American Idol is back in action and it's hilarious as always. You have the dude wearing the Princess Leia bikini from Return of the Jedi and you have a chick wearing the Princess Leia hair buns from the first film.

Every Star Wars fan in the universe cringed as these two people tried to represent them.

The best was the quote from the h

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Lent buns (English), laskiaispulla (Finnish) semlor or fettisdagsbulle (Swedish)... yummy but plain caradamom-spiced wheat buns with almond paste filling. Today is Shrove Tuesday and they are supposed to be eaten this day, but bakeries have been selling them since December and they will continue to sell them f

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Happy Fauschnaut Day! If you have grown up in Pennsylvania, you know the Tuesday before Lent (i.e. Mardi Gras, i.e. Fat Tuesday, i.e. today) is always Fauschnaut Day , named by the a PA Dutch (i.e. Germans) because traditionally they always made donuts (i.e. fauschnauts) to use up their lard (i.e. yumminess) before the privatio

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Easter is fast approaching, and that means one thing - HOT CROSS BUNS.

Well, it does for Digital Sickbag, anyway. We love hot cross buns and cannot cram enough of them down our hungry throats.

But how did these delicious buns come to be? What is the link between this innocuous baked good and the crucifiction? Digital Sick

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Holy Week is so much more than not eating meat!!! All over the world, there are countless interesting traditions for Holy Week and Lent. Here are just a few of them- From pancake races to real life crucifixions! They range from the amusing, the cute,, the funny, the strange, the scary and the all out impractical and the just ho

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Romania is famous of Vlad the Impaler the nasty 14th century despot has lent his name down the centuries to the Vampire legend and his home: Hunedoara Castle is Romania's premier tourist attraction but there are lots of other reasons to go to Romania: this quiet undiscovered of Europe is a fantastic example of the New Europe

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