Ever visited the Gallery of Regrettable Food?
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
There's stuff in there that'd make you pale(r).

It's certainly a very powerful picture. Shame she doesn't say what happened to her mother.

DaveL: Well, not quite. Networdz is still out there, running feral. It's still far better than MB's own version even after all these years. Simple, uncluttered and unfussy.

I wouldn't say he's frightened of the puppets at all. To me he appears to be frightened of the scary story the puppets are portraying; which is after all why the story's being told, to give children a delicious scare.

This should be fairly easy to test: portray the same story with live actors and see whether he still finds it scary, though of course on repetition some of the scary might have worn off.
His actions are somewhat exagerated, but anyone who's worked with kids knows that "normal" covers quite a wide spread of reality.

I used to be like this with Dr Who - though in my case it wasn't the monsters that made the four year old me hide behind the sofa, it was the music. As soon as the tune stopped I was out enjoying the green slime etc, but as soon as the closing titles ran, so did I.

I wonder why he considers it "depressing" that America is a trading nation that does a lot of business with the rest of the world? Basic economics tells you that if you want to export goods or services (and I'm sure he'd like to) then you'll have to import as well otherwise sooner or later you have all the money and everyone else is bankrupt.
In the short term buying native may feel good, but unless you want to completely cut your country off from the rest of the world then it's doomed to failure.

In the 80s I used to visit deBeer's London Diamond Sorting Office to service equipment. They had boxes of uncut diamonds lying about - looks like swept-up broken windscreen. With a lump of blutak on the bottom of my toolbox I could have had loads out of there, but (apart from being wrong) I'd never have been able to sell them.
They had a whole corridor of Bridget Riley paintings - wonderul to dawdle in front of.

If you want odd baby names...
http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

If I get two...can I get double the stretch?
(insert smiley of choice here)

That lizard - it walks like I imaged the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers to walk.

Svlad Cjelli could have saved himself a lot of bother, but wouldn't have stopped mankind from never having got started.

Cori: - Yeah, I wondered that.

DOJ:- Would we all?

Conspicuous consumption is never pretty.

When I first gave blood, many years ago, the mobile clinic had a Snoopy poster on the window. Snoopy, wearing a red-lined cape, arms outspread, with the caption "Dracula LIVES".

Shame some killjoy would probably stop them doing it now.

Not wearing a hi-vis vest while working up a ladder in a public place really would attract attention. Wearing one is probably the only smart thing the silly arse did.