Comments on: Gamma turned 8

By: Scrumpie (aka Lisa D)

Scrumpie (aka Lisa D) — Fri, 06 May 2005 00:34:33 +0000

Happy belated birthday to your daughter. My son will be eight in Nov. The prospect of taking 11 of his peers to a museum is rather frightening. You are very brave indeed.

Now about feet– can anyone explain the difference between a chiropodist and a podiatrist? I’ve always wondered and you seem like the type of folks who might know.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 05 May 2005 03:50:58 +0000

” Don Rickles asked me what my name is. I told him. “That’s a girl’s name,” he said.”

You should be careful about revealing personal information in your blog. I think you revealed her information about how your Dad named you “Sue”..

And for your heavy trivia needs, I heard recently that “A Boy Named Sue” was written by Shel Silverstein… http://www.toptown.com/hp/66/sue.htm

By: kay

kay — Wed, 04 May 2005 02:12:21 +0000

this is a wonderful birthday! and one i wish someone would organize for my own day. me, me, mine!

(how i want to live somewhere i can show my son things like the two fridas. in person. alive and in front of our face. really, how wonderful)

By: mig

mig — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:37:44 +0000

eh, i wouldn't call it a fetish, exactly, jilbur. although i did invent this: http://www.shoeproject.org/

By: mig

mig — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:32:16 +0000

Cool. You express yourself very well for an 8-year-old.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:20:33 +0000

IT would seem that Gamma and I have the same birthday…or very close. Cool.

By: jilbur

jilbur — Tue, 03 May 2005 16:56:05 +0000

ooohhh we (I) didn’t know you had a shoe fetish. *locking into memory*
Happy Birthday Gamma! You’re one year older than mine, who happily still couldn’t pick Xina Aguilera outta a police lineup.

By: mig

mig — Tue, 03 May 2005 12:12:28 +0000

we missed you, beta.
yes, we’ve all been talking about how time flies. beta was one of the smallest in her class when she started school, but has grown the most. she now not only is learning the piano, she improvises and composes. i want to get her the new keith jarret album. not that i pressure my kids or anything.
as far as shoes go, she likes shoes but it doesn’t appear to be an obsession, or even a great interest, so that’s one thing she didn’t inherit from her dad. she is more into hair accessories, clothes, art supplies and female pop singers.

By: flerdle

flerdle — Tue, 03 May 2005 09:19:05 +0000

Clowns are creepy. Good move with the art museum.

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Tue, 03 May 2005 06:18:26 +0000

How is Gamma with shoes?

My 8-yo niece is obsessed with shoes. She doesn’t care if they fit or anything.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 May 2005 04:27:40 +0000

Eight? Eight?

I have known you long enough that my child, who was an infant when we were doing “Raising Hell”, is now as old as Gamma was then.

You don’t look a day older, btw.

By: beta

beta — Tue, 03 May 2005 01:43:48 +0000

once it’s not me organising everything… and it’s her best birthday ever!!

By: francis s.

francis s. — Mon, 02 May 2005 19:19:57 +0000

Medals for bravery. You. Alpha.

(When I was a kid, my parents routinely took us to the Museum of Science and Industry or the Field Museum in Chicago for our birthdays… bunches of little boys. But those museums had cool things like stuffed elephants, mummies, dinosaur bones, a submarine you could in, a fake mineshaft that you could go in, and lots of exhibits that were 1920s versions of hands-on – stuff where you pulled levers and turned wheels and inserted coins and watched a machine make a plastic Abraham Lincoln bust.)