Yes, and "baby fish mouth" is sweeping the nation

The other day my grandmother had the whole family over for dinner—in my honor somewhat, but also to introduce us to her boyfriend Jim. I must say, I approve. What a neat guy—polite and thoughtful and intelligent. She is one lucky grandma. Anyway, we decided to play Cranium, a board game designed to showcase the difference forms of intelligence through varying tasks: word puzzles, charades and impersonations, drawing pictures (sometimes with your eyes closed), sculpting, and answering garden-variety trivia questions. Well, my mom was kicking butt there for a while. Seriously, the gal was on fire. She only had to look at a scrambled clue like KNEE CRUTCH ART for about a second and a half before coming up with “The Nutcracker.” Impressive stuff. And then it was my turn, and I had to draw with my eyes closed. OK, I thought, checking out the clue, I can handle this. It was “black hole.” So I made my game plan—start with some stars, so they know we are dealing with extraterrestrial space here, and then go on from there. My team was with me that far, yelling out things like, “stars!” “planets!” “outer space!” So I moved on to part 2, The Drawing of the Black Hole. I made a circle (or my best closed-eyes approximation of one), and proceeded to shade it in as if possessed. And my genius mother looks at it and says in her best perplexed voice, “But why does it look so black?”

I guess you had to be there.