Five for Friday: Google, Singents, Bridget vs. Max, scary aliens, QVC

Funny this week . . .

1.While playing Spades at night with my kids and Clo-Show, I was looking up something Internetishly on my phone. My daughter says, "What are you doing Dad? Play a card." Without looking up from his hand, Clo-Show mutters "He's googling how to count."

2. My shower idea that someone who is a single parent, but half of the time, is a Singent.

3. My youngest son's fascination with the part of Bridget and the Gray Wolves, in which the little girl commands her pack of wolves to find their trees and have a pee before bed ("they obediantly found their pee trees").

• N.B. Bridget and the Gray Wolves is an interesting feminine version of Where the Wild Things Are. She may be a little bit cooler than Max. At least less destructive and a better imaginary parent.

4. My oldest son's question at the costume store: "Is this alien too scary?" It was; but awesomely so.

5. My mom's comment, while donating a QVC faux animal-skin coat to Halloween costuming, "would you wear this?"