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My post about A Movie with Muppets is a featured blog item on Wired’s utterly awesome GeekDad site! Thanks a …
May 2012
A Movie with Muppets, Chapter 1: The Frog.
Chapter 1 The Frog The Frog had almost forgotten the ache of sore muscles. In the swamp, there were few …
George R.R. Martin’s “A Movie With Muppets: Prologue”
It is a fact little known that the novelization of the first Muppet Movie was penned by none other …
Why it’s Important to Read the Whole Headline
This, from Slate:
Sleep No Mzzzzzzzzz
The whole “Macbeth hath murdered sleep” thing is proof that he didn’t have kids. Parents sleep through anything.
Regression to the Mean
[Disclaimer: I have the mathematical ability of a dead trout. Still, I enjoy a layman’s appreciation for the poetry of …
Arise, Ye Prisoners of Summer Camp. Part 2
Wake up! Market time! Time to get to market! It’s not the kind of thing one expects to hear shouted—or …
The Greatness of Wild Things
It’s one of the most perfect books ever written, the essence of literature refined until it’s almost a haiku. Maurice …
3-D is for closers.
The movie we’re showing is Avengers in 3-D, and to you it’s gold, and you don’t get to go. Why? …
Arise, ye prisoners of summer camp! (Part I)
During this week of May Day, it seems appropriate to recall my first pogrom. But first, a little background. From …
Len Schiff: In Verse Operations 