No one drops a class because someone talked to them. They might set up somewhere different next time, and then if the annoying person keeps pestering them, eventually drop the class, but one casual interaction does not scare a person off. She's got other shit going on and yoga isn't a priority to her.

I had a polydactyl cat who could open doors. She basically had thumbs, so she would rear up on her hind legs, reach up with her front paws, and turn the handle.

My father in law, who does not like cats, likes this story:

That was my complaint the one time I had hassenfeffer. The meat was tasty, but there was so little of it and I kept picking bones out of my mouth. Haven't tried rabbit since.

Any trickster stories are usually good fun - Coyote, Anansi, Turtle, etc. - even if they are usually kind of assholes.

The Book With No Pictures by BJ Novak

Yeah, when I saw the headline I thought it would be like a bear and a fox or something, but for some reason a bear and a human doesn't scream "cute silly metaphor" to me but "dear god that's strange" instead. I think that's on me, though, because the intent was clearly to be a cute silly metaphor.

Apparently the Onion doesn't archive old articles, so I had to find this on some dude's blog:

Oh, right, back when all he had to fear was little gray men from space.

Was it ever out of fashion?

Oh, I don't know. I love the novel, but do we really need another adaptation of it? And will be it updated to the modern day? If so, what's Vlad Tsepes' motivation for leaving Hungary? Eastern Europe gets the internet now. It's not exactly the "backwards" place it was in the 19th century.

That's guy is clearly from Australia.

It also directly ties in the Cthulhu Mythos, which is what the kids like, right?

Anything from Jan Brett, really. Her books are so unbelievably gorgeous, and there's always fun things going on in the margins.

Jan Brett did a fun version of Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears featuring a young Inuit girl (not blonde) and three polar bears.

Did he, Robert Maitland, Architect? Did he?

We have the DVD and now you've planted that song in my brain. Curse you, Yumzux! Curse you!

I am currently reading The Hobbit to my 5 year old. He was exposed to the Lego Hobbit video game, and so I decided that he also needed to be exposed to the source material, i.e. the good stuff. He likes the video game more, which hurts my heart but doesn't surprise me in the least. Still, he enjoys the book. We only…

I know you don't. You know you don't. And yet it still took 76 fucking years to make a film starring the best known and most loved woman superhero of all time - none of the also-rans at Marvel are going to get a shot in a climate like that.

"Fondly remembered" might be more accurate, but it ignores the pop culture blinders that the rosy lenses of nostalgia provide.