The bestselling Hasbro toy in mail-order is Darth Tater! If you
haven't seen it, it's all the rage: Mr. Potato-Head dressed up as Darth
Vader. It's really cute.

It's funny. Everytime I sit down and start to write an entry, all desire flies out the window. I look at all my friend's entries and I think how well written and interesting they are and I get discouraged. I'm not as witty or as thought provoking. People seemed to be more skilled than I at translating the events of their lives into something ( Read more... )

President Bush visits a primary school classroom. They ( Read more... )

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Over the weekend, I was sitting with my mom (who's Japanese), watching the US destroy Japan in softball. Well, the announcer was talking about the Japanese pitcher saying that she relied on her "rise ball" to get hitters out. My mom turned to me and exclaimed, "Why they calling her rice ball? They are winning, no need to make fun!" I turned to her ( Read more... )

If you're into odd, vintage album cover art, this site has a lot to offer

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/home.html

Japanese Eater Takes Hot Dog Eating Contest Again ( Read more... )

Pop superstar MADONNA has given her eight-year-old daughter LOURDES her own credit card with a $10,000 (GBP5,500) limit, according to a US magazine ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Allison and I met up with a new friend named Juli. I met Juli through work, she works for a publishing company in Portland Oregon and I helped her get some of her titles into Books in Print. Anyway, we had started to talk and trade pictures of our cats and she was in the city this week-end for Book Expo, so we took the opportunity to ( Read more... )

For an existentialist who does not believe in some kind of Other is equal to an engineer who designs an automobile that requires no driver and accepts no passengers. If existentialism is to flourish (that is, develop through a series of new philosophers building on earlier premises), it needs a God who is no more confident of the end than we are; a ( Read more... )