13 July 2005

I’m so glad I no longer live in a place where it’s easer to buy a bag of marijuana than a hamburger. I knew there was some reason people were so much less annoying here. Link, by the way, is via my hubby, who’s sitting at a Starbucks in Fresno enjoying his free T-Mobile account and waiting to become an uncle…

Me, I’m just sitting here frustrated at not being able to buy a pair of shoes tonight. All I wanted was a nice, semi-dressy pair of black oxfords. For the past several years, we’ve been in a period of REALLY UGLY men’s shoes, one which rivals the worst years of the 1970s. Why must everything either be boxy and square-toed and buckly, or (even worse) look like bowling shoes? Something must be done about this, and soon…

Back to the living room for me. In Mark’s absence, I’m doing my annual viewing of the entire Godfather series, and tonight’s feature is Part II, Disc 2. That’s one thing I DO miss about the 1970s: Robert DeNiro looking sexy and studly rather than just sort of looking like Harvey Keitel…

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