Lara Zielin

STATUS: Finally getting caught up on Battlestar Galactica, season 4.0. It started off slow, but now it’s back to its crack-level status. More. Must have more.

FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: The next time you’re asked a stupid question, type the question into Let me Google that for you and it will create a URL that you can then send back to the person who asked you the initial (stupid) question. So, for example, if someone asks you, “When is the presidential inauguration?” you can type that into LMGTFY and it will create a URL that you can send back to the inaugural ignoramus, with a presentation of just how easy it is to type that question into Google and get a result. Brilliant.

Rob and I were out shopping yesterday at a store that will remain nameless … okay, no it won’t. We were totally at Home Goods getting last-minute holiday gifts, when we spotted a piece of furniture that hammered home the fact that five times more people will see a movie this year than read a book.

So, here’s the little table thingy we spotted in the furniture section, which is made to look like it houses classic novels.

See the issue? No? Let me point it out for you.

That book? The title is PEARL HARBER. So, okay, so not only did they spell Pearl Harbor wrong, but dude, Pearl Harbor is a location, not a novel. It was the site of an attack. Many people have gone on to write about what happened in Hawaii that day in 1941 — and Ben Affleck starred in a movie about it in 2001 that you could see if you wanted the historically ridiculous version — but it’s not a novel. Especially not one in league with The Three Musketeers or Jane Eyre.

Epic furniture fail.

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