Category Archives: Cute Shenanigans

Cute Happens.

Hooded Kitteh is Suspicious Kitteh

Posted on March 23, 2012 by ABL | 8 Comments

#OneMillionKittehHoodies

You’re welcome.

(h/t Denise Martin)

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Tagged kitteh, MILLION HOODIES

A break in the madness: Singing lobster gives excellent advice.

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Emily L. Hauser | 2 Comments

On Friday, I posted a clip of Billy Bragg singing to a dancing Canadian lobster. (Nova Scotian, to be more precise). I allowed as how I would like to know more about this dancing lobster fella and Canadian kids’ TV in general, and an obliging commenter helped me out – check out her knowledge and prodigious Google-fu here. Bottom line for our purposes? Dude’s name is “Captain Claw.”

You might well imagine that armed with this information, I proceeded to the YouTube. Whereupon I found the following piece of sheer delight: Captain Claw singing the undeniably catchy “When You’ve Got to Go” song.

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Posted in A Wee Bit O' Hilarity, Cute Shenanigans, International Shenanigans, Now Hear This!

Tagged Canada, Captain Claw, Kids' CBC, When You've Got to Go

A better start to the week: OK Go & Sesame Street.

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Emily L. Hauser | Leave a comment

I have begun my workday/week by reading about: the slaughter, underway even as I type, in Syria; the ongoing Israeli theft of Palestinian land, underway even as I type, in East Jerusalem; and rape.

I can’t bear it. I have actual paying work to do, which actually deals with Israel/Palestine and Jerusalem, and I’m not dealing with it because I’m too busy going from heartbroken to incensed and back again.

So, here: OK Go teamed up with veteran PBS stop-motion animator Al Jarnow to make a very delightful little clip about the primary colors for Sesame Street. It is, in a word, outstanding, and I can only hope that it will brighten your Monday as it did mine:

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Posted in Cute Shenanigans, Emily L. Hauser

Tagged COLOR GAME, OK GO, PRIMARY COLORS, Sesame Street

Black History Month Eve – 21 years ago, one Mr. Barack Obama had something to say.

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Emily L. Hauser | 8 Comments

He’s so – him! Plus: Now I know who Charles Hamilton Houston was*. Win!

* Dear ABL: I know you’re a lawyer so you knew and are all HORRIFIED that I didn’t, but dude, I’M NOT A LAWYER. And I was in a foreign land for many years. And I was dead at the time. Point is: Get off my case, man!

Crossposted at Emily L. Hauser In My Head.

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Posted in Cute Shenanigans, Emily L. Hauser, Obama 2012: Yes We Will!

Tagged Barack Obama, BLACK HISTORY MINUTES, Black History Month, Harvard Law Review

Ducks Swimming in A Circle

Posted on January 25, 2012 by ABL | 7 Comments

You know what you need? To watch some ducks swimming in a circle, that’s what.

My parents made this video. My mom shot it and my dad spliced it together and added music. They’re very excited about it. It’s cute. (Both the ducks and my parents.)

You’re welcome.

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Posted in Cute Shenanigans, Personal Tales

Tagged animals, cute, ducks swimming in a circle, my parents

2.5 yr old black scientist would like your attention, America.

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Emily L. Hauser | 8 Comments

Why? Because I have the keys to the blog and I can do this sort of thing whenever I like.

Also: Awwwwwwwww! And he shares with Daddy! Come for the Science, stay for the kisses at the end!

Plus: You know you didn’t actually know this, so thank God this young man came along to teach us all.

(I tell you what though, little man is going to be very confused when he discovers the actual size of the stuff that he’s talking about).

h/t Colorlines

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Posted in Cute Shenanigans, Emily L. Hauser, I Heart Ye

Tagged Neil deGrasse Tyson, toddler scientist

Jean-Luc Picard on the dangers of limiting our liberties.

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Emily L. Hauser | 3 Comments

Hand to God, there’s a Star Trek moment for every reason and every season:

You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy: “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie* as wisdom and warning. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged. – The Drumhead

*a character in the Next Gen universe

h/t Fashion It So (the OMG SO AWESOME tumblr dedicated to the OMG WHAT WERE THEY THINKING fashion of Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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Posted in Cute Shenanigans, Emily L. Hauser, I Heart Ye, Political Shenanigans

Tagged FASHION IT SO, Jean Luc Picard, NEXT GENERATION, Patrick Stewart, PIPA, SOPA, Star Trek