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Wordpress Imports
For those of you considering moving your blog off of LJ, it's now pretty darn easy to move your existing posts and comments over to Wordpress. -
For DramaQueen and Hardcormier, among others
Here are two really good links about the current election and Harper's view of the arts:
Margaret Atwood Defends All Canadians as Artists
Gayleen Froese Explains Why 'Ordinary' is not the same as Uncreative -
AFI Movie Meme
These are the AFI's top 100 movies. Here's what you do:
- Bold those that you think belong on the list
- Italicize those that you think don't belong on the list
- Leave those you haven't seen unmarked
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Teaching A New Dog
I don't know if it's springtime, or that soccer has started, or that we've taken him completely off milk products, but man, has Captain Jelly Belly ever had an excess of energy lately. He's always been kind of a low-key kid, and when I see other five-year-old boys bouncing off the walls and throwing things and wrestling each other to the ground, I ( Read more... ) -
W is for Who
We just picked up the new Barenaked Ladies CD for kids, called Snack Time. It's totally adorable. My favourite song on it is called "Crazy ABCs," in which Ed goes through the alphabet saying unusual words for each letter -- "aisle" for A, "czar" for C, "psychosis" for P, that sort of thing ( Read more... ) -
It's Not You, It's Me
Dear LiveJournal ( Read more... ) -
Yum.
Last night we had pancakes for dinner, as we do every other Tuesday.
(I was going to use the word "biweekly" in there but I'm never sure -- does "biweekly" mean once every other week, or twice a week? English is so hardWhen it's pancake night, we always have a wide variety of fruit on the side. I like to have at least four or five different ( Read more... ) -
Don't Be Sad If You Lose Something
Last week in the blogosphere there was a minor uproar about blogging about your kids. Heather Armstrong ("The Dooce Lady", as she is known in our house) was on the Today show, and Kathie Lee Gifford implied that Heather's writing about her daughter Leta was perhaps dangerous and perhaps exploitative and perhaps an invasion of privacy. Heather did ( Read more... ) -
TV Slaves
Andrea at QuietFish made an innocent little post yesterday about possibly getting rid of their extended cable TV, because it's very expensive. Lots of people commented, almost universally to say that they either do not have cable and are living fuller, deeper lives for it, or that they have cable but meh, could totally live without it ( Read more... )