will you be my katie couric?

last weekend, i dragged myself out of the house and went to see talledega nights. it was so silly, but there were some funny lines in it. in truth, there were many funny lines, but i couldn't recall them all.

i am very sorry that i have been neglecting you all. i worry especially that miri has no idea what in the world is going on because i am her principal link to the gossip world. i have had my head in a bucket with the crush of back to school activities.

here are the things that have gone on as i have learned:

• ann richards died. and i for one am going to miss her. yesterday, i listened to a funny story she told about getting her crotch wanded at an airport as part of TSA's on-going fight for democracy.
• anna nicole smith's son died. and that is too bad. but what is more worrying is that anna nicole, her son, and the "wrestler" known as china (joannie laurie) had all recently made film together? huh?
• nip/tuck is trying to be edgy again, but some of the scenes are derivative from their own work two or three seasons ago. that is a disappointment.
  
• tom and katie's daughter looks like bjork.
• angie and brad use some special gel for white parents who have children with black people hair. on their daughter's hair.
  
• justin timberlake had a superior and surprising sense of rhythm as a baby. + his mother had him when she was 20.
• condeleeza rice may or may not be smitten with a canadian. i know little about this, but i did like the yellow plaid suit she was wearing.
• kayne is off project runway. i wish that they brought back bradley because he was so silly and off-beat. but, vincent went up in my estimation. when tim gunn reported that his model had been injured in an accident, he immediately asked if she would be okay rather than complain or rant about how unfair it was that she couldn't strut the runway in his garment du semaine.
• 14,000 ford employees are going to lose their jobs soon. some are my neighbors.
• michigan doesn't require you to list your weight on your driver's license.
• john mayer and jessica simpson were probably only "hooking up" and having frisky phone sex. he dropped her ass because she went to the press in a publicity play. which interestingly is the same reason that her father told her not to play with eva longoria anymore (because eva is a p.r. whore)
  
• bush didn't use the word glib while being interviewed by matt lauer, but he did use the phrase "so what" in response to lauer's, even matt lauer, question on secret c.i.a. prisons.
  
• sean penn is one of the most interesting actors going now.
• guy raz is funny to me...right now his lead was about hand-sanitizer.

back to school is demanding. ihad a very hard time deciding how to decorate my bulletin boards.