Hey Ya

TK discovered the website MetaFilter. Check it daily to fulfill your daily fun quota. Here's an acoustic version of the Outkast song "Hey Ya," I found out about on MetaFilter.

Spelling Songs We Forgot

TK and I have been compiling a list of spellings songs which I posted a ways back.

We forgot to list L-O-V-E (sung by Nat King Cole).

While watching the stupid-and-offensive-but-quite-amusing film The Ringer, we discovered a musical group of disabled young folks, The Kids of Widney High, who perform in the film. They have a song called E-L-V-I-S!

Anybody know of more spelling songs?

MungBeing Again

Mun Mun has some art published in this month's issue of the online magazine, MungBeing. The issue's theme is "The Mind." Check it out. I'm on page 49.

Rest In Peace, Bret Falk

I got an email today saying that Bret Falk, one of the founders of my TightCircle, Horns, died. Here's a link to my favorite cartoon by Bret that appeared in The Pelican, UC Berkeley's humor magazine.

Oh,what the hell. I'll post the cartoon without permission.

Library Haikus

Margaret had a haiku contest at Carnivorous Nights' Haiku Zoo on the theme of cryptozoology the other month. It gave me the idea to run a little haiku contest at the liberry where I work for the chill'un. I put out the entry forms and a sign out yesterday. I hope the kids write some good haiku.

These were the examples I put out:

Have you been waiting
For Harry Potter Seven?
Prepare to wait more

It's too hot to play
Why not open a good book
about Elephants?

Monsy's Zen Garden

My high school English/Journalism teacher, Montserrat Fontes, used to keep a zen garden on her desk in her classroom where she kept a rolled up dollar, out in the open. I guess it was one way she showed her students that she trusted them. I was playing with the idea of doing something similar in the public library where I work to build a feeling of trust with the kids. Then, I remembered, all the kids know where are cars are parked. Good enough.

Evilkins

One nickname for my cat, Inkblot, is Miss Evilkins because she likes to attack my other peace-loving cat, Milo. TK tells me that Inkblot only does this when I'm in the apartment, so I think the fighting must be associated with territoriality over me. (Inkblot is extremely attached to me.) I woke up this morning with an aphorism in my head -

The love of Mun Mun is the root of all evilkins.

Jack T. Chick

My huzzband has a film in the LA Film Festival. He and his chums adapted nine comic book-style religious tracts by Jack T. Chick and put 'em together to make "Hot Chicks." Read all about it at www.316now.com

Scary Monsters

Yesterday I helped my Kindergartener nephew write a book he called "Vampires and other Scary Monsters." One of the monsters he came up with was called Haunted Balloon.

My nephew posed an interesting question: What if a boy gets bitten by both a werewolf AND a vampire? I proposed that the vampire curse would trump the werewolf curse most of the time, but on full moons, the vampire would become a werewolf. TK suggested the boy would turn into a bat with a wolf head. Margaret believes that the vampire and werewolf are immune to each other (see Dracula Meets the Wolfman), so whoever bit the boy first would trump the other. Or since becoming a vampire is a process, whichever curse took first, would win out.

I don't believe I've seen this problem addressed on Buffy.

Weighty decision

Hmmm. Should I wear my Chicken hat or my Dr. Seuss hat for the class visit today?