Many of you know about my love for Conan.  He has been the only permanent fixture on “my list” for years, and I have no problems writing his name in pen and having the card laminated.  So it really does break my heart to see what’s going on at NBC right now.  I can’t believe they’re considering putting Leno back.  His demographic is old… and dying.  Sure, they may be the only people watching TV sans DVR technology nowadays, I get that.  But I don’t see how the network can be so shortsighted!  Conan has always been the future (think “Year 3000″).  The appeal for him starts young and his brand of humor stays fresh.  College kids fall in love with the string-dancing freak and the romance will continue well into their twilight years.  Can you imagine anyone else appealing so well to a generation who is suffering from a prolonged adolescence?

I’m happy to see so many people back Coco on the interwebz.  Obviously, his demographic would be feverishly typing away their discontent on the web.  That’s where we live… the “people of earth” to whom he made his address.  NBC’s recent display of complete backwardness shows that their execs really don’t understand that audience.  And who’s the genius letting TNT and DirectTV take over Southland and Friday Night Lights?  Really guys?  If it weren’t for 30 Rock and The Office, I would have been long gone.  There’s vampires and glee clubbers to watch you know.  I miss the days of Friends and ER.  Hell, I miss the days of Cheers and Night Court.  If I can pull that last one out of my hat it ought to prove that I was born genetically hardwired to watch TV. 

I would boycott Leno, but I don’t watch him anyway.  Jay should have bowed out completely when he was replaced.  I feel sorry for the guy because technically he was doing well for the network.  I’ve always believed him to be a classy guy… but if he was so gracious, he shouldn’t have even taken the 10pm slot.  I was genuinely surprised by that act of d-baggery.  He still has a chance to be the good guy and walk away.  I’m really, really trying to stay nice by not commenting on Leno’s brand of comedy.  Trying really, really hard.  Screw it.  Even LaBamba is funnier than Jay!

I’ll leave you with this parting thought.  You know things are bad when Jersey Shore stars start looking like sages.  The Situation was right.  Conan’s nickname should be “The Solution.”  Can I get a fist pump?

I asked Danny if he loves me as much as Edward loves Bella.  He quickly said no and I completely understood.  If he had said yes I would have called him a liar.  At least he loves me as much as Carlisle loves Esme. 

Danny and I took apart our toilet completely and made repairs ourselves.  I feel so accomplished… even more so than having given birth.  On a side note, ain’t the internet grand?  It empowers you to do things like home repairs that you would otherwise feel incapable of tackling.

Vincent didn’t want to eat his soup and rice and was grabbing handfuls of plain brown rice off my plate and jamming them in his face.  He came across a piece of sangchoo (lettuce) and to our surprise took a little bite.  He promptly put it back down and declared it to be “jiji” (korean for trash).  He’s most certainly a meateater. 

He talks a lot and says the darndest things.  The other day he was talking to his trains and starting his phrases with “hey guys” and saying stuff like “oh no” and “oh gosh.”  His pronunciation is rough at this point and we have no idea how he comes up with the stuff that he does.  Here are samples of his words:

choochoowayne = choochoo train

tenis = Thomas

mina = Mater, from Disney’s Cars

wah koo = Poptart

coptoo = helicopter

pinano = piano

geeba = zebra

cahgu = car

dahgu = dog

pigu = pig

buhdee = bird

wahdee = water

sehsehtah = Samantha (his best friend)

ahpawsaw = octopus

eminent = elephant

stawbeddy = strawberry

daipuh = diaper

cuhluhling = coloring (or crayons)

ahl-gung = all done

He says a whole bunch of other stuff that is prounounced well but these are his own concoctions.  He’s growing up too fast!

So I totally voted for Quest Crew… multiple times.  I’m actually a fairly consistent voter (not so much for reality TV, but c’mon this is important!)  This morning I tuned into NPR on my drive to work… and realized that I forgot to turn in my absentee ballot for the Los Angeles County elections.  Doh!  I had my sample ballot ready and everything!  I probably didn’t realize it was time to vote because I haven’t been listening to public radio consistently on my commute home.  All this talk about our economy really bums me out so I’ve been tuning into mind numbing Pop instead.  The moral of the story is… go vote for Quest Crew! 

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/dance_crew/voting.jhtml?episodeId=7419 

You’ve seen The Hills…  You have got to check out Baldwin Hills.  That’s the BET equivalent to MTV’s The Hills.  I don’t even have words. 

Two words:  Quest Crew.  Gotta love ‘em. 

My friend Sarah took professional pics of Vincent a few weeks back.  They’re amazing!  Check out some of the pics at www.sarahkchen.com/blog.

My friend’s baby is 9 months old and she can mimic a couple of basic actions.  Her mom told me that when her baby was 3 months old, she would stick out her tongue and her baby would follow.  I was like wth?  Vinny’s almost 6 months old and I haven’t seen such behavior from him.  So I set my mind on teaching him how to stick out his tongue and in under 3 days he did it!  Now he sticks out his tongue all the time.  It’s cute now but I hope I didn’t teach him something that I’ll regret later.  Now on to other tricks….

I’m constantly trying to see if Vinny knows his name.  I randomly call out his name throughout the day to see if he’ll turn and look at me.  Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn’t.  Why do I do this?  Not responding to his name by the age of one could be a sign of autism.  It is a bit early to worry but I’m convinced that he does know his name.  I keep trying to prove it to Danny but the evidence is spotty at best.  Yesterday evening when we were hanging out on the couch, Vinny was looking away from me while Danny was playing with him.  So I called his name two times and he wouldn’t turn to look at me.  I called again and he finally turned to me.  Danny was obviously unconvinced and thought it was just the tone of my voice that he responded to.  So I called out “Michael” and he turned to me.  “Bobby”… same response.  “Joey”… same response!  I then started calling out all the boy names I could think of and he responded to them all.  It was hilarious!  We were laughing our asses off.  So yeah, he may not know his name yet, but we do have one thing going for us… when I started calling out girl names he didn’t respond to those at all.