Adventures With The Babbits And Messy Cake Mouth And Figure Skating Videos And Our Friend Clint Eastwood
I’m very proud of one of my readers this morning. I owe to him the discovery of the Babbit Family Pages, a family adventure site that lies at the crossroads of dead cats, Clint Eastwood and CompUSA. This one’s right up there with Enhancements by Michelle and Adopt Your Own DS9 Virtual Pet NOW!
(In the interests of keeping my friend’s identity concealed, I will refer to him as Oliver Sloppytongs. And to protect my own identity within this text, I will be cited under the name Scaly Thompson.)
The Babbits have been compiling their family presence on the web for the last few years.. I think it’s safe to say that this site is the Definitive Source for All Things Babbitt (though I would really appreciate some help authoring an unofficial compendium.)
One of their favorite things is this animation of a jet plane. No explanation as to what it means. It’s decoration. It’s parsley.
I really love Danielle’s component page. She’s the daughter. Here’s a few things they say about her:
Danielle is 21 years old and in search of the holy grail.
She really like the freedom she has with her own car and is becoming aware that freedom is not free. She works for her car as she wants to go when and where she feels. So this is the stage in life where it is a struggle to be free to make decisions and be responsible for the choices being made.
At the same time being a parent and watching these young adults come to grips with what they really want out of life is also a time when the stomach is tied in knots. My God, our children at age eighteen can go off to war so sitting back and being an observer is no easy role. Seasoned adults learn to stay quietly in the background but available as these young adults seek us out for advice.
When the Babbitts aren’t dishing out advice and expounding on the tough issues that all of us face during these difficult times, they are frantically scraping together all sorts of images and multimedia for us. Here’s a short montage of images that I would like you to view. Please scroll slowly and please cue up the soundtrack to Aladdin. This is gonna touch ya.
The Babbitts take a big adventure to Hawaii!
Fun! (Monkey-style.)
Their grandson Michael. When he doesn’t look like President of his own Law firm, he looks like Richard Simmons riddled with Parkinson’s.
Oliver Sloppytongs: Not to mention that this picture would be perfect if I ever wanted to sell a red Color Game Boy on eBay – I would never make mention of anything else in the picture in the auction and perhaps even act offended if anyone else raised the issue with me.
Hey, look who showed up! Bill Roots! In the Holiday Inn Lobby!
Okay. Trolley. But Sloppytongs found these next few pix from their college days!
WTF!! The whole site just goes on and on. Eerie photos of precision team skating. Michelle’s Science Fair Report on Rainbows. Last video of Spooky the dead cat. Harken!! Joe Jitzu and his famous one-man marching band is the scourge of Central New York. 2 demerits for questioning the validity of a request. Not bad for a guy in a back brace.
When a link like this comes prancing across the Internet, I feel an insatiable desire to pursue its creators (on foot) and to gather them all into a natural habitat where they can live in RVs and evolve into further mutated forms of their already exaggerated Web personalities. They would subsist entirely upon Dance Dance Revolution and Photoshop filters.
For now, I am resolved to approach Steve Babbit. I will. I’m not sure what I’m going to tell him, but it will be one of the following:
- “Steve, I’m from Bloomberg Radio. We need your technical edge at the station right away!”
- “Steve, I’m giving you the keys to my website.”
- “Steve, I’ve come to marry Danielle.”
I’m leaning toward the last one. Because it’s the only way I’m going to get my own component page. Unless they take me as a pet.
