I have long suspected that public warnings of terrorist attacks are like Red Sox fans saying "Just wait, they'll start sucking any minute now." You speak it as truth so that it won't come true.

Of course, this thesis rests on the assertion that preparation against terrorist attack is tantamount to crossing one's fingers and rubbing a rabbit's foot, but, welcome to Bushy America.

Look, these terrorist threats are why Harriet Miers should be a Supreme Court justice! Do not question the will of our Fearless Leader!

I can't help it if I'm just so darn kissably HOTT.

If I had any idea where to find your various photo sites, right now I'd post about a jillion pictures of your lips. You have the most absurdly kissworthy lips I've ever seen. The fact that those lips come attached to a snarky blonde editrix who wears a cherry-print dress like no one else? Such a gift with purchase.

t makes out with JZ

I have serious Bobby Flay issues. I hate him.

Ever since he showboated on Iron Chef, I have loathed him personally.

Unfortunately, the food he cooks on IC looks really really good, even by IC standards.

My DH still mocks him, standing on a chair and exclaiming "Whoop! Raise the roof, yo!"

I know I've mentioned this before, but one of my brother's life goals -- this is my bro the chef, by the way -- is to kick Bobby Flay's ass.

I must be the only member of Buffista Island who has not kissed Tep.

I have not kissed Teppy. I think that we decided that the Stephanie2 was too much for this reality.

I think reality would have folded in upon itself.

I wouldn't be as trusting of a specific threat to NY if it came from the feds, but Bloomberg owes nothing to the White House. He's barely Republican as it is.

I am just hoping my grandmother did not hear that "news".

WTF am I supposed to do with this.

Carry a cup of coffee with you. If you see someone suspicious, ask him to hold the coffee, and then call the subway cops.

Are bag searches common in the NY subway? I'd be so screwed if they did that on the El. More often than not, I'm carrying a bag of tools.

They started random bag searches in July, I think. I've only been searched once.

Oh! msbelle! I got the aprons and gloves today! Thank you SO much!

You said if I needed to wash them, to wash them in cold water -- can I wash the gloves, then, or did you mean just the aprons? I don't know anything about glove maintenance.

Never been searched, although I've walked past the tables they have set up several times.