Amy took to the closet this evening...



Oh, so sorry to disturb! Back to the baseball games...

I'm a regular Mark Fiore reader, and found his cartoon this week ("Politishop") particularly amusing.

The best thing about working a 10-hour day after a relatively sleepless night thanks to the worst 1 AM leg cramp I've had in years? How many coworkers complimented me on my newly-shorn hair and my earrings. Now, I'm not a real fashion plate, but it's a big deal to me to, you know, just be noticed like a normal person, because these little courtesies rarely occurred at my old job. Tomorrow I try the subway again; I couldn't do it today because of the leg pain. I shall not fail! Speaking of which, you need to check out FAIL Blog (via Val's Cool Aggregator). While I need to collapse.

Will my blogging ever return from the wayside by which it's gone? I dunno, but I do know I've gotten my summer shearing, picked up this week's comics, had this week's ComicMix column published, and been shown a very cute mashup video by Robin:



Stairway to Heaven is fun most of the time anyway, and it's even cuter Beatle-fied. I wouldn't be surprised if Susie's already run this one...

Took some photos at the All-Star Parade on Sixth Avenue this afternoon, but you don't care. You all just want to see the first webisode on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, don't you?

Well, I thought I was going to have time for a blogaround, but the day and evening seem to have slipped away from me. Ah well, maybe tomorrow. Everyone's talking about the New Yorker cover, about which I hope to have something to say (had I not been on deadline I might have thought to do my ComicMix column about it), but until then why not design your own Wired cover (via Gerard)?

Whew! Finally "finished the internet" (i.e., caught up on blog reading), only three weeks after my employment rendered me too busy or exhausted to pay much attention to blogs. Of course, since it's after 11 PM it's a bit late to do a blogaround, but I'm going to try one tomorrow evening, if I still remember how. Meanwhile, via Randi, it's The Imp TV show! Yet one more thing which I have no time to explore!

Damn. FOX just reported Murcer's death during their game of the week. I was really hoping he'd beaten that cancer...

Between yesterday being a relatively quiet day at work and not having to get up at 6 AM today, I finally feel a bit rested. Also, it helps not to worry about my eyesight any more; ever since I got these new glasses my close-up and intermediate vision have been terrific but my distance vision, not so much. Went back to Sears for a re-check and, lo and behold, my prescription needs to be corrected. The frames needed adjusting and tightening as well, and I'm now seeing about 100% better with short distances (like the 10 feet to the living room TV) but it'll be great once I can see road signs again. Good thing I'm doing public transit to and from my job! Wanted to go to conveyor belt sushi again as long as I was out and about, but Rob's crashing after a deadline and not up to it, so for now I'll have to make do with these adorable sushi ornament heads on Playmobile bodies (via Adam at Serious Eats).

It being a Friday in the summertime, I got home early enough to pill Datsa; he's then supposed to wait 15 minutes before feeding, and we all know how that goes.



"Mommy? Mommy? Food? Food now? Mommy? Mommy?"

Meanwhile I hung up my dry cleaning on the bedroom closet door, as Amy discovered to her delight.



Cat and wrapped in plastic!



Don't worry, she wasn't actually in the plastic (at least I don't think so), just behind it.

Too tired to even look up Silly Sites, so I "cheated" last night and asked my Firesign chat pals. "Bunnyboy" recommends Silly Putty University. Thanks BB!

I forgot to mention that yesterday, as usual, my weekly ComicMix column posted. San Diego's getting closer, and of course we won't be going this year. I don't know if we'll ever go again; it's just gotten too big, too expensive, too impossible, and besides we have the NY Comic Con now. But a huge part of me wishes I could see the MST3K panel featuring the entire friggin' cast. (It's been awhile since I've plugged Satellite News anyway...)

Among the things I don't have time to do at present is browse creative Flickr sets, so I like when folks like David McCandless bring to our attention sites like Money Shots. I wish we could do this with American money!