A few random notes...

It's a beautiful Wednesday.

I got the Belly tape, Star, for fifty cents at a used-clothes place in Midtown. It's been a great investment.

For those of you keeping score, the McConaughey/Zellweger Chainsaw movie I saw last night was pretty stinky...it was a reworking of the original movie, really, fairly gory, not too clever.

Ol' Matt has really brought his acting skills up a notch since then, too. In this movie he had a remote-controlled leg and a penchant for cutting himself. He also spit on Renee several times, which was pretty neat.

Let me tell you something, though - that Zellweger girl has got some legs on her! She's cute, really, in a squinty-eyed high-voiced kind of way. I wonder if her and Joey Lauren Adams hang out? Or maybe they hate each other, each thinking the other has stolen their act. Has anyone ever seen the two of them together? Separated at birth...

While I was walking home today a gentleman went running by me. He was wearing a brown fedora, matching pants and jacket and a sick-yellow turtleneck.

I looked to see where he was running. One of the stores just ahead was closing its rolling-garage-security door thing. I thought, just for a second, that he was going to hit the ground and roll through, Indiana Jones-style.

He opened the door of the place just before the one that was closing. I was bitterly disappointed.

The new Flyer came out today, as usual. One of the teaser headlines at the bottom of the front page was

Now I don't know about you, but that sets me to laughing. I showed it to Sonya when I got home for lunch.

"You know what that makes me think of?" I asked her.

"Uhruhruhruhruh?" she guessed. That's the punchline to my favorite Helen Keller joke.

"Exactly!" I said, "what does that mean, that one of my all-time favorite jokes is a Helen Keller joke?" And it is, too. I'm still giggling at that one, which I'm sure I first heard in junior high.

"How do you think it makes me feel that I immediately said uhruhruhruhruh?" Sonya shot back.

Then we went through the variations of Helen Keller heckling. "What's your dog's name?" "How do your parents punish you?" "How'd you burn your ear?" "How'd you burn your other ear?"

Isn't that terrible?

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