Monthly Archives: May 2007

17 May

He Said, She Said: Much Ado about Disney

Hey, Emily, did you hear the buzz about Shijingshan Amusement Park in Beijing? It’s that state run park with slogan, “Disneyland is too far.” Apparently they have a bunch of knock-off Disney characters and attractions there, and the English language blogosphere is all bent out of shape about it.

Yeah. I don’t know what they’re so [...]

15 May

Headstone Hazard

If only we could learn to better utilize space. I say we combine a space-intensive function like burial with another space-intensive activity…like golf. It’d be like a really big game of pachinko! That’s popular in Japan, right? Fun for the whole family! And you could visit great-grandpa, too!

13 May

Happy Mother’s Day!

I was listening to Democracy Now! the other day, and Amy Goodman ended the show by wishing all of her listeners happy Mother’s Day. She also explained a little bit about the original purpose of the holiday. Activist Julia Ward Howe originally envisioned Mother’s Day as a day when mothers from around the [...]

13 May

XX! ESP! Never Trust Plurality!

The final results of our gender poll are in. You predicted we would have a boy (or a plurality did, anyway), but it turns out you were wrong. Our last two ultrasounds indicate that we’re having a girl!
To give you chance to redeem yourselves, we’ve made a new poll based on Richard Dawkins’ [...]