also: coming up with a list of links is harder than first supposed.
I figure maybe if I try to post every day, I will manage to post every couple of days. I know, keeping an online journal is not about "shoulds." I like having this journal--I just have to figure out what it means to me right now. I'm definitely not in "what I did today" mode. I don't want to talk about pregnancy and the baby all the time.
Right now just want to keep my brain functioning, and I do that very well when it comes to performing for someone else (if I'm just doing it for myself, I'll lie in bed all day, covers over head).
Because Xeney left us high and dry without links today, here's a Molly Ivins column on global warming Darin's not going to like. She also discusses Governor Dubya's inability to see hunger in Texas. Darin won't care about that point.
Lessee, what else. Oh: remember when I asked why no one has done a remake of that great Rat Pack movie, Ocean's 11? Note to self: every movie ever made will eventually be remade. (With George Clooney in the Frank Sinatra role, no less.) Please to get as many rights as possible to old, not particularly good movies.
Tom Tomorrow weighs in on AOL buying Time-Warner.
Jon Carroll appreciates the late, great Patrick O'Brian.
A gossip link I haven't pointed out before: in addition to his weekly column, Ted Casablancas also has a "Tea with Ted" in which he answers questions (which range from the mildly interesting to the inane). Sometimes there's a goody in there. The Tea is held on Thursday afternoons, the transcripts are posted on Friday.
Carl Hiassen, columnist in South Florida and novelist, writes about the messy, messy, messy Elian Gonzalez situation.
Rob Breszny has corrected the attribution for the Evil Overlord list--I had pointed out the error to my friend (and list writer) Peter Anspach, who worked out the change with Mr. Breszny. However, credit is still given to the wrong guy in the dozens of newspapers the Real Astrology column runs in, dammit.
If you see the Evil Overlord list floating around without attribution, or with attribution to someone other than Peter Anspach, point it out, would you? I am a firm believer in writers getting credit where credit is due.
I have this weird fear: that, when meeting Darin in a public place, I won't recognize him. I've had this fear for years, with a variety of people. I always scrutinize everyone around where I'm waiting: is that Darin? I have no idea where this fear comes from.
(Well, possibly from the fact I'm such a space cadet when I set foot outside my front door that I can often walk by people I do know. The whole thing about writers being keen observers of humankind whenever and wherever they are? Only if I really work on being "there" in the moment. The rest of the time, I'm off on Planet Di.
(I missed what surely was the best breakfast-out celebrity sighting Darin and I are likely to have: the couple at the table next to ours went nuts, and Darin, who like me was by the window, also saw her. I was totally oblivious to Monica Lewinsky and a friend walking up and down the street outside the restaurant, chatting about something. The couple next to us said, "That was the best celebrity sighting ever." I wouldn't go quite that far--Nicolas Cage staring at me at the Virgin Megastore beats it as far as I'm concerned--but still.)
I have some friends who are hate to go to LAX because they're afraid a plane will land on their car. I think they're aware that this is a weird fear. Afraid of a plane crashing--despite the recent safety records of commercial airliners in the US (no crashes at all in over a year, maybe two?), fear of crashing is understandable, not weird.
C'mon, I 'fessed up. Now you. Do you have any weird fears?
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