Fairy, Witch & their Familiars

The Holloween scene.
When Sarah asked Celie want she wanted to be, she said “a nice Witch.”  Then, to Sarah’s amazement, they actually had a Nice Witch costume at Target.  But then Celie changed her mind and started telling people she was a Bad Witch.  Sarah also augmented the costumes in various ways (like the moon [...]

Holloween Pot Luck Totem

I came home today to discover this cool Pot Luck totem the girls had made with Sarah.  Sarah explained that it represents Pot Luck’s (laughable) actual self-image as a terrifying creature with bloody fangs.  You can seem him (the actual Pot Luck) sort of attacking it in the second photo.

Charles Meets Obama

What a sweet story.  Only five more days until we can all start to rub our eyes and awake from Rove’s dream (as my uncle Ben put it to me recently).

Remorseless Eatin’ Machine

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education,
Obese diners at all-you-can-eat Chinese restaurants were more likely than other customers to sit closer to the buffet, face the food bar, use forks rather than chopsticks, use larger plates, and serve themselves immediately rather than first browsing the food, according to a study reported in the August issue [...]

The Owls and the Pussycat

I recommend this article by Jane Mayer in the current New Yorker on how Palin was chosen to be VP.  It reveals that she was chosen more or less because a small boatful (literally) of conservative Beltway policy-wonk nerds thought, on the basis of one lunch, that she was charismatic and hot.  It all reminds [...]

Jack O’Lanterns

The girls carved jack o’lanterns last night.  It kind of seems as if the one on the right is muttering something out of the side of his mouth to the one on the left.  (Possibly, “dude, I seem to have a third eye on my cheek.”)  Btw you can faintly see C&I in the background [...]

Real Mouse Magic

Am I overdoing it with the girls’ stories?  Celie brought home another one:
One day a little mouse went on a trip.  And the airplane was so big that he thought it was a giant.  And he went to… uh, India.  And India — it was so fancy that he couldn’t believe his eyes.  And he [...]

Pot Luck’s Cat House

Halley has been babysitting for us lately.  One thing we’re especially impressed by is her initiative in making art projects.  This morning we discovered a very cool Cat House Halley and the girls had made for Pot Luck (Daisy can fit in there with him too).  It includes a small hole labeled “Mice Welcome,” which [...]

Last Days of David Foster Wallace

Excerpt from Rolling Stone article: The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace.
Last night I had some time to kill and went to Borders, ended up reading this whole long article about D.F. Wallace.  It’s very sad — he’d suffered from chronic depression, including hospitalizations, since high school or so.  The suicide itself [...]

New Wall Project

Sarah is working on a major project — rebuilding the wall adjoining our front driveway. It looked very picturesque, covered with ivy, but sagging & bulging all over.  When we pulled the ivy off we realized that it was in mid-collapse.  This is a classic D.I.Y./ My Wife Does it Herself project in that I [...]