What is the Spunky Bean? I’m glad you asked. According to the head bean:

“We want Spunky Bean to offer something other sites don’t. Homespun sensibility blended with mid-western pragmatism, humor, energy, sarcasm, and starry-eyed optimism. Just that. Nothing more. Well, maybe a little more. Spunky Bean will be a fresh, new voice on pop culture. An informed and enlightened, yet not-so-informed choir of hard-working, dream-chasing, plainspoken, word-hyphenating folks like you.”