As this week's "Friday Sprog Blogging" was going to press:
Younger offspring: Here's another picture for you to use.
Dr. Free-Ride: It's nice, but does it have anything to do with insects?
Younger offspring: No ... but you could still blog about it.
Dr. Free-Ride: I suppose ...
Wallace and Gromit are undeniably cool. They're made of plasticine and animated frame by frame. Wallace is an inventor. Gromit is a dog.
While not my most favorite of the Wallace and Gromit movies, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit takes on important issues like ecological balance, humane pest-control, and unforeseen consequences of technological innovation.
It has some scary scenes, but the bunnies are pretty cute.
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The foreshadowing last week was accurate. This week, we offer a review of Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid by Shirley Raye Redmond with illustrations by Bryn Barnard.
Younger offspring: We should talk about my new squid book for the Friday Sprog Blog.
Dr. Free-Ride: OK. What do you like…
As an added bonus, this week's entry includes a behind the scenes peek at our FSB "process". Yeah, I'm scared, too.
Walking across a large field at the junior high school where we sometimes play soccer:
Younger offspring: My foot almost went in a hole.
Elder offspring: Be careful! There are lots…
Yes, it's a day late. Dr. Free-Ride and Dr. Free-Ride's better half are currently engaged in sprog retrieval maneuvers at the home of the Grandparents Who Lurk But Seldom Comment. What follows is this morning's attempt to get the Free-Ride offspring to tell us something science-y.
Dr. Free-Ride…
The Free-Ride family got its copy of the new CD/DVD set Here Comes Science by They Might Be Giants this week. The sprogs, who have been listening and watching, offer something kind of like a review.
The first thing to note is that, on the DVD, you have a choice of going through the whole set of…
Tell Younger offspring that it's a very nice drawing.
I love the depiction of Wallace, it captures his face and his expressive hands quite nicely.
You must be a great Mom to create such an open and inclusive environment for the offspring. It's really cool that younger offspring is even concerned that you have sufficient blog fodder. Now if only they could master MoveableType...