( continues...) Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

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1. THE SPANISH INQUISITION: Red-caped crusading cardinals threaten torture with (gasp!) the comfy chair! Unforgettable for one reason: torture by kitchen drying rack, and Michael Palin's inability to count...two! Two reasons!

Just got back from Steph's. No SA yet, but very excellent wine, and pizza. Also, oreos and cutiehead John Stamos.

For the record, John Stamos was not at my apartment.

As far as Perkins knows.

From Salon...

Woman eating chili bites into human finger

- - - - - - - - - - - - By Brian Skoloff

March 24, 2005 | San Jose, Calif. -- A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit.

The incident occurred Tuesday night at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant and left the customer ill and distraught, said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Health Department.

"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."

Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant that supplies the company.

"All of our employees have ten digits," said Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc., based in Dublin, Ohio. He said there have been no reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of injuries at any supplier of chili ingredients to Wendy's.

"By law, you can't hide that sort of stuff," Lynch said. "All of our chili suppliers report no accidents."

Investigators seized the remaining chili and closed the restaurant for a few hours late Tuesday.

Health officials said the fingertip was approximately 1 1/2 inches long. They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

Alexiou said the woman, who asked officials not to identify her, is at minimal risk of contracting illnesses from the finger.

"It's an extremely low chance because the chili was cooked at a very high temperature that would have killed anything in the finger," Alexiou said. Still, she said health officials would ask the woman's doctor to test her blood "to make sure nothing got passed to her."

Employees at the Wendy's store were asked to show investigators their fingers after the Tuesday night incident. All employees' digits were accounted for

I'm not sure if the author of this article was intending to be funny, but this is making me snort.

"All of our employees have ten digits," said Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's International Inc.

As is this.

But this (below) is the most surreally funny to me, for some damn reason:

They believe it belongs to a woman because of the long, manicured nail.

How were things with the director?

The designer? Fine so far. I'll be spending 32 (or more) hours working with him this weekend, so we'll see.

I read about that in the LA Times this morning. Is it bad that I thought it was funny, in a Sweeney Todd kind of way?

"She was so emotionally upset once she found out what it was," Alexiou said. "She was vomiting."

Actually, I think vomiting is a fairly rational reaction to such a discovery.

Jon Stewart reading from crib notes on the Da Vinci Code on TDS tonight? Adorable!

Jon Stewart doing anything = adorable.

Joining sumi in the sap corner. Damn that ER.

Interrupting the JS love to say I'M AN AUNT. Little Io Elizabeth joined us at 8:56PM. Mummy and baby are doing fine, and she's beyoootiful. Maybe she can marry Allyson's nephew.