Finally Got Around To Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Alternately boring and ridiculous.

Reassurance

There is some justice in the world.

Huh?!

That's not cool.

Whoa.

Finished A Thousand Acres. That's good stuff. Now onto the new Clemente biography.

That and watching every World Cup match I can.

Liked this One

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

–Anne Lamott

Huh?

But the success of The Jerk opened more doors for Martin. Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss him starring in an early, screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999's "Eyes Wide Shut").

--from a wikipedia article

For Some Reason

I can't reply to Rob Knapp's e-mails. Rob, if you're out there, I'm trying.

Finished It

longest 164-page book ever

What's With James Madison?

I'm bogged down in a 160 biography that I should have been done with days ago. It's awful. It's easy to blame the author, and I'd also wondered if the book's brevity isn't part of the problem -- maybe they had to cut out all the interesting stuff to get to what's important -- but the fact that Drew struggled through a longer bio of Madison by another author and seemed to hate it makes me wonder if the creepy little braniac wasn't just boring.

What was I thinking?

Today, while eating breakfast, I poured syrup on Dana's hands. It was funny. She asked for some syrup, and I told her to hold out her hands, and then I squirted a big bunch of it into her hands.

Is this the sort of thing that qualifies for being a dingus?

I'm not sure.

Dude

Check this out.

For Some Reason, And for the First Time in My Life...

...I'm completely stoked about the World Cup. No idea why.

I Guess I'm a Dad

I love to peek in and look at Gehrig while he sleeps. Nothing new there -- parents have been doing that forever and feeling, I'm certain, exactly what I feel. He's so long when he's stretched out asleep -- he's growing up. Can't really call him a baby anymore, (they're not babies long, are they?). Except that now I understand what my mom has meant for so long when she says, "You'll always be my baby." All along she's meant it much more literally that I had realized.

He's growing so gradually that I find myself musing about what it must be like (what it will be like -- I still have to remind myself that it's all really happening here) for a parent to look at an adult child and see the same person they've known all along. The same but different. The change is so gradual, so constant, so unrelenting.

And inevitably, because I'm such a sap, I start thinking about what a mess I'll be at his wedding. (This is why it's good that we're not having girls -- how much worse would I be?) Or graduation. And I mention to Ruthie, (who's aware that I'm a sap,) that the graduation song, "Pomp and Circumstance" I think it's called, always kind of gets me anyway. Don't know why, but it wouldn't be hard to figure out. So much so that we've got a door-chime on display at work that plays the song, (not the whole thing -- that'd be annoying) and which I avoid just because. Graduation will be hard.

And the Best Wife Ever says to me, "Look on the bright side baby, maybe he won't graduate."

And I love her.

Reading...

...Wicked. Only 120 or so pages in, but this is the real deal. Wow.

Aren't They All?

So on Mike & Mike this morning they're discussing the National Spelling Bee, which ended last night and, which, for the uninitiated, is comprised almost exclusively of words that nobody but Ted has ever even heard. And Golic says, "I'm convinced that lots of those words were made up."

As opposed to the ones that grew on trees?

Best Thing About June...

...is that it means we're that much closer to October.