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The twisted cover of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” is a statement of intent, while the cool jazz riffs from the band’s trumpet player are part of what makes tracks like “Daria,” “It’s Coming Down,” and “Frank Sinatra” so original. “The Distance” is a funked-up jam with a Chili Peppers chorus. –Jeff Bateman [...]

High schoolers vandalize with pig fetuses
Filed under: High school, Teenager, Weird but TrueOn a scale of one to ten, this story rates a good 9.5 on the disgusting scale. You’ve been warned.In Des Moines, a group of high school swim team members have been suspended after taking team rivalry just a little too far. It all started when the swim team members at Dowling Catholic High School threw some snow balls at the swimmers of their rival school, Roosevelt High. Apparently in the world of high school swim teams, lobbing snow balls at the opposing team is a serious insult. In retaliation, some of the Roosevelt swimmers decided a good round of automobile vandalizing was called for. Forget shaving cream, these guys were serious in one-upping their rivals and chose to impale pig fetuses on the antennas of their cars. As if that weren’t gruesome enough, they then smeared crawfish all over the cars.”You could smell the formaldehyde from a block away,” Dowling Assistant Principal Ron Meyers said. Roosevelt Principal Kathie Danielson says the pigs probably came from the school biology lab, but she can’t be sure since their pig fetuses aren’t inventoried and labeled. “We certainly don’t want issues with schools. We want good relationships,” Danielson said. I sure hope they can smooth things over and end the rivalry pranks. Having made the leap from snow balls to pig fetuses, I don’t even want to think about what could be next.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

The Queen
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, Dame Helen Mirren gives a spellbinding performance in THE QUEEN, the provocative story behind one of the most public tragedies of our time — the sudden death of Princess Diana. In the wake of Diana’s death, the very private and tradition-bound Queen Elizabeth II (Mirren) [...]

Are cloth diapers making a comeback?
Filed under: Gear, Lifestyle, Diapers, In the News, EnvironmentalAs our society places more and more focus on the environment, many parents are making the choice to use cloth diapers instead of disposable ones.An informative interview with Tereson Dupuy, owner of Mother of Eden, ran in the New York Times this morning. Dupuy thinks the convergence of four elements- Internet chat rooms, easy ways to sell on the Web, the green movement and the development of better polyesters- has propelled an increasing number of parents to ditch disposables altogether.I currently use Seventh Generation chlorine-free disposable diapers, but am contemplating making the move over to cloth. What about you? Do you use cloth diapers? You can read more of Dupuy’s interview here.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

The I Love Lucy Collection - Job Switching/fashion Show
Customer Review: Classic “I Love Lucy” From Television’s Golden Age This wonderful tape contains two episodes that are among the greatest of the classic episodes of this landmark series. “job Switching” in particular has become a television icon and contains probably Lucille Ball’s most memorable comedy scene on a choclate factory conveyor belt. “The [...]

Foods we love while gestating
Filed under: Pregnancy and Birth, Moms, Pregnancy diet, CravingsFirst it was anything with lemon: a lemon slice in my water, lemondrop candies, fresh lemon squeezed over a salad.Then it was anything that made the ever-present carsickness feeling dissipate just a little. Mostly salty things like chips, or thickly spread peanut butter.For a while, dill pickle spears. Because I guess I just like to be that much of a cliche.Now that I’m 35 weeks and counting, it’s: giant glasses of icy water consumed in massive dying-in-the-desert gulps, anything featuring mint, nightly servings of ice cream, and big juicy nearly-bloody steaks. Oh, and pretzels, but only in stick form. Also, canned peaches. What about you, what were some of your stand-out pregnancy cravings?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Thank you note samples for the truly uninspired
Filed under: Moms, baby furniture, baby clothesI’m ashamed to admit that I don’t think I ever did get all my thank you notes out for my baby shower. It was held a few weeks after Nolan was born and I kept it at the top of a to-do list on my fridge, underlined twice: do thank you notes. But crying and feeding and sleeplessness got in the way, and, oh screw it, I really don’t have a good-enough excuse. That was very crappy of me. My excuse is even weaker in light of the fact that there are sites like this online: websites that have sample thank you notes for every conceivable gift and occasion. The sample baby gift Notes have thank-you-card verbiage for almost every common baby gift: from mani-pedis to baby clothes to gift cards and meals on wheels. There are also thank-you card samples for kids, which actually might be fairly useful to some. I remember sitting stewing for what seemed like hours (but was probably milli-seconds) when I was a kid, and my cards always turned out the same:” Thank You, Nana, I love it very much. I love you, bye.” These ones are quite a bit better, even if Mom ends up writing them for the kids.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Everybody poops
Filed under: Potty training, ToddlerDo you mind a little potty talk? No, not that kind, I think we’re supposed to keep the more offensive prison slang to a minimum around here. I mean literal potty, as in the tiny wee chair a toddler sprays with urine in the early days of becoming a semi-civilized adult (I’ll note that many men never do seem to get the hang of aiming in the right hole). (Uh, so to speak.) Riley’s been peeing like a champ in his potty lately, which is not to say he’s using it in lieu of the diaper or anything but rather it seems to be an exciting place to display his new ability to whizz on command. We make a huge enormous deal over every successful droplet, so it’s all very festive, even when he decides to draw it out as long as possible: pee a little, announce “I DID IT!”, receive his applause and various statues, give his acceptance speech, then sit right back down and piddle out just a little bit more. Repeat as long as his bladder is capable.He doesn’t seem terribly interested in pooping in the potty just yet, though, and I figure that’s okay. I don’t feel like I need to get him on some potty fast track at this point or anything. We take him there a few times a day, and anytime he mentions it-other than that, I’ll be honest: I don’t have the energy to be embarking on some every-15-minute regimen like some people recommend. I have the suspicion that it wouldn’t do that much good, anyway. I have a theory based on exactly zero experience that you can invest many months in the aggressive potty training method of your choice, or you can wait until they’re totally ready; either way it will happen around the same time. I could be wrong on this, of course, but at 2.5 years old and with a new baby brother due to arrive in just a few weeks (OH MY GOD), I think Riley’s doing just fine with the Laid Back Potty When You Want To situation.So, I’m probably just, ha ha haaaaa, BEGGING for trouble-or to be completely proven wrong-by saying this, but have you noticed that potty training seems to be one of the few areas of parenting that’s not completely rife with controversy? I mean, people like to share their opinions based on what worked for their own family, but that’s different from YOU ARE A HORRIBLE MOTHER, etc. Maybe it’s because people care less about what comes out of kids’ bodies than what goes in?Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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