Shauna kicks so much ass; let me tell you how much. Her friend in Chicago (presumably) sent her a handmade New Year’s card with a quote from David Lynch and a stamp(?) of his head on the cover. Shauna told said Chicagoan that I would like a David Lynch card, and so the friend sent me one. It arrived today. I love mail, but I love David Lynch mail even more. Thanks to both Shauna and Shauna’s Chicago friend, who makes very nice cards.

Easily the best comment ever made at MetaFilter: “First, be smart from the very beginning. Pulverize all teeth, burn off fingerprints, and disfigure the face.”

It isn’t that people in San Francisco are all a bunch of free-loving hippies bent on socialism for the masses, they just don’t give a shit if somebody is. One clear example of SF’s laissez-faire attitude is what happened on the train this morning. The SF/Millbrae train was super duper crowded, way more than usual. There were so many people on the train, sitting and standing, that when new person tried to get on this guy would yell, “IT’S FULL!”

However, no one said jack crap to the guy lying down asleep across two seats. People stood, crowded and swaying, looking at the sleeping man, wishing they could have one of the seats he so rudely occupied, but no one said a word. This is a perfect illustration of the demeanor of many Bay Area residents: “Do what you want, I don’t have to like it.”

I agree: “[T]he Obama camp is responding by playing too much defense. Circulating a memo highlighting Clinton camp transgressions only fuels the fire.”

Everywhere Magazine review: “[I]t’s enough to make Everywhere an all-around more disciplined and more interesting publication than JPG–particularly in its willingness to venture out of latter’s focus on the singular image.”

I am so jealous of Sarah Brown’s book. And I’m glad the tacky troll is gone.

“I have mixed feelings about growing up in small Midwestern towns but I don’t want to see them become ghost towns in waiting full of only the people too poor or drunk (or high on meth) to leave…I am opposed to increasing the tax on gas because it so disproportionately affects the poor.”

I took a quiz and Dennis Kucinich and I agree on everything but gun control. I’m short. I’m a little funny lookin’. Where’s my tall, hot, redheaded wife?

I pulled back the door this morning to walk the dogs to find the air an opaque white color. Fog was everywhere. It hung low in the streets and made seeing beyond 50 feet nearly impossible.

It made the walk to work a hazy, gorgeous one.

“[M]aybe the best way to fight global warming is not to focus on global warming. If we emphasize clean air, clean water, less trash, and financial restraint, we will, by extension, take action against global warming by reducing our collective carbon footprint.”