Mmmmm...beer.

08-27-08 021, originally uploaded by gina64.

The office went out for one of our dinners last night to Old Heidelberg and this was my beer. I think it's the biggest single drink I have ever drunk. I needed two hands to lift it to my mouth.

Everyone loved their dinners and we all had a great time. Below are some shots of the food. It was all delicious.









After all that beer, and all that cabbage and sausage, I was so filled with air that I swear I was up a pants size when I got in my car to leave!

Just $346,123.00 more and they break even!

Box Office Mojo is reporting that the total box office so far, foreign (as of July 27) and domestic (as of Aug 25), for The X-Files: I Want to Believe is $29,653,877, just over $346,000.00 shy of the $30 million production cost.

The foreign box office totals are a month behind, and we still have DVD sales...could they actually make enough money for another movie?

I'd be willing to send in the $123.00, if they think that will help!

Some part of him must have known.

'100 Things' author dies at 47: "'This life is a short journey,' the book says. 'How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you pack those bags for the very last time?'"

Murder, He Wrote?

ABC Picks Up New Nathan Fillion Series "Castle", where he plays a mystery writer who advises the NYPD.

It sounds like a heaping portion of cheese, but it's got Nathan Fillion, and I'll watch anything he does.

As long as he doesn't wear a cravat, it should be fine.

A defining moment.

Michelle Obama was inspiring in her speech at the DNC last night: "Speaking to the convention crowd, Michelle talked not just of the candidate who could be president but of the guy she married. 'And in the end,' she said, 'after all that's happened these past 19 months, the Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago. He's the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital 10 years ago this summer, inching along at a snail's pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands, determined to give her everything he'd struggled so hard for himself, determined to give her what he never had: the affirming embrace of a father's love.'"

If you are interested but weren't able to see her speak last night, here's the speech:



The pundit response to the speech has been almost universally positive, as well it should be. She really did do a wonderful job, not only giving America a personal glimpse into herself, her husband and her family, but also revealing herself to be the type of woman that every young American girl, black or white, should aspire to be.

Please don't f--- with the Daisies!

Replanting 'Daisies': Will it bloom or wilt: "The show's unabashed quirkiness was, to worried ABC officials, off-putting. When Daisies went back into production in June, some recalibration was in order. "The first part of (this) season was really tough," Fuller says. "They were like, 'Let's ground the show a little more; it can't be a cartoon. We can't have the show be weird and not get an audience.' And we were like, 'We can't have the show be boring and not get the people back we had last year.' The challenge to me was to make sure the fundamental DNA of the show didn't change." "

It's not a cartoon and it's not weird! Leave it alone!

The article claims that the new episodes don't seem to be all that different: "And happily, an early peek at the new season reveals Daisies has not been neutered. The season premiere, titled "Bzzzzzzz," has Chuck going undercover at Betty's Bees, a maker of honey-infused beauty products (think Burt's), where a star "bee girl" company spokeswoman has been stung to death. Morbidly funny special effects are still part of the picture. Future episodes revolve around a circus and taxidermy."

I'll believe it when I see it. Just because an episode is set in a circus doesn't mean it's charming by default.

Harumph.

TV Talk: Are you ready for some new TV?

Summer's almost over and a new television season is almost upon us. Time flies when you're not glued to the TV set, I guess.

Most of my favorite shows aren't starting up again until the new year (LOST, Battelstar Galactica and 24, to name a few), but there are some fall premieres that I'm excited about. It seems like forever since I saw Heroes and Pushing Daisies, whose seasons were cut short by the writers' strike last year. I can't wait to see them again!

How about you? Take a minute and vote in the poll below. If I haven't listed a show you like (because I only listed shows I like), choose "Other" and tell me about it in the comments.

(You can pick more than one show, if you like)

poll by twiigs.com

I'll post another poll soon about the new shows coming out this fall!

I did not know that Victoria Jackson is an Evangelical.

Or that she is completely OFF HER NUT:

"I don't want a political label, but Obama bears traits that resemble the anti- Christ and I'm scared to death that un- educated people will ignorantly vote him into office. My mom likes him because his children are well dressed!

