May 24, 2010  •  In Funny, Star Wars

Carrie Fisher Roasts George Lucas

“George is a sadist. But like any abused child, wearing a metal bikini, chained to a giant slug, about to die, I keep coming back for more.” Lurves it! You may also like: “3-CPO” Once Upon an Internet Google Translate: Star Wars Edition A Visualization of Star Wars Enthusiasm

May 23, 2010  •  In Personal

Boys Will Be Boys…Or No?

Last night, I was taking Comang on his evening walk when I ran into a group of boys playing baseball. There is almost always a group of middle-school-aged boys playing on this block when the weather is nice (I think one or two of them live on that street) — they are usually skateboarding, biking, […]

May 22, 2010  •  In Baby, Personal, Pregnancy

POP! Goes the Baby…

A big “con” of having an anterior placenta is that I will not feel the baby move as early, or as often as other mothers. Luckily, I first felt the sensation of fluttering butterflies at 16 weeks…but not much since. The big exception was when we went on our babymoon and I felt her swimming […]

May 22, 2010  •  In Music, NYC, Personal

Street Pianos Headed to NYC!

One of the (many) things I love about NYC is the abundance of street and subway performers. May it be a classically-trained prodigy giving an impromptu concert, a struggling musician performing for dollars (often with the wish that a record executive will “discover” them), or an out-of-luck bum drumming some beats on some upside-down plastic […]

May 20, 2010  •  In Geek, Star Wars

Star Wars Opening Crawl

And here I thought the sequence was entirely CG… The rudimentary method is quite ingenious, and I’m a bit saddened to learn that the remastered movies have replaced the manual crawl with CG versions. I wonder if the opening crawl for Flash Gordon (George Lucas’ inspiration for the Star Wars films) was done using the […]

May 20, 2010  •  In Pregnancy

5 Months

It’s amazing what can happen in that time. a little seahorse at 2 months a BABY at 5 months You may also like: Three Notes of Superficiality Wherein I Discover Another By-Product of Pregnancy…Two Weeks After Giving Birth Introducing Aerin Isabel… 7 Centimeters

May 19, 2010  •  In NYC, Parenting, Personal

Free Range Kids

In light of yesterday’s post regarding The Bubble Wrap Generation, I found it strangely appropriate that I learned about “Take Our Children to the Park…& Leave Them There Day” this morning on the radio. I was not surprised when my favorite NYC blog, Gothamist, picked up on the story and ignited a furious war among […]

May 19, 2010  •  In Art/Design, Geek, Personal, Toys, Travel

Fallingwater Animation

I have always had a soft spot for architecture. I mean, who hasn’t seriously considered becoming an architect after reading Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead? And as cliché as it sounds, Frank Lloyd Wright has always been my favorite architect and Fallingwater my favorite residential building. Visiting Fallingwater has been on my to-do list for over […]