A while back, Dorothy Gambrell's Cat and Girl comic had a sequence of strips about playing games that started out delightful, in the way that keeps me reading this comic after who-knows-how-many years:

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
Scientific Method

...but then took a turn that got on my nerves:

(January 15th, 2009)
(February 19th, 2009)
(March 17th, 2009 ( Read more... )

Everyone knows this one, right? Fifteen books that stick with you, in "no more than fifteen minutes," hah. And, you'll notice, I'm having trouble counting up to fifteen.
( Cut for listiness... )

This weekend, Rowan turned the knob of the bathroom door and opened it ( Read more... )

...or has Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me been increasingly sexist lately, especially Peter Segal's jokes? I think I counted three times in this week's show where I was like, "ha this is pretty funny oh. why? did he go. there."

~ I ~

Dear young, blond man who muttered, "why are you breeding?" to me as I passed you with my son on the way to the dog park: I would certainly have given your trenchant commentary on Western resource consumption the grave consideration it called for, but I was distracted by:

1. Enjoying walking with my son to the dog park. Did you know that he's just ( Read more... )

Sometime in the mid-1990s, I saw an animated short that I've always wanted to see again. I can describe it and I have some vague guesses at the title, but my research skills have been thwarted at every turn. Thus, I turn to you, yes, you, to help me track it down.
The film is done in claymation. My best guess at the title is, "Hillary Says." As you ( Read more... )

We spent a considerable amount of time this afternoon and evening causing our child to crack up in giggles by saying, "bem," to him.

I can't wait to find out if he'll still amused by it tomorrow. Well, I can wait long enough to get some sleep in, first.

Am home. Fed easygoing baby eclectic dinner in a blackout, put him to bed with giggles. About to do nightly dishes.

Have no current interest in smashing my head against wall. Have plans involving a bowl of strawberry sorbet and a book.

Much better.

Having been at this address for six years, we still regularly get mail for previous residents. This time, it's a nice full-color booklet:

Lands of the Great Buddha
* by Private Jet *

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If you feed your toddler a big bowl of yogurt with blueberries and cinnamon for desert, their middle-of-the-night vomit will be a pretty pink color and have a sweet smell! Surprising, yes, but (half-)true ( Read more... )