November 18 – 22
Fairy tales have origins and evolutions, says Cameron, and were told so they’d produce “shock effects so powerful that to this day we feel compelled to talk about them, reinvent them and pass them on.”
Helen goes to the zoo to see the tiger babies — “crashing and pouncing and falling off of things were featured activities yesterday” — and think about them going extinct.
Punctuation on butterflies: sometimes it keeps them from being eaten, sometimes not. In honor of the butterflies, Roberta uses an indoor land record number of punctuation marks.
Christie had nightmares about airplane crashes, saw two of them, didn’t see them. Take a deep breath before reading this one.
You don’t want to be around when Erik gets a massage for knotted muscles. This is some of the most inventive swearing you’ll ever hear.