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Selena and I are both very guilty of impulse shopping. If we want it and can afford it, shouldn’t we buy it? The only real test I use for the “should we” question is whether there is room enough in our condo … [ more ]

Someone posed an interesting question the other day: “Is Katy Perry here to stay?” He wanted to know if there were any other contenders out there besides Katy Perry to be the next Madonna or Britney Spears. Before you balk at putting Perry in the same ballpark as Madge, consider … [ more ]

I really enjoyed getting to tour the White House this past weekend. The West Wing had misled me to believe a pompous snob would meet us and take us around the mansion.  In actuality, the tours are self-guided, but there are secret service agents guarding each room who you could … [ more ]

A little late on the post, but here’s to another successful race at the Rockville Twilight 8K, so named for the time of day it is run, not because we were chased by sparkly vampires. Although, I definitely still had the monster complex going on.

But let’s face it, here’s the … [ more ]

Two weeks ago, a Uhaul truck pulled up and the two 20-something sons of the Spy spent the day moving out. I stopped and chatted with the girlfriend of the son of the Spy, not really knowing what to say. What I learned was that Spy himself had actually passed … [ more ]

We loved watching Mad Men’s first season, but somehow missed season two.  Now, we have the DVD and are ready to begin catching up while the TiVo catches and holds season three for us which is just starting this weekend.

As part of the marketing push for the DVD release and … [ more ]

In the middle of the workday last Wednesday, I was in a drawing class at the Fool being taught by the head of Pixar’s in-house University, Randy Nelson. He had us all drawing Woody from Toy Story. Here’s the original (left) and my version (right).

Woody … [ more ]