Found an excellent news site called Topix.net which is similar to Google News but so far seems a little better. Look at the list of cities on the left-hand side of the home page-nice way to search. You can look by geography, kind of news, or key words.
From the "offbeat" search comes this story about Moose in Boulder City, Colo. who are enjoying cars that are encrusted with rock salt from the roads. The moose are licking off the cars.
Okay, I'm kind of dreading getting a confirmation that Spalding Gray is actually dead. I saw him three times, once when he was developing GRAY'S ANATOMY, once a few days before 9/11 when he told about being in a car crash in Ireland earlier in the year, and once in Powell's book store in Portland. "Hey Spalding!" I said, as if we knew one another.
"Hey," he replied and kept going.
So it would suck if my good friend Spalding offed himself. Dude, you should have called if you were feeling low.
In other low-wattage news, the Chicago Bears have hired a new head coach, a man who has the first name "Lovie". I guess when you are a football coach you can call yourself anything you like and nobody is going to mess with you. I'm still reading "Random Family" which is a total page turner and I'm into the names in that book. Some of them are nicknames (just read about Weedo who likes to smoke guess what) and some are actual names. Coco just had another baby she named Nautica and there is an older girl named Trinket we haven't heard from in a while. Heroin kingpin Boy George is still in prison and, like the football coach, if you are a heroin kingpin I guess that the name Boy George doesn't mean you are queer but that you are so tough you can call yourself any damn thing you like and nobody is going to say anything.
Finally, Bush estimates that his whole Let's Go Back To The Moon project (or the Ignore That Book By My Former Secretary Of The Treasury project) will cost $12 billion over the next five years. Yet he proposes spending $1.5 billion on a campaign to promote marriage (insert comments about Britney Spears, gay unions, etc. here).
Meaning that if we just opted to NOT promote marriage for 8 years we would have enough to go to the moon?