You see, what bothers me most, besides that he is a Communist, and a whitey- hater, (although he is half white), is that he is a LIAR. He pretends to be a Christian and he incriminates himself everytime he speaks about Christianity. To lie about being a believer in Christ is very dangerous. Lightning could strike him at any minute! But seriously, he doesn't have a clue what the Bible says and yet he pretends to be a church- going Christian to win votes. That is sooooo evil."

I am speechless.

(thank you, defamer)

I want to believe there'll be another movie.

There be MAJOR spoilers ahead!

I cannot believe it's taken me this long to post about the movie! I blame it on the drugs! (BTW, my back is still bothering me, although not as bad. Physical therapy is helping, but I wish it would heal faster, dammit)

I keep blaming the drugs, but seriously, I can't think well enough to do a proper review (and I was drugged when I saw the movie), so I'm just going to post some random thoughts. Please leave a comment if you saw the movie - I'd love to hear what you thought of it.

I was happy to see the take charge Scully back in action, especially after the way they were writing her at the end of the series. DD and GA did a wonderful job of showing just how much Mulder and Scully have changed over the years, as individuals as well as a couple. They are both so world-weary, you can see it in their eyes; but they’re also very confident of who they are to each other and, will wonders never cease - they actually talk to each other now!

I liked that the movie was more about them and that the x-file was secondary. I think that’s the way they had to go, after so much time had passed since we last saw them. I loved how they were able to tie Scully’s medical case to the x-file through her faith issues. That’s always been such a big theme in the show.

Billy Connolly was fantastic as Father Joe, especially in the scene where Scully goes to ask him what he meant when he told her, “Don’t give up”. Actually, I think that was one of the best scenes in the movie.

I don’t understand why the bad guys needed to have an organ transport company as a front. Can someone explain that to me? "Leoben" (Callum Keith Rennie) would pick up a cooler, bring it back to the office and then just leave it there? I’m confused. There's an urban legend about Russian scientists who severed a dog’s head and kept it alive (I think I read something in a Fark forum a while back), and I bet they based IWTB on that. I was pretty grossed out by the story, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I know there’s been discussion about the fact that the bad guys were a gay couple and that some people think Chris Carter was trying to say that gay men wish they had a woman's body...I don’t agree with that at all. I just think that they were written as gay because that was part of the connection between the bald guy and Father Joe; and they used a woman’s body because that was the only one that was available with that rare blood type.

There were some fun Easter eggs for longtime fans (geeks!) of the show (myself included): the contacts on Mulder's cell were names of behind the scenes people, Chris Carter was sitting in a hallway holding someone's ashes in an urn, and other fun stuff that to be honest, I sort of completely missed.

Overall, I thought the movie was very enjoyable. I think it succeeded as a film because it stayed true to the characterizations and themes of the show, which is quite a siginificant achievement, considering that it's been what, 5 years since it went off the air? The flip side of that, of course, is that it wasn't a movie for everyone and reviews were lukewarm at best and its domestic box office was relatively low. I hope that the movie does well enough in foreign box office for it to merit another installment (at least make back its $30 mil cost).

Besides, colonization is supposed to begin on December 22, 2012. They can't just leave us hanging like that!

And because this is a pretty lame review, I'll end it with a cool video made by someone else so you'll leave feeling like you just read something AWESOME:

** GAG **

Lawsuit says eatery to blame for 9-foot tapeworm: "In the lawsuit filed Monday, Anthony Franz said he ordered salmon salad for lunch from Shaw's Crab House in 2006 and fell violently ill. He later passed the giant parasite, which a pathologist determined came from undercooked fish, such as salmon."

Oh, I think I'm gonna faint.

Choose a side.

OMG, new Heroes trailer!

A few more vacation shots.

Nuclear Sunset, originally uploaded by gina64.

These should be self-explanatory. I just noticed that my horizon on the photo above is crooked. Damn!

We had cloud cover just about every day this year - no brilliant blue skies like the ones I've captured in the past - so all of my photos fall into the same grey/brown/black color spectrum. Ah well.

Oh no.

MTV Awards once again to include Britney: "There's a possibility she'll get a chance to redeem last year's bad performance at this year's VMAs, to be held September 7 in Los Angeles; MTV has confirmed they are in talks to have Spears appear in some capacity, and she's appearing in two video ads to promote the show."

