Filed under: Playground bureau You want to create a family budget, but aren't sure how to get started. Here's a good place to start: Keep track of your receipts for one month. -- Alpha Mom Same-sex birthday parties are a common way to manage the headcount at birthday parties, especially if you can't...

Found this ad for Coraline in this morning’s newspaper: It’s kind of hard to read, between the pixel size and the printing, but the funniest bit is the blue sidebar on “Finding the Tastiest Beetles:” Beetles are delicious creatures that live close to home. If you use beetles ...

Some entertainment stuff I’m looking forward to this year: Movies: Coraline YouTube also has the trailer in HD. I discovered Sandman late, borrowing the trades from one of my (younger) brother’s friends around 1998 or so, then immediately tracking down my own copies. I lucked out and got...

Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Warner Brothers, Scripts When it comes to fantasy, I'm all for putting the unexplainable in otherwise 'normal' situations -- I could go on and on about the work of Neil Gaiman for this very reason -- so you can probably understand why I'm already sold on WB'...