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Oh the awkwardness in my life. Tonight I will attend the “Conversation Among Parents: Talking about Sexuality with our Children with Developmental Disabilities” workshop. Not exactly jumping for joy over it. In less disconcerting oddness…my ex-husband is a sweet but strange beast. He just bought my son a case of whoopee cushions. A DOZEN OF ‘EM. The man always has enjoyed buying in bulk. But now I’ll really have to look before I sit anywhere in my house! Other good oddness:

• How I didn’t hear of this sooner I’ll never know, but this genius-ness has been around since 2009: “IKEA Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California IKEA Store without the store knowing.”
• I am so behind in my teevee-watching (and I am a-ok with that since real life has been pretty grand as of late) but I am curious about “Neil Gaiman playing god with Doctor Who.”
  

  “I don’t know what it’s like to be God – obviously. Until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS. Suddenly I got a very good idea of what it must feel like. I went: ‘I’m writing it now this scene in the TARDIS. I’m writing it!’ And that was amazing, it was wonderful.”

• This sounds like a bad comic book premise but it happened nearby on Monday: Rescuers battle bees at deadly I-35 pileup. Speaking of comic books…The Loft is hosting a Graphic Novel & Comic Book Writing and Illustrating Conference (via readcomics.org) next month on Saturday, June 19. Free registration through the library.
• Old school nerdery. G.P.S. - circa 1600: “With today’s Global Positioning Systems, Google Earth and Yahoo! Maps, it’s hard to imagine living in a world in which your exact location was a mystery. But a very rare map now on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts provides a picture of a time of great exploration and discovery.”
• Igor Vovkovinskiy of Minnesota (originally from Ukraine) has been declared the tallest man in America. He is, indeed, a big’un.
• Miniature Murders Come to Life on the Big Screen: more about the hand-crafted crime-scene dioramas known as the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” - used to teach police detectives and investigators about solving murders with forensic science.
• ROBOTlove hosts a swap meet this Sunday, before the store moves from Uptown to NE Minneapolis (because NE is the new Uptown). And, already in the NE area, Burlesque is having a “garage” sale in their space on Friday.

As I’d mentioned before, I’ve really been enjoying my son’s Sculpey clay creations. If only he understood their fragility. He’s been leaving them all over the house, directly on top of other daily use objects. Like my hairbrush. Or a stack of my bedside books. Like the rest of his art he distributes it all throughout the house where it then falls apart. I try to salvage my favorite pieces but I can’t save it all. Entropy wins. In the end much of his art feels so temporary. Guess I should be laminating more of it. Or tattooing it on my person.