Head-banging synchronized with synthesizer chords compliments of Europe.   $266,851 compliments of Tomato Nation, Asirda, HP, Jenn and Wiley, and $ and His Mysterians.
And like the little green Jedi once said…there is another.
A gentleman …

Perhaps you remember Mr. K, who asked donors to give his students the bird — for his hands-on geometric origami unit.   We funded his project on 2 October, so to tell you the truth, …

I just said a mouthful!
An odd and an end first: 1) my review of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is up on Monkey See — great read, as usz (Kinney, not …

Talented and generous readers Helena and Julia have offered us today’s mini-prize — blind the kids with science, and you could win one of six (6) holiday-card packs from The Spotted Sparrow!
How it works: donate …

Earlier in the week, my friend Michael Griesdorf passed away unexpectedly. I hadn’t seen Dorf in some time, but he’s one of those people I could meet up with after years had passed and get …

Reader Trip gets Ken Jennings to link to the contest — yay!
I am, I suspect, now equated with furries in Jennings’s mind — ew!
If it gets more donations in the door, who cares — whee! …

The tomato costume is taking a trip to Washington, DC this weekend for the DC AIDS Walk — but before it leaves, it’s hanging out at the Donors Choose offices in Manhattan.   It felt …

Concept stolen from the boundlessly talented Joe R; image stolen from The Good Wife; hair stolen, evidently, from Mr. Wayne Newton.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and known, without moving the curtain to look outside, that it had started snowing? Maybe you’d had a bad or strange dream, or your …

My spot on this morning’s The Takeaway.   Please share to as many social media outlets as you can — thanks.