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...auteur to the bone, his biggest grace and ultimate dilemma. His productions trace a clear evolution, each new single a complete and painstaking reinvention. And they consistently have machines one-upping humans at their game (the programmed rhythm in “Are You That Somebody,” too inhumanly angular and precise for a real drummer’s arms, being my favorite example) while the actual performers vocalize in stark contrast, like any good pop star. Point being that Tim may have started to run out of new ways to augment his friends. (The latest Missy album...
...plane was full. Mary Grace found her recreation for the trip in the row immediately behind: a baby. She loves babies more than she loves dogs, and she loves dogs plenty. She loves to share whatever she has - dolls, food, fevers - with whatever baby she meets. ?Hey, Mary Grace,? I said. ?The baby?s a Pats? fan.? The baby was wearing a Tom Brady jersey, size six months...
...into the turns. I think roller coasters are useful measuring sticks in a young person?s life, and I, as a dad, found it poignant that my little Caroline could now handle ?Big Thunder.? I am pleased that ?Splash Mountain? is still too much, and that Jack and Mary Grace are still too little to reach the 40 inches required for either ride, never mind ?Space Mountain.? Jack and Mary Grace loved ?Dumbo,? and I, an adult parent in a dicey world, want to freeze them in their ?Dumbo? age. It?s a nice, little, 1950s kind of ride...
...Mary Grace?s favorite attraction of the day was ?Tom Sawyer Island.? This was because, in Injun Joe?s Cave, she could scoot ahead and hide and then scare her daddy or mommy when them came around a curve. This she can do at home, for free. I don?t know where this fits into my roller-coaster-dynamics argument - go ask Malcolm Gladwell - but I?m sure it fits somewhere...
...made some mistakes at Epcot. First, we booked a ?Lunch with the Characters? and Mary Grace is still scared . . . let?s say witless by characters. Whenever Pluto hove into view, she freaked. And both she and Jack lost it at ?Honey,? because a 3-D snake popping into your face is not want you want or need when you?re three. (Daddy?s gotta say, however: The effects were terrific...