Mater’s Tall Tales Short Films Online

The 3 year-old kiddo is becoming quite proficient with using the computer.   He can already use the touchpad on my laptop better than I can, and learned to use a mouse when he was about 2 1/2. 

What I hate to say is that we largely have YouTube and other children’s online video sites to thank for this.   There have been several days now where I’ve set up my laptop at the kitchen table while cooking dinner and allowed him to visit the Disney Cars Toons channel on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/disneycarstoons

There’s also one of the latest shorts, called “Tokyo Mater” that hasn’t made it onto that page, but is well worth checking out at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pdeWiFlG9o

If you, or your child, enjoy the movie “Cars” as much as we do, check out the links above.   And maybe you can even use it as an incentive to teach your kids how to point and click!

Until next time,

Lorelei

Spoilers Suck

Why, oh why, did I read the spoilers for the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy before watching it?!?!?!  At least I still have Lost to watch.   🙂

Help Out a Cleveland Comic Artist in National Contest

Thought you might want to help a Clevelander out or pass on this info to others . . .

Mike San Giacomo is a finalist in a national contest sponsored by DC Comics called ZUDA. He’s one of 10 competing for a great prize of a one-year contract to produce a weekly comic CALLED SCREAMING EAGLES for the DC/ZUDA website. He was in first place, but has been in second place for a week entering the final days of the contest. Only the top vote getter wins the contract. It ends Nov. 26, so please vote ASAP.

Instructions are below. You can vote once for every e-mail address you have. It’s also important when you vote and give it five stars and mark it as your favorite.

Here’s how to vote, it’s quick, painless and free :
1) Please go to www.zuda.com
2) Click on the “sign up” button (top right) and register (takes a sec) . They’ll send a password to your email address.
3) Then, copy the password and click on the link to go back to ZUDA.
4) Sign in and vote for SCREAMING EAGLES by clicking on the words SCREAMING EAGLES. When the new page opens, look to the right of the big picture and fill in the stars (five, please) and click the “add to favorites” button.  Then click the vote button.

The Dark Knight and X-Files

I can’t remember the last time that hubby and I have gone out to see a movie together.  For us, there haven’t been that many movies that we’d both want to see enough to make finding a babysitter worthwhile.   But now, in the next two weeks, it may finally happen.

First, how could I not go to see a movie that has Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine in the lineup?     Just watching the preview for the new Batman movie The Dark Knight gives me chills.   So, this weekend may be our first movie date night in quite some time.

And then, the following weekend, after six years of X-Files withdrawal, The X-Files: I Want to Believe comes out in theaters.    Considering I’ve been waiting for this one to come out since January, I may very well have to go see this one during naptime.

MMM…good fun movies.   I can’t wait.

Until next time,

Lorelei