Right, Buffy premiere last night. Huzzah! Good, if very, very grim, episode, and I can see things are going to get interesting. Thanks to Michelle for having me and Wendy over, so we could watch and yell at the screen.

Random bits:

A truly disturbing story -- Man finds human penis in bottle of fruit punch -- Police don't know if crime is involved This took place near Denver, and I had the following e-mail conversation with my friend Rob out there:

Subject: RE: What the hell is going on out there?
Huh?!?! Hold on....
[zzzzipppp]
Whew.

"Don't know if crime is involved"? Um, my guess: It is. Ewwwwwwwww.

And we were grossed out the other day to find worms in the rice. It's
all in your perspective, I guess.

-Rob.

Glad to hear that you're not missing anything. And yeah, the rice thing doesn't sound so bad now.

Other news: My friend Lotti told me that her friend "Sgt. Ed Richards, one of Chicago's finest, " (i.e., he's a cop), was flagged down by a couple of tourists from Iowa at Navy Pier last week. Seems they'd spotted Osama Bin Laden driving a cab, and they wanted him arrested immediately. Sigh.

More random links: Check out this collection of screen shots from news sites on September 11. It's a pretty amazing collection of how we reacted when the news was just coming out about what happened.