more carmel

this baby means business

Wintery New Year

Some photos of a snowy Brooklyn Botanical Gardens taken on New Year's Eve.

haiti

if you are thinking about making a contribution to the rescue and relief efforts in haiti, one possibility is to support GHESKIO, a clinic and research station that cornell is affiliated with in port-au-prince. they have been working on HIV and infectious diseases for the last 25 years, and right now they are one of the few open medical facilities in the city. all donated money is going straight to the clinic.
no pressure, just passing the word on -
http://wcmchelpshaiti.org/

FSJRIP

In memory of a couple of dearly departed Southern gentlemen:

Vic Chesnutt, 45, overdosed on Dec 25th:



Jay Reatard, 29, Jan 13th of causes yet unknown:

Free Gilbert!

I am ashamed of David Stern. What a humorless prick.

he has the helmet

but would he survive the boba fett challenge?

link

baby brain

in the last day or two, carmel has started to look around and pay attention to things besides sleeping and momma's boob. it makes you wonder, what do babies think? can carmel see our faces? does she recognize them? is there any kind of awareness there, or is it just reflex: hungry → cry; tired → cry; gas → burp? sometimes it really looks like she expresses emotion, deep thought, amusement, curiosity. here are a few classic moments:




anyway, we are totally zonked out of our heads but having a good time. carmel is getting feistier, fatter and checking out the world a little bit at a time. y'all should come visit - we're jonesing for some jj8 here on the upper east.

Allowable Marriages

As a native of Massachusetts, nice to see we let anybody marry anybody...

Happy 63rd, Dave

Big Tempin': Recession Anthem

This took my back (hopefully not forward). And destroyed me. Big tempin' with college degrees indeed