This is me if you have bad reception. Ha ha. Still smoke free. It still sucks. I ate like half a Carvel ice cream cake last night. No, it wasn't Fudgy the Whale or Cookie Puss. Just a generic cake. Please tell me these cravings will stop soon! I am trying to restrict myself to 3 pieces of Nicorette/day and then in a week or so, I'll cut it down to 2, then 1 then 1/2 then I'm done. Not quite the plan they recommend on the box, but that plan was for someone who smoked a pack a day. When I quit, I was down to about 5 or 6 a day, not 20.

In other news, Wing Chun and Sars' new site, Mighty Big TV, has launched. My Real World summaries will be moving over there (they pay!) and I'll also be doing Party of Five and some Felicity summaries. I told you my dogged TV watching and critiqueing would pay off some day! Seriously, I'm really excited to be a part of this new site and I hope you all enjoy it. I know Wing and Glark and Sars put a lot of hard work into it.

The rest of this entry is going to be Stee's survey, because I just wrote an entry late last night and nothing interesting has happened since then. Ever since Friday's entry I am deathly afraid of being boring in my journal entries.

1. Would you rather look gorgeous and be retarded, or look retarded and be a genius?
The latter, because with the former, no one would be surprised. I like to surprise people. Plus, exhibit A: Bill Gates. Go ahead, laugh at him. He will take his $90 billion and buy and sell you.


2. If you could bitchslap one actor/actress, who would it be?
Actor would be Robert Downey, Jr. I like him, and I would like to see him live a bit longer and make some more movies, not spend some more time in jail and die of an overdose. Actress would be Jennifer "Love" Hewitt as my hatred of her is well-documented in these pages.


3. If you could bitchslap one musician, who would it be?

Hmm, musician. Jewel? I guess, Jewel. I used to like her back before she was a multi-million dollar recording artist/poet/actress. Now she just bugs me.


4. If you could bitchslap one relative, who would it be?
Sad as this is, I like all my relatives. I think it's because we don't spend that much time together. I only see them all about once a month.


5. If you had to make-out with one relative, who would it be?
Ew. Come on, that's gross. When I was little, I had a crush on my cousin Scott but I was like 4. Now, I think that's just gross. Oh, wait, I think I kissed my cousin Steve one time when we were little too. But nothing since the age of 6 or so. Call me uptight, but ew.


6. You see a spider on your wall, what do you do?
Watch it for a while. If I'm feeling particularly nice and/or superstitious, maybe catch it and throw it outside. Otherwise, grab a shoe and squash it and then clean up the mess. Or get Jim to kill it, sometimes. But I usually do it myself.


7. Washing your privates in the shower: the lean or the fast hand-o'-water transfer?
I use a washcloth. I think this is more a guy question.


8. David Blaine or David Copperfield?
David Copperfield. The Dickens version, thank you.


9. You need to do laundry desperately, do you wear dirty underwear or no underwear?
As others have pointed out, this doesn't happen to girls because every girl has a few pair of ugly, stained, no elastic underwear for that desperation day. Or they just go buy new underwear.


10. Julia Roberts: growing more and more beautiful, or more and more odd-looking?
Odd-looking. Her mouth seems to get wider. I think it's because she weighs less than she did in Pretty Woman so her lips stick out more.


11. Favorite cussword / phrase?
Fuck. It's very all-purpose.


12. Letterman or Leno?
Letterman, although lately I haven't been watching either. I was watching back to back Roseanne episodes on the local Fox affiliate but they replaced it with Star Trek. So now I either go to bed or channel surf.


13. Scientologists: quietly creepy or totally wacko?
Totally wacko. Finding out a celebrity is a Scientologist just ruins them for me. The latest to suffer this fate is Giovanni Ribisi.


14. Siegfried or Roy?
I can't tell them apart. I don't know which is which.


15. What do you desire sexually that you're too embarrassed to ever request?
As Beth noted, if I'm too embarrassed to ask my partner for it, do you think I'm going to talk about it here?


16. Maria Conchita Alonso or Rae Dawn Chong?
Maria Conchita Alonso is much more fun to say.


17. Gayest cartoon character: Mickey Mouse or Christopher Robin?
How about Robin from Batman? I always had my doubts. I think Batman and Robin are the model for the Ambiguously Gay Superheroes on SNL.


18. You're depressed: do you drink, cover your pain with humor, or take it out on the person closest to you?
The humor one, definitely.


