Previous Male Bakeoff Entries: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and last year’s Best of Show.
Have I ever talked about our slight obsession with Sky Mall? Mike and I are fascinated by Sky Mall. Who needs to shop in the air? Why are their products so weird? Where can we put this globe that would secretly open [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff
Scene: The Farmer’s Market, Saturday morning. At a booth of homemade crafts, Mike and Kari spot a snowman in a similar posture to the one on the left, scooping up snow with a shovel.
MIKE: Aw! He’s making himself a family!
KARI: Or cleaning up the scene of a murder.
That . . . pretty much sums up [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff
I am posting this for the Tour of Homes. Obviously it is more word-focused than most of the tour posts are, but our house is under construction and we kept decorations to a minimum this year. There’s a big plastic sheet keeping drywall dust out of my living room, which isn’t really something I’d like [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff, General, God
Do I need to write an obligatory wedding post? You can read what Brandi said to know how Thursday and Friday morning went. You can get Jeff’s perspective here. And Scott’s here. Andrea even talked about it a little bit here. There are pictures all over Facebook (and a few on Flickr). Do I need [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff, Marriage
I use my own bags at the grocery store. We compost. We have a share in a farm and get most of our produce from there. We also buy a whole lot at the Farmer’s Market. From time to time, we shop at Trader Joe’s. (In fact, we have to [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff
An announcement:
“Edward Cullen, please bring Bella her sunglasses.”
Right, like Edward would be at the pool. His sunbathing would be just a little bit too dazzling.
Categories: Books, Funny Stuff
“Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff, General, Poetry
This is Hank Green of Nerdfighter fame.
Best line: “I hope someday his child will rip its way out of your womb.” I laughed so hard I had to pause so I did not miss more of the brilliance.
Categories: Books, Funny Stuff
(This is apparently from Follow That Bird. Which I have only really seen once, but I don’t remember this. Grouches unite!)
Okay, to temper the grouchiness, I will tell you a story of something that happened today. I was teaching a lesson on plagiarism and used Michael Bolton as an example, because he [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff
In honor of both Halloween and 30 Rock being back (yay!), I present you with this clip:
And I present the full song for your listening pleasure:
Categories: Funny Stuff
This was posted last week, so maybe you have seen it already, but here is a video from Gizmodo showing the Lego vault, where they keep almost every set that Lego has ever created. The post accompanying it is great, too–I feel the same way about Legos and still get them as presents from [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff, General
Mike would like for me to tell you that he beat me at Trivial Pursuit. Which is fine. I enjoy a good friendly competition. My hat is off to him. He should definitely be proud. After all, while I was getting questions about Confederate generals (which I answered correctly) and [...]
Categories: Family, Funny Stuff, Marriage
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson
done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the
themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.
—
Happy National Poetry Month!
Categories: Funny Stuff, General, Television
Random House is re-releasing the Sweet Valley High series, with updated references (this means cell phones and Elizabeth writes for the website instead of the newspaper) and character descriptions (this means “perfect size four” rather than “perfect size six”). In honor of this glorious event, I would like to share a treasured photo with [...]
Categories: Books, Family, Funny Stuff
Seriously, you guys. I have confessed to a lot of quirks here. And those are just the entries in which I was specifically talking about quirks. I think we all know that I have revealed more strange/quirky things than that. Like that time I ate the mint chocolate chip ice cream [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff, General
Yesterday the fragrance of baking filled our home. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, Super Bowl weekend can only mean one thing: the Male Bakeoff approacheth!
Let’s review our Male Bakeoff experiences, shall we? The first year that Mike participated, he made a Chocolate Irish Cream Cake and won “Best First-Time Entry.” [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff
Let’s get one thing straight. Having a Roomba doesn’t make me lazy. I am a very busy woman, with a job and church commitments and also I am taking two classes this semester! Also, the Roomba gets under the bed. I never vacuumed under the bed. Our standard of living [...]
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Over the weekend, we flew to Florida for my uncle’s surprise 70th birthday party.
Now, when I tell you that we flew on a private plane to go to a surprise party at the yacht club, you know that’s not how my life normally goes, right? But it was nice to pretend that it was. [...]
Categories: Family, Funny Stuff
I don’t normally link videos, but these have given Mike his silly laugh, and that means they really should be shared.
First, we love our epic films. We’ll be going to see this ASAP. (HT: Alissa.)
And we are a little bit afraid of how much this actually seems like us. (Seriously. [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff
For her 30th birthday, my friend Melissa had a murder mystery party. I was an archaeologist who believed that hieroglyphics hold evidence that UFOs have come to earth. Here are some pictures from my expeditions!
Here I am with my friend Indiana Jones. Perhaps you have seen some of his documentaries. We [...]
Categories: Funny Stuff, General