Can I just say, I FREAKING LOVE IT when celebrities show up on the morning show completely hung over. Billy Bob Thornton is on The Today Show and he's wearing sunglasses and has that up-all-night whiskey voice.

AWESOME.

We're opening the first show of the season tonight--"Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure." It's not a great script, but the preview audiences seem to like it a lot, so I think it'll be a successful run. But this week has been a killer. First of all, tech weekend was slower than a dead turtle. In Saturday's 10-hour rehearsal, we did not finish ( Read more... )

I just finished my bathroom. It's painted. And I still have about a quart of paint left over, which will make Mom happy, because she's painting the pantry in tropical colors and asked if she could have what I didn't use. (Yes, you heard me right, my mom is painting her pantry. Her rural Indiana pantry. In tropical colors. I love my mom. She' ( Read more... )

My kitchen. It is painted ( Read more... )

I'm a little nutty about interior design. I love design magazines, I like designing things in my head and assembling color schemes and artfully quirky collections of furniture and decor. But I have never much bothered to really finalize any place of my own. I'm lazy about putting up pictures. I have good furniture, I know how to arrange it to ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm not really watching it, but the Republican National Convention is on TV. "President" Bush's speech was playing, and he broke for applause frequently, but we couldn't hear the applause from our end of the broadcast. My living room windows are thrown wide open, and what did I hear in each pause ( Read more... )

Both.

MAN-BABIES!

(Levi, you absolutely need to check it out.)

So yes, I was woken up by a real-live earthquake this morning. It was one of the COOLEST things I've ever experienced--no joke. I've seen sheet lightning, funnel clouds, golf-ball-sized hail, and a single wimpy hurricane, and while those things are all amazing, they're not cool, they're scary. Oddly enough, I wasn't frightened at all, even ( Read more... )

At 5:39 this morning, central and southern Indiana was rattled awake with an earthquake of 5.4 magnitude.

AWESOME!!!

I has a new bike. And a new bike computer. And a new handlebar bag. And a little bit of new debt, too ( Read more... )