Cory Arcangel, installation view of Super Mario Movie, 2005 Not having grown up a joystick jockey, Cory Arcangel's lecture and work, presented at the American Art Museum on Thursday March 5, helped me ‘get' video games for the first time. You can see clips from his presentation on American Art's Y...

Something I read: You can't fall asleep unless you're feeling affection for something -- your bed, your partner, yourself, God, the bed. Think about it. If you have nothing but shit in your heart, it's not very relaxing. And I'm not saying that I don't approve of shit in the heart. Sometimes I think...

In 1951 Time magazine declared that the young people who were born during the Great Depression, then in their teens and early twenties, "lacked flame" and were "docile notetakers." Growing up during hard times had made them cautious and prone to conformity. Their cohort, which produced more than a d...

Thank you Doc Gurley at Posts From an Insane Healthcare System for hosting Grand Rounds 5.25 this week and including the post about the similarities between improvisation and parenting teens from Teen Health 411. The live broadcast last night was exceptionally cool, too! Of course it was my teens wh...

I love the Girl Scouts and actually was one for a couple of years long ago. Still have a great orange layer cake recipe captured in my quest for the cooking merit badge. And now our daughter Charlotte is a Daisy (pre-Brownies). So I was dismayed to learn that the Girl Scouts are stumbling with the i...

This coming weekend, Lord willing, Doug and I will be in Toledo, Ohio at Christ the Word church (pastor David Bayly) where Doug will be preaching on the Authority of the Word. We have been looking forward to this trip, and it is finally here. I used to think that we were going in the spring, but it ...

Have you ever looked on with envy at your office mates' brackets and (illegal) betting pools for the NCAA basketball tournament but you don't know the difference between a jump ball and a jump shot? Well, now there's a bracket just for you: March Mission Madness. And it's a showd...

Michael Steele's Republican National Committee is circulating a Request-for-Proposal (pdf) to rebuild the RNC website. The sketchiness of the document is raising speculation that Chairman Steele is simply going through the motions, having already picked out a consultant for the job -- despite his pl...

On Thursday, as previously reported, I (Nancy) returned from the driving school with the hope of hearing from a translator about taking my written driver's test early next week. Yesterday (Friday) I got a call from the driving school asking me to bring in a paper they needed to copy. At least that's...

In its weekly email to consultants this week, stamping and scrapbooking home party company Close To My Heart said that they are redirecting their advertising efforts away from magazines and traditional media into online media. CTMH, who has been the back cover advertiser for Creating Keepsakes for q...