Okay, maybe I am a little... silly. But I'm sick (I think with strep) at work, as I've been sick for nearly a week now, and, you see, I can't get off of the Hasbro website. I can't help it. There are all these games and coloring things and this LITE BRITE create-a-picture and... *sigh* Methinks I need to get the heck into bed.

Way to join Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, France, England, Germany, Belgium, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut (and you'll even allow REAL marriages!) in our happy world of matrimonial sensibility. We thank you for your forward thinking.

http://www.etsy.com/

oh my god. such a cool website.
check the "shop by color" --- SO cool.

Now... I'm sorry, but are these dressing frames really necessary to buy for your child?

Can't they practice buttoning on...oh...a SHIRT?

Also... holy crap this is funny: http://www.yeeguy.com/freefall/

For anyone who wants to know, I had that BLAST that I expected with the kids today.
First graders RULE... especially when they're getting psyched about spiders and remembering *everything I say*. Such power! Such responsibility! Oy. I really admire their teachers for keeping up with them day in and day out. It is amazing to me that one teacher ( Read more... )

Tomorrow afternoon I'm doing a spider talk at an elementary school - it should be a BLAST (talking to first graders about crawlies? what could be better?)!!

I wish I could bring media along. I'd TOTALLY have them watch these spider dance movies. I almost moved to Arizona to work with the guy that put these videos together (these are the kinds of ( Read more... )

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Conservatives are boycotting American Girl (you know 'em - they sell all those cool multicultural dolls) because they're doing a benefit bracelet drive for Girls Inc. Girls Inc. is very much like the Boys and Girls Club, except better because it's just for girls ;). According to the American Family Association, Girls Inc. is a pro-abortion, pro- ( Read more... )

http://www.davidshrigley.com/photo_htmpgs/notice.html

One day about 5 years go I was eating lunch with my crew team around a fountain and there were lots of pigeons about but everyone was doing the right thing and not feeding them. There was a hotdog roll on the ground already, though, that the pigeons were swarming over and I was starting to feel oogey about that so I turned to look another direction ( Read more... )