Sue, you have NO idea just how much that made my day.

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Did I ever tell the story here about my uncle and the police visit? I'm not motivated to go into the whole thing, but the upshot was that the police had come by because his garage was partly open and they were looking for a suspect. It wasn't until they had banged on his door, thoroughly searched his garage and made some small talk that he realized he was completely naked.

I have been at work for 45 minutes, and already I am done- not with the actual work, but with working today.

It's rainy and dark and I want to be in bed with the snuggle puppy.

Poor puppy! I'm glad that it wasn't something similar looking to batboy though.

::still laughing at Batdog::

Sophia, if it's any consolation, when I've talked to my brother Mark the cop about his job, he says he sure didn't expect that it would mean he'd be in just about every house in his town sooner or later, usually not when people are expecting visitors, either. Cops, like EMTs, see everything. So unless you had diapers, rubber or bondage fetish underwear on or weighed 400+ pounds, you in your underwear are hardly a blip on their radar.

That dog is hilarious, poor noodle.

So, this week was a total loss in my attempt to not get into bad student sleeping habits. Next week I will try harder.

This just in, from a spam I just received:

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I mean, it's a craxy fucked-up world, but this is more craxy than usual.

Huh. Hedda Gabler is my favorite Ibsen play, and pro'lly ranks up in my top five favorite plays. Dunno about this, though:

It has become passé for fringe theater to reinterpret classic works in new, often bizarre ways - The Importance of Being Earnest performed by dominatrices, Death of a Salesman in a disco. But on February 8 in New York City, the underground theatrical superstars Les Freres Corbusier premiere the first production of Hedda Gabler in which half of the major roles are played by robots. Not humans in funny suits, but walking, talking machines performing live onstage. It's titled, naturally, Heddatron.

Aaron Lemon-Strauss, the show's producer, has an unassuming air - you wouldn't expect him to be responsible for this kind of craziness. And over lunch recently in Union Square, he makes a convincing case that his approach to the play is anything but mad. "Hedda Gabler, of all Ibsen's plays, is about transcendence, the desire to escape this world and the characters' inability to escape the roles society shapes for them," he says, looking down at his vegetarian chili, then back up as though it had spoken to him. "It made perfect sense: robots."

Hedda Gabler, which many consider Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece, tells the story of a deeply conflicted woman whose world comes crashing down when she's faced with the success of a former lover. The resulting tensions between loyalty, social position, and her own heart drive the action. Heddatron is considerably less linear. It bounces from robots enacting a doomed staging of Hedda Gabler, to student book reports on Ibsen's plays, to a mother in Ypsilanti, Michigan, whom the robots abduct to star in their production, to Ibsen's house, where the playwright lives with his overbearing wife and what the script terms a kitchen slut. The 19th-century Swedish playwright August Strindberg also appears, carrying a sack of used condoms and writing plays with a Sharpie that's glued to his crotch.

OK, that's just silly.

It might be difficult for machine actors to convey the full dimensions of the human condition. But Elizabeth Meriwether's strange script cuts to the heart of Ibsen's story: A woman chained up in her own life struggles to break free of social programming. That struggle is mirrored by the robots, who attempt to escape their own programming and achieve true AI - self-awareness.

Um....

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Aaron Lemon-Strauss

...who's ancestor invented yellow jeans. They didn't catch on.