When I about 13 and in New York for dinner and a show with my Mom, Dad and Mom�s friend Connie, Tom Jones was in a limo behind us when we were about to go into the theater and my Mom and Connie whinnied like schoolgirls and almost swooned. It was funny and my Dad and I were embarrassed. Now, I wrote that because I was looking for pictures of Tom Jones to cheer my sour mood and found something even better! This weird German site with pictures of random male musicians and actors from the 60�s, I guess, with no real rhyme or reason. And that I don�t read German only adds to my delight! (I apologize for the weird google link but trying to click on the original thing I kept getting a 404 error in German).

�Naja, eigentlich hat der Klaus K. nicht so einen tollen Scheitel. Aber er ist ein Promi,und er hat damals die tollen kranken Rollen gespielt!

Respekt!!!!!!!�

I can�t believe it�s been ten months since September 11th. God bless all of those people. All of them. Prayers for everyone! Really close friends of the family lost their son, Robbie, who was a few years older than me. He was such a nice guy and our families used to go to the beach together sometimes. His father is also our dentist (and a damn good one) and it�s so heartbreaking they had to use his dental records to identify him and I was just thinking about it today, that his father would have those and have to give them to the people and how weird that would be. I was just picturing the conversation they would have to have had and how hard it must have been. �You�ll need to get the dental records from his dentist.� �I am his dentist.� Just so weird. But it�s good that they found him because it gave them some closure. Even so, when my Dad told me they found him we just cried on the phone together. He told me that his mother spent about an hour with his body, praying and holding it and stuff and the thought of her, this strong woman, having to be there and do that just made me burst into tears. And they found him on his birthday, oddly enough. My Dad and I�ve talked quite a bit about that day. I�ve cried for them and I�ve cried in anger at those responsible. There were days I thought I would positively break after that day. The presence of such evil was so tangible.

Anyway, if you pray, please take a couple seconds to say a prayer for all of those people, for the world, for all of us, and to try to kill the hate somehow. I know it sounds cheezy but I really believe positive thoughts can make an impact. I mean, love is really a positive thought when you think about it (~der~) and think about how much that impacts us.

Could Lisa Loeb be ANY cuter? I don�t like her music yet she was just on tv and I had to watch her because I�m thinking, �How cute is that outfit? I wonder if I can do my hair like that? Look how white her legs are!� Her new album is appropriately called Cake and Pie she says because when anyone offers you cake or pie you should say, �cake and pie.� Of course she doesn�t look like she eats either one. But it�s just all sweetness happening.

Word of the Day for Tuesday June 11, 2002:

fulminate FUL-muh-nayt, intransitive verb:

1. To issue or utter verbal attacks or censures authoritatively or menacingly.

2. To explode; to detonate.

transitive verb:

1. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures.

2. To cause to explode.

This mass culture--global, immediate, accessible, buoyant, with shared heroes, models, and goals--is immensely intoxicating. Ayatollahs fulminate against it; dictators censor it; mandarins try to slam the door on it. --Lawrence M. Friedman, [1]The Horizontal Society

He lets others fulminate on his behalf while he maintains his gentlemanly demeanor. --Richard Sandomir, "Cablevision's Dolan Makes the Deal Only When He's Ready," [2]New York Times, December 6, 1998

Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec. --Nigella Lawson, "Never mind the size, just feel the price," [3]The Observer, September 3, 2000

Fulminate comes from Latin fulminare, "to strike with lightning," from fulmen, fulmin-, "a thunderbolt."