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Discovered a bunch of cool things this weekend:

1. SNL Narnia Rap

RM and I agree this gives us hope the show can be funny again. We actually acted this one out today, as I finally got to see the damn movie.

2. Transmetropolitan--Warren Ellis comic book series (yes, I said comic book) featuring rogue journalist Spider Jerusalem, channeling Hunter Thompson and telling it like it is in a self-destructive, futuristic America. It's a world where journalists are the superheroes.

I couldn't put it down. And it was the first comic I've ever picked up.

3. Men Fake Foreplay--Mike Dugan very generously comped tickets for us to this amazing one-man commentary on the nature of men, women and relationships. My favorite part: realizing that there are men in this world that just plain don't like women. I'm not talking about gay men, I'm talking about men who were raised on t & a, instilled with the desperate need to prove themselves to older males and taught that feelings and displays of emotion are for pussies--thereby creating the type of man who will blame a woman for his inabilities to express himself and run away with a fear of intimacy. Priceless.

My other favorite part: the reason men keep socks lying around their apartments is to serve as oven mitts when transferring the one lightbulb left working from lamp to lamp throughout their apartments.

4. River Rats Hockey--when our very own NJ Devils farm team scores four goals in a game, we get free sandwiches from Panera Bread. Everyone who knows about my past as a competitive figure skater knows how much I loathe the sport of hockey--as a testament to how much I dig panera sandwiches, I attended two games in the last two weeks and got two free sandwiches! I watched as smelly hockey players screwed up my ice and listened to ten-year-olds and middle-aged men with bear guts and open flies chant, "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" My laundry can skate better than that.

The highlight of the most recent game was when I dropped my cell phone down a very narrow crack in the platform seats where we sat. I got it back in one piece and in perfect working condition, so don't worry, I can't use it as an excuse for losing people's phone numbers.

And tomorrow it is back to the grind. I get to train a newbie--a cocky, arrogant rookie reporter with a bunch of impressive internships under his belt. Never thought I would be the one they'd have do such a thing. And it makes me wonder if I was that wet behind the ears when I started, oh four months ago!

Alas, Mr. Pib plus red vines equals crazy delicious.