Oh, baby! That's quite a Mastandrea head she has there -- which is appropriate because her brain will soon be producing Mastandrea thoughts. Be afraid. And now that Ellexa is home, I repeat the advice I offered when Bazzukajoe when he first told me he had a baby on the way:

Gather together all the nice stuff you own, put it all in the center of the room, and break it all. Breaking all that stuff now simply saves time -- it's going to get broken anyway. And at least you'll have the satisfaction of having done it yourself.

Or maybe it's different with a girl?

We're in Ohio this week -- I was up early this morning listening to AM radio to catch a few waves of Curtis Sliwa starting his morning show on WABC. That'll fade with daybreak (stays dark here until about 7 a.m. this time of year).