By the time the belt is wrapped back around to the front it's less than an inch wide. From what I could see of the photo, this thin silk wouldn't hold the knot that the leather did. I just ended up tying that stupid twice over knot.

I could try a bow, but it would either be small or floppy.

Doctor doesn't seem to have my sense of urgency, either about the morphine or the edema. He is dropping the morphine just a tad, and telling me to cut out salt for the edema. Am I not being clear or something? And now I'm show and tell for the phlebotomists.

Recreating Hitchcock

Vanity Fair decided to recreate some of the classic scenes from the films of Alfred Hitchcock using modern day actors and actresses. Imagine Charlize Theron in Diam M For Murder, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. in To Catch a Thief, Seth Rogen in North by Northwest, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem in Rear Window, Niomi Watts in Marnie, Keira Knightley and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Rebecca, Emile Hirsch and James McAvoy in Strangers on a Train, Rene Zellweger in Vertigo, Jodie Foster in The Birds, or Tang Wei, Josh Brolin, Casey Affleck, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Foster, Omar Metwally and Julie Christie in Lifeboat.

Those are cool. Except Seth Rogan as Roger Thornhill is just wrong.

Except Seth Rogan as Roger Thornhill is just wrong.

Better than Joe Rogan.

Well, yeah. That goes without saying.

I'm not sure it's live yet, but if you go to Vanity Fair's website, you should be able to see those pics as a slide show with a Hitchcock interview running over them. (We licensed the interview to them.)

Better than Joe Rogan.

That's true of anything that doesn't involve the phrase "...and that's when the lethal and humiliating on-set accident happened."

I'll have to look at that Vanity Fair thing--I like their choice for Rear Window.

Wee! I just filed my taxes using my company's Turbo-Tax-like product for the first time, and everything went smoothly except for my getting confused over whether I had to file a certain form twice (once in fed and again in state), which I figured out eventually that I didn't. I had to pay, but I was expecting to and had withheld some money in my savings account to cover it, and I am delighted to find I have quite a bit left over!

I will have to contact the bookstore and see how to have them increase the amount of my withholding there, since I found out that for $2000 in income, they only withheld $6 for federal taxes. WTF? It should have been closer to $200.

telling me to cut out salt for the edema.

That's like telling you to stop juggling cats. Jeez. Hi, I have sudden and unexpected swelling in my limbs. Just maybe something is alarmingly wrong?!

Devi set off the roomba again. She just walks right on top of it.

That's like telling you to stop juggling cats. Jeez.

Seriously.

I'm catching up on Ellen, and she's had both the two guys from that one ad about the supermarket employee who was convinced to try football, and David Tyree, and they were all super nice and cute and funny. Poor Tyree is super soft-spoken, so you could barely hear him. I haven't known big guys since college, so it reminded me of those guys -- most of the guys who were big enough to look intimidating were just sweeties. I guess you don't have to front if you're actually that size.