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Her name is Payten Grace Kane, she was born at 9:45 PM and weighs seven pounds, nine ounces. She is perfection wrapped in a bundle. She smiles when I hold her (or at least I think she smiles). She makes a swishing movement with her tounge and whose mouth is smaller than a soda cap. Her eyes are squinted but alert and her cheeks are smooth as silk.

Prior to the birth I sat in the waiting room reading a college textbook on world religions borrowed from my brother's girlfriend who was ...

Luck of the Draw

I grew tired of yesterday's games
played, waiting to draw stakes
upon promises of tomorrow,
I finally laid down all my cards
face up with shining aces in
their linear rows (for high or low).

The Suicide King looks up
startled by the sun blazing in his eyes,
while caught frozen in that perilous
moment of time, he needed death
to confirm he was alive (yet again denied).

...

Ohh I'm so excited! My sister is pregnant and is due any day, any minute now!

I swear, babies really bring out the feminine side in me (as if I'm not feminine enough lol) because I've been so excited and exclaiming over all of the cute little baby clothes. That said, when it comes to the baby itself, I feel quite alien to the concept of living with one, and quite uncomfortable and rather disturbed by some unpleasantness that might come along with it (poop, messy meals, burbing, barfing, ...

I have just re-watched Persona for the third time and still feel that I'm not worthy enough to review such a great and mysterious film. If anything it is a masterpiece of cryptic modernism in film. One of the all time greats, and Bergman's finest.

Speaking of Bergman, here's a review that I attempted to write when I first saw Cries and Whispers. It was just too hard for me to go on, because even words do injustice to the film and trivialize it.

However, I did finish ...

I've had a hard ten days. I need a little pick-me-up, and so here's some jokes I thought worth sharing.

THE UNDERTAKER'S BLACK EYE

Roy, an undertaker, recently came home with a black eye.

"What happened to you?" asked his wife.

"I had a terrible day." replied Roy . "I had to go to a hotel and pick up a man who had died in his sleep.
When I got there, the manager said they couldn't get him into a body ...