Havyn's happy as a lark
punky Havyn
Our first family portrait When I'm cruising around Blogger checking out the various blogs I see many a baby-page-blog. Proud parents uploading baby pics by the folder load, and commenting on the ins and outs of their baby's lives. A lot of this stuff is easy, cheesy and quick: a pic and a caption, a pic and a caption and an occasional comment on how exhausted the parent is.
Most of this stuff is universal: baby ate, she was so cute; baby slept and oh how cute she was; baby pooped, and if there wasn't the darndest poop-relief cute expression on her face.
Most of these blogs I came across were set up just for this purpose. And what a purpose indeed. Comedian David Cross has this schtick on one of his CD's where he comments about what it's like to be the non-parent friend to these overly exited parent types. To paraphrase, "Oh my baby was so cute, he ate a grape today, you should have seen him eat this grape." Cross fires four letter worded sarcastic quips, indicating how great it must be to watch your kid eat a grape. He pounds across how little he cares about his friend's kids and their grape eating moments and goes on and on about various related experiences and how he could care less. I laughed my ass off while listening. He definetly had a point. But when you're a parent, no matter how cynical and hip, it's different. Watching this little spasm-frenzied milk spitter smile, laugh and feel the water of a bath for the first time is enchanting. Especially since the proudful humming of the inward thought that "this little bobble-head is mine" replays like a broken record. Every move, either controlled or not is realized as a first, and there's something poetically rich about it.
3 comments:
Jack,
Congrats on the kid...quite some confessions there !!! You write really well...I enjoyed your blog this morning more than the Newyork times.
I have reformed too Jack. Cut down on the sticky icky and have gotten myself into long distance running...feels good man.
love and junk,
Shumit
Btw, Did you get a chance to watch Syriana ?? I thought the movie was just way too good. Clooney has done it again. Also ended up liking this old movie called Blow ....
what up shumit, long time no talky.
i hear your back home, sucks for me, i miss seeing you around on campus and miss shooting the shit.
I saw Leon a while back, he looked good, too good, I could hardly tell it was him. Here is this radical revolutionist wearing an Army shirt and sporting a crew cut, too wierd for me. We grabed some grub and chewed the fat (sounds tastey I know. Let me know what's new. If you come back, don't forget to call.
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