I’ve recently become well acquainted with the various theories of how to get a baby to please, for the love of God, sleep through the night. The best of them seem to boil down to five rules that are good to bear in mind for us all, really. 1. Don’t fall asleep eating or rocking. […]

The George W. Bush Presidential library opened last week, and the Good Dog, Carl jokes flowed like wine.  But it wasn’t all people thought.  Some of the surprises awaiting people? Justification For Invading Iraq mad libs! When you reach the end of the first chapter of any book in the library, there’s a “Ta-da!” chime, confetti, […]

Whoa.  Whoa.  Just… just hold the phone a second… Someone is looking for people to colonize Mars and NO ONE TOLD ME?? Yes, the company Mars One is screening applicants to undergo a rigorous training and then make the 9-month trip to Mars and establish a permanent settlement on the red planet.  And I am […]

By now, odds are, you’ve seen or heard about Dove’s “Real Beauty” sketches, in which women are asked to describe themselves for a sketch artist, and then compare those drawings to descriptions of them by another person. If not, here’s the video: It’s an interesting campaign, and one that clearly took a lot of time […]

Last weekend I was in a show that ran 3 nights. (that was the plan – it didn’t whimper out after 3 nights…)  It was a bunch of performers telling stories from their lives; I wrote a little about it before, and my wanting to be liked by the cool kid.  People had been pretty […]

Times It Is Acceptable to Say, “That’s So Gay”: You’re trying to tell someone “That’s okay” and you have a pretty bad cold. Someone has just done a spot-on impression of actress Marcia Gay Harden, from Miller’s Crossing. You’re at a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. You’re trying to be supportive of a friend who’s recently embraced […]

Times it is okay, and not okay, to use the term “Rock Star” to describe someone: “Sarah, you were a rock star at organizing that spaghetti-feed!” Not okay.  If you are involved with a spaghetti feed, you have ceased to be a star of rock. “You got that paperwork done, sorted and filed already?  You’re […]

(The short version: Please head over to Peg-O-Leg’s Ramblings for today’s actual piece) Ah, Freshly Pressed. Is there any title, any endowment, more electric around these parts? And the lengths we’ll go to earn the favor of our beloved WordPress overlords run a pretty wide gamut. There’s the rational (250-450 words, topical, clever title) to […]