My New Job VI: New Year Edition

In mid-late 2003, I came up with what I thought was the funniest joke ever: At the time, the military in Iraq was giving out these cards with Saddam Hussein as the Ace of Spades to help catch him and the rest of them evil-doers, and then when they still couldn’t find him, the military put out these Wanted posters with Saddam's face all over Baghdad, but they still couldn’t find him. So I thought maybe to make it easier, what they needed next was to build a giant statue of Saddam in the center of the town.

That was it. I really thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever thought of. I remember thinking I should have given it to The Daily Show and they would use it with the footage from the toppling of Saddam's statue, but in reverse. Something like that. I would have left the details to them. Obviously this would have been only the beginning of my relationship with The Daily Show. Buzz on the street about my joke would have taken care of the rest.

Kinda missed the boat on that one, though. He got caught and my dreams were shattered. One day… One day I will come up with another joke, you’ll see.

In other news, I quit my job, effective today.

Baltimore -- Christmas Parade 2007

Someone asked me today what it was like to live in Baltimore. "It's interesting," I said.

Merry Christmas.

Who's Cute?

Managed to get some time to write a post. Hey, I'm not doing anyone a favor by staring at a sleeping baby all day.

So, what's been going on here? Cutie is 11-days-old, and I think he already looks very different. He opens his eyes a lot, and he smiles just before he poops, and he grabs onto stuff. And he rolls his eyes, which is freaky but normal. The same adjectives could be applied to the way his pipi looks now. No regrets about that one, although I wish it healed already so I'd stop being reminded of the day I mutilated my son.

And although the other day I experienced an incredible moment when he suddenly opened his eyes and stared at me intently like he knew (but will soon forget) his entire future, and although in this short moment I saw love and understanding and forgiveness for all of my future mistakes, that moment was soon over and he went back to doing what he's supposed to do--eat, poop, and sleep.

And while he does that, there's nothing much I can do. So I did this:

Liam