didionville

The Yankees, Mets, and — most devastating — UCLA all lost today. The first two we are dealing with o.k.; there are 150+ baseball games left.

But UCLA’s season is O-V-E-R.

Leslie is not happy.

Adding insult to injury, UCLA did not even put on a good showing. They did not play like a championship team at all, and the results showed it. Porous defense, soft rebounding, and, most inexplicable of all, uncoordinated offense. It was reminiscent of a regular season game Didion and I watched. UCLA is supposed to be very well coached, but that did not show in this game: no ball movement and few passes into the post to take advantage of UCLA’s big advantage — Kevin Love, who, we suspect is going to announce his entry into the NBA draft, effectively giving UCLA the finger and seriously handicapping next season’s squad. Suffice it to say, the (game) loss has cast a pall; Love jumping ship is only going to thicken it.

I am off to hang some black bunting.

mommy and daddy took me to DIA:beacon this afternoon. the building is so cool. it’s an old factory that is on the national registry of historic places. mommy and daddy were talking about how awesome it is that a museum’s building can be its own piece of art and actually complement the exhibitions inside …

we went through all the galleries. i saw all sorts of stuff: awesomely clever geometric drawings, big blocks of color, huge screen prints, glowing lights, twisted metals … a giant spider! it was really interesting. i have to say that my favorite things to look were the blinking neon lights. they were pretty hypnotic. (no links to those because mommy can’t find any. take my word for it, though; they were really neat.)

mommy and daddy spent a lot of time in their favorite part of the museum: the gallery that holds serra’s torqued ellipses. mommy and daddy took me in and around the humongous rusted metal sculptures. they talked about how cool it was to walk in and around them and see how the light and space change. they also told me that grandpa chuck really likes them, too. grandpa chuck has good taste.

then i did stuff like jabber and laugh and play. i also ate my body weight in food (and pooped same).

it was a good day.

woo-hoo!!! mommy’s friend, buffy, gave birth to her third child (and first son) today. she went into labor this morning, and ryan joseph was born this afternoon.

and, friends, if you thought i was big …

ryan weighed in at 10 lbs, 2.5 oz …

WHOA!

mommy doesn’t have all the details yet, but she does know the MOST IMPORTANT stuff … mommy and baby are healthy and doing a-ok!

here’s a pic of ryan. he’s just a few hours old …