zaterdag 30 april 2016

zaterdag 30 april 2016 Educate, Organize, Mobilize. Civil, labor and human rights. Amid violence, May Day marchers push message.

Catching up with Rachel Maddow. Whew! Fights with pepper spray. Protesters and police clash outside Trump rally in California.

Turn on Hal Sparks radio program Mega-Worldwide on WCPT. Oh! He plays Even Flow for a bump! Thank you.

Fine day to ride the bike! Clear blue skies. A little breezy. People wave "HI" (Yay it's a sunny day!) I wander up and down the Alphabet Streets. Behold a beautiful bunch of rhododendrons on F Street!

I blow through many STOP signs. I'm a terrible bad law-breaking person... just a little bit wrong. Back home - MST3K - Last Clear Chance.

vrijdag 29 april 2016

vrijdag 29 april 2016 Midnight movie - MST3K: Bloodlust. I don't last past the short - Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm. The shorts are the best! Hilarious! Cows are a lot like people. Tom Servo: They're sinners. Costa Mesa, CA.  Violence Follows Trump Rally That was yesterday. In Burlingame.  Protesters Flock To GOP Convention.

I knew that we would be short-staffed at work, but it's crazy! The toddlers have to stay inside while it rains. Indoor slide. Games. Art. Early lunches and naps. I manage to fix an easy and successful snack. Goldfish and grapes. Finally, we get some outside time. Love it! Using the bus today. When I get home, I take my bike out for a ride. Behold! The monster rhododendron eating that house.

Dinner and a movie - Moonwalkers.

donderdag 28 april 2016

donderdag 28 april 2016 Rated very very R. Thursday morning movie - Mac & Devin Go To High School.

Hair! Visit Morries Club Barber Shop on my way into work for a buzz cut. I have only $12 for a $15 cut at regular price, but Morrie does it. Nice! Our director is interviewing a guy. I wonder if he'll accept employment. (I doubt it.) Books, snack and outside time. It's fairly organized chaos. Lunch, diapers, naps. After my lunch break, I come back to see a few early risers playing at the window. Organized chaos again. Amanda wants to do "activities" with the kids. I'm relieved to take the kids outside. Relieved to bike home. Let's watch Stargate. The landing of the Space Pyramid is awesome. Our poor soldiers - AMBUSHED!

woensdag 27 april 2016

woensdag 27 april 2016 WATCH: Local News Reporters Have No Idea How to Pronounce ‘Acela Primary’ Say uh-CELL-uh. Clinton Won Big Tuesday Night. But Sanders Has Won Something Too. “We will beat Hillary so easily,” Trump said, nicknaming the Democratic front-runner “crooked Hillary” and declaring “the only card she has is the woman’s card.” No, Donald Trump, beating Hillary Clinton will not be easy for you! Turn on Stephanie Miller. She interviews Pulitzer Prize-winner Clarence Page about his newest book Culture Worrier: Reflections on Race, Politics and Social Change. Ride straight into town. Early Achievers is here to observe the toddler group. We are well staffed in the morning. At noon, we lose our student workers, and we get pretty busy. I ask if we're recruiting... We really need people! My lunch break is at 3 o'clock! Geez! Lots of fun with bubbles. Inside and outside. I can bike home in 24 minutes. (It used to take 30 minutes.) The Space News: SpaceX Is Going To Mars By 2018. Seems rather ambitious, but... It's Actually Not That Crazy.

dinsdag 26 april 2016

sick dinsdag 26 april 2016 Stomach problems. Let's watch Star Trek TNG - Silicon Avatar. A living, sentient starship? The Crystalline Entity was a powerful, spaceborne creature characterized by a crystalline structure that resembled a large snowflake. It had warp speed travel capability, formidable size, and the ability to consume all life on a planet or starship. Beautiful, but deadly.

On CBSN... Popular Science's top inventions of 2016 revealed. JIBO! What an awesome little robot! Watch The Seventies. Who mobilized the gay community? Experts contest Anita Bryant's crusade against homosexuality ended up advancing the gay rights movement.

Live from Philadelphia... Hillary Clinton claims victory in DE, MD, PA.

Good news! Northwest natives Macklemore, Death Cab for Cutie to head Bumbershoot!

maandag 25 april 2016

maandag 25 april 2016 Let's watch old SNL shows. Love the skits with Shia LaBeouf. Magic! The lovely Lee Papa aka Rude Pundit live In-Studio all three hours on The Stephanie Miller Show!

Bus into town. I say hi to Harry Styles in the window of Finders Keepers.

