First Photos

Last week Jon and I had the thrill of seeing the bean for the first time. S/he is about 85 millimeters long and moved around the whole time. We clearly saw the heart beating. Amazing.

We got this body shot. The head on the left and the back toward the camera. The little butt and feet tucked under on the right.

The next one shows a close up of the bean's skull. The top of the head is on the right. The eye sockets clearly visible, nose and open-looking mouth. The white line with a little bend in it at the bottom going from right to left is an arm bone!
Wow!

Matt Lauer is a Fucking Asshole Part II

This morning on the Today Show, Matt called Hillary Clinton a "tease." I didn't catch the whole exchange -- They showed Hillary Clinton and then Meredith commented that Hillary "didn't want to say something something" (the part I missed) -- cut back to Matt who looks incredulous. "Oooookay. What a tease." He says in the glib way only he can. I almost didn't post about it because I didn't hear the context, but then I thought, "What the fuck context could make that OK?" Nothing can make that OK. Oh she's a vixen alright. A cock-teasing, power pantsuit wearing, Democratic hopeful. Rrrrrowr!

2007 Movie List

Some people golf. Others have pets. We go to movies. Eighty-three of them, to be exact --in the theater in 2007. My aunt asked how we can both work full time and see so many movies. The answer is just that we make it a priority every weekend and throw some weeknight ones in for fun. This was really a banner year, though and we'll never see this many again in a year, I am pretty sure. Not unless someone starts paying us to go. The full list of what we saw can be found on the movie blog. My top ten of the year are in bold, but here they are for a quick look:

Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Romance and Cigarettes
No Country for Old Men
I'm Not There
Across the Universe
L'Iceberg
Paris, je t'aime
Cha no aji (The Taste of Tea)
Tears of the Black Tiger
Pan's Labyrinth

With special, special mentions to: Control, Inland Empire and The Lives of Others.