THAT IS ALL

May 16

“Google announces big change to how search results are delivered, says new search tool will think more like a human.” —CNN email I just got.” — So, ONLY pornography, then? 

TOPICAL HUMOR EVERYONE! I LITERALLY JUST GOT THIS EMAIL!  

HERE IS EVIDENCE from Judge John Hodgman Verdict No. 59.  “Gail brings this case against her sister Aimee. Gail believes she and her nephew Ray are similarly sensitive kindred spirits. As a loving aunt, she thinks she should be able to comfort Ray when he’s upset, even over rule-breaking, and help him handle his feelings. Her sister Aimee believes Gail is unnecessarily coddling Ray and encouraging him to become an overly emotional child. Who is right? Only Judge John Hodgman can decide!” Listen, download, or subscribe to it HERE.  This was a really difficult one. In many ways this was another Rashomom: so much about parenting (and aunting) relies on delicate context that—surprisingly—is hard to capture on a 30 minute half-comedy podcast. It’s also the only time when I knowingly overstepped my bounds. Offering instruction to a mom and aunt about how to raise a child is monstrously beyond my mandate. And yet, as I felt compelled to speak, the only thing I could think of to make it better was to say then—and now—this: All opinions are my own, offered for you to use if useful, and discard as the trash that they are if not. At end of day they carry no more weight than the podcast ether that carries them.  In any case, I am very grateful to both Aimee and Gail for bringing this delicate dispute to the court of a stranger on the internet. They are both brave and of good humor! AND LOOK AT THAT CUTE BABY!  That is all. 

HERE IS EVIDENCE from Judge John Hodgman Verdict No. 59. 

“Gail brings this case against her sister Aimee. Gail believes she and her nephew Ray are similarly sensitive kindred spirits. As a loving aunt, she thinks she should be able to comfort Ray when he’s upset, even over rule-breaking, and help him handle his feelings. Her sister Aimee believes Gail is unnecessarily coddling Ray and encouraging him to become an overly emotional child. Who is right? Only Judge John Hodgman can decide!”

Listen, download, or subscribe to it HERE. 

This was a really difficult one. In many ways this was another Rashomom: so much about parenting (and aunting) relies on delicate context that—surprisingly—is hard to capture on a 30 minute half-comedy podcast.

It’s also the only time when I knowingly overstepped my bounds. Offering instruction to a mom and aunt about how to raise a child is monstrously beyond my mandate. And yet, as I felt compelled to speak, the only thing I could think of to make it better was to say then—and now—this:

All opinions are my own, offered for you to use if useful, and discard as the trash that they are if not. At end of day they carry no more weight than the podcast ether that carries them. 

In any case, I am very grateful to both Aimee and Gail for bringing this delicate dispute to the court of a stranger on the internet. They are both brave and of good humor!

AND LOOK AT THAT CUTE BABY! 

That is all. 

“Pick up on the latest funky stick-ons.” This was from back when my TARDIS was a VW bug and I was wearing Nehru jackets. That is all. Image courtesy @tmbg. 

“Pick up on the latest funky stick-ons.”

This was from back when my TARDIS was a VW bug and I was wearing Nehru jackets.

That is all.

Image courtesy @tmbg. 

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May 15

“I hope you have fully recovered from your illness, and don’t let anything else happen to you. In October, remember you and I will get drunk together.” —Groucho Marx to TS Eliot” —

There is little more restorative on a hanged-over, rained-out day than reading the weird literary mash notes Groucho Marx and TS Eiliot wrote to each other as they spent two years planning, and failing, to have dinner together. 

(Oh god. Now I’m truly turning into Cavett)

May 14

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May 13

merlin: Example Portraiture (Tanforan Mall) Hm. Hm. Hm. Happy Mother’s Day

merlin:

Example Portraiture (Tanforan Mall)

Hm. Hm.

Hm.

Happy Mother’s Day

neil-gaiman: Happy Other Mother’s Day

neil-gaiman:

Happy Other Mother’s Day

May 11

I WAS OFF GRIDDING most of yesterday, working on a secret project with COULTON, SO I DID NOT PROPERLY tweet and tumbl my excitement about COMMUNITY, and especially its renewal for a new season, and double-specially its guest star:  CRAIG CACKOWSKI WHOM YOU KNOW AS “OFFICER” Cackowski and also as Colonel Tick-Tock (an alternate universe Inspector Space Time) from the THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR.  Seriously, if you are not attending or listening to THRILLING yet, how will you know what I am talking about when they FINALLY come to New York? That is all.  

I WAS OFF GRIDDING most of yesterday, working on a secret project with COULTON,

SO I DID NOT PROPERLY tweet and tumbl my excitement about COMMUNITY, and especially its renewal for a new season, and double-specially its guest star: 


CRAIG CACKOWSKI

WHOM YOU KNOW AS “OFFICER” Cackowski and also as Colonel Tick-Tock (an alternate universe Inspector Space Time) from the THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR. 

Seriously, if you are not attending or listening to THRILLING yet, how will you know what I am talking about when they FINALLY come to New York? 

That is all.