February 25, 2008
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Oscar Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Watching and Coddle the Babies
This year’s Oscar party was an unusually “eye-opening” experience.
Normally during Academy Awards time, my neighbors Stan and Robin host a Oscar party, where we potluck it up, critique the show, and celebrate all that is movies. Another recent tradition is that I come close to winning the Oscar pool, but always end up falling short (See here and here!) I do, however, go home with a Oscar-nominated DVD as a consolation prize (including this year), so that makes up for it!
Things changed considerably last year, when a handsome lad named Holden entered the world. The 2007 party temporarily moved to my friend Chellie’s place in Santa Monica, But when the shindig came back to its rightful home, I was surprised that a good deal of the invitees became parents! So, it was a little amusing that a lot of the attention this year was not directed at the television set! Maybe that was a good thing, because from what I saw, the opening montage was weak in comparison to previous years. Host Jon Stewart’s monologue didn’t have enough zingers. And with the writers’ strike just completed, it was understandably difficult to pull together a great show. Looks like it was worst rated Academy Awards ceremony. Why couldn’t they have more of the funny?
So near the end of the telecast, my friends Ed and Claire motioned for me to hold their young daughter Alexa. I haven’t had too much experience with carrying babies, so I was a little nervous. But it didn’t take too long though to become comfortable with her as I gazed into her lovely eyes, and nuzzled her soft tiny cheeks. She apparently liked me enough to give me a head-butt back!
The thing that fascinated me the most about Alexa was her light eye color. I noticed that in Holden as well when I first met him. I didn’t realize until later that initially, baby eye color is blue or gray, and turns to its natural eye color by his/her first birthday. I can certainly understand why my parent friends blog about even the slightest of changes in their children. It is truly amazing.
Comments (5)
all the euros won. time for america to take back the oscar. USA! USA!
yeah i hear on you not being funny… sheesh… i don’t think we watched either.. we just ate the whole time and chatted it up =) it was numbingly boring this year.. no shadow people or funny montages… =/
i’ld rather watch babies =)
did you walk away with a prize though? i prize… not a baby… ;P
oh and i totally thought of you yesterday ’cause goldstar events was offering half off the giants dodger game up here…. are you on the goldstar? if not, lemme know and i’ll copy and paste the event for ya =)
Jen, I did come away with a prize this year (The American Gangster DVD).
I am on Goldstar, but you probably know that it only offers discounts to local events. So, I’ll send you my e-mail address via myspace and if you can forward that event to me, that would be great. Thanks for thinking of me!
HAHAHAH i missed that link!!! HAHAHAHAH =) oops!
and yup i emailed to u =)
I can totally relate to your baby observations. ALL of our close friends here had babies last year. While I remember what my nieces were like, I have forgotten little details which are amazing! Seeing babies few times a weeks makes me notice their fast developments. It is kind of cool, but for now we will stick with the cat