They've got some short memories over there at MTV.



The VMAs are pretty much irrelevant, so I guess they need something to draw viewers; but I wonder how the performers on the show with actual talent feel about being overshadowed by someone who is better at making headlines than she is at making music?

For sale on eBay...

The Tart's Knickers: "Up for auction are: one empty Ansell condom packet (size SMALL), and a photo of the pair of The Tart's black lacey knickers (size HUMONGOUS). It seems I had violated eBay's secondhand clothes policy by offering The Tart's actual knickers up for auction previously. I can only now offer a photo of the said knickers and have adjusted the starting price accordingly... Personally, I did think .99 was a bit ambitious but, as they are so HUGE, I thought they may make someone a nice shawl or even better, something for Halloween, perhaps..."

Excellent.

"Arion"? Really?

Ok, so Arion was a Greek God. And you pronounce it ah-RYE-un, like Orion, but still...it's awfully similar to another word that has some seriously negative connotations for Germans.

I wonder if I'm the only person to notice the similarity?

Nominee for the Worst Advertising Idea EVER:

Spanish basketball team poses for offensive picture: "It's baffling that nobody involved in the picture -- from the photographers to the players -- even seemed to consider that this ad would be looked at negatively. Did it not occur to somebody that it might not be a good idea to mock an entire continent before the world's largest athletic competition that, by the way, happens to take place on that continent. (emphasis theirs) Were they not aware of an invention called 'the Internet' that allows pictures taken in Spain to be transmitted all over the world for the eyes of everyone?"

Pug on the rocks.

Pug on the rocks., originally uploaded by gina64.

Mickey LOVED running on these flat rocks on the beach.

Out on the rocks.

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Mary, Hannah, Zach and I went for a long hike on the rocks, all the way to the sandy cove where we dig clams. We sat there and had a yummy picnic lunch.







This was on Tuesday, and it was the last long hike I was able to take that week. I hurt my back the following morning.

Sailing

07-27-2008 0111, originally uploaded by gina64.

Zachary spotted this sailboat out on Dyer Bay and called me out to see it. I brought my camera along and popped on my new zoom lens.

I love my new zoom lens.

Oh, my aching back!

So I got my MRI results last week, and the diagnosis is a disc bulge and lower lumbar muscle strain. The disc with the bulge (hee) is between my L5 and S1 vertebrae, down pretty low. I asked the doctor if that is what was causing the pain in my butt (if you'll pardon the expression), and he was pretty vague. I guess there's debate as to whether or not a "disc bulge" will cause pain or not. Well, I'm here to tell you, it does!

At the very minimum, my lower lumbar muscles are strained. I have physical therapy twice a week, where I get a massage and do some stretching exercises (like the one pictured above). I feel awesome when I leave; unfortunately, by the time I get to work everything is tight again from the half hour drive in, and sitting at my desk is VERY uncomfortable. I stop a few times a day to do my stretches and that helps a lot. I'm also still on the drugs: Flexeril once in the morning and once at night, 4 Advil at least twice a day and depending on the pain, a Vicodin at night with the Flexeril. I tried to skip the Flexeril this morning, but by lunchtime I had to give in and take one.

So, yeah, I'm still hobbling around. I hope it's still warm out when I get home so I can go and float in the pool.

Oh! I almost forgot - I uploaded vacation photos to Flickr. I'll post a few when I get a chance.

Cracking Contraptions.

Hulu has Wallace & Gromit clips!

The Snoozatron:

Are you watching the Olympics?

I'm not. And I feel kind of bad about that. Sort of un-American.

When I was a kid, we were glued to the TV whenever the Olympics were on. Absolutely rapt. I was never really interested in sports all that much, but I wouldn't dream of missing the Olympics when I was growing up. I think it was the ideal of world harmony that was appealing (remember, when I was a kid we were in the middle of the Cold War), as well as the foreign locale. You got to visit other countries through the human interest stories and learn a lot about the host country, too.

Nowadays, those things aren't enough I guess. That whole "world harmony" thing doesn't really have the same impact for me now that I'm grownup know how the world really works, and they've gone overboard with the human interest stories. They may have toned it down a bit this year, but the last time I watched the Summer Games, I couldn't BELIEVE the time given to stories about the athletes. Just show the race, for crying out loud! And stop talking!

