Today at Flavorpill, we took a tour of the Trumps’ incredibly gilded penthouse. We discovered that Snooki was wrong when she claimed that whale sperm is what makes the ocean so salty. We knew a few people who could stand to read Total Film’s exhaustive guide to The Hunger Games. We were excited to see Mayim Bialik recreate her Sassy cover photo from 1992. We were amazed by these “neon signs” made out of glowing E. coli. We vicariously ventured into an unguarded strategic military rocket motor factory near Moscow. We were surprised to learn that Ernest Hemingway once shopped at Abercrombie and Fitch. We were impressed by President Obama’s lovely handwriting. We imagined what Twilight would have been like if it had been penned by one of these literary greats. And finally, we decided that it was worth exploring The Daily Beast’s roundup of 31 ways to get smarter in 2012, especially as it involves playing more Words With Friends.
Today is a big day for our favorite teen TV stars of the ’90s. First, Steve Urkel got a job hosting a weird game show on the SyFy Network. And now, Blossom star Mayim Bialik — who we recently celebrated as a child actor who grew up to be awesome — is blogging about sex. In a post for a Jewish parenting site called Kveller, Bialik (who identifies as a Conservadox Jew) explains and extols the Torah’s insights on sex. After pointing out that the holy book provides a surprisingly accurate guide to ovulation and enumerating the virtues of the mikveh (a ritual bath), she makes a case for Judaism as the sexiest of all religions:
Judaism loves love. We love sex. We are told it is a mitzvah to make love and to especially make love on Shabbat, when God’s presence is close. A woman’s right to sexual satisfaction is detailed in her ketubah, her marriage contract, independent of pregnancy.
Read the rest of Bialik’s thoughtful post here.
1. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Japanese architectural firm SANAA, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Among their projects in the U.S. are New York’s New Museum and a glass pavilion for the Toledo Museum of Art. [via NYT]
2. It’s officially a hit: Broadway’s Next to Normal, which took home three Tony awards last year, has earned back its $4 million in invested capital. [via NYT]
3. Blossom (aka Mayim Bialik) has landed a role on The Big Bang Theory as a potential love interest for Sheldon. [via EW]
4. Mark your calendars: MGMT will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live‘s April 24th episode. [via TwentyFourBit]
5. Is it “groupthink” to tell you that you must watch Erykah Badu strip in her new music video, “Window Seat”? [via Vulture]
Bonus link: Why we’re glad President Obama is not our editor
Welcome back to Whatever Happened To…, a weekly column where we unearth a pop culture personality from the deep, dark recesses of your over-stimulated psyches. Because nostalgia is fun! For this third installment we present you with Blossom. Errr, we mean Mayim Bialik. Note: This is kind of cheating because we just found out from Pop Candy that she’s going to be featured on the season premiere of What Not To Wear tonight. Read More »
