While I’ve been locked in Editland (the pilot is coming along beautifully, by the way…), important things have been happening in the outside world. Most notably, my mom’s new book came out on Tuesday!
Go! Buy! Now!
And while your at it, my friend Bob Powers (of “Happy Cruelty Day” fame) has a new book that was also released on Tuesday. “You Are a Miserable Excuse For a Hero” is sort of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book for adults.
And finally, just for you fans of non-literary entertainment… Baz has learned to smile in a way that indicates enjoyment rather than gas. Either that or he has a lot of gas, which seems to get worse when I look at him. [I suppose it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had this effect on people…]








50 comments
Dee
May 30, 2008 at 12:32 pm
1FINALLY! I come here 29 times a day looking for new Baz pictures. Look at that smile! Look at those chubby cheeks and thighs and I just want to snoggle all over them.
Zee Man
May 30, 2008 at 1:46 pm
2gillian, best of luck with your new model girlfriend from Spats’ album cover (she’s not bad, in a Middle Eastern sort of way). I’m holding out for the dame on Edith’s book cover. I’ve always been a sucker for babes with porcelain skin, long brunette hair, and a balcony you can do Shakespeare from. (OK, that last one is stolen from Fire Sign Theatre - “Don’t Crush That Dwarf…” circa 1970, but still a good one.)
Adam, trying out a few lines from the pilot on your boy, huh? It seems he likes the jokes - but maybe he’s just buttering you up, angling a for role as the prodigy comedic savant. Promise us you won’t make him use a cigarette prop like the rest of you guys. He’s a cutie.
David
May 30, 2008 at 2:52 pm
3A Felber men smile-off. Love it.
cooper
May 30, 2008 at 4:09 pm
4I haven’t been snoggled in over five decades. As I recall, it was a pleasing sensation.
Dale
May 30, 2008 at 6:18 pm
5Please, please, please, will someone send me a baby?
Apathete
May 30, 2008 at 6:34 pm
6Great picture - which is which?
… or is it a trick with mirrors?
SallyMutant
May 30, 2008 at 10:24 pm
7It’s aaaaaallllllllllll right
and it probably isn’t just gas.
It’s aaaaaaaaaaaalllll right
’cause smilin’ wee Baz is a gas, gas, gas!
Erich
May 30, 2008 at 10:51 pm
8What an adorable photo.
cooper
May 31, 2008 at 3:56 am
9(Umm ……… PhDale, that’s not how it happens. Don’t they teach students anything in graduate school these days?)
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May 31, 2008 at 8:31 am
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Boomer
May 31, 2008 at 8:47 am
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May 31, 2008 at 10:35 am
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Dee
May 31, 2008 at 12:18 pm
13If we get them to say their names backwards do they disappear?
Jake
May 31, 2008 at 12:40 pm
14Oh, Dee. I now have a pretty good idea of your age and how you wasted your youth (and allowance). Me too, BTW.
Becca (and Brian)
May 31, 2008 at 2:19 pm
15oh fer cute!
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you can take the girl out of minnesota, but…
Becca (and Brian)
May 31, 2008 at 2:26 pm
16And i’m a little jealous…Fanny will block my comments but lets Kazelgvx and Kazeleyj in? What’s a girl got to do? Send some fine aged cheddar as a bribe?
Harold
May 31, 2008 at 4:53 pm
17Adam, regarding Baz: AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!
And I, for one, welcome Kazelgvx and Kazeleyj, our new alien overlords from the planet BmpNGrnd.
Jessica
May 31, 2008 at 6:35 pm
18That picture is simply adorable.
Best wishes.
Greg
May 31, 2008 at 8:28 pm
19oh my… you’re making my fiance go “baaaaaabyyyyy”
hedera
June 1, 2008 at 5:34 pm
20I can understand spamming in an attempt to sell something, it’s a new variant on an old occupation of the human race. But why spam the list with links to web sites that don’t exist?? That’s just a waste of everybody’s time and effort, including the spammer…
Sa
June 1, 2008 at 6:13 pm
21I hope all you Obama lovers appreciate that I’m making quite the sacrifice sleeping with the enemy, as it were. You may have noticed that Mr. McCain has been making quite a few gaffes lately about which sect in Iraq is getting assistance from Iran, which sect is now breaking with Al-Queada, and what his current wife’s name is (hint: during the election cycle, he has agreed not to call her “C^nt”, his pet name for her, at least around reporters, so he sometimes stumbles on “Cindy”.)
