Editorial Cartoon: Mad Libs Creator Dies

Today’s editorial cartoon is a salute to one Leonard Stern, creator of the world famous Mad Libs, who passed away last week.  For anyone that grew up in the 70′s and 80′s, it was because of Leonard that long family car trips were bearable (and allowed my father not to have to “pull over this car” because we were acting up again).

Mad Libs led the way for those activity books with the orange pen that the answer appeared when you colored in the book.  I can’t remember what they called them.

So I created a Mad Lib of my own below.  Fill in the words and hit “Go Mad”, then copy and paste your story in the comments section.

A Bloggers Tale   VERB ENDING IN -ING NOUN VERB ENDING IN -ING TYPE OF BUILDING VERB PAST TENSE NOUN NAME OF A CITY

Bearman Cartoon: Bristol Palin’s Speaking Fees

I am a firm believer in allowing private family members of public figures to be removed from public scrutiny.  That is UNTIL they themselves decide to become a public figure.   It was announced last week that Bristol Palin (daughter of former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin) is going on the speakers tour to talk about “don’t screw up and have a kid like I did as a teenager”. 

Reports are that she will get between $15-30,000 per speech.  That really busts my chops.  Why weren’t my parents more popular?  My life could be so much easier.

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Google Reader

So in my quest to revamp my life, I started using Google Reader last week.  That way I don’t have to click on each and every one of my blog roll links to see if you have updated your site.  It has been a real time saver and probably delayed the inevitable carpal tunnel.

Anyone else use it?

If so I have two questions:

1.  I have subscribed to others but with an RSS feed how do I determine  how many people (and better which people) have subscribed to me?

2.  I know you can separately subscribe to someones comments separate than the post, but is there a way to set up google reader so I see the post and the comments all together?

Inquirering minds want to know.

Pixar/Disneys UP web short

Personally I think UP should be considered for as a Best Picture nominee for this year. To promote the DVD release, someone at Disney did a very non-Disney looking web animation. When Shady Oaks drivers, George and AJ, come to pick up the old man, he flew his entire house away using helium balloons.

Here’s what happened next….

Hat tip to Drawn

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