediately drawn to their advertising. Why? Because it involved personified pigs. If there’s one thing you should [...]

Monkey’s are just plain funny. I can’t help but see them in those Career Builder commercials and just laugh my face off. I know their not supposed to make me want to work with monkeys because they’re acting like such pains in the ass but I don’t care. Monkeys are funny. Especially monkeys in business [...]

It is the eve of my birthday. A big, fat milestone birthday and one I’m not afraid to brag about. I’m about to turn 40! Yep. The big 4-0. Sporty 40. The new 20. I’m soooooo excited for my birthday it makes me excited for your birthday! That’s how much I love birthdays. I get [...]

And that’s “like” my mom, as in on Facebook. You can do it because she now has a fan page. Her very own fan page not started by her or myself. At last count she had 36 “likes.” This is weird. It started this week when I was a guest on The Tome Show. There [...]

Seattle is plagued by some wacky weather. We’ve been brought down by wind, rain and our biggest nemesis of all– Snow. Even though I’m from upstate NY and spent four years of college getting intimately familiar with “Lake Effect Snow” in Ithaca, NY, I hate experiencing snow in Seattle. It’s a whole different beast. If [...]

Holy cats! There’s all sorts of things I need to update you about. I should warn you– they’re mostly about me so if that doesn’t interest you than…well…  you’re kind of at the wrong place. Here’s an interview I did with The Married Gamers. And there’s this book review from 2 GMs, 1 Mic. I [...]

No, not me. This story is dedicated to the women on TLC’s fantastic show, I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant. I knew about this show. Who doesn’t? And I might have seen a clip once of a women hunkered down outside a Mexican restaurant believing she had overdone it on the super nachos when Holy [...]

You’re probably familiar with Ethan Gilsdorf, author of the wonderfully geeky memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. He’s also a freelancer writer, (because he’s cool like that and can live the dream) for such outlets as The Boston Globe and Wired.com’s Geek Dad column. Lucky duck. And speaking of lucky ducks– I had the pleasure [...]