Baby Giggles
Posted By Kathleen David on August 23, 2004
Yesterday Peter, Caroline and I went into the city to run some errands that needed to be ran. Including stopping by Colony Records to pick of sheet music for the cabaret that Peter and Harlan are going to participate in at DragonCon. I even have a bit part in one of the songs. After we had finished all the stuff we had to do, we went to the Central Park Zoo. We went to the zoo proper first. Caroline would stop for a moment, look at an animal, then start running like a nut. We took her to the Tisch Children
My wife and I have been glued to the set since the Olympics started. We love the fact that they’re shown on so many channels we can always find coverage of some event no matter when we’re watching. The prime time coverage has been as jingoistic as expected, but they’ve kept the annoying athlete bios fairly short and I was surprised to see that the trampoline event was shown at all during that time slot.
On Bravo, we’ve been actively following badminton, archery, table tennis, and the equestrian events. I felt really bad for that rifle competitor who would have gotten the gold if he hadn’t shot someone else’s target by mistake.
The high jump was fun to watch, and I found it interesting that the shortest guy they showed won the gold (he was 5′ 11″, a full head taller than me, but in proportion to the others in that event, he looked like a shrimp.) The guy who got the silver was Matt Hemingway, grandnephew of Ernest. When they interviewed him afterwards they asked him what it felt like or some such, and he said something like, “This is great! I passed up a lot of meets to do this. Whoo!” Standard jock with a mike fare. I thought it would have been neat if he’d said something like “My feelings are those of the songbird in springtime who sings his song to attract the lady bird to land on his branch at this time on this day so they can build a nest and make of the tree a symbol of life and love eternal.”
By the way, did anyone catch the Womens pole vault qualifiers? I thought I saw that one of the competitors broke her leg, but I’ve been unable to find out who it was or which country she’s from.
Renfield
Don’t worry, Kathleen. She’ll grow out of eating only carbs. Why, my step-daughter is 17 years old and she actually said “These are good!” about some peas just last week.
You’re welcome.
Dad