International Day

The Hooker school had a super awesome all-school International Day last week. O was the lead in his class' skit. They chose Turkey because one of their classmates is Turkish and they did a skit about 'Goha' [pronounced 'Hodja' -- something's gotta be wrong there]. Owen had four lines and a lot of running around and emoting while the narrator talked. He was the only kid who didn't use a mic and was easily audible in the auditorium with 200 + people.

Post-Racial America

Wanda Sykes has a pretty good HBO stand up special out, especially if you like f-bombs as much as I do. She had this riff about now with Obama as Prez, she can now proudly do all the things she thought were too stereotypically black to openly do before. Which leads me somehow to my conversation with the DMV yesterday.

The DMV guy was telling me that I should get a refund on the registration for a car that I only owned for 5 days (long story, not crucial to the plot here). He said -- twice and with generous, robust spirit -- "I don't want you to be a fool." THEN he said, "Think of what you could buy with that...you're white ... you could get some milk and some hot oatmeal."

My first thought was, "That sounds delicious" and then of course, "Did he really say that?" but it was so bizarre and tangential that I didn't process if fast enough to get him to expound on it. I'm 100% positive he said the milk and outmeal part and I don't know what else could've been in the place of 'white' that maybe rhymes with white and would make any sense (I mean, at least as much sense as 'white').

J-Rollin' Along

The Phils wrapped up the NL pennant last night but it was Jimmy Rollins' back-breaker Monday night that did the damage. Game 4 was an all-time classic.

Game 5 was more like this:

If it ends up the yankees, they'll be the favorites having won 10 more games in the regular season in the tougher league. But ask the '06 Tigers ... and the '01-'08 yankees for that matter: there are a lot of intangibles out there that can take them down. Intangibles like 'heart' and 'clutch hitting' -- the Phillies' specialties.

Balloon boy rides the black taco

You only need to stay vaguely aware of pop culture events to appreciate this:

Well done, Philebrity reader.

Classic

Didn't want Don's website recommendation to be buried in the comments section...

Lego makeover

Remember when all the lego guys were little spacemen and construction dudes with pleasant smiles?

Well, the days of un-extreme toys are over:

The back of the card has the various assault weapons that you can fit into his hand. I know there are a lot of parents out there who wouldn't dream of letting their kids play with realistic weapons even if they are 1:500 scale. Are the Star Wars lasers better because they're fantasy? I first thought this picture was funny but now I find myself going in a different direction.

Cats on the 'net

You could take sports, politics and definitely shopping off the interwebs and I really wouldn't mind but stupid cat videos and pics are indispensible.





behold:

and how have you made it this far without checking out this one?

A new perspective

Did anyone else notice how much more irreverent but somehow still cute and non-threatening cotton seems these days?? Well, that's because Zooey Deschanel endorses it. I don't know much about her but I know she's got an unusual -- but not crazy -- name and I think hipsters like her, whoever they are. Will this steal the hipster dollar back to cotton from ... um ... rayon/cotton blends? Madison Avenue likes the odds, I can tell you that much.