So anybody else noticed that the last few halftime shows at the Super Bowl (i.e., each one since 2004’s MTV-produced “wardrobe malfunction”) have featured more elderly performers? Tonight’s halftime show was, of course, Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers). Don’t get me wrong - I love me some Free Fallin’ - but I did notice that Tom Petty looks like a much older version of Conner (sorry…I couldn’t resist). Here are the last few halftime performers:

• 2005 - Paul McCartney
• 2006 - Rolling Stones
• 2007 - Prince
• 2008 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

I suppose the assumption is that more mature male artists lessen the possibility of the unplanned showing of body parts, which leads to big FCC fines. I was a bit worried last year with Prince maybe showing some cleavage, but I also assume that nobody will be inviting Michael Jackson to visit the Super Bowl anytime soon.

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Of course, this leads to the question, “Should you tell your kids about Santa?” My beautiful wife and I have been talking about this sometimes controversial topic and do want to tell our kids about Santa, in the sense that there is a Santa. We also want to frame that with the story of how Santa was Saint Nicholas.

My cousin and her husband told their eldest son that Santa “wasn’t real” when he was around Kindergarden and he went to school and told all the other kids. We’d like to avoid that. We’d also like to avoid feeling like we’re “lying” to our kid! After all, the reason we have Christmas is not Santa Claus, but is Christ, and certainly want that to be the main focus of Christmas-time in our house. We also don’t want our kid feeling left out because we didn’t tell her the myth of Santa.

I’d love to hear some of what others do with their kids or think is a good idea regarding Santa :-).

Happy Halloween from the baby “doc in training”!

So we had three trick-or-treaters tonight - that’s it - so we’ll be eating lots of dark chocolate M&M’s ourselves. I bought them with the thought that I’d have to eat many of them myself, actually. Is it better to buy candy you like or candy you think the neighborhood kids will like?

Since our kid is too little to eat candy, we didn’t leave the house. My hope is that she’ll prefer the dark chocolate too, since it’s certainly better! Not that there will be any leftovers :-).

So apparently filming of the next Indiana Jones movie has begun. www.indianajones.com has a teaser of a teaser video with a couple of snippets on the set of the movie. You can mostly just see a couple shots of Harrison Ford in costume, and nothing - absolutely nothing! - of the plot. The last shot also shows him walking way with his arm around an older dude who, in my opinion, is probably not Sean Connery. But you never know (that’s probably why that shot is in there).

You’ll need Apple’s QuickTime software to view the video:
indyarrives.mov

I, personally, don’t think Harrison Ford is too old. After all, I saw him in Firewall and thoroughly enjoyed it (or, at least, I didn’t want my money back)! And after watching Bruce Willis in the latest Die Hard movie, I’m sure Harrison Ford can be Indy one more time.