Eddie Izzard is freaking hott.

I spent a third of Ocean's 13 thinking...and then leaning over to say it out loud to my companion...I just want to have sex with him. True story.

I slept in today. Walking 21 miles over the last three days has taken a tired toll. I felt a little achey, and what my grandmother used to call 'stoved up.'

Then, coincidentally, the acupuncturist friend who's office I run when she is out of town, brought me back a Chinese blend tea called 'stamina.' I tell you what, it fixed me right up. My feet still feel it, but I'm doing much better.

Serendipity is a beautiful thing.

They sent this beautiful packet and engraved invitation and letters to us and to Ben, and program information, registration materials, etc., so it looks on the up and up. I have to email his teacher and find out what this is all about.

Oh, it's definitely on the up and up! For NYLC, the kids came to DC for a week or ten days (two weeks? I forget), and did both mock-Congress stuff and actual Congress stuff -- watching sessions, and getting spoken to by big politicians, an event at the Washington Press Club, I forget what else, but it was a great opportunity for kids into politics.

It's not cheap, though: [link]

Cindy, that sounds excellently cool.

I'm worried that this is "energy" given to me by the insane amounts of B2 I'm taking for migraine prophylaxis. If so--why does everything anti-migraine either wake me up or shut me down? There's one cool thing about caffeine these days--does neither.

“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.

How can the Air Force scientists be unaware of the Navy's existence?

Amazon has the Boomtown dvds on sale for $15.99.

For those of you who hate Ticketmaster, there was a story recently about someone who'd been waiting for Nickel Creek to come through (a farewell tour, I believe) and pounced on wonderful seats - got them confirmed and everything. Then they had the seats taken away - turned out Ticketmaster(bastard) wasn't supposed to sell those seats ... and the show was sold out ... except, of course, for the scalpers selling them for enormous amounts on ebay, etc.

Things turned out well though - Nickel Creek heard about it and got them even better seats.

Later it turned out that Ticket(bastard) had double-sold a number of seats at several concerts.

PZ making fun of the Creation museum:

Adam was naked!

Wesley has the story, and you can get more details from Toledo TV news story and a Cincinnati Enquirer article — but the silly news is that one of the models for the Creation "Museum's" Adam was a fellow named Eric Linden, who was associated with a site called the Bedroom Acrobat. The "Museum's" video with Linden has been yanked, and Linden himself seems to be rushing to dissociate himself from the naughty web site, claiming now that he only bought the domain name.

I say there is nothing wrong with running a site about sexual activities; Linden should not be ashamed of it; it is disgraceful that Answers in Genesis should be so puritanical and sex negative that they don't even want to use a short clip of someone merely known to have had sex; and if Adam had been real rather than a fictitious, mythical character, he probably would have been quite the bedroom acrobat himself, since he would have had to have fathered the entire human race.

I think the Creation "Museum" should bring back the video and increase the coverage of the Adam and Eve story. If they want to keep their visitorship up, I have a suggestion: more full frontal nudity, with an unabashed and open display of the importance of sexual activity in God's fertile creation. And if attendance starts to flag, I have a two-word term for a bold plan that would grab the media's attention again: animatronic genitalia. When Adam first meets Eve, a roar and a <sproingggg!> would be perfectly appropriate.

It would be OK, since it's all in the Bible. I mean, if "dinosaur" is in there, I'm sure "erection" is too.

PZ making fun of the Creation museum:

In last week's Sunday newspaper (or maybe 2 weeks ago), there was a coupon insert for the Creation Museum, and the establishments that sponsor it, etc.

The Boy and I were going to go, just to poke fun, but we realized that we just didn't have the stomach for it.

Better he should walk around looking hot for people who appreciate him.