Monthly Archives: April 2010

Space Monkey Splashdown

(This is a follow-up to Sunday’s Space Monkey Wherefore Art Thou?) On Friday night 9 year-olds Peter & Josh were at odds over the former’s discovery of the coveted Space Monkey Might Bean in the party favor package. Meanwhile, the … Continue reading

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Wherefore Art Thou Space Monkey Bean?

Early last week, in the 9-year old boy equivalent of a feigned yawning stretch of an arm around an “unsuspecting” date, my son, Avery,  dropped a pre-birthday hint: “Uh, yeah, a lot of the boys in third grade, well, they’re … Continue reading

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The Wages of Inappropriate Attire, part 2

In my recent post, “The Wages of Inappropriate Attire, part 1” I took a jab at an imam in Iran who linked earthquakes to immodest attire among the ladies of Tehran and greater Iran. And, given teh restrictive nature of … Continue reading

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The Wages of Inappropriate Attire, part 1

Today, I must admit I stand corrected. Apparently I had learned in error that the moving and shifting of tectonic plates along their boundaries causes what we call “earthquakes.” In fact, the real source of earthquakes is human in its … Continue reading

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From Gossip to Unclassifiable

(Author’s Note: I originally wrote this on April 10, 2010, just as this blog was coming to fruition) This is the stuff of teenage dreaming, fiction, and a Disney/Nickelodeon movie swirled into one heaping serving: You get your big break … Continue reading

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Groundbreaking First Post

The iPad is tha House! And I’m using it to write the inaugural post to a new angled blog. This is so cool! I’m tapping a flat screen and watching my words flow onto the white tableau above keyboard. The … Continue reading

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