Month: March 2008

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...And Little E Makes 3

Let the scooting begin

Looks like I’m gonna have to start vacuuming on a regular basis – Evan managed his first bit of quasi-crawling this afternoon while I was giving him some “tummy time” on one of his playmats on the floor. I’ve got a little bit of time, though – it took an enormous amount of effort on his part to move a few inches. I picked him up and hugged him and tickled him until I got a giggle, and then put him back down for more high-octane crawling action, to which his response in baby-ese sounded like it must surely be “Hey! Slave boy! O ye of little hair upon thine head! Pick me up again and carry me around! Just how lazy are you!?” when translated into English. His second attempt, though valiant, almost resulted in an ass-over-teakettles somersault.

Sorry about the lack of recent updates. I’ve had way too much stuff going on lately, baby-oriented or not.… Read more

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Funny Stuff Television & Movies

And it’s on Thursday night too, that’s perfect.

I just woke up from a “TV dream” nap. I’m sure plenty of people have them – basically, you wind up in the middle of some fictional universe interacting with the characters there. Personally, as much as you think Mr. Episode Guide Guy would love being in the thick of things, I always find these distressing and disappointing on a certain level. I never wind up in a really good story (damn you, writers’ strike!), and when I wake up, honestly, I feel like someone else’s imagination has breached mine, and more importantly, some barrier has broken down in my mind, even temporarily, between fantasy and reality, and on some certain inner level I find that deeply offensive. (Man, do I sound like I’ve got a massive stick up my ass or what?) Fortunately, I rarely have these, so I don’t go around letting my subconscious offend me a whole lot. 😆 And the handful of times in a given year that I do have these dreams, I usually wind up making sarcastic comments about it in the dream, like there’s a part of me actively working to deny the reality of the obviously fictional situation. And here I bet you people thought I spend a lot of time in the TARDIS.

Fictional elements or no, I’m sure trained psychologists would have a field day with this one. Because strip out the mondo bizarro fictional instrusion that basically makes up the last 1/10 of the dream, and it’s a dream about feeding Evan a bottle. (My fertile imagination just reaches for the bloody stars, doesn’t it? 😆 ) But the really fun part is right at the end when Benjamin Linus pops around the corner of my room.

Obviously I didn’t stick around for freakin’ Eli Stone.… Read more

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...And Little E Makes 3 Critters Home Base

Delicious cheese and fine whines

The weather tonight is totally bizarre – we’re under a tornado watch now, with plenty of bad stuff headed this way, and we’re under a winter storm watch at the same time, because after the storms blast through and rip off everyone’s roof, the temperature’s going to drop like a rock and it’ll start snowing. If there’s ever a time I’m glad to not still be working in TV, this is it – this is kind of like the Perfect Storm for broadcast purposes: a 24-48 hour period where directors, weather talent, camera crew, etc. will be stuck at the station. I can think of much better ways to spend my Sunday night, thanks, like holding Evan’s hand until he falls asleep. It’s good to be daddy. And speaking of that… … Read more