Tattoos, Roomies and Smashages

For years now I've had this irrational desire to get a lady justice pin up girl tattoo. The problem is I have no idea where I'd put it. The coolest thing would be to get it on my arm but there's no way I'm doing that. And it's not like I can put it somewhere small and inconspicuously, because what is the point of pin-up girls?

Roommate moves in on Saturday. I'm a little nervous because I've gotten used to living here by myself for the last 6 months. Oh well, I'm only committed to a 6 month lease so I will just see how things go.

I'm having a love affair with a sausage restaurant in Little Tokyo. Rattlesnake is the best. I've been there 3 times this week and was just called a "regular" by the guy behind the counter. I don't know whether to be excited or embarrassed that I eat so many sausages.

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This is so disturbing. What I want to know is why the father even had custody of that child based on the previous PCP incidents. I literally gagged on my coffee this morning when I read it in the paper.

Yes, you should be hiding your face

Yes, you should be ashamed. How can you expect to win the championship playing the way you've been playing? Don't disappoint us now...

I tend to daydream....

This means that I'm super smart! Ha!

The Phantom Tollbooth

One of my favorite books growing up was The Phantom Tollbooth. There was something really magical about it, and I probably read it about 10 times. I still have the same copy from when I was a kid. It's pretty ratty by now. I vaguely remember seeing the movie and thinking how it did not live up to the book in any way, shape or form.

I just started re-reading the book, and as an adult, I really appreciate the word play that the author uses. I didn't pick up on a lot of it as a kid. For example, the main character meets the residents of Dictionopolis, where they literally eat their words. He also meets the Whether Man who claims that "it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be."

Anyway, the point of this story is to buy this book for your kid when s/he hits the 4th grade or so. Maybe you can even take a gander at it yourself.

And p.s. - how bout them lakers last night? :-D