You’re welcome. Here’s how I’m doing it. I was able to bribe (blackmail, actually. BTW, thanks for leaving all the wiretaps and surveillance cameras up and running in your old Capital Hill office, Mr DeLay. What a gold mine that has been!) a mid level White House insider to run down that mysterious “box” that was strapped onto W’s back during his first debate with Kerry back in ‘04. As we all assumed, it was the modest electronic equivalent of a cheat sheet, where W’s handlers could tell him how to answer the panel’s questions. I had Aidan, my new electronics genius - and yes, I had her drug tested - make modifications and we’ve slimmed it down and relocated it to McCain’s armpit. So not only can Mr. McCain’s chief of staff now feed him answers, so can I (wink)! Just wait until some lapdog, in the tank, reporter tosses McCain a softball economics question. I tell you, it’s a joy going into work each day, which is really how it should be.
Samuel
June 1, 2008 at 6:19 pm
22Sorry, “Sa” is what our new adopted Cambodian daughter calls me. She’s a smart kid, but still can’t speak English any better than the President. Don’t worry, we’ll have her doing Shakespeare before her first birthday.
Samuel
June 1, 2008 at 6:28 pm
23And, in case you’re wondering, after all this demanding and successful undercover work, I hacked into the main computer at McCain 2008 headquarters and tripled my salary again. A guy’s gotta plan for early retirement, doesn’t he?
gillian
June 2, 2008 at 3:17 am
24I think I was out of town on Earth Day, so my contribution to the fight…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_ main.html?name=Toles&date=05252008&type=c
R. Nixon
June 2, 2008 at 2:25 pm
25It was nice here over the weekend, so I didn’t come near a website. Nice pics Adam.
Hmm…”HIS Dark and Dangerous Ways”? What about HER dark and dangerous ways? Or was that used before?
It's Pat!
June 2, 2008 at 2:25 pm
26Whoops! How did Tricky get ahold of my computer! The nasty fiend.
Kjell Mikkelsen
June 2, 2008 at 5:01 pm
27It is Pat!, tomorrow in Bemidji is være rainy and 13C, an agreeable Norsk sommer dag.
B. Diddley
June 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm
28OK, white America, now that I’m dead you can finally tell the truth - “Who do you love?” It was me all the while, right? Right? I knew it!!
White American
June 2, 2008 at 5:55 pm
29You bet your ass it was, Bo. You were da man.
David
June 2, 2008 at 5:58 pm
30Good one, gillian. Once again, Toles rules.
It's Pat!
June 2, 2008 at 7:16 pm
31Sounds like Hillary is calling it quits.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/clinton-summons-top-donor_n_1 04715.html
AmericanMutant
June 2, 2008 at 8:35 pm
32Thank you, Mr. Diddley.
Fink
June 3, 2008 at 3:06 am
33Hillary calls it quits; Bill calls it “sleazy”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/bill-clinton-purdhum-a-sl _b_104771.html
I guess he would know “sleazy”.
siobhan
June 3, 2008 at 12:06 pm
34Adam, do you ever get bored with posing for your mom’s book covers?
Zee Man
June 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm
35siobhan, I’m hoping that you’re referring to Adam being the other figure on the cover and not the “babe with porcelain skin, long brunette hair, and a balcony you can do Shakespeare from,” because otherwise, I’m going to be sick.
Dale
June 3, 2008 at 3:05 pm
36My niche as a model would be more along the lines of the Bob Powers book cover. Come to think of it–I think that might be me.
cooper
June 3, 2008 at 4:01 pm
37Really, Dale? You wear socks to bed? How
unglamorousunusual.Dale
June 3, 2008 at 4:08 pm
38Hey, if it´s good enough for Eliot Spitzer…
In unrelated news: I just realized that PRI has cancelled one of my favorite shows, Fair Game with Faith Salie . Seems that the NPR old farts have struck again. If anyone else shares my opinion, please write PRI and let them know!
cooper
June 3, 2008 at 5:28 pm
39Okay, Dale, I did my civic duty (that’s twice in one year, so lay off already. I’ve got a besmirched reputation to maintain and doing deeds for the good of the people don’t fit the profile.). I’ll miss hearing Faith and her decidedly quirky take on the news. Maybe she’ll pop up somewhere else. Well, look at Adam - he started his career as Gummy Binkman and look where he is now!
sharon
June 4, 2008 at 6:43 pm
40Thanks for the link, gillian. The sketch of the “reverse circus clown trick” is funny, too.
Chris Harlan
June 7, 2008 at 10:47 pm
41OMG, that is one cute baby!
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