…but I’ve kind of become bored with blogging exclusively about her. She’s healthy and growing (probably weighs over 20 pounds now), doing new, cute stuff everyday and charming most everyone she meets. It’s best followed in pictures, and we have loads of these on our Flickr site. The latest is a video of her standing up in her crib. New developments include clapping, some crawling (although she still prefers the army crawl and — when she really wants to cover a lot of territory — rolling) and trying to pull herself to standing whenever possible.

So, as a new year begins, on to new topics! Such as Cool Stuff I Find on the Web. I was hunting around Google to figure out if the New York Times had written anything about the new Kramers Ergot. I thought maybe they had, given all the attention that’s being paid to graphic novels and comics these days. I didn’t find an article, but I did stumble across the website of an artist named Stef Lenk who does some really beautiful, haunting work (see below). Pretty cool how you can set out looking for one thing and discover something totally different, and better. Oh how I love the Internet! And my new red Dell laptop that I received for Christmas. This is the first time in years that I’ve had my very own computer. It doesn’t belong to a corporation and I don’t share it with anyone else in the family. So I can fix it up and use it in absolutely any way I like. Hooray!

Incredible! I’ve just ordered copies of this from Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater. I love Ozu’s movies: They make me nostalgic for a Japan that I never experienced (pre- and shortly-post-War) but feel like I did. This is Ware’s interpretation of Tokyo Story. Now that I see this, I realize that there is a certain similarity of tone in Ware and Ozu’s work.

And Happy Birthday, Ann! There’s some connection here with Ann’s gift, which is on its way to her in DC. I say nothing more so as not to give away the surprise. What’s not a surprise is that the gift will arrive a few days after her birthday. Sorry Miss Ann!