I am in love with Amanda Palmer's song "Map of Tasmania."

Raunchy and funny and really just good. It makes me dance, and you wouldn't think a song about a lady's ... er ... lady bits would be so bouncy. It's not a grindy dance song, just ... boppy.

Yup.

Last night, during Bedtime Reading, we were looking at a photo of a shark. In the face of this, Z. told me he needed one more thing--the strongest thing, and he would go get it. I was feeling pretty expansive, so I watched, amused, as he bopped out of the room.

He went and found Scott and brought him back in the room. "Daddy is the strongest. ( Read more... )

The other night, I caught the last half of a documentary about Phantom of the Opera, so I DVRed it and watched the whole thing yesterday ( Read more... )

1. My son is planning to "have a wedding" to a yellow pony toy named Cathy ("Cafee"). You know, I was prepared for a possible, "Mom, I like boys," but I was definitely not prepared for a horse-in-law.

2. My thoughts on the Lost finale: I remain firm in my conviction that what that show needed was a three-episode crossover with Doctor Who. ( Read more... )

I found this through John Scalzi's blog, and ... just ... John Carr, you need to watch this. Now.

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1. I want to wake up my husband right now to play him this.

2. I wanna buy it. Can I buy it? can I?

So I was reading my Friends List, and read in dealio's recent post:

I have to make an emergency disk for one of our stations -- an emergency disk is an actual cd of songs and imaging that can be played if the main audio program goes kerflewie -- and a song that came out in high school, the only song that I tried to make an "our song" to cement a ( Read more... )

Because there's accepting a low mood, and then there's wallowing in it--and I'm not quite wallowing yet, but it's getting there.

So. Positive thoughts.

--I found 3T feety pajamas at Target for $3.50! I miss pajamas with feet, so Z. now has two pairs. I am washing those today, baby ( Read more... )

My grandmother and aunt just sent the Zweeble a card the size of a record album that plays "We Will Rock You."

Did I mention he's decided it's elephants making the stompy noises? And that there's a bunny in the song? Yeah.

I'm sure everyone has seen this, but just in case, because it made me grin like an idiot:

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Elvis eats boats! Elvis eats boats!

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Joan Rivers has Elvis in her, but he's trying to get out ( Read more... )