Not to mention the black doctor who nurses them through diptheria or whatever they had.

The daemon idea was pretty much designed to have kids everywhere asking themselves and their fellow nerds: what animal am I?  what animal am I?  where can I get my own pet/best friend forever???

They had Wishbone books?  Were those like the abridged classics that had a picture on every facing page?

Somehow I missed the religious agenda in His Dark Materials (you must be in the UK!) the first time around, but hey, I was little.   Now that I'm older I see some of the structural weaknesses of the 3rd book, but I still think his vision of Hell/the afterlife is so haunting.  And his fix for it was wonderful too.

Still love the Westing Game.   Love how flawed all the adults were, and believeably so.  Especially the overly ambitious restaurant owner and the social-climbing wife.  And Turtle learning to game the stock market was great!

I totally checked out the Arms and Armour gallery at the Met my first time there because Jamie picked it.   He was right; it was awesome.

Love the Gardner annotations.  They taught me so much, and they explained that all the boring songs were actually fiendishly clever parodies of Victorian crap.

Louis Sachar is shockingly good at switching from comedy to pathos, in the same book, and without scaring his young audience.

I am very excited to see said musical.

I read Big Bazhooley at a young age and was really upset by it — you're totally right about how selfish his parents are, and I was very worried that the protagonist was going to be homeless and get in trouble at the competition.  (Being young, I conflated the two.)

The Mouse and the Motorcycle was the shit.  There are sequels, but they didn't have the same magic.

I love it too.  It's so silly and un-Austeny at points (the "Mrs. Darcy" scene at the end makes me cringe every time), but the cinematography is gorgeous and I love both Mr. Collins and Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet.

I thought they assumed the Leslie/Ben wedding episode was the Last Parks Episode Ever?

Yeah, I'm really pleased with the way this turned out.  I like to think this episode was planned months ahead and that they were always aware of where Leslie's narrative arc would go, but I'm also glad that it seems like a direct response to people complaining how the show has gotten stagnant.

I am constantly impressed at the new ways the backlash manifests itself each week.

I've stopped reading these most weeks, but don't forget that you can always minimize threads you don't want to read so you don't have to keep scrolling by them.

I laughed way too hard at that one, because Honey is a guilty pleasure veg-your-brain movie for me.  It's dumb, wonderful dancing.

"There’s a lot of Liz/Jack DNA in this relationship, serendipitously transporting itself across the universes that are Parks and 30 Rock via NBC osmosis. Maybe there’s something in the water at UCB."

Liked for not forgetting about Anne.  Everyone forgets Anne.

Edit: redundant. sorry.