Rice Cereal

The Buffalo News’ Alan Pergament had similar comments to mine about Brett Hull yesterday, and Jerry Sullivan has a great response to Ray Emery’s remarks about the City of Buffalo today. It isn’t enough that the Senators are in the conference finals. Emery needs interesting places to visit on his off-days. What are his priorities, exactly? Chris Drury wants to win the conference. I doubt if Drury would care if the series was played in Yellowknife.

I saw “Thank You For Smoking” recently and didn’t find it as dark or as funny as I had heard it was. And what was the deal with the Katie Holmes character getting buried at the end of the picture? The girl writes a shattering expose on the inner workings of the lobby racket and gets rewarded with a television assignment covering hurricanes from the path of the storm. The main character, Nick Naylor, is the tobacco lobbyist who is continually rewarded for his cleverness, boldness, and manipulation of people. Why isn’t Holmes’ character rewarded for doing the exact same thing? I can’t draw any other conclusion than it’s because she is a woman and slept with Nick to get the information for her story, and that makes her a bitch, and bitch needs to be punished. Everything that Holmes wrote was completely true, besides, which is more than we can say for Nick’s manipulation of the facts. For a movie that was supposed to be so smart, this was a pretty dumb ending. And sexist. David Koechner plays the firearms lobbyist, and although it’s a minor role, he’s great. He is also the guy who plays Todd Packer on “The Office.” He is also “T-Bone” on the Naked Trucker and T-Bone program on Comedy Central, which from the commercials looks unwatchable.

The boy had his first rice cereal last night, so the color of the poop in our house is about to change. He took to it slowly at first but was a maniac by the end. I knew he liked it when he chomped down on the spoon like a viper striking its prey. Eventually he was grabbing at the spoon and trying to stuff it in his mouth. He nursed for the feeding that followed and threw up quite a bit, so either he ate too much or he’s getting used to the cereal. Thankfully, he slept a lot better, so maybe we are headed for better days. For a week he’s been nursing constantly and continually unhappy, unable to sleep, and needing to be held. He went to see the doctor yesterday for a checkup (five shots!) and the doctor recommended that we start cereal. There is a video of the feeding that I expect will be released soon. It’s something to see.