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It's in the queue. I'll let you know if it ever arrives.

It wasn't my joke. I was just explaining what a "quince anos" is. I thought the gentleman's wife looked very nice.

Grrr! "Availability date is unknown."

I'll look. The fact that I had to miss that because of a Boy Scout camping trip was the beginning of the end of me and that organization.

Yes. Lissa's dad gave me a tutorial once on how to properly pronounce the name of the football team.

I scaled back on the cable package. This is the first time since 1978 that I haven't had HBO, but I HATE CABLEVISION AND DOLAN SO FUCKING MUCH that I'm willing to sacrifice that. And I'm up late at night when there's nothing on. So it seemed like a good idea.

In the queue!

Thus the western Pa. connection. My friend Lissa's family is all from Latrobe, and she's half Slovakian, half WASP. (And hotter than July!) No, wait, she's half Czech. But a lot of people from teh poorly-run Austo-Hungarian Empire ended up in that part of the world, as apparently working in the mines was a step up from dirt farming.

In other news, I got my first movies from the Netflix to-day. They were The Killers, Three Days of the Condor and Andrei Rublev.

That's not Beck?

A dude who at first walked the fine line between questionable and bad taste, then bounded over it.

Probably not since the Sex Pistols. Everybody's so fucking EARNEST these days.

It's a Mexican tradition; kind of a coming-out party when girls reach 15.

When does that DBoon kid get back?

Perhaps we are now trusted to self-regulate.

I voted for the Hillary, King-to-be Eliot and Andrew Cuomo today at my old grade school.

You sure do. They are NICE.

I should get them to play our holiday party.

I am coveting this.

Glad to hear it!

I can believe a Kennedy conspiracy. A 9/11 conspiracy? A tough sell. Sometimes the hardest thing is believing that the world is, in fact, so fucked up and awful that bad things can happen without the help of shadowy cabals, or at least the shadowy cabals people who have never heard of Occam's Razor like to blame shit on.

We are having the Sangria Festival this weekend. I may use my editorial prerogative and cover this one myself ...

Yeah, I'm not sure how much money they make being open all the time, but I, for one, am grateful. (Unless I get killed by the drunk driver. Then I'll be pissed, yet amused.)

As I was driving home from the gym just now and observed a dude being put through the sobriety test routine on the side of the road, it occurred to me that it truly would be "irony writ large" if I got killed by a drunk driver coming back from an activity that's supposed to extend my life.

A little. We could have had Roethlisberger and Eli could be unhappy and sucky in sunny San Diego.