We've made a recent dangerous discovery:  7-11 has a new snack treat:  mini pies that are evil-free (no trans fat).  The first  thing I thought of  was the old SNL skit with Kyle MacLachlan and Mike Myers  -- Twin Peaks dream skit.  Mike plays the short backwards-talking dancer, who asks the above when Agent Cooper suggests a quest to the diner.  I've just googled the phrase, and got 4 hits.  The first 3 are transcripts from the SNL skit, and the fourth is a reference to same... but the great part about hit 4 is that it's from "Whedonists" -- which I can only assume is a Joss Whedon-centric forum.

We're anxiously anticipating the new Dollhouse series, which is being delayed indefinitely by the WGA strike; Joss doesn't want to cross the picket line, so to speak.

Anyway, whenever we're feeling like being bad, we either drop into a Mike Myers short-guy crouch, or ask The Question in faux-backwards speech.

Theo has been good this week, so we decided to rent him a video last night from Lackluster.
I think it was Tigger & Pooh Christmas Sleuths or something like that.  Anyway, we get bundled into the car and get ready to head foodward, when he says "you've discovered the secret that reveals my cheer!"  I love it -- it's like he speaks Engrish as a second language or something.

We recently bought a letter game called Bananagrams, and while the main game isn't too bad, we came up with a separate use for the
144 letter tiles.  We added 1 six-sided die, and the gameplay is simple:  roll the die, add 2, and take that number of letter tiles.  Put the letters in any order, and create a sentence from words that have those letters as their initials.  YGTI (you get the idea).

For our inaugural run, we came up with:

The enigmatic old elephant trampled, while nine bears ran, and eleven yellow apes jumped into the ocean. 

Well, we've been trying for about 8 months, but it finally took, and my wife is pregnant again!  Woohoo!

We're hoping it's Violet, but if it's a boy that's OK too -- but we'll have some naming work to do in that case, because we
hadn't settled on a definite second boy's name from our previous discussions.

So, um, we're like on the epicenter or something.  5.7 last night and 3.7 today afternoon.  And we turned our son into a robot.

Happy Halloween!