I am on twitter. It sounds silly, but ooooh, it is fun. It might be just that I never have time to think of more than one clever sentence at a time, but it might just be that it's banteriffic. If you're on there, let me know so I can follow you!

OH MY GOD the cute at my house is just insane. Mr. Peachyface just learned to wave at things. A drunk in the park taught him to do it by waving madly at him and rambling incoherently about his grandkids. Peachyface, who had been testing his independence by crawling away from me very fast, getting about twelve feet away and then laughing delightedly ( Read more... )

And you get  Mommy and Me Yoga. My new mom pal invited me and Ollie to go with her and Lilly, the fattest, cutest girl baby on the planet. And I swear, everyone who has a child should go do this. People who don't have kids should rent them and go. It is hilarious. It's yoga, get this, with children. Sounds benign enough, right? But the thing is? ( Read more... )

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Virtual pal Bricology alerted me to this amazing Japanese video: Pitagora Suitchi

There's even a dance!

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And, in case that all seemed too easy, a march!

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And a subtitled version of the dance with bus guides!

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The march at the airport!

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With Ninjas!

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Researching Pitagora Suitchi has become like Pitagora Suitchi: each new link I click rolls the ball down ( Read more... )

Today I was walking along a cracked sidewalk in a blustery wing holding the Peachyface, chatting to Chas when I tripped on a horse chestnut seed pod. I went severely askew in the manner of a hippo on stilts.  It was bad. I was in mortal peril and at one point I believe I was close to parallel to the pitiless concrete. But I did not drop the bundt. ( Read more... )

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This.

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This weekend we should have all been in Finland. The Finns hosted the finals of the International Air Guitar contest. My personal favorite was last year's defending champion. But he came in second.

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The french guy, "Moshe Pitt" (pronounced "Moe-she Peet") won. Maybe because his routine featured an accidentally spectacular ending. Which you can ( Read more... )