@cmaher: It is fun. It’s also hard, painful, sad, happy, uplifting, disheartening, joyous, grievous, outrageous, ridiculous, tiring, and just about anything else you can name. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

@Jen: Well, I haven’t crossed the line into showing my kids R-rated movies, but I guess it depends on their age. I try to avoid them myself. It gets harder every year, since every good movie I see advertised anymore ends up with that rating. I haven’t seen Fargo, though I keep hearing a lot of good stuff about it.

@gagay: Thanks again, gagay.

@Nooter: Miley Cyrus in a parental situation??? Besides, I would have thought that you of all “people” would have suggested channeling Pongo.

@Justin: Don’t even get me started on cartoons and kid shows today. Saturday mornings used to be the only day of the week that kids ever got up early for on purpose. Now there’s nothing worth jumping up for.

@Aria’z Ink: Reminds me of my eight-year-old daughter trying to tell my wife that there was no cussing in a movie we had just watched. “Really, mom, they only said the ’s-h’ word three times and the ‘d’ word twice. There was another word they used that I had to ask dad about, but he said that it meant girl dog, so I guess that one wasn’t bad even though the guy was really mad when he said it.” You can guess how well that conversation went afterward.

@Toni: Hey, Toni, thanks for the nice comment. It’s great to get new people here.

@michellem: Wow, thanks, michellem.

@ettarose: Thanks, ettarose. I do have my moments.

@Stacy: Ahhh, now I begin to understand. Just kidding. That sounds truly bizarre. My step dad used to do that with the old “agony of defeat” guy. He’d play it over and over, laughing his head off like he’d never seen it before and show it to every person who walked through the door. That’s when I discovered the true power of magnets. “Really, it doesn’t work anymore? Maybe you played it too much.” Don’t give me that look. It was the truth. The 8-tracks soon followed.