Princess name
While driving home last weekend, I listened to the Maynard Moose story “Sleeping Beastly.” It has some flaws, but I...
Archive for Humor
Not the scorpion and the frog
I liked this bit from The Good Wife (season 1, ep 14, “Hi”): Cary: I can't help it, you know,...
Cute Gilmore Girls bit
I've been collecting Gilmore Girls quotes as I rewatch the series, and some day I hope to put together (I...
Doorbell
Am sitting around my house in my bathrobe on a Sunday afternoon. Doorbell rings. I consider not answering it; almost...
Adults lip-sync kids’ stories
Start by giving two or three kids a scenario to play out. Record them for about two minutes. Then create...
Niels Bohr on coincidence in movies
Mary Anne and I were discussing coincidence in story plots, and this quote came to mind but I couldn't quite...
Pegamoose
Maynard Moose's story “Pegamoose and the Gorgonzola Medusa” just came up in iTunes. I was especially tickled by this bit,...
Cat Kirk
I'm back to occasionally rewatching Gilmore Girls episodes as I enter submissions into the database. (Um, I should note that...
Who should recuse on Prop 8?
Riffing on something someone said a while back (in a comment on, I think, a Joe.My.God entry), here are some...
Animals playing the ant-crushing game
In November, someone posted a video of their bearded dragon playing Ant Smasher, an iPhone game in which ants crawl...
Easter eggs in December
Three unrelated-to-each-other Google easter eggs (may not work in all browsers): Search for [askew]. Search for [let it snow]. (And...
Not too late to see Noises Off!
Tonight I went to see the Palo Alto High School theatre production of Noises Off. The short version of the...