Kelly Faircloth's saved articles

Forget the nips, look at these tips! Um, hello, it’s not called a ROMAN manicure...

So at first I was thinking that a machine to mix and warm my bottles at 2 am wouldn’t be a terrible thing, but it’s nestle and it’s those goddam pods so...no. Also it needs to come with a thing that washes, sterilizes, and puts the bottles away too. Basically I would have liked a person to do all the bottle things for… Read more

I am seven months pregnant and the product onslaught is totally overwhelming. Most of it is completely unenecssary, except those few things that are change-your-life awesome, and you’re expected to figure it out while growing an actual person inside your actual body. Read more

“Anyway, you can get what’s essentially a Keurig for baby formula now.” Read more

A good rule of thumb: if it makes parents’ lives easier, it is good. If it “enriches” baby’s development, it is probably BS. Read more

I blame Pompeii

I blame HBO.

Not exactly on topic but, if you have it on your system and and older tv like this interests you, JLTV/Jewish Life TV runs old episodes of That Show with Joan Rivers from (I think) 1969 or 1970. Between the subjects, guests, and frankly just the way folks talk, interact, and just dress and it is a fascinating watch. Read more

Joan: “I’ll get injections everyday of Botox! It’s wonderful!” Read more

Forget Marky Mark, that Gwar interview is everything! Read more

Wrapped mints, basic florals, a lamp, two stand up mics, and stage lighting with shadows? This is so not Harpo studios.

I worked in marine museums in Canada and now here you basically have to have the permission of the government and input from the academic community to retrieve artifacts legally. There are a lot of privately owned artifacts that can’t be bought or sold because of this, as it should be. Read more

Just last week in Halifax, a guy scuba diving found a 125-year-old bottle of beer (with the beer still inside!) in the muck of the harbour a stone’s throw from downtown. A really neat find, until the provincial government threatened to seize it because it had been taken without a permit. Read more

Not a real pain in the booty? too easy? Read more

My dad lives in the keys and occasionally socializes with some of Mel Fisher’s descendants who are still in the treasure-adjacent business. The family went from basically just plundering a few decades ago to running a legit look-at-the-artifacts-we’re-preserving museum. Which happens to sell tacky chunks of gold to… Read more

Does this also work on internet trolls?

This is my favorite trick to do for new parents. It’s actually relying on a set of standard neonatal reflexes. Makes you look like a magician. Or at the very least, baseline capable. Read more

This guy is right up there with this other guy:

those babies look like little glowworms omggg Read more