I broil most everything.  It’s faster than actually waiting for something to cook.  Yet, it still uses the oven so I feel good about myself.  One year, I had an old fashioned stove in my college apartment.  I put the food in the oven, cranked it as high as it would go & nothing happened.  I spent twenty minutes trying to make it set on fire.  Years later I watched this episode of The Gilmore Girls where Max shows them the broiler.

Lorelai: *gasp* did you know we had that?

Rory: Not a clue!

Max: Oh, come on!

Lorelai: HEY, it’s on fire!

Max: It’s the broiler.

Rory: wow.

Max: what fall out shelter have you two been living in?

Rory: He has much knowledge.

Lorelai: We shall form a cult around him.

Rory: Build a statue many stories high.

Lorelai: We shall grow our hair long and stop bathing.

Ohh that’s what the funny drawer with the fire was for.  Now I know.

I think my dad was a little bit disappointed when he bought a Jeep.  He had been saving up for this manly car for years & I ruined it by saying “Ohhh that’s what Lorelai Gilmore drives.”  I didn’t offer to go off roading with him.  I didn’t ask just how many vertical feet it could climb without tipping over.  Instead, I said “So can I drive around in it & listen to Carol King?”  He let me & it was fabulous.  Jeeps are noiser than they appear on the show.

Paris makes a reference to Eve Harrington when Rory is supposed to give a Yale tour to that Anna girl.  Of course, I looked up who Eve Harrington was, found it was from the classic movie called All About Eve & hunted down the 1950s movie.

I had assumed that I had already watched All About Eve, just because it’s talked about a lot.  I had not.  I also assumed that I knew the general story line.  I did not.  I even assumed that Bettie Davis would annoy me with her Bettie Davis eyes.  She did not.  This film was captivating &  it’s hard to captivate me because I’m cynical.

Babies have always slightly freaked me out.  They are so tiny & helpless & don’t understand sarcasm.  There’s just a lot of ways that I could unintentionally emotionally scar them.  So I was curious when I watched the episode after Davey was born.  Lorelai got in trouble from the Dula for talking baby talk to him.  This was especially confusing because Lorelai had said in another episode that kids can learn bathroom as easy as they can say the word potty so there is no use for the word potty.  I believe she said that a young Rory had referred to it as the room where legends go to die. This made me wonder is baby talk really bad for babies?

I was expecting to find a wealth of information on the subject.  Instead, I finally dug up an article from the New York Times….from 1914.  Apparently, in 1914 the general thinking of the day was that grown ups should lead by example so children can learn the proper way to speak.

Personally, I need the buffer with small children.  All I really have to talk to them about is how their cheeks are cute & I want to steal their noses. I just can’t imagine that this conversation will help with language acquisition.

Me:  So, you’re a baby huh.

Baby: stares

Me:  You going to crap your pants now or later?