Laurie

I am so excited to have found this video on YouTube. I loved this cartoon from my Sesame Street/Electric Company years, and my brother and I can still make each other laugh reciting the girl’s shopping list. But I have never come across anyone else who remembers it. Despite many years of reminiscing about the TV world of my youth. Seeing it again for the first time since I was very small, I’m amazed at the excellent animation — the mother’s hands, the constant motion of the little girl, the Oz-like mother in the thought bubble, the sparseness of the…

When Zoe and Lucy were 2 1/2, Dora the Explorer moved in with us. Zoe and Lucy spent every waking moment lobbying to watch a “Dora movie.” We could stop any errant behavior by pulling out a Dora book or telling a story in the same format as a Dora story (Problem; I need your help to solve it; Go here, here and here; You did it!). She potty trained them and rewarded them for succeeding with Dora underwear. She was more essential to our lives than food. I believe if you had shown me this video while we were…

Has everyone seen The Landlord already? By Will Ferrell and his writing partner Adam McKay? That moment when he first opens the door and you see her? Perfect. Utterly perfect. Here’s a bit of the story, according to People. (Edit: Ugh, I had to take the embedded video down — there’s no way to disable the auto-play and it just kept playing and playing and playing…. Click on the picture above, or try the link instead.)

While searching for a fabulous video to share with you, I found myself browsing the “Mosts” on YouTube. Most Discussed, most linked, most watched on mobile. I tell ya, it’s a funny world in here, y’all. So, in the spirit of being a part of “it” while “it’s” happening, I’m sharing with you today the #1 Most Viewed video on YouTube. Just in case you haven’t seen it yet. Which is unlikely — at the time that I wrote this sentence, it has been viewed 46,014,060 times. That’s a lotta YouClick. Enjoy!

Computers have a tough row to hoe, y’know? They give give give — working day and night to enhance our lives, speed up our workflow, and give us access to information the likes (and volume) of which we didn’t even know we needed. Like, for example, how to open a champagne bottle with a sword. But if the computer acts up for one minute, yawns and stretches in the middle of a task like it has all the time in the world, or doesn’t listen because it wants to keep doing whatever it’s doing, we treat it with utter disrespect,…