[music] rockabye baby! metallica

So I've basically taken the entire summer off from blogging - last post was June 30th. You know how you make a comeback? With breaking news like this: I'm going to be a Daddy. Seriously. Wifey is due 1/10/10. So now what? I should be researching for cribs, toys that make lots of annoying noises and breast pumps, right? Nope. This is the first thing that caught my eye as a Daddy to be, whilst Wifey was shopping for maternity threads the other day. Rockabye Baby puts out a line of lullaby renditions of songs by bands such as U2, Green Day, AC/DC and Metallica to name a few. Metallica lullabyes. Who knew? Included are Black Album classics (Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven), early 'Tallica hits (Master of Puppets, One) and at least one puzzling selection: Fade To Black, a song about death from 1984's Ride The Lighting. I'm not so sure Junior and I will be rocking out to that one. At least not until he starts wearing black nail polish and tells me how much he hates me.

[update] happy birthday to me!

It's my birthday today. As you get older, your desires tend to switch from the materialistic to the more important things in life. You know, like world peace and the hope for a few more Jessica Biel movies. I want less violence and more love. I want Wifey to always be happy because she puts her heart and soul into everything she does. I want Lindsay Lohan to be like she was in "Mean Girls." I want to ride the subway in the morning and not worry about catching the swine flu. Or getting blown up, for that matter. I want a douchebag quota imposed so that we can use Guantanamo Bay for keeping people like Tom Cruise away from the continental US. I want a cure for cancer, already. I want Major League Baseball to introduce relegation so that I don't have to watch teams like the Kansas City Royals ever again. I want teleportation booths invented so that I can have a cup of tea with my grandparents in Delhi and be back in Boston to have dinner with my parents in the same day. I want a remake of Top Gun, minus Tom Cruise and the almost-nude locker room scenes. I want to always be close to those who I love, and if I do lose them, I want to reunite with them someday in a place that has HDTV so that I can watch the Red Sox.

[update] i. want. house.

Wifey and I are trying to close on a house today. When I say "close," you would think I meant everything is in order and all we need to do is pick up the keys. Not so, as there seem to be all sorts of hurdles when you're buying a house these days. This economy is kicking our ass. But I'm hopefull all will go well. And if it does, there is a plethora of useless crap that I will be needing. Like, every "Lovely Day for a Guinness" sign ever made for my bar.

[travel] ohio!

In Cleveland today. Usually, I like to write about something I'd like to do when visiting a city. I got nothing. Sorry Cleveland. Nothing against you. Just bitter I had to take a 6 am flight to get here.

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[update] i'm back

So I've decided to reinstate "I.Want.Now". For those of you who are new to this space-which likely will be anybody reading this post-I started this blog in 2005 for one simple reason: I want stuff. Cool gadgets, good eats, sweet cars, exotic travel, and all sorts of other seemingly ridiculous crap that my wife won't let me have. Which is why I must resort to telling you all how badly I want this stuff. Now go out and buy - because the economy ain't getting any better if we let this junk sit on the shelves and collect dust....