It happens to the best of us. Gawker hasn’t posted in hours, you’re up to speed with all of Perez’s latest dirt, and you’ve read Under the Button in its entirety… twice. For your next night in, take to the couch and check out some of these lesser-known, Street-approved blogs.
tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com Tavi is a 12-year-old fashion blogger, and she posts her outfits and inspirations numerous times a day. This is no ordinary 12-year-old, however; she prefers vintage and handmade finds to So Lows and Juicy sweatshirts. Also, her biting observations about suburbia and the fashion industry are so accurate that one can’t help but wonder if she’s pulling a Milli Vanilli on the blog world.
infomercial-hell.com/blog Cozy up with your Snuggie, fire up your Steam Buddy and delve into the magic world of the television infomercial. Infomercial Hell looks unflinchingly at all the products that you’re convinced you need, not only lampooning but reviewing them too.
graphjam.com & failblog.org Ever wonder what Jay-Z and microeconomics have in common? Enter I Can Has Cheezburger’s newest creations, Graph Jam and Fail Blog. Graph Jam makes hilarious visual/mathematical representations out of, well, everything; the site is entertaining and the graphs are actually true. (More money, more problems indeed.) Failblog is just as enjoyable, and amazingly simple — users submit pictures with the word FAIL on top. Perfect after a long day of Comm classes.
cakewrecks.blogspot.com In the spirit of fails, check out Cake Wrecks, a photo-based blog of pastries gone wrong. From egregious frosting misspellings to kidney-shaped creations, the cakes are so wrong they’re right.
