Morgan Taylor has a thing for food violence. See: “Punching Cheese”, “Jump on Cake”. The next installment of his one-man meme is “Pancake Smackdown”, a visually hilarious new song from the forthcoming “Year In The Day” DVD/CD (due April 3, 2012). Most GY tunes hold up well without the animated […]
Not only does LEGO devotee and OWTK’s West Coast Gaming Corespondent Cooper McHatton cover the world of video games, he also develops games with his Uncle, Andy Baio. Their first creation is Playfic, and browser-based interactive fiction game with the snappy tag lines “Tell Me A Game / Play Me […]
The same recurring thought popped into my mind again this week, twice in fact. Once as I watched my girls playing with creative and reckless abandon on wickedly cool pirate-themed playground equipment, and then again while quietly starring out at the Pacific ocean: Let them never need anyone else. I’m […]
It can’t be helped. Whether it’s spoons, baby socks, or Squinkies, we all love tiny things in this house. The spoons are for yogurt. The socks re-purposed as baby doll clothes. And the Squinkies, well, they’ve proved extremely adaptable. My creative daughters have put them in an array of funny […]
The Pacific NW adult band Central Services has been making family music for a little while now but their education department has been dormant for a long while. Budget shortfalls, likely. ‘Cause what state isn’t experiencing those kinds of cuts to public education these days? This all will change in […]
2011 was quite a year in the hobby world as crafts overtook golf as America’s #1 hobby-related pastime (in total sales). For reals. Seems knitting is way more relaxing than shanking yet another 4-iron into the deep rough. Personally, I’m torn there. Both fall on the wrong side of the […]
I can honestly to you that in my 5+ years of covering kid’s music, there hasn’t been a single album release I’ve awaiting with as much giddy school boy anticipation than “Can You Canoe?”, the 3rd kindie effort from the MN bluegrass duo of Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing – […]
Act quick and grab Boomer, Hex, Zap, Dino-Rang, and Wrecking Ball for $7.99 each, you know their actual price, from Amazon right now! You’ll still have to cough up $30+ for Cynder (or maybe not…see below*), Whirlwind, and Double Trouble but you’ve finally got a chance to add to your […]
