"EVAN O'DEARNY, MY PERSONAL FAVORITE IS UP, HE'S AN ADORABLE PINT-SIZE SPELLING GENIUS AND I KNOW IN MY HEART THAT ONE DAY HE'LL CREATE SOME KIND OF AMAZING BOX-TYPE OBJECT THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD SOMEHOW": The by-line to our Bee coverage was "The Writers," -- was this Shonda? -- but we collectively loved Evan O'Dearny.  Well, he didn't build a "box-type object" but he's sure done okay for himself.  The SF Chronicle follows up with him seventeen years after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

TALK ABOUT THE PASSION: In an overload of 1990s nostaglia, earlier this month Frances Bean Cobain married Riley Hawk, son of skateboarding legends Tony Hawk, in a ceremony officiated by Michael Stipe.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness?

Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC, WHITE BOY:  One of my favorite discoveries during COVID was funk ensemble Scary Pockets.  If you didn't know you needed a funk cover of Radiohead's Creep, Hanson's Mmmm Bop, or Guns n' Roses Sweet Child o' Mine,  I am here to disabuse you of that ignorance. 

YOU SHAKE MY NERVES AND YOU RATTLE MY PREMORSE:  Okay, there is no way Jerry Lee Lewis was alive yesterday to have died only now.

ALOTT5MA ALUMNI UPDATE:  Yeah, Maddy!