Oh, Pixar, Why Couldn’t You Be Truly Brave
When Pixar announced that its next movie would have a female protagonist, I was thrilled. After all, this is the brilliant group that brought us Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Cars and Finding Nemo. Their track record for amazing, caring, wonderfully told stories was as close to pristine (give or take A Bug’s Life) as one could get in Hollywood. Their main characters have soul and verve; they make me — a bona fide adult — cry and laugh every time. Then I saw the first trailer for Brave and my heart sank like a stone in a deep, deep Scottish river.
Singing the Preschool Sick Kid Blues
It started the first week of September. My kid went to preschool for the first time and came back with a cold, then another one, then a virus, then a flu-like thing, then…. With the exception of a few weeks here and there, it’s been an almost non-stop avalanche of illness….
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Gone Fishing, Back Soon
So, that was an unexpected absence. It all started with a visit to Florida in February, where my child contracted a bad chest cold and gave it to me. She recovered in a week, but before long, my cold turned into my first-ever case of pneumonia. Gotta say, pneumonia — I don’t recommend it. Really, really sucks.
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Please, Stop Making an Ass out of U and Me
“Don’t you have such pretty hair, what pretty hair you have,” the woman croons. “Don’t you think you have such pretty hair? You do. You do, you know.”….
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled program for: Prom Week!
Okay, I admit that I’m shilling again. What! I can’t help it. If you saw the dedication and work the team of students at UC Santa Cruz’s Expressive Intelligence Studio put into Prom Week, you’d shill too.
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I Love You Like a Love Song, Baby
This is a love story told in five songs. The title of this post, a catchy ditty sung by Selena Gomez, is not one of them.
