I saw this nearly a week ago and I've been meaning to post about it ever since. My apologies to anyone in Champaign or Chicago who might have been prompted to see it if I had posted on time! Their tour has now headed back south toward Texas.

Anyway, the Invincible Czars are on tour with screenings of Nosferatu accompanied by live performances of ( Read more... )

Our radio alarm fades in gently, so there's often a few fuzzy seconds where it's not clear what's dream and what's real. The first discernible words we heard from the NPR announcer this morning were "David Bowie has died."

"WHAT?" Andy said.

"WHAT?" I replied. "It was just his birthday! He just released a new album ( Read more... )

I am guessing that unglazed tea pots must absorb caffeine and then leach it back out again. Because I am still awake at 1:00 AM ( Read more... )

Rotten year for my family. It was even harder on Andy than it was on me -- his father, aunt, and uncle all died and his mom had repeated health crises and had to move into assisted living, and he had to deal with all of it while living a 12-hour drive away, because even though she now only has one sister living in Michigan, his mother still ( Read more... )

Thanks again for your clothing recommendations for Chuckles! Threadless is having a Labor Day sale with lots of $12 tee shirts. Chuckles picked out four: a dragon, another dragon, a wolf, and a spooky woodland concerto.

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Ugh, just ugh. If you're a cat owner, you already know that cats are extremely prone to dental problems. Do wild cat species have the same difficulties? Or are we doing something seriously wrong in how we care for domesticated cats ( Read more... )

Or, spring cannot possibly get here soon enoughI'm the leader of Chuckles' Brownie troop (that's 2nd and 3rd graders). I'm pretty good at coming up with physically active learning activities outdoors when the weather is nice, but I am scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to indoor activities. Here are the parameters I'm working with ( Read more... )

The kids had a snow day today (actually an ice day). We baked and decorated cut-out cookies (most of which will go to Squeaky's party at preschool tomorrow) and watched the Bolshoi Ballet's 1989 production of The Nutcracker ( Read more... )

And what I feel really horrible about is that I can't even remember for sure the last time I saw him.

The missing cat is Orange, one of our (almost entirely) indoor cats. ( Read more... )

So what did my daughter do when she found a dead crayfish floating in the marsh today? Why, she did what any self-respecting seven year-old would do: she set up a restaurant in the pergola and forced her little brother to be the customer! (No, she did not actually try to get him to eat the deceased crustacean. She just wanted him to sit there ( Read more... )