tommyrot wants to disturb people today.

Someone hand him a slice of pizza.

juliana's pizza sounds yummy, too.

lisah, will you autograph my CD the next time I see you? Pretty please?

All that said, I don't much like Yorkies. But the one Yorkie I ever really knew was extremely nast, so I blame her thoroughly and remain determined to challenge my prejudice by making the acquaintance of another Yorkie at some point.

Oh, you need to hang out with my sister's Yorkie. Bacall is 3 pounds of pure enjoyment. She's got attitude, but nasty isn't in her genes. Smart as a whip, too. When you see just the tip of her tongue hang out because she's exhausted herself playing with you, you'll melt. I promise.

DF and I have 2 cats and a dog. Lucky and Reggie act like dogs, and Coco's sole purpose in life is to make the cats play with her. It's not unusual for all three animals to have draped themselves on one of us at one time.

Shit. I may be in trouble.

Dana is me! Then again, we all knew that. She said, charmingly.

The items include glibness and superficial charm, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity.

Shit. I may be in trouble.

Pfft. You're not that charming.

See, that didn't even feel good. Couldn't someone else set me up for that joke? It's not right to say that to Dana.

Shit. I may be in trouble.

Hee. My reaction to the list was pretty much, "Huh."

msbelle, eat something small because 7 is still hours away. Something like the size of a single portion which, I'm told is the size of your fist and wth your wee fists of rage you won't fill up.

Jessica, how's the new apartment?

Pfft. You're not that charming.

Isn't not that charming actually superficially charming?

That should have had more punctuation.

You're not that charming.

Watch it, or I'll turn my emotional vacuity on you.

I'm a purist--the One True Pizza is deep-dish cheese and sausage, with maybe a few mushrooms spread out, but not too many.

Going back for a minimeara:

brenda, you must have Italian Beef now that you're here in Chicago! Buona Beef is the most consistently good chain, but the individual places can vary in quality (Amato's, just north of North Ave and Harlem, is of the very highest YUM). I remember when a Chicagoan opened up a classic hotdog/beef/burger place near the Marquette campus when I was in college up in Milwaukee--all the Illinois natives bombarded the place for some home cooking!

Oh, and raw tomatoes have a nasty smell and taste, even the "bland" ones that are produced out of season around here--I'm with Nilly on this. Only good tomato is a cooked one, preferably made into a yummy red sauce.

My cat not only greets me at the door when I get home from work, but leads me directly to her food dish (she gets fed in the evening only, a policy I instituted when she tried to move her morning feeding up incrementally every day, until she woke me up at 4:00 in the morning with the loudest "MRROW!" I have ever heard out of her).