isn't it february sweeps?
It's not particularly weird for the "underdog" to win the New Hampshire primary. What is considered noteworthy about John McCain's win yesterday over George W. Bush?
(Don't send me your answers. This is just a little way to expand your horizons. Honest.)
Darin and I are boring old fogeys. Last weekend some neighbors had a party and we called the cops (877-ASK-LAPD, which has a voicemail tree that allows you to report loud parties). We decide using the following very basic criteria: if your music makes our walls shake, we call. Does that make us un-fun? Probably.
I think it's great the LAPD has a toll-free number. I don't remember a "Press 4 to report police brutality" option though.
Today I did not do any writing. I have no excuse.
In the afternoon, Darin came up to my office and asked if I wanted to go get some lunch. As I hadn't eaten yet, that sounded pretty good. Then he said, "I have to get my hair cut." So we went to get his hair sheared off before getting lunch at Art's Deli in Studio City.
We stopped at the place Brent likes to go to get his hair cut. In Northern California Darin went to an old-fashioned barber probably named Tony or Vinnie who ran a joint that had a couple of chairs, week-old newspapers, and a tiny TV always running in the background on a static-filled channel. This place is an actual chi-chi hair salon with copies of Vogue and Premiere and offers of coffee (though not, as yet, cappucino). I stopped at the Starbucks next door to get a hot chocolate; by the time I came back, Darin's locks were already on the floor. I guess it's easier to get through a cut for a guy -- I always plan to spend an hour getting my hair styled.
Darin has beautiful hair. I love to run my fingers through it. He likes to keep it short, though, so I sort of run my fingertips through it. I've never felt mink, but his hair is what I expect mink to feel like: thick and glossy and firm without being coarse.
Sometimes I suspect Darin thinks I am pulling his leg when I say I love his hair and I love his voice -- he would be great doing voiceover, because he has a baritone that isn't in the least nasal. He says he gets that from years of singing. (Hey, I sang, and my voice is annoyingly nasal.)
Eddie Izzard (the transvestite comedian, whose standup routine was much funnier than I expected it to be, mostly because he's a comedian who happens to be a transvestite, rather than a guy who does comedy about transvestitism, which would get really old really fast) has a shtick about how the most important thing about what you say is how you say it, followed by how you look when you say it, followed last by what you actually say. This is why Darin is such an effective speaker -- everything he says sounds good and he always sounds authoritative when saying something, even when he's making it up as he goes along.
I did not watch the Super Bowl, by the way, so I did not see the much-touted ads. I hope to get to see this "cat herding" one everyone talks about, but it sounds like I didn't miss too much for the most part.
The answer to yesterday's question: The European Union said its member states would downgrade their diplomatic relations with Austria if the far-right Freedom Party was allowed to become part of the new government. The Freedom Party is considered to be fascist and xenophobic, but they did receive 27% of the vote. I personally think the EU overreached a little, but welcome to the new world order: large blocs of states dictating behavior to other states.
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