Image copyright (c) Dan Piraro 2007. Dan Piraro’s Bizarro was first syndicated in 1985 and currently appears daily in around 250 markets on four continents. Bizarro won an unprecedented three consecutive Reuben awards from the National Cartoonist Society for “Newspaper…
Author: Cecil Vortex
Do You Love Bad Guys the Best?
Here’s another libretto that spilled out of my soon-to-be-seven-year-old son. He sang this one last weekend while puttering around his bedroom. To me, it sounds sort of like something written in 1200 BCE and then translated in the 1950s. I…
Dawn in the Midnight
Kids write the darndest verse. A while back I posted a poem or two by my daughter Shonny. Here’s one from my six-year-old son. He doesn’t really talk like this, but every once in a while he’ll belt out a…
An Interview with Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Part Two
Photo credit: Meredith Heuer 2006. Welcome to the second half of this two-part interview with Daniel Handler, author of the best-selling An Unfortunate Series of Events, a collection of books for children, as well as three books for adults: The…
An Interview with Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Part One
Photo credit: Meredith Heuer 2006. Daniel Handler is the author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events (under the pen name Lemony Snicket), a collection of books for children. He’s also written three books for adults: The Basic Eight,…
The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 20
OK, so it’s a Thursday and I’m yet I’m not late posting. I love this new system! Now we put our two knees close up tight, we swing them to the left and then we swing them to the right.…
True overheard dialog from actual third graders:
Third grader 1: [wistful] I love my new catch phrase. Third grader 2: What is it? Third grader 1: When I’m happy I say: “I feel happy inside.” When I’m sad I say: “I feel sad inside.” 0
And so here we all are
I read a Vonnegut quote the other day worth sharing. This is from A Man Without a Country (Random House, 2005): I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden…
An interview with John August
Photo credit: Jen Pollack Bianco. John August’s feature directing debut, The Nines, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As a screenwriter, John’s credits include Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, both Charlie’s Angels movies, and the…
The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 19
Still lagging behind the pack, but fortunately I’ve got two plane rides in the next few days, which seems to be the key to staying in this ‘un. In fact, if I didn’t already have those flights planned I’d probably…