Not a lot to say here, but if you haven’t yet gone over to nataliedee.com, then you should. Are her creations amazing? Do both of these guys shit in the woods?

One of my nieces was wondering if her house would ever be clean again, this after the birth of her first child. Apparently, moms can put that bundle of joy to work much earlier than they ever thought, and maybe get a handle on some of the mess they’re finding everywhere.

Baby Mops. How funny is that?

“How about their overall creepiness?”
HT To Matt

I really appreciate great animation, and here Dreamworks delivered an excellent effort. The characters moved fluidly, the environments and lighting were expansive, and the level of detail was extremely high. We expect to see fur and hair rendered in CG films, but in this one, we even see the texture on Master Shifu’s nose.

Aside from the art and animation, however, the script was perfect for Jack Black. He got to go pretty wild with his vocal stylings, and he was still able to bring a good deal of humanity to his character. OK, he was a panda, but a very believable human panda that wants to learn kung fu.

Here are some of my favorite lines that I found on IMDB:

Po: Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend.

Po: It is said that his enemies would go blind from over-exposure to pure awesomeness!

Mr. Ping: We are noodle folk. Broth runs through our veins.

Po: The Furious Five! You look a lot bigger than your action figures! Except you, Mantis. You’re about the same.

Po: The Sword of Heroes! Said to be so sharp you can get cut just by looking at – Ow!

Po: [looking around at the historical artifacts in the palace] Wow! I’ve only seen paintings of that painting!

Oogway: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Po: I just ate, so I’m still digesting, so my kung fu may not be as good as later on.

Tigress: It is said that the Dragon Warrior can go for months without eating, surviving on the dew of a single ginko leaf and the energy of the universe.
Po: Then I guess my body doesn’t know I’m the Dragon Warrior yet. It’s gonna take a lot more than dew, and, uh, universe juice.

Tai Lung: You… you’re just a big… fat… panda!
Po: I’m not a big fat panda. I’m the big fat panda.

Tai Lung: The Wuxi finger hold!
Po: Oh, you know this hold?
Tai Lung: You’re bluffing. You’re bluffing! Shifu didn’t teach you that.
Po: Nope. I figured it out. Skadoosh!

The regulator ruled that an episode of The Montel Williams Show on ITV2 on 11 February breached rules on offensive material and potentially harming viewers by suggesting psychics could give life-changing advice.

I would suspect that Sylvia’s bad advice was both life-changing for the Hornbeck family, as well as harmful. Imagine if some quack told you that your son had been murdered. If you were to believe that “prediction” and then your son were to be found, what would you do to minimize your cognitive dissonance? Would you deny the living, breathing fact that you child was still alive, or would you perhaps question the validity of your favorite psychic’s claims that he or she had super powers?

In Britain, apparently, you can’t go around and make silly claims like that. At least, not without having a regulator call you on it. See, we could learn something from our British cousins!

My favorite quote: “Michael: Sorry Andy, can’t take any chances on curses, not tonight.”

You’re surrounded by Ghost Whisperers, Allison DuBuois, and freaky kids seeing dead people, so it’s only (super)natural to ask yourself, “Hey, could I be psychic?”

Take our little test and find out if you have a hidden psychic ability. Have any of these things ever happened to you?

1. You’ve lost your keys more than once, and every time you find them in the last place you look.
2. You have ever asked yourself, “Who could that be?”, or bother to look at Caller ID when the phone rings.
3. You suspect people are talking about you behind you back, but you don’t know who, nor what they’re saying.
4. You advertise your “Amazing Psychic Reading” business rather than calling your future customers before they call you.
5. You hear ghostly voices that command you to do horrible things to your coworkers with a teaspoon full of sugar and a crowbar, but an aluminum foil hat makes the voices shut the hell up.
6. You had a dream about the sun coming up and then it happened almost exactly as you dreamed it would.
7. You had a shiver run down your spine when you picked up the phone right before it rang. As it turns out, you pick up the phone a lot, and there’s often just a dial tone waiting on the other side.
8. You have ever been surprised by the ending of an episode of Law and Order. (For the more geriatric readers – if Murder She Wrote ever stumped you.)
9. You flipped a coin over and over and once got heads five times in a row.
10. You ever got less than 100% on a multiple choice test.
11. You think that if Sylvia Browne can do it, you can too, all the while forgetting that Sylvia is a fake.
12. You started out writing a “Top 10 List” and wound up with 12 items instead.

If you answer yes to any of the above, sorry, you’re a clod like the rest of us. You have no psychic ability at all. If you’re in this camp, you can proudly use this in your blog to display your normalcy.

If you answered yes to all of them, you’re just like Sylvia Browne: You still have no psychic ability, but are instead quite the freaky freaky weirdo. Here’s your badge:

HT to Angry Alex