Aw, my uncle isn't coming this year afterall. In a pitch to avoid the heat (which I do recommend) he's going to head further north and visit my cousin in Maine, but that puts him not coming down this route. Well, that frees up that week, I guess. My loss is my cousin's gain; he's a bike enthusiast himself, so I predict they will have a lot of fun talking shop.

OK, need to go pot something. Patched a bit of the stucco, hope I did it right.

OMG you guys. I met up with some people and we went to the Laugh Factory on a lark.

Dane Cook headlined. It was the most horrific train wreck of misogyny and stupidity.

One of the people I was with said, "It was like watching a date rape."

And it was so sad because the four comics before him were really great. I was in tears laughing so hard. And apparently he's been doing this same thing at the Laugh Factory for months.

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I listened to the audience, and basically, there were twenty dudebros laughing and 6 women with low self-esteem screaming I LOVE YOU in the whole sold-out place. Other than that, silence. He told the women screaming "I LOVE YOU" to stop because their voices were grating, but they had nice tits.

I watched a Dane Cook special once. Had to switch it off halfway through.

Lee, bring on the bearded hunks.

So full on beards are okay? I thought you just wanted the between clean shaven and a beard photos. I can do that!

I would never have known it was him, if people here hadn't mentioned it.

Alyson Hannigan would never have known it was him if he hadn't told her. No part of his person, including his voice, was actually identifiable.

Allyson, sorry Dane ruined the show - and wish you had not been subjected to the sustained misogny.

Beverly, wood burning fireplaces or wood stoves placed in an outer wall warm you about two feet from the fireplace and noplace else in my experience. For a fireplace or wood stove to take the edge off, it needs to be inside the room, naturally with a stove pipe to carry off the smoke.

Also fireplaces and wood stoves are very polluting. If they are sealed units, meaning no smoke in the house, then the pollution mainly hurts your neighbors. If they are a classic fireplace or wood stove with air interchange in the room then they hurt you as well. People with wood heat statistically have more respiratory problems than people with electric or gas heat. (Coal heat causes similar health problems.)

I met a bunch of people for brunch at Table Fifty Two this morning and then went to Target for a couple of things. The Pride Parade started at noon right outside the Target I went to, so I caught the tail end of it.

It's hotter than I was expecting, so now I'm a sweaty mess. I was already feeling delicate thanks to a migraine yesterday. Man, I was a total failboat yesterday. Made coffee and didn't put the coffee mug under the drip, and I think that we all can agree that a receptacle is an important part of the coffee-making process.

I have no idea who Dane Cook is, but clearly my life is the better for it. yeeps.

my hunch that Wonder Woman is targeted younger than Catwoman is.

I would agree with that hunch. Franny wanted to dress up as WW for Halloween when she was 6.

Check out this proposed toy line: Wonder Woman and the Star Riders.

Lee, let's say I'm good with up past here even, to here.

I need to work out a site title graphic. Can I just go with some sort of font stylings, or does there need to be a beard in it? I went with subject matter for the spectacle site and the skirts, and thematic for the women, and just plain text for most of the rest. Dunno. Dunno. I was gonna go with a literal Platonic beard, but that's really just wanking.

Last week, I don't remember who was on Graham Norton, but it was one of the few times I turned it off, because it was a combo of boring and irritating--usually he's good enough to overcome one or the other, but put those two together and add my lack of knowledge--snoozefest.

This week...OMG Russell Brand. And Emily Blunt--she's precisely that, blunt. And hysterical. And they start off insulting each other, and it's just audiencey goodness.

You know, I think the one I turned off was Katy Perry, now that I think about it...yeah. I know who got the friends in this breakup.

For some reason, I'm looking at Leeloo cosplay, and it is the most consistently near-porn costume I can think of--while she's less sexual, than, say, Emma Frost, precious few women have that boyish and slim a figure, so they all look one hiccough away from multiple NC-17 wardrobe malfunctions. It's mesmerising.

Of course, a decent number of women are taking it straight to NSFW, with stripping, or the outfit being body paint (the white bandage one, not the orange rubber strap one). Wow, Leeloo. She's clearly too curvy to be accurate, but she's hot.

OMG. Christina Hendricks cosplaying Leeloo.

Okay, I'm getting as creepy as the guy that runs the tumblr now. I don't even know why I started doing this. I don't even like the movie. God, internet, what's your deal?

Allyson, what are you going to do in order to negate the effect you had on the universe by paying into Dane Cook's pocketbook? This requires atonement far and beyond the torture of experiencing his set.

Speaking of which, I think I'd love to see a Russell Brand live show. I think he's my sort of asshole. They're bleeping out so much of this bit that I have absolutely no idea without lipreading what they're even saying. A good 20% of the segment.

The Annenberg photo gallery is advertising an upcoming show called "Who Shot Rock And Roll" on Pico near me, and that title is over John Lennon and Kurt Cobain's pictures, and I really didn't understand that the show was not entirely tasteless until I reached Tina Turner, but even so--way to go to deliberately fire off certain sequences of neurons in my brain guys. I definitely remember this show more than any since the one with Serena Williams in a swimsuit. But they're not even using any of those pics on the website. Hmmph.