All true! Maybe I should double down on IMDB instead of trying to get off it.

You ARE a celebrity!

Excellent, tommy!

I am asleep. Maybe taking that antihistamine wasn't such a good idea.

Sue! I keep meaning to ask you - my parents are visiting Halifax this summer, are there any can't miss places they need to get to that wouldn't be on a tour (they're taking some kind of package tour for like a week and then renting a car and doing their own thing for another)? Especially vegan/vegan-friendly restaurants. And quilt shops.

Are they just doing Halifax? Or more of the province.

This is probably the best (and only purely) vegan resto in town.

enVie [link]

Vegan friendly

Wooden Monkey [link]

Humani-T [link]

I will ask my vegan friend for other recommendations.

Quilt shops...hmmm. I will ask around about that.

I'm not sure, Sue. Probably the province. Thanks!

Glad to hear no pain, tommyrot. May it continue.

Embrace your fame, Jesse!

I have a story about my close call with celebrity. In 1986, Sean Penn and Christopher Walken were filming At Close Range in Franklin TN. There's a scene set in a strip club. The director wanted it to be authentic, so he decided to cast a real stripper to play the dancer. He sent casting people out to a local strip club, the Classic Cat in Nashville, where I'd been dancing for two years at that time. They showed up, talked to the manager, and rounded up three girls: "Jessie", "Amber" and me. It was easy to see they were going for three classic "types" for the director to choose from: Amber was a honky-tonk girl, big hair and lots of makeup, Jessie was a girl-next-door, natural blonde and curvy, and I was slender and pale and black-haired, yer basic European model. They got us to pose for photos and then they left without telling us what it was for. A couple days later they came back for Jessie, and she was gone for a day. When she came back she regaled us with stories of being on set and what a dick Sean Penn was, and how they'd used some kind of spray-on glue that held her boobs up but they wouldn't tell her what it was. She's in the movie for a few seconds, she said it took a couple hours to film. So that's how close I came to being in a movie: one director's preference in girls! Jessie's on IMDB under her real name, which is what made me think of this story.

That's amazing.

What a great story!

Brushes with fame, crazy.

I am mailing in my taxes in order to avoid an extension and possibly more craziness. I am going to ahead and re-mail in my 2014 with a letter and I hope it all gets resolved.

Oh, and I think I saved about $500 by forgoing general anesthesia. (My dental insurance didn't cover anything.)

I'm now home, making oatmeal and getting ready to try the good drugs.