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This was the headline that greeted me this morning:
Pope Breathing Unassisted, Advised Not to Speak

I cannot tell you why but that made me laugh.
Heartily.
I know.
I'm going to hell.
But it is not as though THIS was the deciding factor.
I mean, c'mon.

So...after causing all sorts of mayhem throughout the city yesterday - shutting the schools down because HOLY CRAP...
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Upon completion of the One Day at a Time reunion I came to these conclusions:
1. My "tween" girl crush on Barbara (Valerie Bertanelli) was completely justifiable
2. Mackenzie Phillips' character may well be why to this day I cringe when someone mistakenly shortens my daughter's name to "Julie"
3. Their apartment was super groovy
4. Sit coms forcibly adopt a young wayward fella when...
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I was thinking about the birth of my daughter at the point of the 16th hour or so of labor (I was in labor for 21 hours total) with still no epidural in sight and sheer exhaustion setting in. I was living in Oregon at the time so all of my family and network were back here on the East Coast other than my mother's...
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So I am at work - looking out my office window at the moment - watching my daughter and her classmates playing freeze tag in the park. They are having so much fun - it nearly made me laugh out loud just watching them.
Freeze tag was a good game.
I wish it applied to grown ups.
There are more than a few mouths I...
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There is something disconcerting about someone in the ladies room conducting business via cell phone whilst peeing. I mean, just, ew.

Now go wish my darling brother calculon3000 a happy birthday - he worked his ass off helping us move and deserves some well wishers and mayhem.

So we are all moved in to our home - well - for all intensive purposes in any case - everything is in and much of it is actually arranged and put away. It is just fabulous, really - it is the kick assest house ever. You can quote me on that.

Anyway - I'm exhausted and scattered and back in the office so I...
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Things I wish I did not know about John Ritter...
That he had a pair of Fonzie pajamas that he (in his own words) "literally wore until they fell apart"
Now chew on that for a minute - those were adult jammies..."back in the day"
That is all I am going to say about that as otherwise I would have to reveal the dark secret...
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We come so far only to watch those we love stumble over the same fucking shit that tripped us up in the crossroads. We can warn them about the outcome. We can share our experience. We can hope they'll make it out without breaking too much. But we cannot lead them and we cannot break their fall.
I love my brothers so much I couldn't...
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Maybe I'm just too old for this world...I know I have felt that in various stages of life...even when all behavior pointed to the contrary. I dunno. I am out of snarky adjectives to describe the absolute fuckholery of the neighbors we will soon be leaving behind...but unfortunately there are so many of them crawling all over the city these days. What is it about...
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