Wee Willa, she is walking these days. Rest of this post achieved in gaps between chasing her around the house.
Auckland newspaper columnist mocked in the style of NZ literary classics. (The Magpie is my favourite.)
New York Times feedback: 8-year-old lists his top 10 composers, with helpful illustration.
The terrible secret of Tom Bombadil. LotR scholars/nerds should find this enjoyable, if perhaps infuriating.
Pulp Fiction in chronological order.
Via Kate Kenworthy – a palliative care worker identifies the five top regrets of the dying.
Visualising everything Facebook knows about you.
This has made me smile about as much as Willa walking, which is a whole lot: Scotland’s Hurricane Bawbag
Turns out that sworddance video was a viral for a Major Lazer track
John Stamos guide to cuddling:
Almost my favourite John Stamos thing in the world.
8-year-old writes to creator of Tintin, gets reply, begins long correspondence. This story starts great but gets better and better, and finishes with a Maurice Sendak anecdote that might be the best anecdote in the world.
Family Guy writer describes getting arrested at Occupy. Yes. The Awl presents a great essay about Occupy that puts appropriate emphasis on how the “newsworthy” thing about police misconduct here is it’s directed at white people. Also: how Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy.
What children’s paintings would look like if drawn realistically
And finally, via d3vo: Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
I LOVE THE CUDDLE VIDEO! It’s funny because it’s true – those are awesome tips! And because he didn’t realise it was Bob Saget til the end – silly John.
And the Maurice Sendak anecdote is good too.
I got particular joy out of your blog this week – and I’m only just starting to look at the links. I also am on holiday.
“You won’t believe it: Pagani” That kid is fucking rad.
Regrets of the dying has some great truths… I may steal this to link to.
Awesome, Willa! You can’t beat that first set of steps. Unbelievable, no matter when they come!
Re: Kids’ drawings turned dark and adult… I’m torn. In the comments section I found myself siding with the teachers. It’s great artwork, without question. He’s a phenomenal illustrator, but I don’t like the alchemy going on, and I think even as a kid trying and getting frustrated with finding my own way in art, that would have thrown me for a long long time.
But that’s me, and I do get that some kids would dream of having this done to- sorry, with their work. And that’s cool, too.
Jet: totally agree on the kid’s drawings. To me it’s an adult game to be played among adults – not for the kids to experience. Childlike drawing is kinda cross-dimensional, the 2D representation is just a cross-section of some greater reality – it isn’t even about frustration or imperfection, it’s that there is so much more in the drawing than is actually represented in the drawing. Not that I had reflected on this until you raised it, although something about it had sat uncomfortably with me. Good show!