In this week's The Brookline Parent column, Michael discusses how we have introduced Muffin and Squeaker to the idea of superheroes and how we deal with the inevitable questions about bad guys and good guys. Click to read Up in the Sky! Superheroes!

Some day, somewhere, someone must write a Nightwing fanfic with the title "50 Shades of Grayson."

1. The Daly Show, Episode 7, from Tim Daly and his son Sam. The episode title is "The Daly Superheroes," and it features a guest appearance by Nathan Fillion.

Thanks to suzvoy for the link.

2. Smell Like a Monster, starring Grover. Thanks to Muffin and Squeaker, actually, for discovering this video.

...I felt I should share this:


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(Background: mabfan and I enjoy superhero movies. This should not be a surprise to anyone. So we've been seeing all the Marvel movies and enjoying the various tags at the end when Nick Fury comes to recruit the movie's main character to join the Avengers. And some time this summer, I posited that perhaps *all* media could be improved by the addition of ( Read more... )

Today's xkcd made me giggle like a loon.

Thanks to elrhiarhodan who linked to it.

Though she's probably seen it already.

-- It's *cold* -- the high today is supposed to be about 20-25 F, with a wind chill of -10 or so. It's a right balmy 15 at the moment, according to my weather bug. And of course it's supposed to be in the 50s later in the week and we're supposed to get wet and sloppy weather on Friday. Ah, New England ( Read more... )

F-Minus agrees!

(OK, maybe not)

(Call the Comma Police!)

The gnomi is a clever monkey.

That is all. :-)