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Tina Fey talks trash about Paris Hilton

ton o' bricks

No, really, I haven't abandoned this blog. Well, maybe just a little.

Thingas, as some of you know, have been a little kooky around here as of late. I've been working more and more - though I keep telling myself I'm working 'smarter not harder' - I'm not quite sure this true. Actually that persistent, overwhelming feeling that I'm getting smashed by a ton o' bricks is probably a good indication that I'm not. And all this stress for Breaking Britney News. Seriously folks - even I can't believe this shit sometimes.

But enough about me, I'm really excited that the True Love Coffeehouse is open again. It's nice to have it back and I look forward to some good music, good coffee and good people.

I'm also excited about good friends - I've had many the occasion lately to stop and think about this past year and I'm grateful for so many of you. Thanks.

And, finall, a heads-up, I'm reading this weekend at the "Frank Andrick is a Name-Dropping Whore" benefit at HQ.

Here is all the info you'll need:

An evening of provocative and scandalous work A Benefit to help poet frank andrick cover his medical costs Featuring: frank andrick, Gene Bloom, Josh Fernandez, Bill Gainer, James Lee Jobe, Rachel Leibrock, Ann Menebroker, Geoffrey Neill, Barbara Noble, Bill Pieper, Rachel Savage, Teryl & Eric (and invariably last minute surprises) An audio-visual overlay by J. Greenberg

frank andrick, the Lockeford-San Francisco-Sacramento poet who has given so much of himself to the Sacramento literary scene, has suffered from a series of health setbacks that have led to hospital stays and mounting medical expenses. His friends have assembled this event in an effort to help him financially. We ask those attending give what they can at the door ($2-20). Additionally, items will be available for sale and auctioned with all the money generated going to frank.

This event is sponsored by Poets & Writers with a grant they've received through the James Irvine Foundation. And the Poems-For-All mini-chaps and reading series.
Visual media / cinema / etc. by Jay Greenberg ( Kabinet Films )

• WHEN: Saturday November 18th. 7pm
• WHERE: HQ Headquarters for the Arts 25th and R Sts.
• COST: $2 to $20 Dollars no one turned away - free programs ( w/artwork by Belgian Surrealist Toyen & French Surrealist Max Ernst ) and Poems-For-All mini-chaps also free will be made available.

Best. Week. Ever.

So far this week there's been the Rummy resignation, Dems take control of the House and Senate, the Brit & K-Fed split and, last night, the New York Dolls...who totally rocked. This morning I actually felt sore from all the jumping around.

Now, if I could just get a decent night's sleep, this would be the Best Week Ever.

Rock the vote

So, apparently it is Ted Haggard's wife's fault that he wanted to have hot gay sex.

At least that's how Pastor Mark Driscoll want to explain it.

At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this,. It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.

Of course this guy is an extreme freak - even the folks over at EvangelicalRight.com called him a "douchebag" - but the moral of the story here today is:

Vote.

Don't let the douchebags win.

Adrienne Shelley, who starred in one of my all-time favorite films, "Trust," is dead at age 40.

No known reason for her death yet - she leaves behind a huband and young daughter.