We have only 8 kids. It's cloudy at first, but the sun burns them off. People come to teach the kids how to brush their teeth with an alligator puppet. They read The Tooth Book. Restless nappers. I have a few early risers. Off early, too. Catch bus #331 at 4:10. Take a leisurely bike ride around Bellingham. Home to watch The Sixties.

zondag 24 april 2016

zondag 24 april 2016 Prince at SNL 40 party. SNL's tribute show featured past sketches in which Fred Armisen famously played the purple-loving pop superstar in "The Prince Show" with Maya Rudolph playing Beyoncé. Prince Show with Shia LaBeouf.

I never see Man Spread in Bellingham. We're too close to the Canadian border. Watching the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Ohio's stupid. Well, I would agree that Ohio sucks a little bit. That's the reason I moved to the Pacific NW. Oh, Shaker Heights! How have thee forsaken me so?

zaterdag 23 april 2016

zaterdag 23 april 2016 Midnight movie - MST3K: The Fire Maidens Of Outer Space. A team of astronauts lands on a moon of Jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. An old man explains to the explorers the group's story, as well as the moon's dangers. Written and directed by Cy Roth.

On KING-5: Prince tribute: Purple rains down on Seattle. The EMP Museum hosted two screenings of Purple Rain in remembrance of the legendary entertainer Prince.

I have no purple shirt. Bus up to Value Village to get one... and a few other things. New cargo shorts! Bus back. Ready for a bike ride. The dark clouds make me nervous at first. I wonder if it's going to rain on me, but a few blue patches of sky crack out. Enjoy some Batch 15 while watching Skyline. Jerrod sees the invaders coming. Strong, heroic man.

Everyone looks on helplessly as the strange spaceships rain down.

It's impossible to resist or fight them. This extraterrestrial force will swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.

And I'm not a Mexican potato!

Yo! It's time for Star Wars!

vrijdag 22 april 2016

vrijdag 22 april 2016 On France 24... On Stephanie Miller, they reminisce the talent, genius and music of Prince. During my ride, I see an interesting bumper sticker.

David Pakman and producer Louis have thoughts on this. Easy-going day at work. Only 8 kids. It seems that the weather is going to spoil our outside time, but the Child Care Gods are kind. Just a few sprinkles in the afternoon. A few sprinkles of rain on me for my bike ride home. Let's watch Man Of Steel.

donderdag 21 april 2016

donderdag 21 april 2016 Screenshot from San Francisco - Stoners light up in SF’s Golden Gate Park for 4/20 free-for-all.

Art project on the playground. Fun! "I'm blue!", says my little friend.

Yo listen up here's a story About a little guy that lives in a blue world And all day and all night and everything he sees Is just blue like him inside and outside. At home, it's the Blue Danube 2001 Space Odyssey style.

Then Matt & Blue.

woensdag 20 april 2016

woensdag 20 april 2016 Kimmy Drives A Car! Hipsters invade the neighborhood when Titus rents his apartment on Airbnb.

Screen cap of Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. We're from Austin. Not Texas. Just in time for 4/20: High and Mighty: Our Favorite On-Screen Stoners. Maybe I'll watch one those films tonight. Bike to town. I'm up on the wall in the hall.

We're a little short-staffed today. We skip quiet time and get the kids ready for outside. I brought my bubble wand. How exciting for them! "I want big ones!" BUBBLES! Magically, the lunches are set up. I set up the cots and do a round of diapers. Naps, dishes, and snack. Some of our tods play in the pre-school area. They love it. Home again. Let's watch MST3K - Gunslinger. Tom Servo's Naughty Spank.

dinsdag 19 april 2016

dinsdag 19 april 2016 Hillary Clinton Tells Urban Radio Show She Always Carries Hot Sauce. My favorite brand is Tapatío.

Happy Primary Day, New York. Rise and shine... and vote.

Bike into town. Is this wisteria? Thank you, pretty flowers.

It seems like the plan is to take the kids to the library. But they seem a little too high energy for that. We head outside to the playground. That new bell is starting to give me a head ache. Clang clang clang! The kids are never going to get tired of it. The playground seems a little crowded. Children per square foot... It's probably not legal. Lunches, diapers and naps. The day flies by. Anxious to get home to see the primary results. Trump gives his victory speech at Trump Tower... and Clinton speaks after NY win.

maandag 18 april 2016

maandag 18 april 2016 Turn on Free Speech. Amy Goodman speaks with Aji Piper, a 15-year-old 10th grader, and Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust. Landmark Climate Lawsuit: Meet the Youth Activists Suing the U.S. Government & Fossil Fuel Industry. Aji sings his song Danger. Bike to town. Easy-going day at work. It's a warm day. All the kids go out to the playground. Back at my place. Turn on the news. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders make final pushes ahead of New York primary. Let's watch MST3K - Gamera vs Barugon. Barugon is a lizard-dog monster. The monster immediately causes widespread destruction, trampling people and buildings, attacking with his battering-ram tongue - spitting frozen liquid nitrogen - and his deathly energy ray.

