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Van Der Breakup
"Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek has filed for divorce from his wife of six years, citing "irreconcilable differences." Maybe now Pacey will date her? (via TMZ)

Will Ferrell: Most Overpaid Actor
According to Forbes, Will Ferrell is the most overpaid actor in Hollywood. They determined this by calculating the return in investment for every dollar spent on his salary. In Will's case, it was $3.29. (via Perez Hilton)
"Bell" Reunion Not Happening
Mark-Paul Gosselaar crushed our hopes of a "Saved by the Bell" reunion when he told reporters that he thinks it's "dead." He added, "No one has come up with a good plan." (via In Case You Didn't Know)
Cage Fight
Nicolas Cage's manager, whom he's suing, claims that he advised the star that it probably wasn't the best idea to go out and buy up a ton of castles. In order to maintain his lifestyle, Nic would have needed to net $30 million a year. (via Page Six)
Bye, Bye, Oprah
Oprah Winfrey will announce on her show today that the 25th season of her daily chat fest will be the last. The show will stop airing in 2011. A run for president in 2012? (via Popeater)
Motormouth: Robert Downey Jr.
"I have no set plans for my future. I've never had it this good -- this is my day in the sun -- and I certainly don't want to look a gift horse in the molars." -- Robert Downey Jr., on his career plans. (via I'm Not Obsessed)

"Leggo my Eggo. Seriously. Let go of it or I will destroy you." This is the scene we're expecting at grocery stores throughout the country, which will be experiencing a crippling Eggo waffle shortage until at least the middle of next year.

Busy moms, college kids, and people who don't know how to cook are freaking out at the prospect that they might have to switch to instant oatmeal or (*shudder*) that weird healthy-looking brand of frozen waffles they've always scoffed at while Kellogg's desperately tries to crank out Eggos at maximum speed to meet the demand.

Heavy rains shut down Kellogg's Atlanta plant for a while in September, coupled with repairs on several production lines in a plant in Tennessee have left an empty, gaping hole in the freezer section where our beloved breakfast food used to be.

As much as this shortage might pain you, don't despair. We're here to help with a waffle recipe to tide you over ... that is if you can handle a breakfast without niacinamide and soy lecithin.

The holidays are all about spending time and spreading cheer with your family and loved ones. But sadly you can't pick your family, and awkward moments and off-the-wall comments are almost expected from at least one relative. (You have seen Christmas movies before, right?)

Don't fret -- no matter how shocking something (or someone) seems at the time, it'll be a good memory for holidays to come.

Just ask the following hostesses, who've seen and heard it all.

Please do not touch
"My cousin is a nurse, and he's not quite all there. When he started to give my sister's very shy boyfriend an impromptu 'healing massage' at the dinner table, we were all very amused. Thankfully the guy handled it well, and he and my sister are going to get married. We hope." -- Julie, 26

From the mouths of aunts
"Last Thanksgiving I had dinner with my boyfriend's family. During dessert, I had asked for a very small piece of chocolate cake, and I got passed a freaking gigantic slice. Just then, my boyfriend's aunt looked at me and said, 'Oh, you must be an alcoholic.' Everybody turned and stared, and nobody noticed when she corrected herself and said 'Oops, I meant chocoholic.'" -- Em, 24

For rent: holiday date
"My uncle brought a very young, very attractive woman to Thanksgiving. We spent the rest of the evening trying to decide if he had found her in the Yellow Pages." -- Chris, 31

After an hour or two stuck in traffic on the freeway, all the billboards can start to blur together. With artist Karyn Olivier's new project, Inbound: Houston, though, the ads really blend into the background. She's replaced 13 billboards with life-size images of whatever drivers would see if the ads didn't exist. Check out her Web site for more info, photos and videos.

Five-year-old Chloe Edwards's daily accomplishments might usually look like this: watch cartoons, eat paste, play tag, more delicious paste. But the Middlesbrough, England, tot can now add "stare down a knife-wielding burglar in the middle of the night" to her list.

The would-be robber learned that you'll need more than a meat clever to scare off this tough little girl.

At two in the morning, Chloe Edwards awoke to a noise coming from her family's kitchen. She got out of bed, went downstairs and was greeted by an intoxicated 18-year-old Dean Affleck (no relation to Ben and Casey, thank God).

Armed with a kitchen knife, Dean told Chloe to go back to bed so he could get back to robbing the house. Summoning Charlton Heston's hallowed might, Chloe yelled back, "Put my Daddy's car keys down!"

At this point, the grown-ups finally got involved. Chloe's mother, Rachel, and father, Mark, heard their young daughter's call for justice and rushed into the kitchen. Rachel took Chloe back to bed where her two lazy, non-vigilante-crime-fighting siblings were asleep.

Meanwhile, Mark chased Dean out of the house, around the yard and punched him. Dean ran into another yard, punched a couple of girls who live nearby and finally was arrested by the police. Just imagine this with Benny Hill music loudly playing because they are in England.

In conclusion, "Greatest Generation," please! We've got 5-year-old girls who ain't scared of knives!

Pop quiz: How do you get that shy guy you've been casually seeing to start making "power moves"? Tell him you have to review Eric Marlowe Garrison's "Mastering Multiple Position Sex: Mind-Blowing Lovemaking Techniques that Create Unforgettable Orgasms."

A sex counselor, lecturer and bona fide sexpert, Garrison claims that transitioning from a series of seductive sexual positions can help couples enjoy more powerful orgasms. Imagine a more strategic and efficient Kama Sutra. Enough said!

What Worked

The book is filled with full-page color photographs of bare-assed couples demonstrating the moves. Flipping through the pages, it's easy to become mesmerized, and inspired, by the various positions, which range from the basic Mutt (that's doggy-style to you and me) to the for-yoga-instructors-only Weather Vane, (which has the woman being held at a 90-degree angle with her legs wrapped around the male's thighs as he enters from behind and holds on for dear life).

We here at Lemondrop just can't seem to get enough of these cake disasters. First we brought you our list of confectionery screw-ups. Then we introduced you to the woman who started our obsession -- CakeWrecks.com founder Jennifer Yates. And now we have handed the baton.

In our hunt to find more dessert faux pas, frosted misspellings and WTF-is-that kind of cakes, Lemondrop readers shared some of their favorite (worst) cake messes (with some of our own new finds).

Could you go a week without using Facebook? Uh, of course you could.

But Flic Everett, a writer for the Daily Mail, prompted quite the rhubarb from readers after she chronicled her harrowing attempt to stop checking Facebook, calling the week-long experience "torture."

In a just world, Flic Everett would be waterboarded with chicken gravy for making such a comparison. In this one, we're just going to respond with a top-10 list of the Only Viable Scientific Reasons Not Looking at Facebook Ought to Be Even Marginally Difficult.

10. You work for Facebook.

9. You are a Facebook application developer.

8. You have one of those clueless bosses who keeps badgering you to "make a MySpace" for your company because you are the only person in the office still young enough to ovulate.

7. You are a paid "social media expert," in which case, please punch yourself in the crotch.