Penn speaks

Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, had a run-in with airport security back in November and made a fuss. His account of the incident is in his online journal, here. And then he posted a follow-up a few days later, here.

It's entertaining stuff to read, but also kind of alarming. I dunno. The way they fawn over him because he's a celebrity, yet at the same time they clearly want to shut him up and keep him from making a stink or suing ... the way the PR lady says that she made a CD-ROM from the videotape of Penn's encounter with the federal security guy and disseminated it, and apparently she thinks this is supposed to reassure Penn, when all it makes me think is that they're trying to show off, "hey look this is us groping a big celebrity!" Ugh, the whole thing is just icky. Makes me glad I won't be flying again for quite a while. (Next time I fly, it'll most likely be with a very small baby. I wonder whether that'll make the airport staff more, or less, obnoxious. Sigh.)

sigh

'Kay, so now I can't actually get into my email at all. This is what I get for complaining to the admins that webmail is slow. (Painfully slow. Yesterday I timed it at seven minutes from the time I clicked "next message" to the time the next message appeared.)

Ah well, use chlaal@yahoo if you really need me, otherwise *shrug* I'll be the one in the corner twitching and whimpering.

Oh, and since I'm here, ( a silly and mildly dirty joke )

*giggles more than necessary*

random thoughts

Frank DeCaro called Christian Kane cute. Bwa! I love Frank. :)

Happy birthday to bonibaru, who is, uh, you know, cool. And stuff. And now she's a year older. ;)

Trying very hard to look on the bright side of this awful weather: well, at least you don't have to worry if you accidentally leave groceries in your car.

And you know what's possibly the best thing ever? Is putting your pajamas on the radiator for a few minutes before changing into them. Mmmmmmm.

I have plenty more random thoughts but now I can't see the screen, only catbutt, so I'll stop there. Heh.