5 Months Old! - and sideways

Friends with Benefits

Everything was going really well with Sadie - good ambience, great chemistry - until our moms busted in on us. Mortifying. I really must get a lock on my door.

Halloween!

Halloween in the Slope is like Christmas on steroids. The anticipation is palpable - I've never seen anything quite like it. A whole bunch of giddy parents who clearly haven't gotten out in a while fool themselves into thinking their babes actually care about candy and costumes - as if I know what a Collingwood Magpie is. (For the benefit of my American followers, it's the mascot of my dad's Aussie Rules footy team.) Rumor has it I'll actually care about the Pies one day- but right now all I know is that my parents kept me out. Late. In the rain. So I could march in the Halloween parade. When all I wanted was bed.

Such gross misjudgements, willful or not, deserve hard lessons. So I gave them one - three sleepless nights in a row. That'll teach them to disrespect the sanctity of routine. All that said, there was one redeeming moment of the evening: meeting Borough President Marty Markowitz, Grand Marshall of the Park Slope Halloween Parade. My heart almost skipped a beat. Pictured immediately below, with my (dare i say it?) girlfriend, Sadie (who was a frog).