"Zombies!" "Hyena people!"

"Snyder!!!"

mac just broke out with the news that he would be ok moving to Texas after this year of school

God knows I can't try and second guess the mind of a little boy, but it is sweet that he wants you to know he won't be giving you a hard time about that if it happens. Which of course he will, and then won't, and then will again. Ah, don't listen to me, it has been a long day with mine.

fancy china tea set.

Aww, maybe I will get granddaughters to have tea parties with. We didn't have tea sets, but Brendon loved his Easy Bake oven big time.

Talk of The Prom is making me all nostalgic. sniff

eta after reading the episode list. Some fans didn't like Smile Time? What is not to love about puppet Angel?

I was just at a birthday party where the one toddler in attendance freaked out at the singing of Happy Birthday! I can see where it would be freaky the first few times....

"You're a wee little puppet man!!"

God, I love that ep! I literally (and I am not kidding) fell off the couch at the power shot of the team walking down the hall, led by puppet Angel, I was laughing so hard.

Highlights of tonight's sweet sixteen party:

-Divorced father of said sixteen y/o choosing to harass me instead of hanging with his ex-wife's cosmopolatin French family and the other ten adults failing to chaperone the party.

-boy in striped shirt peeing on the impatiens while I shone my flashlight on him shouting "Seriously?"

-another boy tumbling through the wildflowers in the dark and leaping off the stone wall, bringing boulders with him into the driveway

-finding the very old Jade plant completely defoliated on one side due to the bouncing teenagers

-taking joy in doing flashlight sweeps through the grounds looking for dead bodies and discouraging the teeners from doing teener things and laughing maniacally at them when the discovered me in the darkness of the driveway as they were about to get up to no-good-teener-doings

I don't think the twenty dollar tip was enough to not take the Jade plant out of their damage deposit. Not with all that horrid 90's music they played.

Waiter, There's a Hair in my Satire

"Fashionable" hairstyles for women began their vertical climb in the late 1760s, and with them rose the ire of social critics. Editorials appearing in London periodicals immediately decried the large headdresses that English ladies were all too eager to copy from their French counterparts.

Chronicling the rise and fall of the fashion takes us from the courts of France to the printshops of London and finally to the streets of Philadelphia in 1778, where all that the high roll represented in a new nation at war with an old empire was brought quite literally to a head."

Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge?

I suppose those people who only eat raw food won't agree with this....

But here's the thing. Nowadays, we look at people, and we find that if people go onto a diet of raw food, then something peculiar happens -which is that unlike every other animal, they do not thrive in terms of getting really adequate energy. And there is a pretty clear reason for this, which is that our species has a very odd type of digestive system.

It's less than two-thirds of the size of the digestive system if we were a great ape - like a chimpanzee or a gorilla - in relationship to our body size. And so we have somehow, and for some reason, adapted to having a small gut - and we also have small teeth and small mouths - all of which indicates that we, as a species, have adapted to a diet which is very high quality, and we don't have to put large amounts through our gut and retain them and ferment them for many, many hours.

Well, what kind of diet is that? It seems very clear that cooking is responsible for increasing the quality of our diet in this way. So then one can say, well, okay, when did we get these adaptations, the small gut, the small teeth, the small mouth? And the answer is 1.8, 1.9 million years ago with the evolution of Homo erectus.

So if cooking is what restricts us as a result of our small diet - our small guts, excuse me - to a high-quality diet, then surely that's when cooking must have begun.

And something that was just recently discovered:

There is a study by some Belgian gastrointestinal physiologists on eggs. And what they discovered was that when you cook your eggs, then almost all of the protein is digested. So it's digested to the point of about 94 percent, whereas if it is eaten raw, then only 55 to 64 percent of it is digested and the rest is lost.

The guy gets a question on the raw food people:

Dr. WRANGHAM: I mean, that's a great question. And I think that it - the funny thing about the raw food diet is that many of the proponents argue that it is the natural thing to do. And I'm quite sure that it's not the natural thing to do in the sense that we're not biologically adapted for it, because if you look at raw foodists nowadays, they lose weight on a raw food diet, even to the point where women, in the only large survey that is being done of this, turn out to stop menstruating in half the cases when they are on a 100 percent raw food diet, an indication of how little energy they have. The scientists conclude that raw food diets lead to chronic energy shortage.

So if you want to gain energy, if you're living in the Third World, like a third of the people in the world, very hungry, then you - the last thing you want is a raw diet. But in our society, a raw diet can have all sorts of advantages. It can help you control your weight, and it has other advantages, too, for some people. I mean, there's lots of benefits that people report.

Some people find that they get reductions in rheumatoid arthritis, for instance, some very specific things like that. But many people feel a greater sense of well being, more vitality - quite often, less pain. And I think partly, this is going to be due to just eating less, and partly it probably is due to the fact that some people may be allergic or have some kind of response to the chemicals that are produced in cooked food. So, it's a very personal thing. You know, for some people, raw diets can be terrific. It's just that, you know, don't think they're natural, they're not.

2 hours before Yom Kippur, I wanted to drop by and wish Jewishstas to be signed and sealed in the book of life, however morbid that sounds.

Easy and fast fast.

Timelies all!

Another lazy Sunday morning, with Nova in my lap kneading away...