About a week ago, mom-bot got a couple of children's books by Sandra Boynton, Rhinoceros Tap and Dog Train, and told me to pick one.  Now, Boynton's a pretty famous illustrator and Rhinoceros Tap came out before I was born, but until my mom handed them to me I'd never heard of these before.  The books are great and all, but it's the cd you really ( Read more... )

I will post soon, but at the moment, I have reading to do, a show to write, sundry family members milling about in my living room, and I'm running on three and a half hours of sleep.  The end of Spring Break is always so refreshing, no?

Today, as is fairly frequent whenever I visit my parents, I got pulled into working at their office for a bit.  I've worked there on and off since I was a kid, and one of their receptionists had called in sick, so could I maybe...? Yeah, sure, after all, I am Super-Tracy of the many useful skills! But I didn't really bring down any work-appropriate ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, okay, I know.  I stink.  I haven't updated in weeks, but I swear, it's not my fault!  Well...okay, maybe it is my fault, but I'll be better now, honest!  If not, each of my readers has the right to hunt me down and break one of my fingers.  Given the number of people who actually watch this space, I run the risk of injuring...I dunno, ( Read more... )

When not writing fairly innocuous blog entries about geckos, I find myself getting sucked into things like puzzling, and this weekend was chockful of puzzle-related goodness, two glorious days of carefully controlled geekery.

The Game is coming, and we're been prepping for our ticket to glory. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking ( Read more... )

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The Japanese are awesome. Admittedly, I'm probably more than a little biased, but how can you doubt the truth of that statement?  These are the people who gave us Nintendo, Kurosawa films, and sake!  Without the Japanese, I would never have spent hours upon hours of my life playing Wii Bowling or have fallen in love with a mustachioed plumber with ( Read more... )

Rather than promoting alienation or depression by posting something oozing with saccharine ickiness, I bring you the musical stylings of Armi and Danny.  Chances are you've already seen it, but if not, you're in for a treat.  Theirs is a message of love they've been sharing with the world since 1977.


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Earlier this week I had posted a bit on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I mentioned the kick-ass pizza mobile I had as a kid.  I couldn't find a decent picture of it anywhere, so I hoped that at least some of you knew what I was talking about.  Thankfully, Neatorama came through for me and found a YouTube video of the commercial for this ( Read more... )

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