I need to bring in a parka or some kind of electric ass warmer, because it’s freezing in here today.

Guilty Pleasure Dept.: Project Runway. Watch this show and marvel at its stupid, vapid brilliance. Where else can you make fun of supermodels, mincing clothing designers, “fashion”, and normal people all in one place? Besides, it’s funny to realize just how average (and annoying) professional models can be before the stylists perform their studio magic and turn them into sexless, plastic robots. Girl, you skin nasty. We may have to make a party night out of this…

Birthing Babies. Congratulations to our friends the Mat-uh-YOW-skees, who just gave birth to their second child, Fletcher Owen. (The spelling is mine; I had to phoneticize it the first time I wrote it down so that I wouldn’t muff it when I shook hands.)

Suggestions. My 4-year-old Motorola phone, an ancient V-series handset, is falling apart. The battery lasts about 20 minutes, the headset jack is busted, and the interface is about as unusable as a Korean karaoke menu. I’m looking for a new-generation phone, something that will work with my computer, something that is easy to use, and best of all, cheap. I may have found my phone. Does anybody have a Sony/Ericsson phone, and what do you think of it? (My experience with Sony has been lackluster. I don’t need a phone camera, but I want Bluetooth. I could give a rat’s ass about ringtones and instant messaging—give me an interface I can work with.) I’m going to find a Cingular store and see if I can’t lay hands on one this evening.

A Small Slice of Sanity. Thank god somebody still has a brain.