Time to Brush Up My Shakespeare!

Happy Birthday to William Shakespeare!

Going to spend all day saying thank you 8,000 times for all the new subscribers on YouTube!

Just finished recording a baseball themed episode -- can anyone guess the text I will share with you?

Before I get to editing, though, it's time to oil up my glove.

I found this old meme I made to teach eighth graders about the Monroe Doctrine. Vintage political cartoons and memes were so useful to help the kids understand history.

My brother died two years ago today. He left behind a wonderful novel, Mists of Iga. These were the notebooks in which had had made notes for three planned sequels. They will never be written, but I will try to be grateful for the story -- and the time -- that I did get.

Me whenever I go to a pub that claims to be "Ye Oldest Pub in [Location in England]"

The antlers on the wall of my living room were insufficiency highbrow for the taste of my ten year old so she printed out a copy of the Mona Lisa and taped it up to class up the joint a little.

The Dog Man movie is here and I'll review it soon, but in the meantime let me recommend the book it's based on. Is it literature? No. Does it need to be? Also no. It's dumb. It's immature. It's trivial. And those are compliments. #dogman #dogmanmovie

My daughter drew Kit Kittredge from the American Girls series. Good job, hon.

@netflix.com has announced their plans to "reimagine" Little House on the Prairie. Why does this story need to be reimagined? It's already complex enough and is unflinching about the realities of the time period. It would be braver and more interesting to tell the story as it is.

Who can guess what the next episode of the show is about? This is the only clue you get. Bonus points if you also ever did this with your most sparkly headband.

Can we just all take a moment to appreciate how aesthetically pleasing the placement of the South Pole is on the content of Antarctica?

Have you seen this Polly Pocket? Asking for a friend.

Asked my niece to explain the Dog Man book series to me. When I told her the premise was freaky (cop and dog get blown up, man's head is discarded and replaced with dog's head) she said "only if you think about it." Fair enough.

Tonight I had the profound pleasure of watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure with a British person and I got to demonstrate how to turn George Washington into a mushroom.