Les Bonnes Choses

Moms and dads, when you have your television hooked up to a media center computer hooked up to the series of tubes that make up the interwebs, you're liberated from the insipid drudgery that often makes up children's programming, but also more able to inadvertently expose your kids to programming that may shape your impressionable kids in ways you may have not foreseen.

For example, Katy Perry's California Gurls video: bad idea. It might seem innocuous, especially given the Candyland theme, but that's more than offset by the fact that Ms. Perry looks the way she does in that video. It's also arguable that 4 years of age is too young for a Glee obsession. In fact, my oldest son is generally enthralled by any music video related production. He had a fit the other day, likely attributable to being overtired, but precipitated by his inability to actually live in a particular music video (it was hard not to laugh in response to his concern).



There's also a particular clip from a program called Man vs. Food that Jude repeatedly requests involving a suicide wing challenge. This gave me the idea to make chicken wings for dinner sometime in the next week or so. Coincidentally, I stumbled upon a link this morning to making chicken wings in the oven that turn out just like deep fried wings. I may try it out, though that means I won't be able to make wings before Monday at the earliest.