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I'm trying to crosspost more here, although my home-base is still LJ (for now).

Have any of you read Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay? I really enjoyed it all the way up until maybe the last 2 pages, when it hit a big personal issue of mine. I was just wondering if anyone else felt the same way, since this book won literary prizes galore and is considered amazing. And it really was awesome for the most part.

It's the story of how 2 Jewish guys, one from NYC the other a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague, popularized superheroes just prior to WW2, loosely based on the story of Superman's creation. Anyway, it follows the 2 men mainly through the eyes of Sammy Clay (Klayman) and is his and his cousin Josef Kavalier's story. It follows them from the beginning before the war up through the 1950s when comics were put on trial for perverting society basically, which becomes especially relevant for Sammy who, throughout the book, deals with being gay in a condemning society. Here's where I find fault (are spoilers in order??) ( spoilers )

Anyway, I have to say that I think Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union is the better book anyway - and it didn't make me furious, so there's that.

We had a big party for Zack to celebrate his first birthday Sat, and then last night after the last of our house guests left he fell down the stairs and broke his leg. We're going to an orthopedics doctor this afternoon to learn what needs to be done. The ER doctor said it was a minor compression fracture of hid femur (upper leg/thigh) right above the knee, and that maybe he doesn't even need a cast - but he can't walk/crawl for "a while". We told him without a splint, Zack would never stay still so that's what he has now until we see the specialist.

I feel so bad for Zack! For my husband too - he was playing with him upstairs and got distracted for just a second. He looked back as Zack stepped off the top step and tumbled head over heels down the whole flight of stairs. He actually dived after him head first and caught him at the very end when he might have cracked his head on the tile floor at the bottom (the steps are carpeted). I was downstairs and heard Jeff yell something and then a horrible thudding sound. I came running thinking Jeff had fallen, that he and Jake had been play wrestling (even though I knew Jake was taking a long bath and it couldn't have been that). I was horrified to see Zack being held up by Jeff, and thought at first they'd fallen together, then was even more horrified Zack had fallen by himself. Zack clung to me for a long time screaming, while we talked to our ped and were told to take him to the ER in case of head/neck injuries. I knew there was something wrong with his leg pretty quickly because he refused to stand. :(

My poor baby!

I really don't care if Cablevision or ABC is "right", they both suck because I can't watch the Oscars tonight. I do kind of blame Cablevision more, I guess, because I pay them for my TV networks, and I don't think I should have to deal with their incompetency as a middleman. Their job is purely to transmit TV into millions of homes, and if they can't make the deals to do that then they fail.

Also made of fail - Gov Patterson, who should resign and then be forced to work in a domestic violence center for a while. Yankee ticket ethics violations will probably be what gets him in the most trouble, but morally it just stinks up the joint that he used his position to get a woman to drop domestic violence charges against one of his aides. Not cool at all.

Can you tell I live in the NYC are?
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Jake is at a birthday party right now that I was supposed to take him to, but Zack wouldn't nurse or sleep in time. I'm really bummed because I feel as if Jake and I aren't as close anymore because I'm chasing Zack everywhere all day and can't spend as much time with Jake. :( And yet I also feel that Zack gets shortchanged because I constantly cart him around in the car while taking Jake places. I think parenthood is equal parts guilt and love some days.

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Wow, Smallville gets a 10th season! I've been watching off and on, but it's still interesting. If Lex came back I'd watch every ep again, just because I like the dynamic of their future destinies and current realities, but I don't think they would have gotten 10 years with that, so TPTB made the right call to expand beyond that.

White Collar continues to be about smart people doing smart things, and I'm loving it. Plus I've loved Tim DeKay since Carnivale and Matt Bomer since Chuck.

American Idol is kind of boring right now. I like Ellen, but she's trying too hard to amuse and not hard enough to use her expertise at performing to critique the contestants. I don't really have any favorite contestants, but rarely do at this stage.

Psych is still sweet and funny and deserving of a bigger following.