Shaddock News: Babbling in Babylon - a "towering" good time

After an exciting (if brief) stay in Manhattan, we set off for Shelter Island, New York, with a stop on the south shore of Long Island to visit relatives we hadn't seen in far too long.

While visiting scenic Babylon Village (Aunt Ginner, Uncle Berk, Cousins Cindy and Billy), Emmett seemed to "run out of gas" briefly in the afternoon, his usually sanguine personality tempered by a, a scowl of sorts... well, maybe not a scowl exactly, but a stern countenance, a seeming need for ...distance from new people (Ginner and Berk's cat excluded). Was this an affect picked up in Manhattan, a sort of pint-sized "Whattayoulookinat?" reaction to the crush of the City? Were we looking at a new "you talkin' to me?" attitude for a new, hardened, Gotham style 18-month old, a Travis Bickle in diapers?

Happily, the facade cracked and the usual Emmett was back in short order, and after Jessica mentioned that she'd seen it lately, and had even been calling it Emmett's "Zoolander" look, then Cindy quipped "Oh, right, the one he called "Blue Steel"- it was his 'signature' look from the movie". This immediately (a month or so later) sent us sifting through the archives for more instances of this fascinating, fascinating occurrence, now collected for review. Herewith, a small sampling, (sure to be appended) of instances of...Blue Steel