Soppho

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary this month, B sent me along this little number, with a note:
“Mediocre Sesame Street song featuring the Count, but it really shines at the 55-second mark, with the arrival of dancing bats.”
(I suggest you heed his advice and skip on in to :55)

I haven’t seen Sesame Street in [...]

I had a whole herd of My Little Ponies when I was little, including the special, fuzzy ponies, baby ponies, and sea ponies, and—in case you weren’t quite jealous enough—the My Little Pony barn. I’m not sure what my sisters and I actually did when we played with them, but beauty pageants mercifully never factored [...]

Me: Woo to the hoo! Hells to the yeah! Hey, I see you over there! You best not be shaking your head at me like I’m crazy!
S: Milli Vanilli said it best: “Girl, you know it’s true.”
Me: I think you mean ‘Milli Vanilli lip synced it best’.
S: That’s fair, but it doesn’t make it [...]

I’ve been preparing for the Richmond Half-Marathon all summer, and recently developed some lovely, achy shin splints. Recently, they turned from annoying and achy to stabby and horrible, and my general attitude during running has gone from “Ooh, look at the pretty tree! Let’s go a little faster! Yay!” to “The lady in front of my has not darted out of [...]

Every once in a while a song comes along that you absolutely adore beyond all reason. It’s not the world’s most perfectly arranged song; the lyrics aren’t particularly relevant to anything you’re experiencing in your life. But for some reason, you find yourself listening to it again and again, even months after the first time [...]