Author: Amy Davis

With winter coming, fall’s pumpkin spice invasion is on its way out. Meaning peppermint will soon be in all our foods and drinks. Fast food chain Wendy’s is leading the charge with their new peppermint Frosty. Starting November 15th, Wendy’s will add a peppermint version of its signature treat to the menu for a limited time. It also marks a potentially huge shift in the way the company changes existing menu items. Peppermint is only the fourth flavor added to the Frosty lineup in the past 16 years.  In 2006, Wendy’s began to offer a vanilla version of their Frosty.…

Are you or someone you know always hungry but never know what they want to eat? Occasionalish is here to save the day with an adorable spinning enamel pin! Occasionalish is run by a San Francisco artist known as Candy. They have recently created an updated version of their “What To Eat Enamel Pin.” The pin is a wheel with several different suggestions for dinner like leftovers, Italian, and the ubiquitous ask mom. The latest update has added Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, and Mexican for even more diverse choices. It also has a little spinner that says “what to eat?.” Just so…

Daniel Craig is undoubtedly having a moment right now. The former “James Bond” actor recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He’s got a highly anticipated sequel film on the horizon. But we’re here to talk about a new commercial. Craig has put on his dancing shoes in a new Belvedere Vodka ad directed by Academy Award winner Taika Waititi. You know an ad is going to be big when it has open credits. We see Craig dressed in a brilliant white suit, standing on Paris’s historic Pont Neuf bridge. Surrounded by a crowd of his adoring…

With the holidays fast approaching it’s getting to be crunch time to find those perfect gifts. And kids can be so hard to shop for, can’t they? Well for the budding scientist in your life how about a LeMarchand’s Lament configuration puzzlebox from the popular “Hellraiser” horror franchise? Nothing makes a kid mature faster than summoning Pinhead and their fellow Cenobites. Retail giant Walmart has a lament configuration listed for sale. This doesn’t sound like a big deal until you realize the hell-summoning puzzlebox is listed as a STEM toy, for children. While it is listed on Walmart’s website, it’s…

Actor and activist Rainn Wilson (“The Office”) has changed his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson, to protest climate change. He chose the new moniker via the Arctic Risk Name Generator which alters people’s names to reflect the risks of global climate chang. For example, if I become an “Arctic name changer” my new name would be Amy Loopy Jetstream Davis. The name changer and Wilson are both in support of the organization Artic Basecamp. They “are a team of Arctic experts and scientists who, for the last five years, have brought the Arctic to the World Economic…

Convenience store giant 7-Eleven and shoe company Crocs collaborated to bring us the Mega Crush Clog back in September of 2022. These…”shoes”…come in 7-Eleven’s iconic bold orange, green, and red color scheme. They even feature an updated, enhanced rubber tread. They also come with Jibbitz™ charms that feature the iconic convenience store’s logo, pizza, and a cup of coffee. But the true stand out among these Jibbitz is the 3D red Slurpee that sticks up from the croc like a sugar-filled unicorn horn. The companies are teaming up once again to bring us two new styles. “The exclusive collaboration will…

An upcoming Snoop Dogg biopic from Universal Studios will be written by “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” co-writer Joe Robert Cole. It will be directed by Allen Hughes who, along with his brother Albert, has directed films like “Menace II Society” and “Dead Presidents.” Unlike a lot of biopics, this one is not being done posthumously. Not only is rapper and kid’s show host still alive, but he is heavily involved with the project. So involved that he is coproducing it with Sara Ramaker and Hughes. This upcoming film will also be the inaugural movie for Snoop’s Death Row Pictures, which…

Have you ever watched the 1990 family comedy “Home Alone” and been envious of that house? Do you wish you could have a pint-sized version of it complete with booby traps and all? Well, you aren’t the only one! Toy manufacturer LEGO is bringing back their “Home Alone” house set with even more features than before. The “Home Alone” 21330 Building Set is a 3955-piece kit and it is the biggest in the LEGO Ideas line so far. It includes 5 LEGO minifigures of protagonist Kevin McCallister, his mother Kate McCallister, and the neighbor ‘Old Man’ Marley. And of course…

The internet is a weird and wonderful place where people can gain support or ire for the most unlikely things. Like a Philadelphia man eating 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days, gathering a crowd of cheering onlookers as he completed his mission.  Restaurant server Alexander Tominsky announced he was on day 11 of a mission to eat 30 rotisserie chickens in 30 days. As promised, he posted a photo a day of him eating a whole rotisserie chicken. On October 27th, when this journey was supposed to end, he posted an image of himself eating the last chicken. It was…

In late July, Netflix gave us a teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio.” This morning, we were graced with a full trailer. With only a month before its release, this has certainly whet our appetites for the stop-motion feature.  This will be Oscar-winner del Toro’s spin on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale, which was first published in the late 19th century. Walt Disney Pictures famously adapted it in 1940. It was the first animated feature to win an Academy Award. This year, Disney tried their hand at it again with a live-action adaptation starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto. It was…