Wednesday WTF

You Can Rent Just About Anything These Days, Except Eye Bleach

By Bethany Erickson / July 11, 2018 /

So you know how you can rent Lime Bikes and their new cousin the scooter? And you can rent a car? And you can rent a whole house? It seems that you can rent just about anything, but this wouldn’t be the Wednesday WTF if we didn’t tell you that isn’t hyperbole, you really can…

We Don’t Do Snakes, But Here We Are Again

By Bethany Erickson / July 4, 2018 /

Listen, I have made no secret about how I feel about snakes. In short, the tamest ones freak me out and the scariest ones can actually kill me. And you kind of have to get way too close for comfort (read, within a 100-foot radius) to find out which kind (bitey die or bitey no…

It’s Pretty, It’s Terrifying, It’s Pretty Terrifying

By Bethany Erickson / June 27, 2018 /

Hi, do you like going on vacation and waking up and achieving that terrifying feeling that you’re about to plumb fall off a mountain? I mean, if you’re a longtime reader of the Wednesday WTF, you probably will say yes because you have a perverse fascination with things that are fascinatingly messed up, so you…

Oprah Has a Fancy New Island Retreat and We’re Here For It

By Bethany Erickson / June 20, 2018 /

Everyone has their own place of zen in this world. For some, it’s the mountains. For others, it’s an ocean. For some, it’s punching people in the face (true story). For me, it’s the dulcet tones of Oprah Winfrey’s speaking voice. I mean, she could explain the proper way to clean a toilet to me…

That Time The Atlantic Published Some Complete Hooey About Dining in Texas Suburbs

By Bethany Erickson / June 13, 2018 /

Listen, this week’s Wednesday WTF was supposed to be about Oprah’s fancy new island but then something egregious happened that has left my normally unflappable self completely flapped. You see, at 8 a.m. Tuesday, The Atlantic saw fit to publish a piece entitled, “What to Eat in the Texas Suburbs.” It also indicated it would…