Bob Sassone over at TV Squad lays it all out better than me.

Of his reasons, I think the one that is the biggest hinderance for me is the schedule. There's just way too much stuff, too many events on too many channels, to keep track of; I prefer the Winter Games - I think they're much more exciting - but even for those, my viewing has gone down drastically because keeping track of my favorite events is overwhelming.

I didn't even bother to watch the Opening Ceremony this year. It's hard to watch a celebration of Chinese culture, knowing their history of human rights abuse. Which is a shame, because it is an amazing culture.

I did see one small part of the Opening Ceremony, though - I landed on it while surfing the channels - and it was incredible. Apparently China does not want video of the opening ceremony distributed on the web (surprise, surprise), so this bad copy (blurry picture and the sound is off) will have to do:


via videosift.com

It must have been amazing to see that in person.

So, are you watching?

If I were Samuel L. Jackson, I'd go in for a m*therf*ckin' checkup, ASAP.

He, Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes are all in the new movie Soul Men. He should also look both ways before he crosses the road. And no airplane rides for a while, either.

On the subject, here's an interesting article about the late Mr. Hayes and how the fact that he was a Scientologist may have been connected to his death. Tenuous, but still sort of creepy.

Oo, and I just realized something else weird - SLJ played Shaft in the remake, right?

I was really sad to hear about Bernie Mac. I liked him. When you get the chance, watch this while the kids aren't around:



He had impeccable timing.

Alright, I admit it, that's funny.

The Claby Cometh!

Sidenote: As if this story couldn't be anymore reproductively confusing, the mother of the Clayby is named Jaymes! Excellent!

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups...

Barback admits luring victim to Times Square club roof and killing her: "A Times Square club worker confessed to bludgeoning a drunken Queens woman and stuffing her body in a rooftop shed during a star-studded birthday party for rapper Lil' Kim, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday."

That has Law & Order written ALL over it.

Has the mystery of Clark Rockefeller been solved?

German man identifies Rockefeller as his brother: "A man in this picturesque village in Upper Bavaria identified Clark Rockefeller in photographs as his younger brother, saying in an interview today that he left home at age 17 in 1978 and had not contacted the family in more than 20 years."

Who will get their hands on this first: Bill Curtis or Dominick Dunne?

Quotable Movie Clips

My sisters and I quote these movies all the time. Can you guess which lines we love?

Anderson Cooper, will you marry me?

Listen to him tear the Lohans APART:



Later that day, Dina Lohan takes things to the next level, calling OK! Magazine, and we might have a celebrity feud on our hands!:



Oh, I hope she keeps this up.

Best Headline of the Day

Woman riding a donkey fights off lion with machete.

Ooo!

Laurence Fishburne is prime 'CSI' suspect

I approve.

Baby, Schmaby

Baby, Schmaby, originally uploaded by gina64.

When's the last time someone checked on Michael Caine?

Heath Ledger ODs, Christian Bale is brought up on assault charges by his supposedly greedy mother and sister, and now this:

Morgan Freeman In Serious Car Wreck

The Curse of the Dark Knight, perhaps?

I'm just sayin'.

And I was serious about Micheal Caine. Has anyone checked on him?

The fog is lifting, a bit.

But I'm still on drugs. I'm taking Flexeril and Vicodin. The pain doesn't ever really go away when I take the pills but boy do I not care!

I'm back at work today, so I only took the Flexeril and 4 Advil with breakfast. After the half hour drive into work, however, the pain was such that I had to take a Vicodin. And now I'm useless!

I'm going for an MRI tonight, and I begin physical therapy on Wednesday morning. Hopefully, the MRI will shed some light on the problem and the physical therapy will help me to feel better. We have a wedding in DC on Friday night and I want to be able to do the drive down on Thursday. I'll just have to take it one day at a time.

In the meantime, I'll try to get back into blogging, including getting my vacation pictures uploaded to Flickr. Don't give up on me!

Is that who I think it is??

Yes! It is! It's Chicken Little!!

Only slightly back.

I'm back from vacation and I have tons of photos to share (the one at left was taken at West Quoddy State Park) and news that I have to catch up on. Unfortunately, thisisgina will be out of commission for a while. I did something to my back on Wednesday, and again on Saturday, and I spent all Friday and Saturday afternoons in the ER in Ellsworth, ME. I even had to go in an ambulance :(.

