Scooter Chronicles

So what is happening in the World of Nigel? Glad you asked (Karen).

After switching formula, it appeared that Nigel was doing better with the digestion problems which were leading to colic-like symptoms. Well, that lasted a few days. He was starting to get back to the crying and crabbiness, and was spitting up even more. So Marcia scheduled another appointment with the pediatrician. They told us if that symptoms seemed to persist to give them a call, because it could be acid reflux. So that’s what they have deduced and now have Nigel on a liquid form of Zantac. Yes, you read that correctly. A medicine that is stereotypically thought of with large wasted men scarfing...

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I wanted to formally thank my Dad and Mom for these two lovely treats. My Dad brought them along with him during their recent trip for Nigel’s Christening. The cookies were obviously homemade, and promised to me for a couple of months. Though honestly I was in no hurry for them, or was I even asking for them. I am very grateful for them however.

Now there may be some of you wondering, “What the heck is city chicken?” The CITY CHICKEN I know and love is cubed cuts of pork put on a stick, breaded, then fried up. I have always enjoyed them. What has usually made them more special is only having them on holidays (though we have had them on...

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Sometime earlier this week (can’t remember the day, but I am playing catch-up again) Marcia and I watched “Bernard and the Genie”. It is a Christmas special from 1991 produced by BBC, starring Alan Cumming, Lenny Henry, and Rowan Atkinson.

Bernard Bottle (Cumming) is an art dealer, working for Charles Pinkworth (Atkinson). He has recently sold an elderly woman’s collection for 50 million pounds, a collection that she didn’t know it’s worth, and then promised her half of the money. Pinkworth first treats Bottle as the company savior, then promptly fires him after hearing the deal he made with the woman....

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On Monday night (catching up a bit here), I finished reading “Hidden Camera” by Zoran Zivkovic, which was translated by Alice Copple-Tosic.

I believe I found out about this book through Jeffrey Ford’s Live Journal (though I now can’t find the post). Here is a description from Amazon.Com and Publishers Weekly.

Zivkovic surveys the shifting line between paranoid fantasy and legitimate threat in his mystifying novel. When the unnamed narrator, an undertaker, is invited to a private film screening, he’s surprised to see that the movie...

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