stuff of varying weight

1) So -- I'm writing a poem / vocal reading thingie about the twenty-first anniversary of my mother's death (for a Disability Blog Carnival event on October 23), and I realized, this evening that this is the first attempt I've made to write directly about that subject in all those years... That may explain why it's hard for me to get handles on feelings and the images to go with them.

2) So -- my TV Antenna died early this year, which means I've been watching all my TV on the computer instead. This means that I'm basically limiting myself to CBS, ABC, and PBS -- 'Cause NBC's and Fox's video players are horrid, and try even my considerable patience. Anyhow:

( Great Whopping Spoiler for the NCIS: Season Premier )

3) A spider has started to build a web between the uprights of that broken antenna. It's adorkable...

4) This video made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt -- the good kind of hurt "Emmet Otter's Jug-band Christmas" Outtakes (Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson ad-libbing to save their sanity).

5) I don't like lists that stop at four, but none of the ideas waiting to be uttered want to be on this list. So I will ask a riddle that has no answer:

"How does a dragon eat an ice cream cone?"