There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Just admit it. You've wanted to say this many many times...
I got something from The Husband last night. Something I believe that will allow him to forget my birthday this year. Honey, you are already forgiven!
THE best baby book ever. Really. If you know someone who just had a baby, or who is going to have a baby, RUN, don’t walk, and order this book for them. They will love you for it.
And it is possible that you may be saving their sanity.
If you have gone through this, the so-called sleep training, you probably have said this, nay, SCREAMED this inside your head, many many time.
WHY won’t you just SHUT THE FUCK UP and GO TO SLEEP?!
Yeah. That.
Then you probably felt guilty for screaming inside your head at your kid.
Yeah. That too.
Well, I hope this book will help absolve the sense of guilt you feel from time to time. No. You are not alone in feeling this way.
The Husband and I also really bounded overnight by staging dramatic readings of this book. I have to say, he did an awesome job in expressing the frustration. I did not realize he’s a method actor esp. when he was saying all the F word in his reading. Very convincing. Mine? Not so much.
Just when I thought this could not have been even more awesomer. Guess what? They have an audio version of this. Professionally done of course. Go ahead and guess who is the narrator.
As a quote unquote Theatre Person (Notice how I spell Theatre the “wrong” way? Yeah, that’s the sign I AM a theatre person) who nevertheless has been living so far away from the epicenter of theatrical creativity aka NYC, I always find Tony Awards a bitter sweet event. Wishing does not bring about peace. Let me just put it this way. Still, once in a year, I bask in the glory, vicariously through television broadcast and now more than ever YouTube, of the community of thespians.
I will shut up now so you could watch the opening performance at the Tony Awards last night. NPH. “Broadway: It’s not just for gays anymore!” FUCK YEAH AWESOME!
Tru dat! And while we are at it, shouldn’t somebody go and sign him up to host the next Oscar now too?! Oh, what am I saying? Just sign him up for everything already!
p.s. I have to thank Brahm for posting this video first!
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