I saw Hugh Laurie on Leno/Letterman/whoever last night, shilling Monsters vs Aliens, and it's always cognitive whiplash to hear Bertie Wooster's voice coming out of Gregory House's face. I wonder how many people who only know him as House think the world is putting them on when they see him doing the comedy stuff. Hearing Dr. Cockroach gives me mental whiplash.

Heaven knows it took me several weeks to stop saying, "Is it a different Hugh Laurie?"

For veggie stock, I usually put my vegetable ends in a pot and cook/simmer them while I'm making whatever soup I was cutting them up for, and then store it in the fridge until I'm ready to use it. (We make soup a lot, so this works out well. If I'm not going to be making soup within a day or two, I throw the ends in a freezer bag until I have enough to make a stock.)

My crockpot is an inherited-from-mother one, and gets used on a regular basis.

Matt Taibbi makes me laugh. If I didn't have a fake relationship with a number of other journalists, we could have a fake affair.

Don't despair, erika! You don't know that they're not fake-poly!

True fact. So to speak. Taibbi had me the day he wrote about telling a group of Krazy Khristians that his father was an alcoholic clown who used to beat him with the big shoes. Then he made me cry when nobody discovered the put-on.

Because either they were dumb, or they had something that could top it. In either case, I wept for my nation.

Fancy NYC apartment building getting a personal car elevator

No matter how nice your NYC penthouse apartment is, here's something it doesn't have: an elevator to raise your car up to your personal, apartment-side garage. But one new building in Chelsea is getting just that.

200 Eleventh Avenue is boasting about its "En-Suite Sky Garage." Basically, when you drive in, you pull into a car-sized elevator. The elevator recognizes your car automatically and brings you up to your floor. You then pull forward into your garage, and the elevator goes back down. You then step out of your car and right into your apartment. Needless to say, these apartments will be insanely, insanely expensive. As in, 1 bedrooms start at over $3 million and the penthouses go up to $17.5 million. I'll park on the street, thanks.

Matt Taibbi makes me laugh. If I didn't have a fake relationship with a number of other journalists, we could have a fake affair.

I say go for it. What are they going to do? Fake break up with you right there in the middle of the fake evening news?

Fancy NYC apartment building getting a personal car elevator

They're building one of those Little People garages?!?

Timelies all!

The weather is still too cold and dry for my taste. Hopefully it'll warm up soon.

OK, I don't know what the STate of Utah is thinking, but the Tax Department and Official Designers of Forms has taken a giant leap backwards. They're touting "You don't have to send in your W-2!" Of course, that means there's a form in the booklet where you have to fill in all the information from your W-2. I'm guessing they didn't want to pay people to data enter the information on their end. Well, their stinginess is going to bite them in the butt with me, because I filled in my income wrong, and it looks like I made a few million instead of a few thousand, so they can just pay a pair of eyeballs to look at my form instead of just run it through the optical reader.