Brendan has been reading Mother Goose lately, and composing his own verse influenced by said reading ( Read more... )

In honor of Friday the 13th and general October creepiness, and in the spirit of eldritchhobbit's LiveJournal October-creepy-fest, here's one of my creepiest poems ever, Goethe's "Der Erlkönig", which, combined with Franz Scubert's terrifying yet hellishly catchy musical setting of the poem as a lied, managed to trouble my sleep for a long time.

( Here's an English translation: )

Wow-- a telemarketer just auto-dialed me, and the pre-recorded message actually said, "Hi, this is Your Name. You have been selected for...."

Well, I was too busy laughing to hear exactly what it was for.

eldritchhobbit started me thinking about Fall literature, so now it's a meme. ;) She posts beautiful classic poetry. All I know much of is children's lit, so here's my contribution.

From The Bears' Almanac, by Stan and Jan Berenstain ( Read more... )

I hope that by now everyone here has seen this, but just in case, here's a link explaining the situation.

Declan Butler's blogIn brief, the situation is that six healthcare volunteers-- five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor-- are in danger of imminent execution in Libya for allegedly intentionally injecting over 400 children with HIV " ( Read more... )

I must give a plug to yagathai for today's wonderfully entertaining "Sex Or Pie?" poll. Go take a look.

My child is splashing in the bubble bath and singing "Numa Numa" at the top of his lungs.

I should make a YouTube video.

The "Sky Explorer" postcards are in ( Read more... )

Not to jump up and down on Oprah's couch about it, but I love the universe! What an awesomely cool reality we live in! Read Rob Knop's blog to find out why I jump for joy.

http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/blog/

For as long as he has been able to sit up, Brendan has been obsessed with film credits ( Read more... )