Emmett and Matilda

They love each other.

Soooo adorable!!!

He'll let you bask, won't he, Hec? But not borrow. That's how he looks. I mean, you can play with her, but you can't borrow her.

Photos of Emmett and Matilda are wonderful!

I've read days worth and can't remember specifics, so I offer ~ma and yays and glitter to all.

I did note to myself that I wanted to chime in with this:

I think there have been some weird anecdotes where flatlining patients have described events in a surgery theatre that they couldn't have observed from their prone (and at the time, DEAD) position,

My stepfather said this happened to him when he flatlined during open-heart surgery. After he woke, he asked the surgeon who was the other guy in the operating room who died on the table. Turned out it was him. Apparently he told the surgeon exactly what he'd said while it was happening, and freaked the doctor right out. My stepfather was a singularly unimaginative man, and was surprised when I told him that other people had reported similar things. I don't have any idea what did happen, but I don't think he was lying. I might think that he just came out of anesthesia a little, except that he was clinically dead at the time. I dunno. Things like this fuck with my worldview. And that story about the blue-jean girl gave me creeps. I get creeps easily. I'd really like to think that every time I felt "haunted" it was just a subsonic hum from something.

Are alligators only in the western hemisphere?

Interestingly, no. There are Chinese alligators too. But not African ones.

mac is completely going to bed by himself now. Such a joy. Grandparents visit in April and the surgery resulted in steps back in the nightly rituals, but we are back on. Next up, complete bath time by himself (we are about 50% there). WHEE!

Interestingly, no. There are Chinese alligators too. But not African ones.

And then there's the Antarctic alligators, which are rarely seen as they hibernate 12 months out of the year....

Hippy, playboy Jesus ad riles Belgian bishops

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested a TV ad depicting a pot-bellied, hippy Jesus performing miracles and picking up scantily-clad girls up in a nightclub, a church spokesman said Friday.

"We have expressed our disapproval to the president of RTL's administrative council" Jacques Santer and the ethical advertising body, demanding the withdrawal of this publicity campaign, Father Eric de Beukelaer told AFP.

RTL, one of the biggest media groups in Europe, is running the ad on its main Belgian channel to promote Plug youth television, portrayed in the offending item as the coolest thing that even Jesus, with all his powers, could hope for.

Oh come on - that's funny!

eta: Video of the offending commercial: [link]

eta²: OK, maybe more funny in concept....

He'll let you bask, won't he, Hec? But not borrow. That's how he looks. I mean, you can play with her, but you can't borrow her.

I'm not sure if I can explain it but his ownership of Matilda does not exist on the same plane as a parent's ownership. He understands the parent-child relationship, but that is completely moot to his particular (clearly superior in his mind) Emmett-Matilda thing.

He is very certain that he loves her more than any other person could possibly love her, but we are free to change her diapers.

He does get excited at each little accomplishment. He's very proud of her.

I think I don't like the ad because Jesus is a dork.

that is completely moot to his particular (clearly superior in his mind) Emmett-Matilda thing.

That's totally charming. My relationship to my sister was that her brain was my playground (I think her birth bumped my reading levels up a few grades because I needed to read the child development books to properly work with her), but I don't know if I liked her. She just wasn't anyone else's playground but mine, and I was willing to beat the shit out of people to make that clear.

Is anyone watching the Family Guy Star Wars thing? It's totally cracking me up.