Google Image Search: Word & Picture #199

Today's Word:
stoked

Today's Picture:

I am totally stoked. There are 2 big reasons.

#1 - Darrell is coming to Austin this weekend. We are going to laugh, drink beer, eat Bar-B-Q and watch football.

#2 - I got into Butt-Numb-Athon! 24 hours of movie-watching bliss in celebration of Harry Knowles' birthday. Hell yes! High-five the blog!

I am pumped. This should be a great weekend.

In Summary: I am stoked, I am pumped, Darrell is coming to Austin.

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #198

Today's Word:
Apollo 13

Today's Picture:

Ron Howard came to Austin for the Austin Film Festival. I got a pass from my friend, Brian... then upgraded it to a Weekend Badge so I could attend panels. Megan got a pass, too. She took some amazing pictures of Ron Howard... see below.


Ron Howard's Apollo 13 panel was my favorite. They had several original NASA employees, including Apollo 13 astronaut James Lovell, in attendence. During the screening of Apollo 13, Megan sat next to me. Our baby was kicking like crazy inside of Megan's belly. Megan put my hand on her stomach and I felt our baby kick for the first time... right before the grandma's line of, "Don't you worry. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it." This was something I will never forget.

Other favorite moments from the festival were:

• Mitchell Hurwitz on the story-telling panel
• Owen Egerton on the Write-What-You-Know: Comedy panel
• Rick Linklater on the Art of Storytelling panel
• Kat Candler's Love Bug
• Jason Reitman telling the story of how his father encouraged him to drop out of medical school saying, "there is not enough magic in it for you"
• watching "Youth in Revolt"

Kat won the "Narrative Short Audience Award Winner". Congrats, Kat! You rock. I loved that short and can not wait for it to be made into a feature.

Megan snapped these pictures of Ron Howard outside the Paramount...


... and this photo of Ron Howard and the entire Apollo 13 Q&A panel after the movie screening...


In Summary: My baby kicks Megan's belly, Kat's Love Bug is awesome, there is not enough magic in med school.

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #197

Today's Word:
"doctor's visit"

Today's Picture:

Since Megan has been pregnant, I have been to the doctor's office more times in the past 6 months than at any 6 month period of my life. I have been to all the appointments. I have been to all the flu shots. It has been cool. This is what it looks like:


I am not normally a huge fan of doctor's offices. I get anxious just being there. I never think about what is wrong with me... unless I am at a doctor's office. I read the informational packets while waiting for the doctor. Ovarian cancer. Yeast infections. Scoliosis. There is a bunch of scary crap in the world that I do not know about. Sometimes I read the packets and think, "I will probably get this disease at some point." Then my heart starts racing. Unlike G.I. Joe, I think in regards to my health anxiety, NOT knowing is half-the-battle.


But I have been having fun at Megan\the baby's doctor's visits. Here is a picture of me having fun:

Turns out, I'm not pregnant. But Megan is.

I like these doctor's visits for a few reason:

• I get to look at the other people's baby pictures and make sassy comments to make Megan laugh.
• I get to hear the baby's heart beat. It is awesome.
• I get to miss work sometimes. That is cool.
• The doctors\mid-wives at Megan's OB\GYN are cool.

I tried to take a picture of Megan and I at our most recent doctor's visit. I set the timer and ran to the front of the camera. But this is what happened:

Oooooooo, so close. So close.

I should have stacked-up some of those scary informational packets to move the camera up. Or I guess we could have ducked-down. Either way would have worked. But now you know what I wore to the doctor's visit.

In Summary: G.I. Joe is cool, I have doctor anxiety issues, I am not pregnant (but Megan is pregnant).

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #196

Today's Word:
pug costume

Today's Picture:

Why do people who own pugs go crazy? Before we got PugPuggy, I was a perfectly well adjusted human being. Now, I am crazy. Here is proof:

Yes, I dressed my dog in a dinosaur costume. Then we took her to the Austin Pug Club's annual Halloween costume contest. We did not compete, but I saw a couple of costumes I loved, including this four-legged guy:

... yes, a pug in a Michael Jackson costume. Complete with one sparkly glove over a paw. So awesome. At least I was not the craziest person there.

Originally, we were going to dress PugPuggy up like a banana. Here is a picture of her original costume...

... but something was weird about this costume...

... something was very weird about this costume.

At first, we could not put our finger on what it was. Then we figured it out. PugPuggy looked like a Klu Klux Klansman. Take another look:

PugPuggy is thinking, "white power" in this costume.


Yes, sorry, PugPuggy. I know.

So we returned the banana costume and dressed PugPuggy up like a dinosaur. My bad.


In Summary: I am crazy, PugPuggy's dad was a black pug, klansmen wear banana costumes.

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #195

Today's Word:
Stacy Hedger

Today's Picture:

Stacy Hedger was the inspiration for my Halloween costume this year. If you have not seen the video, search for "Stacy Hedger Star Wars" on YouTube. You will find it. It might make sense after you see it. My friend, Brian, is a composer. He explained to me that Stacy's trumpet was in Bb and the music was written in C. That is why she is off by a full step (atleast). She should have played it in D, then it would have been in-sync with the orchestra. But the dance is what makes it... especially the Charlie Chaplin interlude. Awesome.

I spent all weekend explaining my costume. After 2 Halloween parties of explaining my costume, I told Megan, "next year, I am going as something self-explanatory." Maybe I will be a storm-trooper. Or maybe I will be cookie monster. I just don't want to dress up like something that requires a brochure to explain.

In fairness, if I saw a full grown man in spandex unitard, carrying a trumpet, I would have asked, "what are you supposed to be?" The answer: Stacy Hedger.

I would like to thank the one guy who said, "are you that YouTube lady?" I wanted to hug him. But, unfortunately, it is against my moral code of conduct to hug another man while wearing a full body suit of spandex. Plus, would you want a guy who looked like this to hug you?

I didn't think so.

Who was huggable? Megan. Her costume was awesome. She went as an X-Ray with a baby in her stomach giving the thumbs-up. Here is a picture of her costume:

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #194

Today's Word:
pumpkin dance

Today's Picture:


My friend Dave showed me this. I have been fascinated by it.


So weird and great, too.

Happy Halloween everyone.

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #193

Today's Word:
"Pregnant Megan"

Today's Picture:

Creepy.

I totally do not understand how Google image search works. What does the picture above have to do with Megan being pregnant? It is scary. Please change it, Google.

Google image search should return this:

That is much better.

Megan is in week 24 of her pregnancy. She is looking good. The baby continues to grow and so does her belly.

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Google Image Search: Word & Picture #192

Today's Word:
Halloween pancake

Today's Picture:


Tonight, 7 PM, Master Pancake does John Carpenter's Halloween. Get tickets here.

See you down there.