Soppho

The first time I heard this song, the radio was playing in the living room while I was on my belly in my bedroom, cleaning out boxes and clearing away the dust bunnies under my bed. Not 15 seconds after the song started, I scuttled backward from underneath the bed like a cockroach, and crawled [...]

When I first heard Ida Maria’s “I like you so much better when you’re naked,” I predicted it was going to catch on like some sort of burning bush (pun sort of maybe intended?). But then Lady Gaga hit and, really, who the hell can compete with dresses made out of Muppets and hair bows [...]

This is The Watson Twins’ excellent cover of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven,”  with the added bonus that this video was made at Charlottesville’s very best radio station, WNRN.
And if I haven’t succeeded in appealing to your musical tastes…LOOK, TWINS!!

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 [...]