Lullabye

[ubermoron]

I'd be lying if I said I never cried. I'm not really ashamed of it because its very therapeutic at times. But the thing that gets me is that I cry at the weirdest times. Mostly sentimental things. Like when I sing to my baby daughter now I usually sing songs that my dad sang to me when I was a baby or growing up like Neil Young's "Helpless" or "Old

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[omorashi]

You're just realizing and reconciling yourself with aspects of your personage that have been dormant. Adjusting to the new role as protector and provider. Maybe seeing bits of your Old Man and his Old Man in you.

IT WAS THE SPIRIT OF SIXTY-NINE
YEAH
YEAH

[pootski]

Well, it's not like he's new to being a protector and provider.

What I want to know is if he feels disgusted with himself when he hears stuff like Poison and White Snake and realizes he once thought it was good... or hears Motley Crue and remembers that he once vowed to be buried in his favorite Motley Crue shirt. And feels disgusted with himself to the point where he wishes he could smite out all memories of 8th grade, forever.

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[omorashi]

> Well, it's not like he's new to being a protector
> and provider.

I can only assume that it's a tad different to be protector and provider of the biological fruit of your own loins.

Shawn? HALLIE SEZ IT HAZ NUTHING 2 DO W/BE-ENG PROTEKTOR AnD PROVID3R. AFFIrM OR D3NIE.

[ubermoron]

You're both right. This is nothing new, the provider/protector part, but I didn't get to experience this part of Tabitha's life, so this is a whole new ballgame. Plus the baby looks exactly like me when I was a baby, and thats really, um....scary? No, like, something to do with karma and stuff.

And I never liked Motley Crue, etc when I was growing up. To me, they were a bunch of p0z3rz and I hated that whole glam music scene, but now I realize it wasn't half bad and I'd take the worst Poison song over any of this new-fangled Eminem/Kid Rock/Good Charlotte crap they pump out these days. Although I kinda dig System of a Down.

[pootski]

Dude!

AND STAY OUT OF THIS, SHAWN, IT DOESN'T CONCERN YOU.

He even said in some post somewhere that it irks him that people are always asking what it's like to be a new father, and he's all "Uh, I already had a daughter..."

j/k

[pootski]

And that "Uh, I already had a daughter..." should be said with an Asian valley girl accent, replete with question mark at end.

(Is up finishing term paper due to refusal to work on it during Valentine's Day proper).

[omorashi]

No, yeah, you're right. I don't mean to take anything away from his relationship with daughter numero uno. I'm sure he's a great Papi to her.

Ok. How about this. Being there from the very beginning and what-not, seeing this critter pop (figuratively) into the world out of the void, adds a whole new DIMENSION to his new role as protector and provider.

(Now, to paraphrase Dr. Draw:) SHAWN? Hallie's spasterpatin'!

Also: Asian valley girl? Where!