Richard Simmons was cited for slapping a man in the Phoenix airport who had made some snarky comment about Simmons’ workout videos. You’d think he’d be used to it by now.
Archive for March, 2004
As you can tell from my left-sidebar, I have been devouring books lately. I can highly recommend every one of these books, especially Dry, by Augusten Burroughs. I fell in love with his writing style after reading Running With Scissors, his autobiographical account of his unbelieveably dysfunctional childhood. Dry is his account of his path to sobriety, and it is amazing. He is incredibly funny, but Dry is a much more emotional book than Running… It’s cliche to say, “I laughed, I cried”, but I truly did.
And I can’t believe I am just now reading Jitterbug Perfume. What a great fucking book. I don’t make enough room for whimsy in my life, and Tom Robbins is just what the doctor ordered.
Wow. Powerful words from Richard Clarke, testifying in front of the 9/11 intelligence panel. It’s really nauseating to hear Clarke and Samuel Berger (Clinton’s national security advisor) talk about how they practically begged the Bush administration to do something about al Qaeda and basically got ignored or patted on the head like a child.
The Supreme Court is hearing the Pledge of Allegiance case today. Not surprisingly, the majority of Americans polled have said they want “Under God” to stay in the pledge. I am of the mind that this country is no longer purely made up of Christians, and therefore, why are we telling Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists (etc.)who move to this country that in order to be a good American they have to pledge allegiance to a god they don’t believe in? It’s 2004, people, not everyone in this country is a white Christian anymore. Actually, nor were they ever. Hmmm. Not to mention it’s unconstitutional. But you know that pesky first amendment…
Back from a lovely long weekend in Vancouver. It is so beautiful up there. We stayed in downtown Vancouver, at a very nice hotel, ate tons of great food, drank gallons of great beer. The weather was great - chilly, but no rain. Drove down to Seattle and saw our friends Jac and K.C. That was great. Jac surprised us by taking us to Bruce and Brandon Lee’s graves. That was neat, sad but neat.
We go back and forth over whether we want to move up there. The people are so friendly and laid back, the city is beautiful, but our friends and family are here. I think the elections in November might help us make up our minds though. The idea of four more years of Bush are enough to make me start packing now.
Well, I guess the Sydney and Vaughn relationship couldn’t translate to real life - looks like Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan have broken up. I’m sad I guess because I love their on-screen relationship so much that I wanted their real life relationship to work, but oh well. I just hope it doesn’t affect their chemistry on Alias. This is why you don’t date people from work.
Surprise Surprise Surprise - Courtney Love was arrested in New York last night for allegedly throwing a mic stand. This was after she was on Letterman, flashing her boobs and acting generally nutty. What is with her?
But hey, I find this shit fascinating for some god awful reason. Jennifer Lopez is giving her famous pink diamond engagement ring back to Ben Affleck. “It’s the relationship’s death certificate.” Oooooooohhhhhhh!
And I love the fact that she’s already moved on and is now doing Marc Anthony. This woman is a serial dater. Bet you they are engaged or married within six months.
Spinsanity.org is hosting a written debate between Al Franken and Rich Lowry over critiques each did of the other’s book. It’s really interesting. I wish I knew more about this stuff to see who is really telling the truth. I do catch things that Lowry says in his column that twist what Franken said in his book, but I only catch it because I’m currently reading it again. I haven’t read Lowry’s book, so I don’t have the same perspective the other way around. It’s kind of ridiculous, he said/he said stuff.
Australia is experiencing a plague of locusts. You know I could totally see Bush is trying to use this as an “I told you so” about gay marriage. I guess next we can expect a plague of boils and hellfire raining from the sky…
