HIgh points: Moldford, Moldina, little Momo, Como.

So,

I want to share with you some recent High Points.

1. I'm proud of Jill's continued success at running. She recently ran and completed a 5 mile race around a park. Also competing was Prince Harry and she beat him! We saw him walking around and felt some frisson.

2. I'm proud of my cocobro who has started expressing himself in a powerful new poetic idiom all his own. His writing is frank, earnest, a uniquely Newfoundland version of the fansome technique. I would describe it as brutal. His most powerful work so far is quoted here for posterity's sake:

"Sometimes I ejaculate onto bread and watch it go moldy. Then I pretend I have little mold children. Moldford, Moldina, little Momo, Como."

Clearly, the addition of Como to the list marks it as genius.

Here's to Como and rest of the gang!

Found: The Kwisatz Hederach

Recently discovered by TLC is the Kwisatz Hederach: Liam Hoekstra, world's strongest toddler.




As prophesied by Frank Herbert, young Liam represents a "shortening of the way". Among his abilities is chin-ups, first accomplished at age ONE!!

In other news, Jill, Melanie, me and the Real Quinton were skiing in Pennsylvania. Good times!

I said to Jill last week, "dillers to doners, Jake's pay's gonna be quarter dece, but he won't save a goddamn dime-- he'll nickel it away on five-cent Gjirokastër strippers." It sucks being right all the time.

Seriously now Jacob, hold on to that money to fund your victory lap when you graduate. There's a strong potentiality we'll be in connecticut, which is looking sweeter by the minute.

In entertainment news, Jill and I went to the ol' Feist concert last night. It was pretty good, pretty low key (pretty boring). We left in a rush to catch the tram, but Thursday we'll be maxing at the Northcote Social Club watching Stars-- a mere brisk trot from our home:




So everything is turning up Crizlebie! Took long enough, hey Jill!

Frankly vs. Earnestly

I came across this tidbit while cybersurfin' on the digital trailways of the world wide web:


Frank & Ernest chronicles the adventures of two "every man" characters who are anything but ordinary! They are able to appear in different settings, time periods - even manifested as things and creatures other than people. The variety in the strip extends to their observations about a wide variety of subjects.

Frank & Ernest peaks with a unique voice that reflects the strip's iconoclastic - but lovable - attitude combined with timely - and timeless - humor. Wordplay often adds extra entertainment value.

A tradition of innovation continues to sustain the strip's vitality. When it debuted in 1972, Frank & Ernest was the first panel presented in a strip format and the first comic to employ variety in settings and character manifestations, eschewing an ongoing story in one setting. The tradition of innovation was evident also in the introduction of e-mail addresses to the comics pages of over 1,000 newspapers (1994) plus in the use of detailed digital coloring process for the Sunday strips (1995). The strip's first web site has extended the innovative tradition in three ways:

* First translation of syndicated comic strip characters to 3-D format.
* First availability of an interactive version of a strip first published in the newspaper.
* First searchable database of syndicated cartoons.

Who knows what the future will offer!

Frank & Ernest is read daily by over 25 million people in1,200 newspapers in the United States andabroad.
Characters

The wordplay often evident in the strip - frankly and earnestly! - begins with the name! Frank, the taller of the two characters, tends to be more open and candid. Ernest, true to his name, typically is genuine and sincere.

What traits do they share?

* Observers.
* Neither right nor left, but always off-center.
* Nothing is sacred for them. Everything is fair game for their wit.
* Respect society - but aren't afraid to point out its flaws.
* Vacation plans likely to include renting travel videos and watching them on the couch.
* Make fun of themselves - not others. Able to laugh at themselves.

Frank - the taller of the pair

* Talkative, gregarious, uninhibited, self-centered.
* Happily self-deluding. Fools nobody but himself, but that's good enough for him.
* Has a girlfriend, Francine, but can't seem to have things go smoothly with her.
* Lampoons pomposity.
* Has unconscious wisdom. Has the correct answer to everything - but for all of the wrong reasons.
* Precisely targets pretension.

Ernest

* Happy, lovable, innocent, easy-going, totally oblivious to himself.
* Naively upstages Frank.
* Pays no mindful attention to Frank's foibles.
* Benignly punctures self-delusions.
* Has worse luck with women than Frank does.
* Often turns the table on Frank but is completely free of malice.