Monday, September 25, 2006

Nicknames and re-released albums...

A few weeks ago, Made in Mexico records announced the re-release of Damien Jurado's most sought after album "Gathered in Song." A live performance in a friend's living room in 1998, it is easily one of his most touching albums. The re-release includes the original 5 songs, and 5 demos for "Rehearsals for Departure", his 1999 album. The first several hundred copies were autographed, so that added to the appeal as well. "Simple hello" is my favorite song so far, but the entire deal is very very good.

On another note, Sarah and I were discussing the approximately 3 million nicknames that we have for Hezekiah. Kiah... Helmet... Monkey... Dookie... Zeke... Manny... Tax Deduction...

In fact, his name has sparked so many conversations in our friends and family that we thought we'd finally reveal the REAL reason that we named him (HE)zekiah im(MAN)uel. That's right. We named him after the Master of the Universe himself. He-man.

Here is a picture of Kiah in his appropriate outfit.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Kiah

Just an update.
After one day of taking his medicine, Kiah is all better.
I don't know what it was, any more than the doctors did, but we're happy he's ok.

Thanks for your prayers.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Jim's 9-11 poem that he wrote today...

Today I saw a patriot
standing on the corner of a busy downtown street
waving a flag in the rain
and I thought to myself how beautiful
it would be to see impaled upon that glittering flagpole
all the ugliness of the hatriots who stood
on that same corner waving similar flags
just five years ago.

True patriotism isn't popular.
And something from the heart can't be mass produced.
If you want to do something
that truly matters...

do it alone.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Ohio State

Tonight, the two highest ranked teams in college football faced off against each other in the regular season. (The last time that happened was 10 yrs. ago.) And I must say, the #1 Ohio State Buckeyes went down to Austin and messed with Texas.

Wow! What a great game. For those of you who know, when any team wins a championship, there are going to be people who question its legitimacy. Folks who say that there were too many close calls... the schedule was too easy... blah blah blah. My best friend would slap them and say a win is a win, but in college football, a win isn't necessarily a win. (See Cal's first game of the season) Needless to say, when OSU went 18-0 and won the national championship against the somewhat unstoppable Florida Gators who at that point had not lost a game in several seasons, people still griped. Well. OSU is back, and has one of the toughest teams I've seen in years. Tonight they blew away the defending champs with their weaker side. Their defense. It was alot of fun for us to watch, and if you find college football boring, I suggest watching the Buckeyes this year. They're going to be the NFL stars you watch a few years from now.

One last thing about the game. Now that Texas is Young-less, they've been forced to replace him with a young man with the most "Texas" name of all time. Colt McCoy. To be ANY MORE TEXAN he would have to be named "Wyatt Eastwood" or change his middle initial to "W." I will say this for him. He hopped right back up after getting knocked down all those times.

Oh, on to the home front. Kiah has contracted what Sarah and I are calling "The mange."
It's some sort of rash that the doctor told us is named Erythema Multiforme which means ugly rash that takes alot of forms and is caused by something we don't know. It's treated by using benedril or minor steroids. We opted for the roids as his penis is already as small as it's going to ever be, and the risk of negative side-effects is negligable. Just kidding, but we did go with the steroid because it won't make him sleepy, and it mainly will keep away a more dangerous rash that he might have but probably doesn't have because gosh! We're doctors and we really don't know, and I don't see any of this when I researched it on google in the back room, and please don't look upset! That hospital bill is mainly for malpractice suits.

Just kidding again. They actually don't know what it is, but he's happy and eating and sleeping and pooping. So we've identified that other than the hideous rash covering his body, he's in perfect health.

Here's a picture of what Mange, and Texas' season looks like.