The Gods Are Bored

I have been blessed that both of my daughters have stayed in the Delaware Valley, where they were born and where Mr. J and I live. Therefore...

It's a real honor to have a production in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. This festival has been around for a long time. It runs throu...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another installation of "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, hardy volunteer at Netroots Natio...

Now there's  an innovative blog post title, don't you think??? I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that so many s...

... asking you to click the link and vote for my daughter The Spare's improv team. They want to get back into a competition they were el...

Everyone's a critic. And is anyone more critical than your own kids, when you get to be a certain age, and they  get to be a certain age...

In case you're just joining us for the first time, this little piece 'o' nothing web site is The Gods Are Bored, dedicated to th...

I've been entertaining my six readers with tales of my daughter, Fair Spare. This is an amazing week for her. On Friday evening she will...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where this month we are featuring vignettes about my daughter The Spare! She's rare, fair, an...

I can be really cold-hearted at times, especially with animals. Perhaps that's due to my farm upbringing. But the upside to that is that...

My three readers have been with me a long time. I started this blog in 2005. At that time, my daughter The Spare was 11 years old. You...

I am pleased to announce that my daughter, The Spare, will be co-hosting a YouTube show called "Late Night Study Break." The show ...

Every summer, the Polyphonic Spree visits Philadelphia. This is a Texas-based band with the usual assembly of rock instruments, plus hor...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Fa la la la la ... la la la LOL. It's the most wonderful time of the year ... for morons. T...

The days are getting shorter, there is a hipster wearing every item of clothing in his closet, drinking a pumpkin spiced something ...

It was a muggy morning. I had just finished getting a hair cut when I got a phone call from my daughter The Spare. (For those of you just ...

For 23 years I sat on the sofa on New Year's Day, watching the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. It's a fabulous parade. It lasts all day...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Story time! My story, that is. Annestory. Sometimes it just happens that I have to open my shirt ...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Do you have any idea how many bored deities there are out there in their respective Heavens? Me n...

Wow, what a world of woe we are experiencing here in the East in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy! If you love big, old trees (which I do), ...