Big Brother 8: Dustin gives Nick a mohawk

Wow, this is just brutal and wrong.

Happy KaTemas: “Wuthering Heights”

Goddess Kate Bush is 49 today. Let’s look back to her stunning 1978 debut, “Wuthering Heights.”

Like an angel come down from heaven to enchant us. No one had ever done it like this before.

Jigsaw - “Sky High”

What a totally excellent song. I love the brass near the end.

Although their clothes are absolutely revolting/delicious.

And what are they doing at an airport? Is there some jet-set international intrigue going on in the background that I’m totally missing? Were they originally supposed to do a montage?

A memory.

When I was a little boy, sometimes on Saturday mornings I’d be watching cartoons in the family room, and I’d smell something wonderful wafting from the kitchen. (We had a split level house, so the kitchen overlooked the family room.) My sister would make muffins—plain muffins from a recipe card from my mother’s old recipe card collection—but with strawberry jam in the middle, as a little surprise.

It was always so wonderful.