I think Agents Latimer and Bering were looking for work...

This reminds me of the James Lilek book Interior Desecrators (http://www.lileks.com/institute/inte…). It’s avocado, brown and golden harvest - the holy trinity of 70s colors!

Now I feel old. I had that sweater and the Dorothy Hamill haircut to match.

He’s a little tall for a Storm Trooper.

Or an FBF?

We just alternated. I get the even kids and he gets the odd ones. It helps that a) we have an even number and b) that they’re all the same gender. The kids don’t even seem to think it odd that they have different last names and they look very clearly like alike, so there’s not a lot of confusion that they are related.…

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. It’s the perfect answer to the age old complaint of “I’m bored.” Been trying to get the kids to read it but there aren’t enough explosions. I’ll have to read it to them.

Found it on madewell.com.

But how was he able to tell in the dark?

That's true. I remember when I first moved to the Bay Area and I listened to a traffic report and being completely bewildered by where the "Nimitz" was. I think the influx of people, brought on by the dot com boom era, changed the way the highways were talked about.

The whole "the <insert freeway number>" is a SoCal deal. So it's even more of a regional thing. I lived in the Bay Area (NoCal) for 13 years but have family in L.A., so I'd switch modes when talking about traffic depending on where I was.

Another Hawaiian-ism: chicken skin - for when you get goosebumps

Look though their other expedition posters (links in the article). I think Expedition 36 is an homage to Babylon 5.

I'm with you on the stank. When I was a little kid, my Chinese mom got fresh intestines (cow? pig?) from NYC Chinatown one summer and brought them home and washed and cooked the things. Talk about stank. I remembering eating them but not what they tasted like. All I can recall is the horrid smell that permeated…

Sir Patrick was on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" a few weeks ago and mentioned that somewhere in the Paramount archives, there's footage of him playing Picard with a French accent.

Aunt Irma!

I thought that it was Dushku who approached Joss Whedon and asked him if they could do a series together. So casting someone else as Echo was never really an option.

I think I just found what I need to knit. I'm thinking sweater vest so it gets done in time.

The narrator is cartoonist Dan Piraro who draws Bizarro.