Family Guy killed off Brian. I strongly suspect we have not seen the last of Brian, but I stopped watching about a year ago. I also gave up on The Cleveland Show pretty quickly, but it had a great theme song.
Yesterday was such a horribly depressing link roundup, so I’m trying to make today’s more upbeat. After it was mentioned in our really good books for babies and toddlers post, I ordered and read all three existing Knuffle Bunny books, and now I am a puddle of mush. The third one? Knuffle Bunny Free? Actually cried it was so sweet. Did you have a toy/blankie you lugged around? I had a bald, hollow, detatched doll’s head I carried around until I was about eight. As a result, I religiously rotate my kid’s stuffed animals in and out of bed duty so I don’t ever have to drive three hours back to a hotel to retrieve one. I’m a monster.
A new edition of Reading Between the Texts!
Him: lakers won.got a day off.feet on the table,espn on.man,wat i’d give to hv R moanin on my lap right nw!!
What to read during Thanksgiving break: a flow-chart (needs more Middlemarch.)
Jennifer Warnes performing Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan” is a) what I play on my headphones when I go up on my weights, and b) the soundtrack for my own misandrist revolution, and c) a blazer and three-quarter length black skirt:
The New Yorker has a great little thing about Cynthia Ozick, and made some of her older work for the magazine available.
Just One Book (Mallory is in here!)
Emily Dickinson: great texter, gruesome baker (jk jk I just hate dried fruits that aren’t peaches, apricots, or mangos).
Passengers through airplane windows.
