-- The BG is a big fan of Lady Gaga. We were coming home from the grocery store yesterday, and she was in a terrible mood -- hungry and tired. At her request I skipped ahead to "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich," and by the time we were home she said, "I feel better now, Mama, this song makes me feel better ( Read more... )

B.D. Wong took his mom to the White House state dinner for Hu Jintao

(If the link doesn't work right, go to photo #9.)

BG likes to watch videos of children's songs, and tonight RM commented that the only ones that don't get on his nerves are the Wiggles -- because they make him think of Star Trek. (If you don't understand why, just check out this picture of the Wiggles.)

Thing the first: My parenting style regarding food is kinda laissez-faire. In theory, every meal has something from every food group and the BG decides what to eat -- in practice, some meals fall short. We also have random rules like "only one little bag of chips per day." Breakfast tends to be "whatever you want, within arbitrary limits determined ( Read more... )

Poking around on IMDB (like you do), I looked up "Man From Atlantis." (For those of you who have forgotten, it's a late '70s lite-SF show starring Patrick Duffy as, um, a man from Atlantis.) It was only on for 17 episodes, which was somehow enough for me to remember it 33 years later ( Read more... )

The Post today had a moderately interesting article about a study to see whether chemicals in tears might influence people nearby.

( My favorite part was at the end, when they talk about how they got the tears. )

Gerry Rafferty died today.

I'll always remember him for the 1978 classic Baker Street.

The song came out when I was 10, before I started listening attentively to music(keeping track of artists, etc.). It was familiar background music -- especially that sax solo -- but it wasn't until I heard Undercover's dance remix 15 years later at a dance club ( Read more... )

I wish you all an awesome 2011!

I dreamed last night that Daniel Craig and I were fighting off zombies together.

This morning I finally got around to tackling the masses of dishes that have been piling up in the sink since Friday (possibly Thursday; I can't remember now which was the first night that I thought, "Y'know, those will just have to wait ( Read more... )