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Archive for December, 2006

Devil/Angel Baby

There was this movie when I was growing up about a high school girl who was a Straight A student during the day and a hooker at night.
Jack is the baby equivalent of that girl except that he’s not really out on the corner hookin’.
During the day he smiles (he smiles!), gurgles and blissfully [...]

OMG

Me: Can we make it go away?
Arch: No. No, Sarah. We have to see it through.
Me: But Miami Vice is just awful. I mean really awful. It makes Hidalgo look like a masterpiece.
Arch: Yes. Yes it does.
And that folks, is a Saturday night with Jack.

One of the many MANY pieces of equipment that Jack has is this mat with stuff hanging off of it. I guess the idea is that he bats at it and gets smarter. I’m not sure. When I bat at shiny stuff in stores, I’m often escorted out by security, but somehow it’s perfectly fine [...]

So it turns out

that Jack can sleep. In fact, he sleeps like a champ…on me.
After weeks of sitting on the couch with Jack lying on top of me, feeling my brain rot as I became obsessed with Little People Big World; I decided a change was necessary.
Mabel’s Momma swears by these slings; I purchased a fabulous green [...]

Adventures in Film

Ok, ‘member how I was saying about those film cameras? Well, turns out you can actually take some pretty neat photos with them.
I borrowed a Holga from my co-worker Paul B., and started snapping away. One of the “features” of a $30 medium-format camera is that you have to remember to wind it yourself. Like, [...]