Is her little sister helping me out, with a nudge, or a shove? No. She is observing, amused, because SHE is intelligent to see the futility of my behavior, but not the danger, until I turn back to face the windshield and turn the wheel back so that we’re back on OUR side of the highway, thank you very much.
Entries from April 2009
April 28, 2009
Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose. Duh.
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April 18, 2009
Hold the Cheese:Burglar
Another kid who came today had a great story. “Guess what, Elizabeth? Somebody broke into our house and only stole cheese but he got caught because my dad beat him up.”
Filed under family, humor, kids, life, parenting, pets, satire, work
Tags: absurdly long, arrested, at home, babysitter, basement, best scary Mom face, big black dog, coming in droves, eye-blackened cheeseburglar, eyebrow raised, impromptu concert, intrigued, ironic, jimmy the lock, music for kids, my bizarre life, neighborhood, off my property, pair, Pakistan, parents, pissed, politely, sari, scary, secret meeting, sissy, Spring Break, stole cheese, want to be left alone, work at home
April 15, 2009
Heroes: the Soap Opera
I guess the Laws of Conservation of Mass go out the window in TV Land. Unless, maybe, if Sylar turns into a really short guy, he becomes as dense as kryptonite.
But what I really like about Sylar is his power to make his hair look really stupid.
Filed under humor, satire, television
Tags: 1970s action show, Ando, bad guys, bad timing, Batman, December, disappointment, dodge bullets, draw cartoons of the future, entertainment, escape, Evil Plot, fair, fast, flying, Flying Senator, full of portent, Hannibal Lechter, Heroes, Hiro, I wanna be a dentist, innocent people, Laws of Conservation of Mass, leap tall buildings, magic, Marvel, maudlin, moody, NBC, orange jail jumpsuits, plastic cereal bowl ring, Rogue, safe houses, scatter, shape-shifter, sidekick, silly, silly hair, soap opera, stop time, stop-motion cartoons, stupid, super-baby, superhero, superheroes, Sylar, television, The Flash, the Green Lantern, To Be Continued, TVLand, unfair, Unite!, vampires, Wonder Twin Powers, X-men
Everything you read on this blog is actually true. As in, this is a genuine, non-fiction blog. Generally, I don't name names when the parties concerned are (a) related to me and/or (b) under the age of majority, and therefore no matter how funny they are, unable to give their informed consent to have their hilarious but true commentary on the ridiculousness of life publicized globally. I do, however, skirt the issue of crediting them by admitting it was not ME who came up with their jokes, but "some kid." (Works for most of us.)