some people

from the Anchorage Daily News:

"Sinead O'Connor was back in the news Friday--by taking out a full-page ad pleading for people to stop making fun of her... 'I don't think there can be any person male or female from this country who has been as consistently lashed as I have been and always am no matter what I set out to do.'"

the New York Times

These quotes from the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times:

"Everything is penis, fur and caviar."

" 'The 'Kibosh' pictures are going to make a lot of people angry' said...the gallery owner, referring to the huge show and to the limited-edition and lushly published volume, from an Italian publisher."

"The boy short really took away from the thong."

Also from that section, a reference to John Waters, who declared five years ago that pornography was the last cultural outlaw.

Inaugural

I would go into a long, drawn out explanation of my title for all interested parties (since blogs seem to be about self-indulgence), with quotes from Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh, Groucho Marx and Stanley Cavell, but there is a bowl of cheddar potato soup and a sealed bag of chicken on my kitchen counter (it's amazing what you can make just by adding water) which is about to become my dinner. You know, now that I think about it, that ridiculous meal waiting to be thrown together with the minimum amount of time and energy is explanation enough. As for the lemur, well, suffice it to say that the lemur is the new albatross. (see for further information: "Lemurs", hosted by John Cleese). I'm going to change the template soon, add a picture, but meanwhile please post comments or send me a letter in Alaska.