My Ben was four at the time. I had the TV on in the bedroom (and Nickelodeon on in the living room for him) and he kept coming in and asking why I was watching the show "where everything was on fire." Broke my heart.

I remember not wanting them to know, but knowing they (at least Ben) had to know, because they/he were going to hear about it, and trying to explain what I didn't understand.

I have managed to miss this commercial.

Poor Audrey. I hope the money for the use of her image is going to UNICEF, the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, or another cause dear to her, because that's all shades of wrong, misusing her elegance like that.

I remember not wanting them to know, but knowing they (at least Ben) had to know, because they/he were going to hear about it, and trying to explain what I didn't understand.

I knew Ben shouldn't watch it, and shouldn't see me freaking out ... but I was also too horrified and upset to really do much about it. He doesn't remember much of that day now.

Jake was at school, and nine, so I knew he would have some sense of what was going on, and we'd need to discuss it. He'd met our friend Jim, who died in the Tower, for one thing, and knew Jim's sister Carol (one of my best friends) very well. And then it turned out the pilot of the first plane to crash into the Towers was the father of two little girls at his school.

I saw the Audrey Hepburn commercial. The weird part is, it totally celebrates her weird-dance in Funny Face, which is lovely and silly. And, has nothing to do with ACDC.

And, using Audrey Hepburn as your model for skinny pants is not a good idea. For one thing, she was legendarily skinny. If you do not look like Audrey Hepburn (and really, who does?), you will not look like that in skinny pants. It would be like having Barbra Streisand hawking voice lessons. You have to realize that freak-o-nature ingredients, in addition to the liberal application of money, went into that particular success.

Giuliani for President

2008 is going to be Battle of People Who Don't Play Beyond Their Home Neighborhoods, isn't it? Because, Giuliani comes across as an arrogant, pugnacious twerp even in Connecticut (and I say that with love). He kind of missed his chance for riding disaster coattails into office, don't you think? He might have been better off running for Congress in 2004, so at least he'd have some national cred to his name.

I mean, at least Mitt Romney the Smiling Robot has been a governor, you know? Not a good one, and more prone to speaking engagements than to governing, but, he can legitimately say he's had a reason to think beyond city limits.

misusing her elegance like that.

It'd be like watching Tony Bennett being forced into a rap duet with Diddy or something.

New improv everywhere mission: [link]

Mitt Romney the Smiling Robot

Is this guy considered a legitimate contender? He ran the 2002 Olympics in SLC, and his slickness bothers me. I've been wondering if his Mormon-ness would have an effect on the average Joes of the world. A recent survey said that most Evangelicals don't hold it against him, but I'm more wondering about people who don't think much about religion, other than, say, thinking, "Mormons, them are those ones with all the wives, right? They're kinda weird, aren't they?"

It's an absolute trainwreck. I can't even look away, it's so awful.

I saw it through fast forward on the Tivo, and I considered looking at it, but knew that I wouldnt' be able to handle it.

ION, I had "How To Marry A Millionaire" tivoed because I love Lauren Bacall. Decided to check it out to avoid the Shrub. I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes of it. I know that it was a product of its time, but watching three women sit on a balcony waxing poetic about getting married being "the only thing" just made me shudder. And I was slightly ashamed of Lauren Bacall -- she knew better!

Maryland is supposed to have those squirrelly, hackable electronic machines but as of last election, my district didn't.

That's what we had this morning at my polling place. And it didn't register my vote against freakin' Schaefer on the first try. I had to page back through and vote again. CONSPIRACY!!!! And two of my friend's co-workers from two different counties weren't able to vote at all this morning because the machines weren't working.