I used to work with a woman who had a very large, very strong cat. He could open the refrigerator and get his own snacks. He would also lie under a piece of furniture on his back and push up with his paws and move chairs and such.

After Debbie gave birth to second child Paris, she couldn't have kids again, "The delivery was so hard. My insides were all torn up and I was barren. When he knew I couldn't have any more babies he didn't want anything to do with me."

Barren? Who says barren? Someone get me a Brit. Do Brits still say 'barren'?

Huffington Post is quoting News of the World. Um... doesn't NotW make The Star look reputable? I don't read Huff Post much, isn't it usually pretty credible?

At lunch MSNBC was all MJ all the time with brief snippits of, oh, the Supreme Court nominee, potential revolution in Iran, a coup in Honduras... silly things like that. We're on the 24 Hour Not-News Cycle again, aren't we?

Yeah, Trudy, NotW is all fake, all the time. I wouldn't believe a word. Except maybe the part where they're not MJ's biological kids.

We used to have a tuxedo cat that would sleep in front of the front door, on the inside. Many times we would come home and try to open the door, and he'd be on the inside holding it closed with all four feet.

My mother's current bear of a cat reaches up and bangs the knocker to let her know he wants to come in.

I think it would be so cool to work for NotW. Imagine sitting around the office debating what UFO stories to concoct and what the Amazing Bat Boy has been up to recently? I wonder if their Photo/PhotoShop department puts together The President Shaking Hands With Aliens pictures just to keep on file.

It always cracks me up when I read a "quote" in a British publication using language an American would simply never use. Is it just sloppyness? Or is it an actual convention to "translate" in the course of writing an article? Wouldn't you use a bracket for that?

The one that springs to mind was an interview with Gerard Way where he mentioned flashy thuggish guys he grew up with in NJ and NME (iirc) quoted him as saying "Jersey Joeys". Um, no. I assure you he said "Guidos".

It always cracks me up when I read a "quote" in a British publication using language an American would simply never use.

The WENN news thing on IMdB always does this! American actors are always quoted talking about their "mums," and, uh, no.

iPod birthday cake

San Francisco Themed T-Shirts by Headline Shirts

I love the one with Sutro Tower. When I lived in Noe Valley, our living room had an excellent view of the Tower - it was often partially shrouded in fog or clouds, like in the t-shirt.

More S.F. shirts: [link]

I have another question! A real one, this time. I have "My Hero, Zero" from Schoolhouse Rock in my head, and it makes me think. Seriously, how did the Romans multiply large numbers? Did they just all have to be memorized? Or what??? How do you figure DXVI times LCIII???