Video from the London Eye

Marta & Santi at the London Eye. [They're not flapping their arms like a bird, they're doing some of the moves from Jump, the martial arts show we saw earlier.]

Santi comes to London

Wearing his birthday present… “My Sausage is on Fire”

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On Westminster Bridge

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Marta & me, wearing 3D glasses for the London Eye pre-show movie. Yes, I’ve grown a ‘tasche for Mo-vember.

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This is what the London Eye looks like from the top.

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Buckingham Palace

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Westminster

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St Thomas’ Hospital, where our baby will be born.

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Santi

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Santi & Marta

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We took him to see “Jump”, a martial-arts comedy show from South Korea about a wacky . It’s a good family show, like a live action Kung Fu Hustle. Very entertaining.

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Brotherly puppy love

After living together for 3 years and barely tolerating each other, this is the first time they’ve done this!

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Bumpi 20-Nov-2009

2 weeks from full term. 4 weeks from our due date.

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70mph winds versus dead tree. Tree loses.

Luckily it fell toward the street instead of the house or my motorcycle.

From 2009-11

Cheesecake

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Pumpkin Pirate

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Pink Police – Bumpi dressed for a hen party

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Our Shabbat dinner table

This is what our Shabbat dinner table looks like on Friday nights. It’s not always easy to keep Shabbat with demands from work, but we try our best.

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Our funny (and long) evening with Kevin Smith

In October, I got to see one of my heroes, director and fellow Jersey-boy Kevin Smith.  He achieved a dream of mine (making a movie), and he managed to mostly keep his head & humor through all his success. Probably because he doesn’t really see himself as being successful.

The show was exactly like what it looks like on his DVDs: Kevin standing alone on stage, answering questions from the audience and frequently diverting into stories about his life & experiences in the movie business.  He’s funnier than most stand-up comedians. I hadn’t laughed that hard in a long time. My favorite story was about Bruce Willis, who he directed in his next movie (“A Couple of Dicks”).

There were only 2 drawbacks to the show. The main one was that it went on for three hours. Which wouldn’t normally be a bad thing, but with Marta being pregnant she got tired and cranky. During the last hour she was mumbling under her breath “Shut up, shut up! I don’t care about Gretzky.” (The Gretzy story is terrific, but he rambles off the point a few times and turns a 20 minute story into 45 minutes.)

The other drawback were the question-takers. They were lazy and only took questions from people who were sitting on the aisles next to them. I was sitting in the middle of a row and so they wouldn’t even look at me.

So Kevin, if you’re reading this, here it is… “Did you ever get the 6 Million Dollar Man action figure from Universal Studios?” I was working  at Universal at the time, as an assistant to one of their many Vice Presidents of Production, and they wanted impress you to continue writing another draft of the 6 Million Dollar Man. So they asked all of the assistants to find you an original mint-condition Steve Austin action figure to give you as a gift at your next meeting… the next day! No time for Ebay. We scrambled to every collectable store and comic shop in LA to find it. But I never found out if anyone actually found one (I didn’t) and if they presented it to you.  I also wanted to ask how you feel knowing that you can have that kind of impact, to make a bunch of assistants scramble to get you toys.  Snooches!

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