A Cornell professor says that watching local TV news coverage of cancer could increase fatalistic thoughts about the disease and lead to poor health habits.

Before you go party hard tonight, watch Party Down: Starz's satiric telling of the harsher side of following your dreams. 

"So... All of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will: Where do you want to start?"

Oh, The Vampire Diaries ... Seriously? Are you going to reference one of the few great vampire films to come out since Nosferatu in your title this week? Are we to be so brutally set up for hope, only to be doomed to depression and disappointment?

It has happened: The much anticipated (?) return of The Vampire Diaries to our televisions. This may be called the Spring Break edition recap.

Let me spin a little tale for you. Follow me and imagine!

Welcome, ladies and gents, children of all ages, to this week’s Lost recap.

I’m currently seeing (is that what the kids are calling it these days?) a super genius mechanical engineer. Half the time I have no idea what he’s talking about because it usually involves math and logic (my two arch nemeses). But the other half of the time, we both happen to speak one language. Yes, he has a magnificent taste in television, mainly because it’s the same as mine.

From “The Other 48” to “All the Good Cowboys have Daddy Issues,” from “The Man from Tallahassee” to “The Man Behind the Curtain,” the writers of Lost have taken great pleasure in peppering their episode titles with puns and one-liners.

Last night was my version of Christmas. I wish I were kidding. I think my roommates are about to have my head with how much I talk about commercials and how I refuse to acknowledge the fact that while yes, we do have DVR… no, I will not fast forward commercials. So with what little qualification of being an advertising maniac I have, here’s my commentary on the commercials that stuck out in my brain during my last night’s binge (aka the Super Bowl).