Anyhoo, I'm on some major drugs, and I can't sit in one place for too long, so I'm afraid I'm only slightly back from vacation. I'll post again as soon as I can.

I'm on vacation!

We arrived at about 1:30 AM yesterday. Lily was a dream, sleeping the entire 8 hour drive. She only needed to be fed once.

Passing thunderstorms have been forecast for nearly every day this week, and we've been lucky so far, with the storms staying west of us. Zachary and I were outside in the evening yesterday, looking at a beautiful sunset while listening to thunder in the distance. I hope our luck holds up.

We're staying close to home today. A nice long walk to the dock and back, and then lunch.

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Terminator Salvation

Did they really need to make another one?

I am reserving judgment at this point.

Note to Self: When Colonization begins in 2012, there's a PLAM in the Smithsonian.

NMAH | Smithsonian Wants to Believe! National Museum of American History Acquires X-Files Collection: "During a special ceremony today, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History received a collection of objects from “The X-Files,” the television series and movie franchise. Twentieth Century Fox together with Chris Carter, series and film writer, director and producer, and Frank Spotnitz, series and film director and producer, presented an annotated script from the series’ pilot episode, FBI badges, posters and other objects to the museum’s entertainment collections."

The movie opens a week from tomorrow! Because I'll be in the middle of Nowhere, Maine, I'm going to miss seeing it on opening night. Hopefully I'll be able to dodge spoilers until I can get myself to a theater.

So, have you heard?

William Petersen is leaving CSI.

Since the showrunners don't have a replacement for him yet, I thought I'd poll my vast readership and get your opinion on the matter.

poll by twiigs.com

Sweet Baby Dreams

Sleepy Baby, originally uploaded by gina64.

Do you think this was a conscious choice?

"This undated image provided by the Michigan attorney-general's office shows Daniel Allen Everett. The 33-year-old Clarkston, Mich. man faces two 20-year felonies after authorities say he arranged a meeting for sex with an online contact he believed was a 14-year-old girl and showed up wearing a T-shirt that read: 'World's Greatest Dad.' Everett was arraigned Tuesday, July 15, 2008 in Novi, Mich. district court on charges of child sexual abuse and using the Internet to attempt child sexual abuse.(AP Photo/State of Michigan, Department of Attorney General)"

CNN Poll

You know, if they're not going to bring our soldiers home from Iraq, then perhaps they should send them to where they should have been all along: Afghanistan.

And while the Bush Administration has looked the other way, the Taliban has re-emerged:

"More American and coalition troops died in Afghanistan last month than during any other month since the American-led invasion began in 2001, the latest evidence of a strengthening Taliban insurgency that has menaced NATO forces and reclaimed control over some southern and eastern parts of the country.

The violence in Afghanistan has surged at the same time as the number of attacks and American deaths in Iraq have fallen. Among the American-led forces in the two countries, 46 service members were killed in Afghanistan, compared with 31 in Iraq, the second straight month in which combat deaths in Afghanistan exceeded those in Iraq.

A recent Pentagon report about Afghanistan painted a stark picture of security conditions inside the country, a militant force that had “coalesced into a resilient insurgency” and a central government in Kabul that still could not extend its reach into the hinterlands. An American commander, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser, has said that militant attacks on coalition troops increased by 40 percent from January to May compared with the same period last year."

I know that the "War on Terror" is, by the nature of its enemy alone, going to be a complicated and protracted one; but we're making it worse. The choice to focus on Iraq and not Afghanistan, the seat of Al Qaeda, is going to come back and bite us HARD on the ass one of these days.

Blogging from my phone (I hope!)

I just figured out how to post here from my Blackberry. This could come in handy next week!
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Good morning.

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(my hands are getting less scaly with every passing day!)

The Weekend

07-13-2008 017, originally uploaded by gina64.

Lily had lots of company on Saturday: Her father, paternal grandparents, aunt and cousin visited for a while, and then cousins from her mother's side of the family came. If there's one thing this child is not short on, it's an adoring family.

Then yesterday she had her first outing as she, her mother and I all went to the mall for a couple of hours. She slept through the entire trip.



