
The Super Why? app is $1.99 well spent. Not only does it separate me from the iPhone for a few minutes (see honey, I can put it down), but it allows Papa Wook to take in last week’s episode of Mad Men with lighter lids. We’re all winners, but champions will be crowned once the following consumerist pursuits have been bagged.

It goes by so fast. One moment, you’re deciding whether to settle on happies around the corner or crossing town for dinner, a decision hinging strictly on whether the dog’s bladder can hold out. The next, a satisfactory evening is met after watching the oldest perform sock puppet theater to the point of exhaustion. Although for the record, the socks went to bed on the feet.
Because I felt it such a wasted opportunity for Ben Quayle to not backdrop his patriotism with the required dose of Brad Fiedel’s thunder.
The trailer for The Expendables fills me with the same giddy expectation that teased my inner ’80s action hero a few years back when the Rambo reboot reared its mulletesque head – meaning I’ll relish the film best as a 3-minute short and never take the time to watch it in its entirety.