...I urge everyone within the sound of my blog to watch "Pushing Daisies" on ABC.

For real. Especially if you're a Nielsen family.

It's charming without being hokey, quirky without (usually) being precious. And it's funny and creative.

I just fear that this will be another "Andy Richter Controls the Universe." I've been burned before.

niemandsrose has tagged me for a meme survey, soheregoes:

4 Jobs I Have Had:
1. Burger King drone
2. actor in children’s theatre troupe
3. cartoonist
4. advertising manager at a University press

4 Books I would read rather than watch or do anything else:
1. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
2. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
3. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. ( Read more... )

5-year-old Melissa sat on her parents’ patio, inconsolable. The overnight rains had washed away her chalk drawings ( Read more... )

The tide of public opinion was turned with one documentary.

“Over here, the war is just so sanitized, you know?”

The populace was horrified.

“I can’t stand by and pretend my hands are clean anymore.”

The blind patriotism had drained from even the most ardent warhawks.

“When you think how long the war has been going on, it just... All that ( Read more... )

It turned out the monster was friendly, so he and the little boy made peanut butter sandwiches and grape juice, and the monster was just about to pick the little boy up so he could see over the house when a click woke the boy up ( Read more... )

At the work party, Henderson hunched his 43-year-old body over his table in the corner of the tavern. His co-workers had officially dissolved from a series of white-collar individuals into a mass of mingling, writhing revelers. They laughed and mugged for the digital cameras. They touched each other on the forearms. He watched Helen, an account ( Read more... )

Has it been that long? When I started this meme 11 years ago, I had no idea if it would work. The idea was, it would cycle through everyone’s blogs and eventually come back to me ( Read more... )

"dial up the fun" (about 194,000)

"the ensuing mayhem" (about 11,800)

"queen of the midgets" (99)

"novelist and murderer" (2)

"let alone stock-car racing" (1)

"why would a puppy do that?" (0)

Bob has been sleeping poorly ( Read more... )

This morning, Bob is grimacing at his computer screen with his forefingers in his ears. Matt and Carla are having an animated and loud conversation in his doorway. They are waiting for Bob’s pot of decaffeinated raspberry mocha java to finish brewing ( Read more... )