Sitwell's always has good coffee,

I just can't accept the fact that Sitwell's is now in a storefront. It is supposed to be in a basement!

I'll probably just run to a Starbucks.

Depends. How do you feel about yoga?

I'm not bendy enough, so it's not my thing.

Put another check in the "Shrift is secretly Rupert Holmes" column.

Sitwell's always has good coffee,

I just can't accept the fact that Sitwell's is now in a storefront. It is supposed to be in a basement!

I know, right? But after about the first week, it instantly took on the basement ambiance. I can't explain *how* it managed, given that the ceilings are so high and there's a big plate-glass window, but it just does.

Matt - adorable coffee table. I hope you can unload it.

Will no one look at the wacky adorableness of my link????

Okay, that really is the cutest porn I've seen in a long while.

I told you it was great! I have a postcard of Miffy (the white bunny) in orange panties that kills me with its cuteness.

Bunnies in panties, and they don't even belong to Hef.

Cool article on Pelosi's successful strategy

One interesting tidbit: she worked hard to tar moderate Republicans with association to Bush. If you want to get the votes in the middle, you've got to take the middle away from the opposition.

Speaking of the centrist surge, as I heard the election returns I kept thinking, "The real winner in this is Cindy and the Moderates." Which would make a pretty good girl group. Maybe Cindy and the Moderations.

tidbit for erika: Pelosi is originally from Charm City where her family were Democratic powerhouses. Her father and later brother were both Mayors of Balmer.

The daughter of Baltimore mayor and congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., known as "Old Tommy,'' and his dynamo of a wife, Annunciata, Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi was born March 26, 1940, into a family of committed Catholics and New Deal Democrats.

The family's business was politics, centered on the D'Alesandro home on Albemarle Street in Baltimore's Little Italy. Depression times were tough. Family members remember that wood scavenged from demolished buildings was piled up in front of the D'Alesandro house for the poor to take home to burn for heat. And hungry strangers often ate for free in the family's kitchen.

The elder D'Alesandro kept an office in the front room, where young Nancy at times helped constituents in search of help.

"We all took turns at the desk,'' recalled Pelosi's brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, known as "Young Tommy,'' who served as Baltimore mayor in the late 1960s. "My mother was really the politician in the family, and Nancy was the apple of her eye. She takes after her. She's tough.''

Bwahahaha! In continuing my own little cuteness overload, check out this crazycute stuffed animal I bought at ComiCon this year: [link]