Because you all are dying to know about my weekend, I'm sure...

It was actually quite nice. My friend hosted a bbq for our remaining high school friends, one of whom was visiting from Ohio. I don't see all these people nearly enough, but we have a great time on the occasions when we can get together. The years just roll back. And we all have kids around the same age, and we don't get totally stuck in the 'remember when' phase, and can actually build on the friendships we still have.

Like a dork, I forgot to get out my camera when my friend from Ohio was still with us (she had to leave early)but I did get a nice photo of the rest of us.

( the coolest girls from the class of '85 )

And yesterday was the Phillies make up game - we were supposed to see them in April but it was rained out. Last night was actually quite nice, good breeze, and the stadium is really nice. Charlie had the best time. He was such a super fan. He was cheering and yelling at the calls he didn't agree with and chanting names. Amazingly, the Phillies won, and even more amazingly they got something like 4 home runs.

Apparently Chase Utley is the newest baseball hero. He's quite handsome, which accounts for the hundreds of fangirl lookig people wearing his number.

Charlie was torn between him and Pat Burrell*, but ultimately went with Utley, whose number he wound up wearing out of the stadium because I broke down and bought him a $20 tee shirt.

And it is going to be a bazillion degrees today, and I don't have air conditioning in my home office, so that's gonna suck.

Hope everyone's day goes well.


*who made the first home run of the evening

Because you all are dying to know about my weekend, I'm sure...

It was actually quite nice. My friend hosted a bbq for our remaining high school friends, one of whom was visiting from Ohio. I don't see all these people nearly enough, but we have a great time on the occasions when we can get together. The years just roll back. And we all have kids around the same age, and we don't get totally stuck in the 'remember when' phase, and can actually build on the friendships we still have.

Like a dork, I forgot to get out my camera when my friend from Ohio was still with us (she had to leave early)but I did get a nice photo of the rest of us.

( the coolest girls from the class of '85 )

And yesterday was the Phillies make up game - we were supposed to see them in April but it was rained out. Last night was actually quite nice, good breeze, and the stadium is really nice. Charlie had the best time. He was such a super fan. He was cheering and yelling at the calls he didn't agree with and chanting names. Amazingly, the Phillies won, and even more amazingly they got something like 4 home runs.

Apparently Chase Utley is the newest baseball hero. He's quite handsome, which accounts for the hundreds of fangirl lookig people wearing his number.

Charlie was torn between him and Pat Burrell*, but ultimately went with Utley, whose number he wound up wearing out of the stadium because I broke down and bought him a $20 tee shirt.

And it is going to be a bazillion degrees today, and I don't have air conditioning in my home office, so that's gonna suck.

Hope everyone's day goes well.


*who made the first home run of the evening

cry babies

Was just watching this video clip regarding this hooplah over artist Jill Greenberg's lastest exhibit.

Apparently, in order to get the shot she needed, she would take a lolly away from the toddler who would then go into tantrum mode. She snapped the picture and gave the candy back.

Apparently some people think Jill Greenberg is a Sick Woman Who Should Be Arrested and Charged With Child Abuse. He goes on to say although Although the children are not sexualized, I consider what she is doing child pornography of the worst kind. Buh? And he compares parents who let her do that to parents who let their kids stay with Michael Jackson. Which, I'm sorry, is just too stupid.

I appreciate the fact it seems a bit cruel to take candy from a baby, but they'll get over it. They're toddlers. If they didn't cry at the drop of a hat, or a lollypop, then her taking away the candy wouldn't matter, now would it?

Norman Rockwell stuck a pin in a baby once to get it crying for one of his pictures, and he's still pretty beloved.

I think the pictures are kind of nice, really. Wouldn't want them on my wall or anything, but they really are rather pretty, in their own, weird way. The whole outcry strikes me as part and parcel of the whole 'entitlement children' thing we see so often - parents who get upset when told to keep their child under control in a public place, for example.

Click here to see pictures then let me know what you think.

cry babies

Was just watching this video clip regarding this hooplah over artist Jill Greenberg's lastest exhibit.

Apparently, in order to get the shot she needed, she would take a lolly away from the toddler who would then go into tantrum mode. She snapped the picture and gave the candy back.

Apparently some people think Jill Greenberg is a Sick Woman Who Should Be Arrested and Charged With Child Abuse. He goes on to say although Although the children are not sexualized, I consider what she is doing child pornography of the worst kind. Buh? And he compares parents who let her do that to parents who let their kids stay with Michael Jackson. Which, I'm sorry, is just too stupid.

I appreciate the fact it seems a bit cruel to take candy from a baby, but they'll get over it. They're toddlers. If they didn't cry at the drop of a hat, or a lollypop, then her taking away the candy wouldn't matter, now would it?

Norman Rockwell stuck a pin in a baby once to get it crying for one of his pictures, and he's still pretty beloved.

I think the pictures are kind of nice, really. Wouldn't want them on my wall or anything, but they really are rather pretty, in their own, weird way. The whole outcry strikes me as part and parcel of the whole 'entitlement children' thing we see so often - parents who get upset when told to keep their child under control in a public place, for example.

Click here to see pictures then let me know what you think.