19. Favorite Sutherland: Kiefer or Donald?
Donald. Keifer's name is too much like "Queefer".


20. Favorite Corey: Haim, Feldman, or Hart?
Ooh, Hart! I used to have a poster of him when I was in 6th grade, and I put an ACTUAL pair of sunglasses over his eyes on the poster. I thought that was so cool.


21. Mary-Kate or Ashley?
Again, I don't know which is which. As names go, I like Mary-Kate better than Ashley, but I don't particularly like either one.


22. Do you spend a lot of time surfing the Net because you're scared of people, or because people are scared of you?
Neither. I'm stuck at home without a car and nothing interesting within walking distance, and I don't have a job, and I'm a full time grad student.


23. What do you sing instead of "pompatus of love" in Steve Miller's "The Joker"?
"Pompatus of love", but I never thought those were the right words until that Jon Cryer movie a few years ago.


24. Best bets in a "death pool" (pick 3): Andy Dick, Robert Downey Jr., Nell Carter, ex-Pogue Shane McGowan, Ronald Reagan, rock group Hanson, Salman Rushdie, Bob Hope, John Popper, Scott Weiland, Mr. T, golfer John Daly, or that girl from Blossom?
Robert Downey, Jr; John Popper and Ronald Reagan. Have you seen John Popper lately?


25. It's 4pm, your husband calls from work to say he's bringing his boss over for dinner! What do you prepare?
Myself to go to a restaurant because my apartment is so dirty. If I had a husband, that is. And not to be all Samantha Stevens, but if Darrin is bringing home Larry for dinner, I'm going to need more advance notice. Or we'll just have to get a new Darrin.


26. Is a dart board really such a bad wedding gift?
Not at all!


27. Your ass or your elbow?
I don't know one from the other (get it?)


28. Favorite Wu-Tang Clansman?
ODB or Big Baby Jesus or whatever. Because it's funny how he gets arrested all the time. To me, anyway.


29. Will Billy Idol ever make a successful comeback?
No. The Wedding Singer was as good as it will get for him.


30. Let's just say you're walking home drunk very late from a bar in Madison Wisconsin last week and you see a hundred dollar bill on the ground so you pick it up. A minute later, a very anxious-looking hippie comes by, searching all over the street for something, muttering about "not being able to pay rent". Are you like totally going to hell if you kept the money, planning to spend it at a titty bar in Vegas this weekend?
Yes. You should at least ask the hippie what he's looking for. Then if he says, "A joint I dropped", you can spend the money guilt-free.

That wasn't so bad! I love surveys.

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Zingerman's website launched today as well. It's functional, but I don't know that it captures the Zingerman's experience as well as the paper catalog. But they're grow, I'm sure. Get the brownies. I'm telling you.

Diana Ross gets arrested for assault. The "assaultee" (a security guard) touched her breast while searching her. Hmm, didn't she do the same thing to Lil' Kim at the MTV Music Video Awards?

Since I'm a non-smoker now, can I get all fired up about the Justice Dept. suing the tobacco industry?

It's been 30 years since the Brady Bunch debuted.

The offical Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees are announced. Yes, no Jethro Tull. Jim will be crushed.

Angelina Jolie and Tim Hutton split up. She can do SO much better - she's just beautiful!

Sarah Vowell rocks my world. Read her essay on why Canadians are so funny.

If you like TV and/or movie related paraphenalia, Moletown is a pretty good site. And really, who doesn't need a Buffy shotglass?

They also host Studio Auction, where you can bid on production gear and collectibles. Of course, I have no idea if the prices are any good.

AOL Geek of the Week: This is so mean, but oh so funny. I was just waiting to find my picture on there. Even though I'm not on AOL. I am a geek.

Zug.com looks interesting, but I haven't had a chance to really explore. It is NOT, however, the web's only comedy site.

Roadside America is a pretty cool site, but none of their attractions are very close to me, so I can't verify if they are cool or not. But I like weird and obscure roadside attractions as much as the next person, so I will check back next time I have to make a road trip.

OK, I just went to a few cat sites to try to find out why Mia is running around the house as if she were insane (and I fear the answer is that she is insane). The first had a MIDI file of "The Pink Panther" that I couldn't turn off. The second one was a sound of a cat purring that I couldn't turn off. Don't have audio on your page, please. If you must, make it easy for me to turn off. I am trying to listen to something else, and I don't need your audio files. I'm so grouchy now that I'm going to upload. See you tomorrow!