Particularly when they look like this. I was not aware that there are pancake bloggers, but sure, why not? And this guy must surely deserve the Pancake-Blogging Pulitzer, for the thing that he made after a visit to the American Museum of Natural History.
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Katy Perry Causes Hipster Schizophrenia
Entertaining item over at Gawker: Katy Perry filmed a takeoff of her song “Hot ‘N Cold” for Sesame Street, with Elmo, and the dress she wore is considered too cleavagey for PBS, so the clip won’t air. But what’s fun about that post is not the segment (which, if you ask me, is no big …
Sentencing Has Commenced
Up till now, he’s been babbling: lots of words, phrases, fragments. The only sentence-like things he’s uttered has been phrases he’s picked up wholesale, like song lyrics (“I like you”) and titles. But yesterday, our boy strung together a sentence for the first time. Was it an expression of maternal love, of deep philosophical import, …
The Perils of Sociability
Our son’s latest developmental stage involves greeting random people. “Hi!” he says, to us, to store clerks, to ladies on the street. Last night on the way home, reports my wife, he waved and shouted “hi!” to two middle-aged ladies on the steps of a nearby church, and completely flattened them with his cuteness. (As …