Annie Evans is a writer for Sesame Street (a fact that I was unaware of until tonight). Martin P. Robinson is a puppeteer who has performed Audrey II (the killer plant from Little Shop of Horrors) and many Sesame Street Muppets, including Slimey the worm, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Telly Monster (which I did know--well, at least about Audrey II and ( Read more... )

Whenever terrible things happen, we will find heroes. We will find ordinary people who are stronger than they ever suspected. We will find things to make us laugh, even in the darkest times, and we will find ways to keep our spirits up. This will always happen, simply because we are human. And it will happen everywhere, because we all have more in ( Read more... )

I found Lego Blog pretty much by accident (while looking for Dr. Who lunchboxes for my youngest sister, actually), and discovered that it has some pretty neat stuff. For instance, they have a Lego Stormtrooper minifig made out of paper ("minifig" is the technical term for those little Lego dudes, a fact I learned by reading Microserfs), adorable ( Read more... )

Win an advance copy of Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book by writing your own epitaph! Or just read the ones already posted. Not all of them are gems, or entirely original, but there's quite a bit of good macabre humor, some rather poetic ones, and some that are just awesome.

Remaining on a somewhat ghastly note, you can find out what lies within ( Read more... )

I think this might be the best comic strip about Derrida that I've ever read. (It's also about Poe, but I've probably seen better ones about him ( Read more... )

Now that I've started giving tours in the mine (and, of course, working in the museum gift shop), I'm working with various metals and minerals a lot.

Maybe that's why I found this so entertaining.

(P.S. It could also be related to the part where I am in fact a tremendous dork. Maybe.)

David Tennant making funny faces?

Yeah, this is why I need to find all the Doctor Who episodes I can on YouTube and watch them. Especially when he's in glasses check out picture nine especially AAAAAAAAAAHHH AAAAAAAWESOME ( Read more... )

Today started as a foggy, misty sort of a day, and steadily grew wetter and stormier. It seemed like a good day for cooking something from scratch, and I had a couple of pumpkins on my windowsill from the Farmers' Market (which made me feel all good and homemakery), so I looked up some stuff online and in my Fannie Farmer cookbook, and adapted a ( Read more... )

arianadawnhawk pointed out that November, in addition to being National Novel Writing Month, is also National Blog Posting Month, and I think I'll join in, which means at least one public LJ entry per day. (I prefer NaLJoPoMo as an abbreviation, however.) So here is my post for today. (None for yesterday, alas, as I didn't know about it then ( Read more... )

Well, isn't that interesting.