gollum update

Last week: Mom claims to have misplaced him. Is clearly lying.

Saturday: Turned up in my bag of polyfill stuffing, after several days of suspense for Mom in which my hand missed him. Assumed cheesecake pose next to her mug on microwave

Monday morning: Turned up in my bag of Tootsie Pops. Transferred to behind Mom's antacid in the medicine cabinet.

how a ufo plushie is made:

Ave.Qute on the UFOcatcher.com BBS found a guide to how a UFO catcher prize plush is developed (it's in Japanese):

http://enter.big-e.ne.jp/prize_folder/info/040311/

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I've been reading Anne of Green Gables this weekend. I always thought it was a fairly standard Children's Classic[TM]. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that L.M. Montgomery was one of the early-20th-Century reformist authors, like Upton Sinclair. As Mr. Sinclair's The Jungle depicted the horrors of the contemporary meatpacking industry, so too is Ms. Montgomery's work a plea for the improved distribution of Ritalin to the isolated, agrarian areas of Canada. You go, Lucy!