Rush: Time Stand Still (1987)
Some time ago I featured Rush’s video for Distant Early Warning, claiming that it edged out this video for awfulness. Upon reflection, it’s obvious that I was wrong as wrong can be. Seeing all three band members plus Aimee Mann sailing about under the influence of some video editor’s shaky hand [...]
I’m a hard mom. You wanna know how tough I am? I signed up my kid for mother’s morning out while he was still in the womb. I knew before he was even born that I was going to be ready for someone else to care for him four hours, once a week. I am [...]
Yesterday was a banner day for punishment, as I kept Eli on his couch for some forty minutes. It started with him waking me up from my nap — not a punishable offense, but one guaranteed to leave me groggy and with less than my full facilities. After a failed round of distract-the-toddler (“Why don’t you go find mom?” “No, I stay onna bed with you!”) I finally dragged myself out of bed. “Okay,” I told him, “take your binkie and your blanket back to your room.” [...]
In the wake of AOL giving out a bunch of their search data and the government talking to Google about getting search data, you might feel a little spied-upon. You can at least anonymize your Google searches with a little work. If you’re using the Firefox browser, here’s how you do it. NOTE: you won’t [...]
Parenting is demanding work, made only more demanding by the pressures of keeping up with the other parents. What, no one told you that parenting was a competition? Just wait until you take your kid to your first playgroup or to daycare.
It’s easier when they’re little, as you have plenty of potential milestones to brag [...]
Ben Folds: Rockin’ the Suburbs (2001)
For his first solo effort post-Ben-Folds-Five, Ben Folds decided to play every instrument. It thus makes sense that, in the video, he indeed plays every instrument. Mix in suburbia and a healthy dose of awkward dancing and you have…well, this video. What’s the link to Weird Al? He directed it, [...]
A few notes: I know I’m a bit late to the David Sedaris love-in, but hey, at least I made it. I don’t usually read non-fiction, although the collection of essays in Me Talk Pretty One Day, written about David’s life, sometimes seems to border on the fictional. I borrowed this book from my [...]
