Electrician update: He came. He saw. He vowed to return today to punch not-too-huge holes in my ceiling and fix the problem for not-too-much money. We'll see.

Regarding my male empath rant, Rich kindly sent me a page that detailed lesbian, gay and bi comic book heroes. Thanks, Rich.

I guess the main reason for my "why are chicks the only empaths" rant is that it seems like such a wimpy-ass power. "Oh no! It's Vaguely Perceptive Girl! We must flee, before she senses our anger, which someone with puny mortal skills would not have been able to divine from the smoke coming out of our ears and the way we have been firing these automatic weapons in the general direction of the preschoolers!"

Which reminds me: If you had to choose between flight and invisibility as your superpower, which would you choose? Check out the great This American Life show on superpowers -- it's episode 178, and went up in late February this year. Faboo.

I'd choose flight. "Goin' to Paris Man!"