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  • I’m going with a pale, pale winter white for my face-clothes this season. And every other season as well.
  • Bugs and Fishes has a lovely idea for labeling your holiday gifts. I most likely won’t use it, though, because I don’t have a printer and my free-hand font skills are lacking. But you! You definitely ought to do it.
  • I still don’t believe Plaxico is a real name.
  • Something about these Brown Butter Brown Sugar Shorties appeals to me. I think it’s this: They look delicious, and I’m hungry.
  • I think Roger Ebert may be on to something with this: “A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out. The lengthening toll of former film critics acts as a poster child for the self-destruction of American newspapers, which once hoped to be more like the New York Times and now yearn to become more like the National Enquirer. We used to be the town crier. Now we are the neighborhood gossip.”
  • I think I’ve seen a bumper sticker or something that says, “Smile! It’s contagious!” Well, apparently there’s truth in that.
    • Screen time

    Kids' shows are a little trippy

    Me: Did you like “My Magical World”?
    Pi: Yeah. Sammy made me laugh, and I have five fingers!

    Me: What was your favorite part?
    Pi: Sammy!

    Me: What did you like about Sammy?
    Pi He was a puppy dog and a cow and a monkey.

    Lest you think my little girl’s lost her marbles, “My Magical World” does feature a segment on counting your fingers, and one of its characters does in fact look like a puppy dog. Or maybe a cow. Or a monkey. Whatever he looks like, Sammy lives on a cloud and he hops into books, taking his young viewers along for the ride. The books Sammy jumps into are the “My Magical World” stories, where a wizard named Abra and a young lady named Georgia live with a host of furry little puppet critters. The puppet critters don’t always get along — neither do Abra and Georgia, for that matter — and thus, lessons for the kiddos are delivered.

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