So good news: The Electric Company is totally coming back to a public broadcasting station near you in January 2009. So hopefully kids all over America will become a little less illiterate by you know, watching even more TV. The bad news: No Morgan Freeman or Rita Moreno. Yet. We can always campaign. I know [...]

. A blogumn by Amy Robinson It’s 5:15 am and a steady rhythm of beeps pulls me out of the sky. I was hang-gliding over La Jolla after having escaped the killer zombies.  But my beeping alarm clock ended that dream, it’s time to get up and get to the gym. This is much easier [...]

So you guys haven’t exactly asked us for more procrastination, but I could feel you yearning for something to do at work other than work every weekday. So starting today, our Friday “Procrastinate on This” becomes a daily feature. First up, a rather ectoplasmic flash game called Splash Back. Here are the instructions: Object of [...]

So following-through was a very interesting experiment, in that I thought it would be pretty straightforward, but it was actually really difficult. First of all, I don’t quite have the patience levels to perform this experiment perfectly. Things like booting up my computer and waiting for pages to download were constant challenges on my patience. [...]

. A blogumn by Kalimba Bennett About a month ago I was woken up in the wee hours of the morning by a phrase that was repeating loudly in my head. – “Quality of life.”  I had no idea what the significance was, so I wrote it down to get it out of my head [...]

It came down to one final GTRL and two guesses last week. Zacki from Tall Glass of Shame guessed correctly that Wednesday’s lyric was from “Supersonic.” And Robin from Wonderfully Awful appended that it was by J.J. Fad. So the final score is You-2: Me:1, and I’m foiled for the win once again. But it’s [...]

So as you’re reading this, I’m flying back from Plano, Texas to my beloved Los Angeles after a wonderful visit with CH’s mother and his sister, Angela G and her husband, Frank G, and their four kids, Christina, Hunter, Jerry, and Josh G from Future So Bright. As many of you know, I’m not a [...]