April 24, 2003
9:41am Thursday

WE'RE ALL STARS NOW IN THE DOPE SHOW

Who has spent the last week exchanging frantic emails with her ISP because her FTP wasn't working? Me. Who realized today after like ten days that perhaps installing Mac OS 10.2.5 might've switched on some security functions that wouldn't allow her to FTP anymore? Me. Oh, dear. Once upon a time I considered myself to be technologically savvy. Not no more.

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Would you be jealous if I told you Suzanne Whang found my site and wrote me email? Seriously! I said disparaging things about her, she found them, and then wrote to me to invite me to her one-woman show in Los Angeles. Not comped or anything...she just mentioned she was doing one. She is very gracious.

On a similar celebrites-and-email note, I just gotta say to all of you who keep writing me about Patrick Dempsey and his mysterious undocumented facelift, that I have no new news, no proof to the contrary or the affirmative. It seems I am by far not the only one in the world who has noticed a structural cranial shift in Mr. Can't Buy Me Love, and it's still bizarre that there's nothing on the internet documenting it. Maybe he has good cease-and-desist lawyers?

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We saw A Mighty Wind at the now-decrepit AMC 14 last week, and man it was funny and good. People laughed like crazy, and I did too even though I'd seen it up close and personal four times. I found myself thinking, "Dang, that part was hard," and "Did I do that line right?" The fact that I even attempted to guess at some of the lyrics with no lyric sheet was an act of sheer bravery.

But fricking spring break, I hate it when the theater's crowded and people's Yankee Doodle Dandy-playing cellphones go off every five minutes.

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Because work (Holly Hunter's coming-of-age downer "Thirteen") awaits me, I give you springtime pictures.

This is a steroidal artichoke plant in my backyard.

A pretty flower.

My big box of Bibb lettuce. Some things in there look like they
might be weeds, but I can't pull them, they might grow into something edible. How
do I tell? I need a weed manual.

I have to go wash off my green thumb now.