Ryan Gosling totally wants to hear all about your homeschool curriculum this year.
Category: Fun and Games
Msgr Pope’s eisegisis of a State Farm commercial (plus link to dancing hamsters)
“Hey, Dark Side, get off the car.” And don’t miss his comments on the soteriology of the Kia hamsters
xkcd: Family Decals (and the “childfree” variation)
Muppet Monday: Smell Like a Monster
Harry Potter and the O-Scale Hogwarts Express
A comment from the delightful Harry Potter thread at dear Mr John C. Wright’s blog: It’s at times like this that one sees the real value of the world’s greatest pastime: model railroading. Model railroading teaches its practitioners useful skills and knowledge ranging from engineering to carpentry to history to geology. It also teaches one… Continue reading Harry Potter and the O-Scale Hogwarts Express
Star Wars on sale at Williams Sonoma
For all your Yoda and Darth Vader cookie and pancake needs. I gave Hambet the Heroes and Villians cookie cutters for Christmas last year (which were purchased at a store and were not a promotional gift from Williams-Sonoma) and they were a huge hit. Darth Vader is kind of boring to decorate, though. Hambet preferred… Continue reading Star Wars on sale at Williams Sonoma
Harry Potter and the Weekend of Vocations Awareness
Kat wonders to which religious orders the Houses of Hogwarts correspond: Hufflepuff = Benedictines; does Ravenclaw = Dominicans or Jesuits?
Note for next year: Peeps sushi
Peepshi! photo: Robyn Lee, SeriousEats.com