I’ve probably used that headline for an entry before because, let’s face it, I am no prize. But today’s reason: it’s our little Dave’s birthday today, and all he wanted to do was go for dinner at a vegetarian restaurant on the Upper East Side, and then last night as I was trying to go to sleep my throat started getting hoarse and then I just lay in bed trying fitfully to sleep over the next nine hours or so and then got nauseated and slept until about an hour ago and ruined Dave’s birthday.
So everyone wish Dave a happy birthday so that he knows there are people in his life who don’t suck like I do.
Some more celebrity sightings:
- Mandy Patinkin, at the gym, in a rabbinical beard I hope is for a role because it made him look like John McCain’s great-grandpa
Lauren Velez of Dexter, directly in front of me and an oblivious Joe R in line at the concession before Iron Man
Seth Gilliam of The Wire, walking down Columbus Avenue this afternoon
And because Trash was horrified that I didn’t mention it before:
- Ice T, on the plane from New York to L.A. on the way to Kona. We noted as we got off the plane that he’d spent the flight enjoying a copy of Florida Design.
I think I’m pretty firmly on the record here as not being a fan of your current president. But when I saw last week that they’re still conducting polls on what kind of job people think he’s doing, I kind of felt bad for him! I know, it’s weird! But he’s on his way out already. Most days I barely even remember that he still is president. It kind of seems like even he is trying to keep a low profile right now and just step out of office as gracefully as possible like the last crewman stepping off the Titanic just before it sank below the waves. Like, is he going to do anything now that’s likely to change people’s opinion of him, in either direction? No. He’s probably already packing his stuff in the White House, for God’s sake! It just seems kind of peevish to keep kicking him when he’s down.
On the other hand, for results like these to hurt his feelings, he would have to, like, follow the news. So I suppose I can stop feeling bad on his behalf.
I realize that last night’s Colbert Report segment with the Congresswoman from Guam was a repeat, but even after watching it twice, I’m not convinced that she wasn’t actually Amy Sedaris doing a bit. Right?