The long drought ends

The greatest restauraunt in the history of the universe returns.

And the food is EXACTLY the same.

This is a child who has learned her own power

So, Isabel basically screamed for 20 hours non-stop yesterday. Today she's calm, collected, just hanging out - with an expression that says "I have learned that I can destroy everything around me whenever I choose."

Bwaaaaa?

THIS is how you make having a newborn work

Anyone who says different is selling something.

"...if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

And so the greatest talk show in the history of the medium comes to an end. Conan's last show was spectacular - if you missed it, make sure to catch it before hulu pulls it.

We'll be here when you land, Coco.

Omega Man!

As alert readers of the Twitter Update feed on the right will have noticed, Netflix streaming let me accidentally watch Omega Man the other night.

(Sidebar: Netflix streaming makes having a newborn possible. Up at 3am for another feeding? Why not just order up Omega Man and chillax?)

Somehow, I'd managed to never actually see this all the way through. The first 30 minutes is excellent, and then it starts a steady downhill slide straight into one of the least subtle alegories of an ending I've seen since Neo went from being a Jesus-eque character to actually BEING Jesus.

Final Score: 2 points, but an honorable mention for this:



Seriously, any movie that can provide THAT image is a winner. (Why yes, those are ruffles, and yes that IS velvet!)

I also bring this up so I can link to Mick LaSalle's Appreciation of Charlton Heston. This was in the SF Chronicle after Chuck died a while back, and it's not an obituary so much as just that - an appreciation. I'm sort of an accidental Chuck fan, and I keep trying to paraphrase this when people ask me why. Omega Man finally gave me an excuse to dig the link out of the web and post it here.

(And, for the record, if you haven't seen it, go rent Touch of Evil. Trust me.)

An amazing number of problems are being solved in this image

When DO they grow legs?

Isabel Helman: Stats

By Popular Demand, her initial stats are as follows:

Length: 20 inches.

Weight: 8lbs, 7 oz.

Adorability: 18/00

Eyes: Baby Hazel, but seem to be darkening

Hair: Black, with expectations that it will drop out and be replaced with something blonde.

Eats: roughly every two hours

Isabel: one week old

TOUCHDOWN

Just out of shot is a vaguely disapproving nurse

Sergeant Grumbles is ready to leave

"It's Grumbles, ma'am - Sergeant Grumbles."

For some reason, this made my butt go to sleep

Helman, Party of Three

Welcome aboard, Isabel Lovell Helman.

I hope we're the parents that you deserve.