Frank B.
Happy Mother’s Day
I just love this. I hope you do too.
Topanga Creek Cleanup
An article in the local Topanga newspaper gave details of an Earth Day creek cleanup. It explained the bagging of cans, bottles, and other trash, and then they found a couch which was
Ease on Down the Road
The University of Minnesota is dealing with fairness over casting for The Wiz.My high school did not grapple with such issues. Our all-white cast had none other than Barbie Andretti as Dorothy.Yes, Mario Andretti’s daughter.I was a munchkin.
English
Nice.
Well, There Goes My Fantasy Baseball Team
Julio Franco has announced his retirement from the Quintana Roo Tigers of the Mexican league.
Radioactive Cat
John is what I would call an extreme pet lover. Me, I’m different, I hail from a place where our neighbor’s farm treated their cows lovingly and then slaughtered them and labeled the meat in the freezer with their names; animals had functions. An animal that didn’t have a function was a frivolous thing. People […]
Recurring themes
Keenan told me that a kid was belittling him for not knowing who the Backstreet Boys were, or any other hip hop or rap groups. (The Backstreet Boys fit into neither of these categories and peaked when he was 2, so he gets major points for not even being able to come up with a […]
Fun With Anagrams
During a bought with procrastination-itis today I decided to use the time wisely by seeing how many anagrams I could come up with using the word “procrastinate.” I stopped at 2 because I realized that by using the procrastination period to deconstruct the word “procrastinate” I was in fact creating some sort of cosmic etymological […]
Mega-Fruit
The other day, out of nowhere, Isa wanted a toy. We don’t have toy shops near us, save for a Babies R Us store a few miles away. I didn’t think they’d have anything, but we went in just to make sure.I don’t think I’ve ever been in a Babies R Us.They didn’t have any […]
Four Card Puzzle
‘Cause it’s been awhile since we’ve had a good puzzle. You’re sitting at a table with four playing cards on it. Two are face up and two are face down. You see an 8, a King, a red-backed card, and a blue-backed card. You’re told that all the Kings in front of you have red […]
Jack Silbert, curator