I never had any issues on the trains in Europe, FWIW. I haven't been to the UK for almost 2 years, crazy. I went to Paris a few times when I was 19 years old and had a great time, the 2 times I went there by myself. (it was to and from Ireland, took the boat out of France). I didn't have much money and I didn't really speak to anyone, just wandered around and smiled.

I'd like to get back over to Ireland and visit Tom's niece and nephew.

For a while, we were over in the UK so often that we had our own Oyster cards to get around London. There are so many places I'd like to see again, and so many places I would like to see for the first time.

I'm going to Europe in two weeks from today.

On a first-class ticket.

Jamaican passports are issued every ten years. So for the first twenty you spend most of your time looking nothing like your primary ID. It's kinda whack.

OTOH, I adored Moscow. My [brusque, cranky] people!

Dude, that was the biggest culture shock I ever had. I never expected that. Apart from the pointing and the talking and the staring (I accumulated crowds of children and coos of approval from older women) I had one woman in a nightclub sit down on the same stool I was sitting on, despite there being and empty one right next to me. And then she promptly ignored me.

Zoomed briefly through France on the way to Belgium, have no opinion of French that are not Canadian.

Why do people like him EXIST?

Why, and how do they get a public voice. The internet is way too democratic.

He's got a column in a newspaper (Kansas City Star, according to his Bio). Not the internet's fault, this time.

The world is too democratic, then.

What's utterly bizarre is I still have not been to Mexico,

This is me! There are times when I think living in LA is like living in Mexico already, though.

Noah's passport application is in. There was a huge line, including a 4 person Armenian family before us. But our application was filled out on line and was good to go. WOOT.

Then my sister sent me this article which totally got my dander up. I'd be pro big babe tennis if it were used to smash his head in.

That fucking asshole went to my college! And he has a distinctly Pillsbury Doughboy figure himself, the fuckwad. Figures he writes for Fox sports.

And he has a distinctly Pillsbury Doughboy figure himself, the fuckwad.

But he is just fulfilling his destiny! He is not required to be in shape since he only writes about sports.

There was a huge line, including a 4 person Armenian family before us.

The last time I had to go to the passport office there was a 4 person family in front of me only one of the persons was George Clinton.

only one of the persons was George Clinton.

That's probably a good thing, as I hear his clones can get pretty wild when they get together....