Tallis, who, when she isn't talking, is always singing (even in her sleep, sometimes), overheard while playing by herself with her farm toys:

[singing] "To sing . . . in spring,  . . . Sing . . . about spring . . . Oh . . . I love spring . . !

. . .  I am not dead; I only sleep.


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Devon:  "Mama, I really like playing with Baby Alive!  And it's good practice for being a mama:  I don't slam her down, and I press the buttons when I want her to talk."

This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen, and all the more depressing if it is a sign of things to come.  Seriously, it should serve as a cautionary tale:  If you feel you need this app, you fail as a parent.  Period.

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Disclaimers:

1.  I don't like this song
2.  I don't like the Black-Eyed Peas
3.  I don't like Oprah
4.  I don't even like concerts much

But this is pretty amazing.

As Oprah herself puts it (at 3:15), "Oh my f---ing god!"

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Just found another one! 
These flash mob performances just make me so happy.  In fact, I usually find myself getting all weepy over them.  I love and admire the people who participate in these, whether they are actual performers (trained in song and dance) like in the video below, or regular folk who participate, as in the larger flash mob ( Read more... )

Many of you may already have seen this, but it's one of my favorite flash mob (minus the mob) performances, probably bacause it's so like my favorite Buffy episode.  Be sure to watch right to the end, where some rather nonplussed customers are interviewed:

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Ahem.

So . . .

. . . Disney's 'Tinker Bell' movie, an origins prequel to 'Peter Pan'?

It's actually good.  Good script, decent computer animation (a bit cutesy, but this is, after all, for young kids), pretty, celtic-inspired score, great voice casting (Angelica Huston and America Ferrera, among others) . . . and the icing is Loreena McKennitt ( Read more... )

I have just bookmarked the Royal Wedding Website, because I like this sort of thing.  I'm a Canadian, after all, and we like our Royal Family (especially when our political 'family' oscillates between yawn-worthy and suckage ( Read more... )