cross contamination

part one. [a full grown man can't escape the grip of the Disney channel]
Teagan requested that we tape a kids movie she saw advertised on Disney channel called Brink!, about a group of inline skaters (that includes a girl) who are ’soul skaters’ and all is good until one of them gets sponsored. So we tape it for her. Saturday morning she wakes up ready to go at 6 am, finally at 7 we got up and started watching Brink! After about an hour Teagan is bored so I turn off the tv. Later that night… I am sitting on th couch wondering what happens to Brink and his crew— this alone would be embarrassing but when you factor in the fact that I occasionally bop around the house singing Hana Montanna songs and you can feel my shame. Damn that daughter of mine, infecting me with all that Disney syrupy sweet shit. I swear they use some kind of mind control.

part two. [the four year old sounds like she hosts a reality TV show]
Teagan and Karen took me mini golfing as part of the fathers day extravaganza. As we are golfing Teagan excitedly looks at Karen after a good shot and says: “Congratulations mommy you are part of our top ten!” Now that alone would be funny but this morning at breakfast she blurted out some thing like: “that would be freakin’ crazy wouldn’t it? I mean, thats just like… crazy!” She also now refers to all of the people on her favorite shows/movies by their real names as opposed to their character names and tried to start calling Karen and I by our first names.

Filed under: entertainment., family, life, personal., reality tv, tv

I am a sucker for a good gesture

Gesture as in body posture or pose that is—
we were watching So you think you can dance last night and Karen and I both really liked the way the entire opening dance seemed to be hinged on a zombie-ish body language. This seems to be one of Wade Robson’s strengths. Even the first episode Wednesday night had moments of awkward/beautiful body language thanks to Mia’s piece.

Filed under: artsy., entertainment., music, reality tv, youtube

life on the road

It has been a while since I took the time to post or for that matter to write anything. For the last few weeks we have been running around and traveling— and it has been exhausting. Over the last few weeks we spent so much time in the car with 2, 14 hour round trips to NJ and then 30 minutes in the car to go anywhere or do anything while we were there. Every trip back to NJ just reaffirms our decision to move to Portland and reclaim OUR lives.

Filed under: family, maine, personal., portland., thoughts