I think The Poopatorium Gates are my favorite.

Oh Hec, being the parent is so scary. I hope it's just a muscle cramp that somehow resulted from his virus. All the health, strength, and quick recovery to your boy. May he be so healthy he's bouncing off the walls by supper time.

 It's not her "fault" she's famous; it turns out that despite the fact that she isn't an actress or a singer or a writer or whatever, people enjoy paying attention to her. She's the object of people's attention, therefore she's famous. It's not like fame comes first, then people have to pay attention, you know?

I see what you're saying, but I still don't think the public, as a whole, was clamoring to know more about a vapid hotel heiress. I think she's easy for journalists to cover -- she goes to a lot of parties and awards shows and poses for cameras, and hangs out around famous people, and says and does semi-scandalous things in public, and probably has a very good publicist -- so she gets a lot of press coverage, and it feeds on itself endlessly. I'm sure she has fans (everyone in the public eye has fans somewhere), but I think the number of them is much smaller than her notoriety and omnipresence would suggest.

That said, I agree that "she's famous for being famous" isn't a great reason to hate someone. But it is valid to judge what someone does with their fame, however it's acquired, and the way Paris has handled hers does not impress me.

No, it's definitely me. Because I had chocolate last week, and no one said anything nice about my hair or offered to castrate themselves

ita, I didn't need to fawn, because I was a recipient of the magical cupcake.

If you look in CI, the molasses cookies are awesome. I may make some today.

I want this CI chocolate cupcake recipe. It's hurting me to live without it. Hurting. Don't you people understand?

I have chocolate cupcakes that my friend brought to work for my birthday, yay!

I believe I am supposed to share them, and I admit there are too many for me to eat alone. Er, probably.

Mmm, cupcakes.

Katie-bo-batie, how was your birthday?

If Allyson is still around. I got the package a few weeks ago. Dude. Amazing. If I ever let myself be photographed w/o makeup, I'd show you before and afters.

I have to work this weekend, so if I find anything cute and special it may have to be yours. Don't say I shouldn't because again, Dude. Amazing.

Also, Rick, the people whose houses are falling over, or who are flooded out of homes, or who get stranded on rapidly filling freeways or get jammed in traffic because everyone's avoiding that one road with the really big rock (do any of your friends have a rock that big?) aren't quite of the diamond shoes variety.

it turns out that despite the fact that she isn't an actress or a singer or a writer or whatever, people enjoy paying attention to her. She's the object of people's attention

I admit I don't know for sure that she's seeking the fame, but haven't seen anything to indicate she's reticent about it (the book about nothing, the crappy singing, the half-nekkid pictures, etc don't help, since they sure look like attempts to capitalise on nothingness, as opposed to going her merry insanely rich way).

So I just applied for a job through Monster. Sent my resume, and the company had three additional questions. I had to answer "No" to the one about previous experience editing for a business-to-business publication, but I've done a fair amount of other kind of editing, right?

Nope. Got an immediate e-mail response of "No, thanks." Does that seem stupid to anyone else?