zondag 17 april 2016

zondag 17 april 2016 Wake up to U2 - Every Breaking Wave. Let's catch up with Saturday Night Live. Pete Davidson is Pool Boy. Up to 66.6 °F. Nice bike ride Squalicum Creek Park. Back to my place. Let's watch MST3K - Human Duplicators. Or you can say Eht Numah Srotacilpud? An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies resembling animated pottery in this low-budget sci-fi film. Do you know anything about cybernetics, Gale? Evidently, Justin Trudeau does. I love him! Justin Trudeau Gives Snarky Reporter A Lesson In Quantum Computing. “Don’t interrupt me,” the Canadian PM quipped.

zaterdag 16 april 2016

zaterdag 16 april 2016 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is back! YAAAAY! Kimmy Goes Rolling Skating. What a busy episode. Jacqueline's return to her North Dakota Sioux family, Dong's green-card marriage, the return of Titus's long-lost ex-wife. Go, Kimmy! Go!

KING-5 news. Ben Dery weather. Good morning, Seattle... Mt. Rainier.

Learning something new every time I turn on Wait, Wait! It's Kaleabis! Available as a superfood juice shot. According to HIGH TIMES - Scientists Successfully Breed Kale with Cannabis.

It seems bad that I didn't bike today. Maybe tomorrow.

vrijdag 15 april 2016

vrijdag 15 april 2016 More internet trouble. Is it Bruce's new phone? I manage to stream Stephanie Miller. They talk about last night's nasty debate. The Democratic Debate in Brooklyn Thursday night seemed somehow fitting in both its brutality and ugliness. We think that Clinton and Sanders are tired of each other. Jill Sobule, Singer, activist, manages to lift spirits. A donut at Haggen. A coffee at the Bagelry. Only 9 kids at school. Nice. Lots of fun on the playground. He's singing ROW, ROW, ROW!.

Wow! She learned how to walk a few days ago. Look at her go, go, go!

He makes a rather abstract sculpture out of toys... with the FlipOut ball. He puts everything back, though.

It's cloudy all day, but the sun peeks out at the end of the day. Nice bike ride home. Relax with Mike, Gypsy, Tom Servo and Crow and watch MST3K: Last Of The Wild Horses. Weird! Our friends are transported to an evil alternate universe... à la Star Trek.

donderdag 14 april 2016

donderdag 14 april 2016 Watch Twilight Zone - Dead Man's Shoes.

Nate Bledsoe - a homeless man - takes the shoes of a dead gangster and steps into his life. His signature drink - tequila with a cube of sugar. The NY Democratic debate could get nasty. The latest poll numbers. I get to watch a little of the debate. Bad internet tonight.

woensdag 13 april 2016

woensdag 13 april 2016 Turn on Stephanie Miller. She interviews Anderson Cooper on his new book & TV special THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss. Checking the weather in Platte City, MO. It's sunny and warm. My sister is visiting my cute grand-nephew.

My day in child care... less chaotic than usual. The Weather Gods smile upon us, so we play outside a lot today. Bike riding.

Time outside promotes problem-solving. He takes pleasure in lifting heavy objects to make a pile. MY PILE! he tells me.

Home again. Fun to watch MST3K - Hercules.

Segment Three: As Joel enjoys Cap'n Ron cereal, the Bots attempt to clear up how many members the pop group Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds had. It will be a mystery forever.

dinsdag 12 april 2016

dinsdag 12 april 2016 Restless. More MST3K The Day The Earth Froze. Scary lady talks about mystical, magical Sampo.

Turn on Democracy Now. Lee Fang joins the show. Not a big fan of Hillary. Who do you like, Lee?

Kai Newkirk talks about the Democracy Spring movement and the protests on Capitol Hill. Hundreds of 'Democracy Spring' protesters arrested at Capitol Hill sit-in.

Bus into town. Tofu and mushroom scramble at the co-op. Spicy! I feel that we are rushed outside with some of the toddlers. One of the teachers is called on it. Too much outside time. I set up some of the lunches. By popular demand, I read Fire Truck for the kids. They're learning to sing along. Naps are a little late, but everyone sleeps. While the kids sleep, I wonder if the teachers like it to be crazy. Maybe they get a thrill out of being in emergency mode. While I'm alone with the nappers, I clean up the lunch mess. I wash the dishes and set up the snack for 13 children. It's one of those days. Rain keeps us inside for the afternoon. We manage. On the busride home, I hear Open Your Heart. (1986 FOLKS!) The amazing Madonna!