I so don't understand the graphic that goes with this article

If you click on the graphic, you can see more of it, and it makes even less sense.

If you click on the graphic, you can see more of it, and it makes even less sense.

I did click. I expected that the bigger version would have a title, or something.

OK. So, there's a potato. Potatoes are grown in Idaho? And a gavel. And one of those wooden thingies for moving big boxes. And a book of matches. Why?

Perhaps it's meant to suggest the professions of the men involved in the original scandal? The article mentions one was a shoeshine man...

Heck if I know.

I just got home. I missed Allyson's reading due to the annual dinner for our friends visiting from New York was NOT in Los Feliz as it has been every other year they have come out, but way the hell out in Orange County. Also, because of this fact, instead of 12-20 people there, there were only six of us, so I couldn't not go and hope it wouldn't be noticed. It was fun to see them, but Orange County, feh.

I'm anxiously awaiting pictures from the reading, et cetera!

Hil, you're right, that's an entirely weird graphic. I suppose it's supposed to represent Idahoans accused of being gay or something. We'll just have to hope that the staff artist puts down the Dada and backs away from the drawing board for a while.

Oh wow Kat, how terrifying!! But they say everyone drops the baby once -- at least you got it over with while he was in the carseat, right? And babies are pretty squishy and resilient.

(My next-door neighbor's 4-month old learned to flip himself over in the space of about 3 seconds while both of his parents were 6 inches away, but had momentarily turned to look at something else. He managed to flip himself off the bed and onto the floor, earning himself a trip to the ER and a magnificent shiner. Both parents were traumatized. Baby thought it was the bestest most funniest thing EVAR.)

Chicagoistas, Savion Glover is doing a free show with the CSO this afternoon:

Sunday, September 9, 4:00
FREE Millennium Park Concert
Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edwin Outwater conductor
Savion Glover tap dancer

Mozart Overture to The Magic Flute
Ellington Selections from The River *
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

• Featuring Savion Glover

Conductor Edwin Outwater leads Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with special guest tap dancer Savion Glover performing to Duke Ellington’s Suite from The River. The program also features Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute, which honors the memory of Sir Georg Solti, who passed away 10 years ago this month, and a CSO tour de force, Mussorgsky's spectacular Pictures at an Exhibition.

Savion Glover is doing a free show with the CSO this afternoon

So cool!!

We're having just about the most gorgeous Labor Day weekend possible here -- low 80's, not too humid, just enough cloud cover to make the sky look even bluer. My parents are in town visiting the baby so we're heading over to the park this afternoon for a picnic. Tomorrow the Cyclones are playing the SI Yankees and the theme of the game is "baby's first ballgame" so naturally we're going to that too.

the theme of the game is "baby's first ballgame"

That's so much better than Marty Markowitz bobblehead day.

Jessica - we're having similarly magnificent Labor Day Weekend weather.