Figure skating and other spinny judged sports might be getting more attention, but I am confident in my conviction that the Biathlon is really where it's at. Here's why . . . --- 1 --- You have to be pretty much the perfect athlete to succeed at biathlon. Biathlon is...
The Cuckoldry of a New Era: TV husbands and abortion
On the surface, two shows that I have recently watched (and reviewed on this blog) wouldn't seem to have much in common. The Walking Dead is a modern fictional dystopia about a rugged band of travelers trying to outlast a zombie apocalypse. Call the Midwife is the...
A Zombie Apocalypse Birthday Party (at which I don’t dress up, but my unborn baby does)
Intrigued? You're going to have to wait for it . . . (Jenny, you may want to just skip this whole post, but especially the end.) Bobby and Gus have birthdays that are two weeks apart, and all the same friends and all the same interests, so for the last couple of...
Hallowtide . . . It’s How We Roll: All Saints Day Costumes for Awesome Kids Only
Happy All Hallows Eve, Feast of All Saints, and Commemoration of All Souls everyone! Here's how we celebrated/are celebrating/will celebrate. For Halloween, we carved pumpkins and went trick or treating around our neighborhood. It was lovely. The weather couldn't have...
How a Show about Zombies Helped Me Recover from Having Watched That Show about Meth Dealers
My opinion about Breaking Bad is well known. But I'd hate for you to think it was just a delicate constitution that kept me from enjoying Walter White's descent. The three episodes of that show that I watched were gruesome in parts, for sure. But that wasn't the...