Crap, I just noticed I broke a nail. I hope it's in my laundry and not my brownies! Well, really I hope it's in neither of those places.

What episode on the DVD does mac choose to watch?, the only one that scared him.

Leif does that too, will choose to watch something that scared him. My daughter, OTOH, I could probably let her watch Alien and she'd be fine.

Dammit, how come I don't live in San Francisco?

San Francisco Pie Fight At The Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround

Not only is is a mass-pie-fight, but they encourage you to wear formal attire. How cool is that?

Twitter Throughout History

So did anybody find out how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent?

Gotta love mammoth. Life's good, plenty of meat. We'll never run out of mammoth.

R2-D2 Subtitled for Your Pleasure

R2-D2 subtitles NSFW.

Heh.

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum

ARKHAM, MA—Arguing that students should return to the fundamentals taught in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon in order to develop the skills they need to be driven to the very edge of sanity, Arkham school board member Charles West continued to advance his pro-madness agenda at the district's monthly meeting Tuesday.

"Fools!" said West, his clenched fist striking the lectern before him. "We must prepare today's youth for a world whose terrors are etched upon ancient clay tablets recounting the fever-dreams of the other gods—not fill their heads with such trivia as math and English. Our graduates need to know about those who lie beneath the earth, waiting until the stars align so they can return to their rightful place as our masters and wage war against the Elder Things and the shoggoths!"

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"Our schools are orderly, sanitary places where students dwell in blissful ignorance of the chaos that awaits," West said. "Should our facilities be repaired? No, they must be razed to the ground and rebuilt in the image of the Cyclopean dwellings of the Elder Gods, the very geometry of which will drive them to be possessed by visions of the realms beyond."

What episode on the DVD does mac choose to watch?, the only one that scared him. Playdate friend is only 5. I just had to intervene and overrule.

Totally with you on the intervention but had to add that my kids often feel compelled to rewatch something scary until they can master it, Isaac especially. But it's all overly cathected with "no! it's scary! I don't want to watch it. yes! I like the scary dinosaur! no! yes! Mommy come watch it too!"

Such passion runs through those tiny persons.

Timelies all!

Went to work despite the snow. (Policy was that workers could get to work no more than 2 hours late, or take unscheduled leave. I got to work at 8. Whee.)Snow stopped and the roads are clear now.

Blago gets six-figure book deal

Fuck him.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who became famous across the country in part for allegedly saying of President Obama's old Senate seat, "I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin’ nothing," will apparently make some money off the deal after all.

The news just out from his PR people is that Blagojevich has scored a six-figure deal with an independent publisher, Phoenix Books, to pen a book about the process of picking Obama's replacement. Somewhere, any lawyers still remaining on the former governor's legal team are cringing and popping Aspirin.

Here's hoping he gets the kind of sales that Joe the Plumber has gotten with his book.

Seeing that "fuck him" reminds me of the Colbert bit from last week, with the red button that shouts out whatever the segment's tagline is. This time around, it was "Fuck 'em!", and part of it included a great rant about the mental travails of going to Six Flags Great America with your buddy and two girls from French class, one of whom you have had a crush on since sixth grade but of course, that's the one whom your buddy has to sit next to on the Demon, and the other girl hooks up with a guy from 'Tosa East and you have to get home on a bus from Gurnee! "Fuck em!"