Correction: "RAAAAAARRRRRRR!" is clearly a typographical error in the 9-1-1 transcript (as evidenced by the omission of the letter "E" and inclusion of *five* superfluous "A"s).

Z.G.: "Is it going to be hard in two years when you're no longer president and people will stop letting you win at basketball?"

“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”

Rotary phones are nifty gadgets for kids. We take them apart to look at the bells or use them as intercoms between rooms by hooking them up to the old landline jacks all over the house. Even with a non-functional landline, they still work fine within the house - exactly the way you could once listen in on a family…

The Muppets (excluding those appearing on Sesame Street).

Insert pithy caption about youth, age, beauty, and how shiny golden things are never wrong things.

South Carolina. Kids had four snow days in a row.

I can't seem to stop reading about this, so naturally I gobbled up this really well-researched digest of the Farrow clan and their saga.

Totally agree with this! I recently underwent a Lego Renaissance now that my own kiddos (5th grade daughter and kindergartener son) are into it. Initially I was pleasantly surprised at how diverse the minifigs have become since I was a kid. Although race remains a pretty untapped frontier (another discussion for…

Rusty: That's an older photo of Woody Allen with one of the two daughters he is currently raising with Soon-Yi.

I just remembered WA saying this and lazily googled the words verbatim and came up with goodreads attributing it to Emily Dickinson (though not from any specific poem) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/434971-…).

"The Heart Wants What It Wants."

This production was tacky as all get-out, but golly day if I wasn't more than a little moved by the whole thing right down to Madonna's finale entrance "dressed as Boss Hog" (the funniest description of her cameo I've read so far!).

"Your greatest weakness could be your stupidity."
-A fortune cookie fortune I once received and then kept in my wallet as A) Proof that this actually happened, and B) A reminder that no matter how solid my stupidity may seem as the reigning core weakness of my character, there remains the possibility that my greatest…

Huh. I think Jezebel wins this one.

Photoshop of Horrors has always been a little gem of a meta-snark regarding that special brand of body shaming that runs amok in glossy mags & catalogs. Actually, it's a bit of a pioneering genius in this area.

Thanks for calling out this article for the ugly proposition it is. Please stay mad...but don't stay away!

Your comment caught my eye, because I had parents that also watched and discussed films not made especially for kids with me. They really only restricted slasher horror and extreme gun violence. Even so, there were misteps. For example, when I was twelve, I begged my mom to rent The Exorcist and watch it with me. I…

Saw the film last week, but I was curious as to how the IMDB "Parent's Guide" tallied up all the questionable content. It's a fascinatingly meticulous inventory - just wanted to share:
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt099384…

This was the very first thing I decided to read this morning and I nearly cried and peed with all the laughter and joy the Christmas season has promised, but has yet to deliver until now.