You will note that it was a very true portrait.

You wear glasses?

Doll-maker site: [link]

Be warned, you will lose lots and lots and lots of time here.

And I'm currently trying to decide if I want to order a second one.

You do. There were still some left as of this morning, when I checked.

You're right, I do. Off to eBay!

Yes, this is true but I'd honestly rather get the message through a sappy episode of ER than from what should've been one family's personal (and private) tragedy. Once the family brought the courts into it, it became news but it didn't have to become spectacle.

This. Except it'd have to be Scrubs, since I don't watch ER. (I'd say House, but on that show she'd make a full recovery in the last act after House gives her an aspirin.)

A scary but interesing column about America's drift toward a fascist theocracy--it might be a bit extreme, but it's definitely something to think about.

R. Crumb said the current trend reminded him of McCarthyism which is I think probably more accurate. Certainly there's a similarity in stifling dissent by labeling it unpatriotic. Though as Betsy's longtime tagline ("We have always been at war with EastAsia.") pointed out, the permanent state of war on terrorism is a splendid door for fascism.

This *was* fucking L&O. Except without Lennie...man, I missed him, too.

Anyone see last night's South Park? I'm definitely going to check it out when it's rerun this weekend--it mixes the Sony PSP and the Schiavo case in one very crass, but according to Salon, hilarious ep.

People need to stop sending me work. Don't they know I have some very important slacking off to do?

I think fascism is a pretty big stretch. I am concerned about the corporate consolidation of the media, the voting machines with no paper trail, and politicians wrapping themselves in patriotism and religion.

From the make-a-doll website -- this is Chibi!Teppy (and yes, my hair does look basically like that right now): [link]

They've given the pope last rites. [link]