Maybe it's time to pull the plug on this site. Although my motives are related to not wanting to be another blog, I don't consider this a blog exactly. I consider it more of a web log. Anyway this morning, I happened to be awake at 4:45, and I put on the TV, and some Today Show type was on, talking about how 11 million Americans have blogs. I don't know how they came up with that number, but whatever number, maybe mine is one more too many. Certainly I wouldn't want to be in the company of the woman profiled who was a Mormon, blogging about the birth of her child.

I will tell you this: today my brother wrote his first blog, though his is far more prestigious than this one, since he is hired by AOL to write it, as live blog coverage of Live 8, meaning he is actually getting paid, plus he gets to stay at the Four Seasons for a few days while he writes and attends the concerts.

My own view on Live 8, in case you were curious, is that the whole thing is fine with me. I don't think it really helps the Africans, but it probably doesn't hurt and maybe some money actually goes to people who need it, as opposed to most African aid money which seems mostly to wind up paying for some gold plated Benz in Paris driven by the nephew of a minister.

But I am in favor of international peace, should that occur.

Elsewhere, I should report that longtime reader Beth managed to deliver two babies this week, which I consider an accomplishment worth noting. Two beautiful daughters.

Also there was an amazing number of other things I have been remiss in reporting, not the least of which is that I have printed up another of my comics, this one being the classic Venezuala trip, which was a crowd pleaser back when I wrote it in 1997. And since my last entry I was back and forth to Los Angeles, which is where I went out to Shabu Shabu and got a head cold. This lifestyle is killing me, though now I'm pretty much cured, if you don't count my frequent need to blow my nose. That's Los Angeles for you: full of filthy germs.