Thanking Maurice Sendak

LEGO building with the Honea boys!

Win tickets to the Catalina Film Festival, featuring the honoring of Stan Lee and special screening of Marvel's The Avengers!

The day has long grown thin, and patches of once blue sky have been pricked with golden pins to let the last of the faraway light shine in. They glow in countless wishes and the teetering twinkle of far-off diamonds rubbed dull from the sound of children whispering what it ...

Hello, Grantland readers! Thanks for stopping by. You found me running a clip show. How embarrassing for all of us. For those of you that aren’t readers of Grantland, you should be, especially since they used my video of Darth Vader throwing out the first pitch at last Friday’s Dodger ...

Easter morning without kids is just another Sunday.

Get it? Avengers assemble. You assemble LEGO bricks. That’s pure gold, people. Pure gold. (No gold bricks are included.) I’ll be interviewing these guys (the cast of Disney/Marvel’s The Avengers, not the actual LEGO figures) in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned! Look here for a first look at the ...

You started the music. You lit the lights. Some of you even dressed up right (I’m not judging). And now you want Muppets. I get it. You came to the right place. I’m giving away two (2) copies of The Muppets, the hit movie from Disney, in a fancy combo ...

The boys are home sick today. One is legit. One is an opportunist. The sick one is actually feeling much better (UPDATED: Now the fever has turned into a bunch of snot and a hacking cough, which is awesome), but the school won’t allow him to return until he goes ...

His face is pale against the flush of his cheeks. The red is rosy and perfect, like it was painted on. His eyelashes are long and fluttering. His hair is full of fever sweat and tussle. He takes no notice of me in the doorway. He notices only the nothingness ...