The thing that bugged me so much about Workout is that so much of it seemed staged for TV. Obviously, Doug's death was not, but much of the rest of it just seemed fake to me. Or else heavily edited. But stuff like Zen at the comdey club seemed really "hey, we have this person on a Bravo show, and she likes to do stand-up and wouldn't it be a great cross-marketing thing if she came to your club and we covered it?"

Still, I like Jackie - yeah, she can be bitchy, but most of the time, I like her.

The ones about Queen Latifah are almost as wide-spread as the ones about Jodie Foster were 15 years back! That's like, points in favor, right? Right?

She's my favorite possible lesbian.

The AfterEllen list makes me happy.

Mmmmm, me too.

It is possible that Queen Latifah is bi, is it not? Either way, I think she's awesome. She's never played Ma Rainey, has she? She should.

I cheerfully surfed that afterellen list and stole pics for my site. I seem to have ascended to an uncharitable place where I can roll my eyes at the Cushbert/Alba/etc inclusions and mutter "But don't we know better???"

This is the same charitable place from which I sneer at that (car?) ad that doesn't try and tell me that smarts are hot, but rather try and tell me smarts have always been hot. The friend I was with said "They're only hot on men" to which I replied "Most woman would rather a rich guy to a smart one."

I'm not sure who that ita is.

But that ad really irritated me, because they touch on sports and mention smarts are hot there. And show a coach. An unathletic, balding, besuited coach.

Get the fuck over yourselves.

I'll happily agree that to top your sport smarts are a good thing--Federer, Woods, Jordan, etc--all rocking some brains there. And there are probably athletes who are only pro because of their brains--because they can use their smarts to give them an edge over other less bright but similarly physically gifted competitors. The middle ranks? Filled with people whose brains don't matter. Why pretend otherwise?

Rumor has it...

Federer actually answers his fan mail! There was another thing about him, but it was all about how Federer is this really kind and charitable human.

Federer impresses me, not least of all because he used to have a fearsome temper problem, and is now remarkably even.

I just got called to find out why I'm not on a conference call. Because I wasn't invited to one right now? Is weird.

Hey, if I wear flip-flops to the airport, will I still have to take them off?

I've had it work both ways, Jesse. Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.

I think one should always assume yes.

Random Batman facts (I haven't checked submissions in FOREVER):

Batman COULD be President of the United States. It's just that he refuses to live in a white house.

Strip poker is the only thing Batman is not good at, by sheer force of will of everyone in the universe.

Bah. Stupid shoebombers. I guess I'm ending up barefoot in the airport no matter what, so I'll give it a shot.