What you ought to be reading:
The ABCs of the LOLcats
The Scrap Scarf Tutorial - Cute scarf pattern for fabric scraps.
Rick Astley Gets Rick Rolled
The Lives They Lived - Steven Gilliard Jr. - New York Times
Creek Running North — Arguments fall apart - “No one reasonably expects your typical American to know the dates of conquest […]
We had plans to run around town doing all sorts of errands today, but Ethan and I both appear to be coming down with some kind of sinus thing. After waking up and playing for a few hours, he curled up on the couch and fell asleep. I feel like doing the same.
What you ought to be reading:
What Are You, Stupid? - Things not to do in college: Jump, facial tattoos, Ayn Rand.
A Fine Romance - “But if he does have a girlfriend she works hard. Usually, she’s the same age as he is but seems older, as if the disparity between boys and girls in […]
Recommended links for December 27th:
One Hour Tote Bag - Sew a bag in one hour.
Custom Paper Toys - Build your own toys out of paper.
Creek Running North — Trinity - A thousand feet of gray. A thousand feet of pallid gray and mist. We watch the sky and fret. A minor squall or three-day-blow? No […]
Thanks to the unexpected wisdom tooth debacle and the unexpected week off I had to take after getting dry sockets, I had exactly one eight-hour day left to take off around the holidays. I couldn’t take yesterday off since those of us scheduled were needed to cover those who had holiday time. I […]
Early this week I committed a serious faux pas.
It’s funny, really, that through my youth, and then my college years, all the time I was immersed in progressive literature, identity politics and activism, I would find myself in the most diverse environment I’ve enjoyed yet at an entry-level job in whitebread middle America. […]
I don’t know what made me think of this cartoon, but I love it.
Because I can.
Obviously the big news of the day is the announcement by Jamie Lynn Spears, little sister of Britney, that she is pregnant. (See also: The Cleaver and Dadsmacker) The sixteen-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” in which my son is thankfully completely disinterested, meaning that I’ve never seen it, made the announcement today, […]
I’m not sure how much 1200 grains of rice actually is once it’s heaped all together in a bowl, but this little vocabulary game purports to donate 20 grains of rice for every correct vocabulary word. Bonus: it doesn’t time you, so if you don’t know the word you can still look it […]
Love your pets. And feel free to dial under the influence.
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