WORKING TODAY? ARE YOU F&@$ING KIDDING ME?

STILL NOT WORKING (DAY 2 REMIX)

The kids are waterlogged.
Taking this photo required nearly losing the camera in the Atlantic Ocean.
We're used to the view of the kids facing away from us and toward the great beyond.
Virginia and Grady aren't afraid of getting thrashed by waves.
Leah and Payton aren't yet trying to avoid being seen with us. That comes next year.
Ruby and Emmie have been really brave.
The R-Kelly Alliance. The Otterman Empire.
Kelly is KNOCKED UP.
I'm not at all sure how we were able to get everyone to sit still.

WE ARE NOT WORKING; WE ARE ON VACATION

That view won't enjoy itself, folks.


That corn won't shuck itself, children.


That ocean won't splash itself, Ruby and Emmie.


And that watermelon won't eat itself, Ginger.

RIC JACKMAN: STANLEY CUP WINNER

Congratulations to the former Penguin and reserve defenseman for the Ducks. Jackman may not have actually worked up a sweat in last night's clinching Game 5, but that's not atypical on a team where the top two D-men are each logging thirty minutes a game. And speaking of D-men, congratulations also to Randy Carlyle, the Ducks coach who was the best player on some lousy Penguins teams, and was so good, in fact, that Eddie Johnston was compelled to trade him to Winnipeg for a box of pucks to ensure the team would be lousy enough to draft Mario Lemieux.

So a West Coast team won the Cup for the first time and got to hold the best trophy presentation in all of sport before a home crowd? Let's hope that has some long-term impact in growing the sport. At the very least, the 17,372 who were there should be fans for life. I missed the Ducks' first two home games because I'm in the majority of Americans who doesn't get Versus, but the crowd seemed appreciative of the finer points of the game. And there's this: a vocal portion of them knew enough to boo Gary Bettman despite the fact that their team had won the Stanley Cup not five minutes beforehand.

May, 2007 Film Viewings

May the First: The Icarus of Pittsburgh
May the Fourth: The Painted Veil (1934)
May the Fifth: Interiors
May the Sixth: Safety Last
May the Eighth: Hot Fuzz
May the Fifteenth: Tokyo Drifter
May the Twentieth: The Companion
May the Twenty-sixth: Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
May the Twenty-seventh: Sleeper