From my friends:
Originally published at Memnison Journal. You can comment here or there.
- Wife Swap: the show, of course, which Meredith somehow saw about a half an episode of tonight and stubbornly inflicted on the rest of us. No, we did not get a letter about possibly being on the show, though some people we know seem to have. We’re totally uninterested in doing something that squirrelly, thank you; our level of publicity is about to its limit over sisterfar-twins stuff popping up, thanks. Being made fun of on national TV isn’t going to happen.
- Congratulations to David Levine for his spanking new Hugo!
- No, we didn’t go to Los Angeles for Worldcon.
- Yes, we were surprised that Denver beat Chicago by such a slight margin. No, we didn’t vote for site selection. No, we would not have voted for Denver (I’m not happy from the altitude, which I didn’t deal well with last time I was there a couple of years ago.). I think the real worry is that the vote was so low and seemingly unenthusiastic.
- Yes, Harlan groping Connie Willis onstage at the Hugos is…agh. As I found out long ago, there is no such thing as a ‘governor switch’ on Harlan, and he will lose all perspective without a lot of prompting.
- I didn’t think Mark Whatzisname Karr was anything but a wannabe psycho in the first place who adored all the attention, and I’m not surprised that this happened. I never gave much of a care to the whole JonBenet story in the first place, aside of to not think much of the whole ickyness of the preschool beauty contest scene.
- Jim Groat describes a Nazi rally in Madison in his LJ; worth a look.
- Never teach your dog to drive.
- There has been some major work-ugliness going on, and it’s absorbed a lot of my time and energy lately. There’s supposed to be a meeting about it Wednesday afternoon; think good thoughts in my direction then.
- Have you ever hated a commute so much that you’d want to blow up that bridge?