Although I neglected to mention it in my “eventful week” post on Monday, today is my Mom and Dad’s 27th wedding anniversary!
The above picture of them was taken on the Staten Island Ferry last summer. I rather like it. (The bunny at bottom right is named Knubbles.)
Anyway, Happy Anniversary, Mom & Dad!
On a tangentially related note, two years ago, on my parents’ silver anniversary, an e-mail inviting friends and relatives to view an online photo tribute produced a “flood” of traffic and a new daily hits record for BrendanLoy.com: 80 visits in one day! That such a mark would be a record seems remarkable to the point of absurdity now, considering my current daily record is 3,326 hits, and I average around 300 to 400 per day. We’ve come a long way, baby.
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Categories: Website News, Me: Friends, Family & Stuffies
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May 28th, 2004 at 1:35:49 pm
Her t-shirt says “I [heart] kids”. So why did she only have one? Were you that much of a punk growing up that you terrified your parents of having another one? :-)
May 28th, 2004 at 1:42:47 pm
Actually, the t-shirt says “I Love Kids and Yiddish.” You just can’t see the word “Yiddish.”
Kids and Yiddish is an annual stage production of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in Manhattan, of which my mom is a supporter and sometime volunteer.
The Folksbiene is associated with the Workmen’s Circle, a.k.a., long-haired radical socialist Jews. Not necessarily your kind of people. :)
May 28th, 2004 at 2:16:06 pm
So because nobody in your family spoke Yiddish, she stopped having kids? Heh.
May 28th, 2004 at 3:03:30 pm
Thanks very much, Bean. :) / Right now the Anniversary Girl is asleep on the couch (the Girl’s Big on that couch y’know :), exhausted from too much NYC’ing. But she thanks you in her Dreams. :) “(The bunny at bottom right is named Knubbles.)” Yes & the stubbles at left is named Lefty.
Which Reminds me: HI ANDREW! You were Hilarious yesterday but today you’re a little Off yer game. It’s true we were yiddishless but I’d have yez ter know he babbled (unceasingly) in an obscure dialect o’ th’ gaelic for the first 2 years. Put your mind to it & I’m sure you can think up some alternate Explanations for the Onering Offspring, albeit probably ones pointing the Finger of blame at an alternate Loy. :) Remember Occam’s Razor. Granted that MY Mom’s pediatrician said Forget about it but nevermind that now, the old hack was never very sharp anyway, probably anti-yiddish even, I betcha. :) OTOH, I suppose you could go back and review that Messageboard you emailed to me. :> Possibilities abound, you Bounder. / waw haw haw ….
Brendan (back to You at the Studio, this is Lefty Loy reporting for A.N.N…. :), you are the Mitzvah of yer Mother’s & My Marriage. Two like You would have been more than a silly old Rightiehippie/Spacecadet Pairbond could ever hope for or deserve. :) Love ya Kid. / (But Say. Isn’t that an old Rock group? “Two Like You”?? :)
- Dad
May 30th, 2004 at 3:11:27 pm
Afterthought: Andrew, you were understandably so preoccupied with reading my wife’s chest that you must have missed the equally commendable message on her beltpack: “A&R Local 4200 AFT CSFT AFL-CIO”. :) We were both activist Goons in the same Union y’know. May G*d bless the Taxpayers’ Money. :) Why do I keep trying to Provoke you like this? And yerself slaving away in an Honest job at Boeing to defend my Freedom. :)