I think it was the eschatological laundry list that used to hang next to the toilet that said "If you have a hero, look again, you have diminished yourself in some way." And boy was that eschatological laundry list smart. Because it was just a few days ago that I was saying what a nice person Tim O'Brien was, and today I ran into someone who says he isn't nice at all, and he's a big asshole. Now, I can only believe my own experience to a limited degree, and the fact that I met him and was favorably impressed is only worth a few cents towards the overall score. This person was relying on another person, who was a publicist who dealt with him. So they may have an axe to grind or be an asshole themselves.

Hard to say.

Just got out of a long recording studio session with an aging TV personality, who started things off by announcing to all present that he just got off oxycontin. Only he didn't call it that, he said " I was addicted to the same pain medication as Rush Limbaugh, and his experience with it scared me so I have quit. So I am in pain." I'm not sure if he was trying to sound impressive, by association with Rush, because the first thing I think of with Oxycontin is that it is called hillybilly herion and every high school sophmore in omaha is scoring it for saturday's big party. But more to the point, this man was preemptively announcing why he was cranky. Which is not the way I like to deal with my talent.

Speaking of talent, my dad, sort of out of the blue, published a poem in the New York Times. Shocking but true.He just sent it in unsolicited and they called him and said they would print it. So go figure.