For those of you who are wondering about the pugs, they are adjusting nicely. Mickey is infatuated with her but not overly excitable, and Marty? Well, Marty only has eyes for his mother.

The Puppy Whisperer

OK, anyone surprised by this development is an idiot.

Gary Busey Shakes Up Celebrity Rehab: "OFF-the-wall actor Gary Busey turned out to be more of a troublemaker than a mentor for the stars who checked themselves into VH1's 'Celebrity Rehab 2' last month."

Totally Awesome 80s Movie Clips

Journey at the Center of the Earth

Don't stop believin'!!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Rising Moon, originally uploaded by gina64.

So I got myself a new telephoto zoom lens for my birthday (today!) and it's so AWESOME. I can't wait to take pictures with it in Maine. And I can get some good shots of Lily without shoving the camera right in her little scrunched up face.

Vacationland

Maine, originally uploaded by gina64.

Just a little over a week to go before we're there! Woo hoo!

Bombs bursting in air.

07-09-2008 035, originally uploaded by gina64.

I went to a friend's annual Fourth of July party on Saturday. Her husband puts on a terrific show with (illegal) fireworks that he buys in New Hampshire.

These are images that I took of the display. They look more like something the Hubble Telescope would send back from space than a backyard fireworks display. I think they're kind of cool.

Next year, I will bring my tripod (which I found when I cleaned out my closet the other day!) and brush up on the proper camera settings before I go.

Good morning!

07-09-2008 040, originally uploaded by gina64.

Blurry, but cute.

XF Trailers

Two of the TV spots that are currently airing are included in the video. The second one is one I hadn't seen yet.

Woo!

In the News.

Just thought I'd share a few news articles I've read in recent days that I found interesting.

A family is selling their house and donating half of the proceeds ($800,000) to a charity that fights hunger in Africa.

Alcoholism and illegal drug use is on the rise among returning Iraq War combat veterans. Unsurprisingly.

Christie Brinkley's divorce trial gives new meaning to the word 'spectacle'.

A conversation with Barack Obama - Rolling Stone.

Need a smile?

Watch this.

Crazy Dogs

Sweet dreams.

07-05-2008 007, originally uploaded by gina64.

Lily is a good sleeper. And eater. And pooper.

She had her first Dr. visit today and she's doing just fine.

A few more shots:

"I think she likes you."

(WARNING, GROSS STUFF!)



I thought you might like this one, Beth!

Quantum of Solace Trailer

Oh YEAH.

TV Talk

Can you believe that I have been watching almost NO television, for days now?? There's been a lot to do to prepare for Lily's arrival, my weekends have been consumed with yard work, and I've been reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass is the first book), but mostly I haven't been watching TV because there has been almost nothing on that is evenly slightly interesting to me.

The TV landscape is absolutely awash with reality shows right now and for the most part, they're not my thing. I am, however, a big fan of Deadliest Catch, and I can't wait to watch it tonight to see if Phil has lung cancer or if it's just a punctured lung. Phil is the skipper of the Cornelia Marie and he fell in his cabin during a big storm in last week's episode and appeared to crack some ribs. But then he was really having trouble breathing and started coughing up blood. And the cigarettes he was smoking weren't helping the situation, either. We had a peek at some x-rays, but they're making us wait to see what's up.

Lately, if the TV is on at all it's tuned to Turner Classic Movies, one of the best cable networks, ever. They truly love movies and exist only to celebrate them. There are no commercials and most films are presented the way they should be, in widescreen, and there is often a discussion with a special guest after the movie. On Sunday nights they play silent movies and I usually have TCM on in the background while I mess around on the computer. For a look at what a typical month of TCM programming looks like, click here.

As they say, if you love movies, you'll love Turner Classic Movies.

Lily Margaret

Bow down to the power of The Chin., originally uploaded by gina64.

My niece Lily Margaret was born yesterday, June 30, at 9:00 AM. She weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and was 20.75" long. She's just a living doll.

For more photos, check out Lily's Flickr set.

With the arrival of our new family member and with her mother being in the hospital this week, I'm going to be a bit distracted and unable to post very much to this blog. But I'll do my best.

And I'll try not to post too many baby pictures!