Bibs

OK, we outgrow many things, bibs being one of them.......except when we eat lobster! What's up with that ritual? When else, when dining out, are we asked to don an item? OK, maybe if you are a man and you show up at some fancy restaurant or country club and they have some stockpile of ties and jackets for poor slobs like you who didn't know about the dining room's dress code......but bibs? Brings to mind the 1920's and spat and top hatted swells would need some sort of protection from their oysters Rockefeller so they wouldn't slop on their finery. They probably had some fine cotton number tied around their neck by the help. But disposable bibs? In this day and age? Granted, it is a messy (yet fun!) affair, cracking and sucking and dipping in drippy melted butter, yum! But what are we protecting? Our message sweatshirts? Do people in Maine wear them? They eat lot's of lobster there.
And do we even care that we look like overgrown kids?

Let's Watch a Movie

I know, I know, I was just raging (yes, Moms are allowed to rage) about spending too much time indoors, but sometimes we need to watch movies. With the family. Rent a DVD that the whole gang can enjoy together, or go for the full screen experience as a group. Not only is this fun but it expands the range of common topics for discussion. Hollywood is hip to this, witness the increase of films designed to entertain on many levels.
Apart from the highly recommended things that are buzzed about, (I am looking at you, WALL-E)) many movies open and close at the multiplex, faster than you can say "where did I put my cellphone." They end up on video rental shelves, along with the other hundreds of multi- million dollar follies, often unknown but to a savvy few. I offer a random selection.
Feel free to comment with any additions.

Stardust
I don't even remember this gem hitting the theaters last year. A weepy, whimsical mix of The Princess Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, and other witchy fun things. Go rent it. PG rating.
The Fall
This R-rated recent release was filmed in dozens of countries, the sets and costumes are outrageous and surreal. Nine-year-old, Romanian-born actress Catinca Untar steals the show, look for her on Oscar night.

Go Outside And Play!

We are spending an awful lot of time in front of screens these days.

"Family Entertainment" Game Sales Grow By 110%
Computer and video game software sales reached $9.5 billion in 2007, 28% over the previous year, and set a new record according to
final data compiled by the NPD Group and announced today by the
Entertainment Software Association (ESA).

Maybe too much, ya think?
Just saying.

Then there is the UTNR Reader article that asks, "Is The Internets Rotting Our Brain?".
Let's all just get out and breathe a little fresh air, while we still can. OK?

Always Selling Something II

What do you suppose they are selling here? Ample truck space? A sturdy friendly moving crew? Their clever sense of perspective?

Always Selling Something

So New Yawk, selling stuff. Dig these "Greek Warriors" on Segways on Columbus Circle. It seems that we should know about a new yogurt, so some marketing people come up with the chariots/costumes idea. The warriors were actually handing out cups of yogurt samples and spoons, but the heat and confusion seemed to turn people off. I mean, New York is an "eat while you walk" kind of town but the yogurt seemed to have few takers, mostly gawkers. Those helmets and chest pieces were constructed of plastic. Like the kind you get dixie cups in.

That's Funny!

It's fun zipping around the East Coast, refreshingly jangling, disfunctional, silly, weird, overwhelming, underserving....an unrelenting assault on the senses. The heat brings out the essenses of trash piles, rotting food trash stings the olfactory system. Especially in the hyper-hip Meat Packing District (did the gays come up with that?) of Manhattan. Sitting crook to hook are the chic design doers and the slab o'meat systems. Already trampled by the lookeyloos, yet still no signs of abatement on the construction horizon. Shitty/chic sharing stares. Sleek black fleets idle outside galleries, shops, on streets still cobbled, threatening to hobble the brave colts in vertiginous designer shoes.

Summer Fun

My boy, Nico and his friend, Mikey caught a fish today. A big fish. After days of no luck, Nico spotted and speared a 58-pound striped bass off of Montauk, NY.
He looks happy.