If I were being grammatically rigourous, I'd use fewer commas. Like the one in the preceding sentence, for instance. That's just me punctuating my speech with pauses.

I have a great deal of IMDB to catch up on. Elisha Cuthbert wants to be in the 24 movie. But right now I'm caught by:

Julia Roberts inadvertently brought writer Jay McInerney's marriage to a crashing end when a goodbye kiss at the end of an interview turned the journalist into an obsessed fan. The Bright Lights, Big City author recently confessed he was smitten with the Pretty Woman star when she left him with a lingering memory after he interviewed her for a magazine. Charming McInerney told a magazine editor's conference that Roberts had just divorced Lyle Lovett and he convinced her to go dancing with him after their interview. The writer's ex-wife, Helen Bransford, tells America's the Globe tabloid that seeing her husband become more and more obsessed with Roberts prompted her to get a face-lift. The couple divorced in 2000.

People need to not give interviews. I don't want to know that about McInerney or his wife. Can't they have secrets anymore, she asks, heading right back to the gossip page?

The Break-Up star Jennifer Aniston has a novel way to save the environment - she brushes her teeth in the shower. The actress revealed her eco-friendly tip on the eve of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts on Saturday. She says, "I take a three-minute shower. I even brush-wash - brush my teeth while I shower. Every two minutes in the shower uses as much water as a person in Africa uses for everything in their life for a whole day."

Slow news week? Of course, I do remember reading way back when that Vanna White did the same thing. Where is she, anyway?

The MPAA has set up a decoy website aimed at snagging pirates, according to the website blorge.com (whose motto is "technology with attitude"). According to the website, Media Defender, operating on behalf of the MPAA, has set up a site dubbed MiiVi.com that offers "fast and easy video downloading all in one great site" including software that it says speeds up the downloading process. However, according to blorge.com, the software actually searches the computer for other copyrighted files and sends the information back to Media Defender.

Okay, eww. I know that in theory good honest 'net-fearing people shouldn't be affected, but it's spyware nonetheless.

I want a bento box too.

hey, Daddy

I'm up! What do you need? Milkies? Cheese sandwich?

Awww, baby Miniature long-haired dachsie.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, y'all! I celebrated by getting my motorcycle license. Now to actually get the motorcycle.

Happy birthday to Buffistae grandmas!

Cash, that pic of Owen is adorable.

I have a serious filtering problem, so much so that I can't concentrate on one thing if there's something else of equal volume. It drives me insane to hear two different songs playing at once. I can listen to music and work at the same time, but it has to be familiar music.

That Julia Roberts post is bullshit if the couple divorced five years after the interview. Second, the Jennifer Aniston quote is bullshit, too: how does brushing your teeth in the shower prevent overuse of water?

I'm up! What do you need? Milkies? Cheese sandwich?

cries that MM doesn't recognize my flirting

how does brushing your teeth in the shower prevent overuse of water?

Really, I use a lot less water brushing my teeth in the sink then I would standing another minute or two in the shower.

how does brushing your teeth in the shower prevent overuse of water?

Assuming one should brush their teeth for two minutes it's not the cleanest body-washing she's doing either. But really--spending less time in the shower must save more water than brushing one's teeth in it. It's not like she's going to use significantly less water on the toothbrushing part of things.

My brain is so blocked right now. It's very sad.

LOL Owen.

cries that MM doesn't recognize my flirting

Sorry. Behavioral conditioning, the effectiveness of which the KGB would drool over.