Welcome to the world, Mattias! I hope you're home soon.

Hee, bad driving Hobbit!

There's got to be a joke about Lost actors and driving in there somewhere, but I can't come up with it.

I think that IS the joke.

OMG the COMMics rock so mightily! Thank you whoever came up with them!

And congratulations Kalshane and family! Yay new Buffista-babies!

Erm, I'm sure I missed people.

Hey, for those of you who remember him, Nutty and Betsy and I (Theo, were you there, I forget?) saw David Schwartz, aka Knut the Difficult, last weekend. He's got a book coming out called... Superpowers? Something like that. It's about some folks who wake up one day with superpowers and have to deal with it. So, good timing, given Heroes' success. Anyway, it's coming out in the US and the UK sometime this year.

So that was fun to see him. And stuff.

Today I took my 17-yo-niece running in the woods (and I was faster than her, woot!), and now I'm at the coffee shop where I'm supposed to be writing. Hmm. Should get to that.

How are y'all?

Kat, is Knocked Up ok for my 15yo? He never gets carded. He and his GF see movies at least once a week. No doubt this is on his list.

I wouldn't recommend it. Not just because of the liberal use of both pot and psychadelics throughout the movie (and the sex and the cursing to boot). But because during the birth scene that actually show what a labia looks like when a baby crowns which, your mileage may vary, but I found it startling.

Ah, I could use that as a negative point for him. I'm always threatening to pull out the video of his birth. He is quite horrified at the thought.

Suela! Good to hear the news about Knut. And go you with beating the teenager.

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Hivemind, I need some help.

In cleaning out my grandmother's house, my mother came upon a bobblehead figurine of a little black girl sitting on a chair, holding what I think is to be a book. The bobble head part is neat because a) completely independent from the body b) uses a piece of rock or summat that rocks the actual head, which balances on the body with a small piece of metal going through the neck and resting in grooves in the neckhole on the body. It looks to be 1930's or maybe 1940's.

Anyone know of any websites or a better description I can enter into google or eBay? I'm not having much luck.

OTOH, I have discovered that image Google-ing "negro bobblehead" (I was desperate and trying to use terms from the time period I think its from) comes up more than one instance of Anglea Lansbury.

Did you try "nodder?" That's what Archie McPhee calls bobbleheads.

ETA does it look anything like this?

I'll try nodder, thanks.

This one is prettier and the proportions are all right, meaning the head isn't exaggerated like it is on that and a lot of bobbleheads/nodders.

Welcome to Mattias!

It's totally mean of me, but I'm quite amused at all these teenagers who'll go to that movie unsuspecting and then WHOA.

I managed to print out the pictures of N at Target. I just got 4x6s to give to them, but there's one that's so good that I may go back for a larger one and put it in a frame for Miss Louise.

Now if they'd just get home so I can deliver them.