Ray tied her shoes last night! She kept saying things like, “It’s too hard for my fingers.” But she laughed her way through the tricky process–success! I made her untie them and do it again–and she did it again! She will probably have to learn it again today. Her fingers do not know how to […]
Cooool. The pep talk for NaNo this week is from Neil Gaiman. I was so thinking about doing this last night, but then, I don’t have an agent: The last novel I wrote (it was ANANSI BOYS, in case you were wondering) when I got three-quarters of the way through I called my agent. I
A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He has been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. He reflexively
…with two bad jokes preceeding, just to let you down easy.
I have now passed the 25K mark, one day early! “Frank,” Nancy joked, “I’m unpredictable. Ellen just does things for reasons you don’t understand. I think it’s because she likes people and she wants them to be happy. Me? I could care less.” “You?” Frank asked. “I know you too well. You’re the predictable one.”
I had no idea that 1) Daft Punk has been around that long or 2) the tropes in the Charleston were so similar to modern dancing (including breakdancing).
Back in college, I had some friends that were always joking about making “organic techno,” or electronica-sounding music just using their mouths. (They weren’t very good. They only had one song, which went on interminably. But it was funny.) This is actually called beatboxing these days. Mix Bobby McFerrin with techno, there you go. Kid
What’s a chateau? A château (plural châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally – and still most frequently – in French-speaking regions. Where clarification is needed, a fortified château (that is, a castle) is called a
As I sat down to supper, I noticed that Ray had left long, purple marker streaks on the table when she was making elephant pictures last night. This led, naturally enough, to experiments: what takes purple marker off a Southwestern-style table? Water doesn’t.Murhy’s oil soap doesn’t.But magic erasers do. After seeing exactly what the magic
Carrie’s presentation. She showed a scene from Medium in which a mother and daughter are waiting in a doctor’s office. The daughter is called in and tells her mother she doesn’t need to come with her, she’ll be fine. Too much time passes, the mother asks what’s taking so long, the nurse discovers the door
