Monday, August 15, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
My Fair Lady!
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Interviews by Muppets
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Our Day of Wildlife
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Why Is It Terrifying?!?!
Skeptical owl is skeptical.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Eye Exams...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
If It's Not Baroque, Don't Fix It!
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Cogsworth: Couldn't keep quiet, could we? Just had to invite him to stay, didn't we? Serve him tea, sit in ze master's chair, pet ze pooch!Lumiere: I was trying to be hospitable!!
Lumiere: When she comes in, give her a dashing, debonair smile. Come, come, show me the smile.
Mrs. Potts: But don't frighten the poor girlLumiere: Impress her with your rapier wit!MP: But be gentleL: Shower her with complimentsMP: But be sincere
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Psycho Killers
Monday, April 11, 2011
Oops! Hiatus!
Friday, April 1, 2011
Tangled
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Beatrix Potter
My blog post yesterday made me start to reminisce a little bit. Most people don’t know much about Beatrix Potter. Sure, they know about Peter Rabbit. Some people know about Mrs. Tiggy Winkle. But when I mention Hunca Munca or the roly-poly pudding, I get either blank stares or “should I be concerned about your mental health?” looks.
When I was very very young, I received the Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter, and for a long time, the tales were my bedtime story of choice.
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She was well-educated and even had private art lessons, but most of her talent was developed by her own practice. Beatrix wanted to attend school at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, but she was rejected since she was a woman. She made observations about fungi that allowed her to be considered an expert mycologist (fungus studying person). She was still, however, not allowed to attend meetings of fungus societies because of her womanliness.
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She wrote a total of 23 books for children. Wikipedia says that “part of their popularity was due to the quality of her illustrations: the animal characters are full of personality, but are deeply based in natural actions” and I agree. Thank you, Wikipedia, for putting it so eloquently.
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Two favourites of mine were The Tale of Two Bad Mice and the Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding.
In the Tale of Two Bad Mice, Hunca Munca and Tom Thumb break into a doll’s house and try to eat their food. It’s a very nice dollhouse, so the food looks real but it’s all plastic! They try to break the food off the plates but it all shatters. They get very frustrated and mess up the rest of the house, throwing all of the dolls’ clothes out of the window to bring back to their nest. The dolls return to their house just as Hunca Munca and Tom Thumb are running away, but Hunca Munca returns later to clean the house.
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Anna Maria ties him up and puts dough around him, but Samuel Whiskers complains that he is too dusty. They try to roll him out with a rolling pin, which is fortunate for Tom, because his mother heard the rolling sounds and called John Joiner, the carpenter. He pulls up the floorboards, the rats run away, and dusty, pastry-y Tom is rescued.
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That's it!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Why You Shouldn't Own a Cat...
In my attempt to blog more often, I'm going to include a post about the horrors of being a cat owner. Of course, I love my cat. But I'm sure this is a situation that every cat owner has dealt with at some point. And it has to do with these furry guys:
Anyway, so I was asleep. Minding my own business. Dreaming about something. I know that I was dreaming because I distinctly remember my dream oddly turning into me writing something with a pencil that had very squeaky lead.
Suddenly, I realized that I was dreaming, but also awake (does that ever happen to you? I hope it does or else I sound crazy). Now, my brain somehow registered that squeaky pencils were not a normal nighttime sound.
I was instantly wide awake because I also noticed that Jack was on my bed. And he was making some very sporadic movements. My brain was able to piece these two facts together very quickly.
I turned on my light, and - of course - there was Jack on my bed with his present for me. A live mouse. That was squeaking (hence my awake-dream).
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Why I Couldn't Sleep Last Night...
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Monday, March 7, 2011
ZooBorns
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Zachary Levi at the Oscars
Monday, February 28, 2011
New Dragon?
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Chuck Does Valentine's
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
My Feelings on Twitter
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Distillery District
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Day 10 of Disney! + Cakes and Poodles
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