It's just standing over there making a clicking sound and soon I will kill it dead.

So, is this the first new TDS in awhile? I forgot to check to see if it was on last night.

Random: 15+year ago a former friend( I haven't been able to find her since Berlin 3 years ago)/ classic N.O. wild child went on many double dates with Harry Connick Jr. and reported him to be a complete and utter gentleman (moreso than the love of her life at the time. She was very impressed with him. ) This, before I had a clue of his fame. I saw the teevee reports, and that just reinsured that opinion. Opportunistic? Sure. Still a good human? Yup.

I needta go to bed. But can't sleep. Ahrg. Maybe offline will help.

HC Jr. was totally hott with the shirtlessness and compassion.

Ready for bed now. I was pleased that TDS included the Barbara Bush cold hearted bullshit. It is unfortunate that they had so much material to choose from this week.

Both TDS and The Onion were good today.

Re Prison Break, all I know is I'm starting to root for the gansters who want him dead. Sure he's pretty, but his plan seems to be (a) build prison (b) ... (c) escape! And I just want to reach through the screen and shake him and yell "WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT NOT EVERYONE IN PRISON IS NICE TO YOU????"

I don't think it was all that opportunistic on Harry's part. He's not bucking for a Pulitzer* here, he won't sell any more albums because of this. He's using his ample star power to draw attention to the desperation of his beloved home town. And its hot out, shirtlessness only makes sense as he uses his ample muscle to help out.

This could be my celebrity bias of course. Oprah will piss me the fuck off, no doubt, because she'll act like its all about her.

*I*, however, am opportunistic. MMMmmmm nekkid Harry. MMmmmm stories of his being a "complete and utter gentleman".

*not that all or even most of the reporters pulling people onto boats were, I honestly think they were horrified and dropped their usual "observer" status out of sheer desperation. except geraldo.

I'm on the wrong coast to comment about tv but I just reran House and that is the not Vicodan. It was more like a Tylenol without the pretty red lettering. Silly little detail to get wrong. Not that I am invested in the subject or anything.

Clean Diamond Act.

I wouldn't want South African diamonds either, but it's easy for me to say, since I don't think they're pretty.

Hec, it occurs to me that the business one might have been a 16, now that I actually think more about the random crap we had.

I'm supposed to inherit the gramophone and all the music that goes with it. This conversation is bringing back memories of waiting until everyone else was gone, sneaking records out of my parent's bedroom, and cranking up the gramophone so as to boogie down to that old time music.

I should note that this was a forbidden pleasure, as the music contained within was trapped by its fragility (as in, don't play those, you'll break them).

I should note also that this:

Kind of a revelation, you know? The very idea that people in the past cannot be knowable, the way that we can know people now.

Was my main reason for disobeying and getting to know the music.

Though I'm more struck by photographs, and the people alive during the Regency era who survived long enough to have their pictures taken, or even such simple and silly things as knowing what Ava Lovelace looked like, when her father we know only from artist's renditions.

Where I work, we have meeting rooms named after Ada Lovelace. Actually, all our meeting rooms are named after engineers. Ada gets three of them.

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