Good morning, angels.

How were y'all's weekends? I went to Open Gym Friday night and kicked some ass. They best call me. Then we watched Madeleine's soccer game on Saturday, which was a very funny thing. Then Sunday I was sick as a dog, and oddly non-liquor related. Yuck. Master V brought me juice. Yay!

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Answers

Is Mad the next Mia Hamm?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

My weekend was full of movies as I attempted to distract myself. Jay and Silent Bob? It was eh.

I rented Joe Dirt and it also was eh, but the David Spade commentary on the DVD was great.

Do y'all know if Squishettes is down for good?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Uh, let's see....no. She mostly walked around, then she got knocked over and started crying on the field, then she went back in as a "goalie helper", which meant she stood around and looked up at the sky. You know, a real team player. It was pretty funny.

There was a little girl on the other team who could've kicked ALL of our asses. I think she's the next Mia Hamm, for real.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

What does a "goalie helper" do? Stay out of the way?

In softball I always knew when I got sent to the outfield that it meant - stay out of the way. Cause you know, it's rare for 12 year old girls to hit that far.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

oh AB, what's your new domain?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I loved soccer. So much fun.

Did you go get ice cream afterwards? Because you have to, or it isn't soccer.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Yeah, it was a pretty much stay out of the way thing. Poor Mad. She's just not sporty.

No, Mike, we didn't go for ice cream, but we did go to Al's Hamburgers, which is like heaven with chili and cheese. It was excellent.

My new domain is hashai.com. I think I'm moving my journal there. It's a word Meredith and I made up a long time ago to describe our friendship. Very mystical and hokey, but a cool word nonetheless.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

What happen to annachao.com?

You pretend you someone else and we get you Best New Journal this time!

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I no know what happen to annachao.com. All I know is if I get gymnastic job, I no want them knowing when I talk smack about them.

Maybe I'll stick a portfolio up there one day or something. Or maybe I'll turn it into a porn site, then I won't have to get a job. Hee.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

If I tell you this, no looking at me funny!

Remember how awhile ago pineapple put up that link to that guy's geocities site about his Real Doll? Well, I was bored last night so I went to realdoll.com. It was so fucked up but I could not look away!

I mean, isn't that one small step away from necrophelia?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I like hashai.com.

I think I was a goalie halper when I was Mad's age.

Al, Anita and Peter hit the floor when they found about Bill and JoAnn. My aunt told me that they would not have been able to endure livign in Chattanooga if it weren't for your family, that you and Lacey were best friends, that you are your mother's life, that my mother has met your parents, and that Kelly was tall for his age. She has a ton of pictures of you and Lacey, and she told me that next time your parents are in Atlanta, they're not staying at your house - they're staying at hers. Oh, and your parents are invited to the wedding, of course. She is thrilled that you're singing at the wedding.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Oh God, H, realdoll.com is the craziest thing ever. I can't look away, either, though. Gross. We're gross.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I mean, the whole mixing and matching of body types and heads and breast size. It's so creepy but fascinating! But they always look dead. Can't they make them not look dead?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I don't think they can make them not look dead. They are all so weird-looking, too. Like they're blind or something. Gah!

Albert's trying to make me update the Hardlucy site, and their server seems to be down. Poor thing, he just doesn't understand why I can't change it.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

What, Mike thinks he can all peep in here and then leave without telling us about his weekend and the wedding and whatnot?

Nuh uh.

Hey Al! How was the cheesy birthday? The DVD player of love?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Oooo, I am not supposed to be Internet-ing, but I had to tell y'all that the MOC had the best birthday of his cheesy life. The DVD, of course, nearly made him cry. (And then he really almost did cry because he couldn't hook it up. AB, he might call you to consult, because he thinks it has to do with the digital cable. I kept saying "Just call Anna Beth," but he wouldn't do it. I believe it was a blow to his ego.)

The trip to the bluegrass festival was so fantastic. He was really happy. I spent a million dollars that I do not have at all. I mean, those dollars don't exist anywhere. But, I quote the MOC: "This weekend was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much." How could I regret it. You will all have to visit me in debtor's prison.

ps - I did, indeed, have Fat Bastard wine and two kinds of cheese waiting for him when he came home Friday night.

T, I am dying over the familial connection. It's a small world after all. I don't remember them, of course, because I was like 2 years old, but I bet I would if I saw pictures.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Well, I'll be updating later and will talk about it, if I get the time.

It was very nice, but small. Only 80 people were supposed to come (or about two percent of the traffic of the pending T&C reception), and I'd say about 60 actually made it. Two of the groomsman missed it, while two more (including the best man) got into town an hour before the wedding.

It was great, though. As Al said about her weekend with the MOC, it was just what everyone needed.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Oh, Al and AB ... the couple who got married was the one we had lunch with in Dallas.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Mike, that sounds like it was fun. I'm sure everyone was happy to be there. You could have stood in for a groomsman - with your tux and whatnot.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Ah, yes. Your Dallas friends. I vividly remember the bride's ring, as I was nearly blinded by it and coveted it most severly.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Was that the Harrigan's thing? Must have been. Yes, the bride's ring was diamond-licious. And Allison and I couldn't stop giggling because she didn't get our ghetto jokes. Hee.

Kymm linked to me today. Rock and roll. Do any of y'all read her?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Congrats! Your traffic should skyrocket.

I read her in waves -- I don't visit every day, but go back and go through her latest entries every two weeks.

On another note, I know you linked to her today AB and I like a lot of her old stuff, but I'm so losing patience with Gwen.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I haven't really read a lot of her stuff before--I think she's funny in a real run-on sentence way, though. Why are you losing patience with her?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I can't really describe why. It's just how I feel.

She's so angry all the time now, and the attitude is that if you don't like it, who cares? I guess it's similar to why y'all don't like XeneyBeth.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Kymm linked to me last week and it was like holy crap so many more hits than I usually get. But it died down. Wah.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

See, and I've been checking her site out for a hundred years, and get no love at all. Where, I ask, is the justice in that?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Berman, you never know what kind of love you get, because you don't have site tracking. I bet you have links all over the place, baby.

Haven't really seen a big change in hits today, though, so no big deal, I don't guess.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Isn't there some URL or something you can click to find out who links to you?

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Mike, I totally see what you mean about Gwen. It makes me sad to think what her - I don't know - her anger? angst? frustration? proud ambivalence? might be doing to her kids. People seem to admire her, and I can see some of it, but really, she makes me sad. Maybe it's that she positions herself as unique: a literate, employed single mother. The thing is, people do what she's doing all the time, but without the rage.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

AB, I have the Chaolentine hanging in my office - you'd love it - we have these gallery-style lights and one of them is shining right on the Chaolentine.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Mercy. I wonder what KC's story is. He sounds like a total jag.

You know, I've decided that I've had it with rage. I just have no patience for it. It's not productive. I've also decided that keeping my car radio tuned to the oldies station does wonders for my mood.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

He must watch a lot of FOX-TV to be doing something like throwing a computer in the pool. That's so Melrose.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Oh, and to balance out my neagtive journalling comments with a positive, I thought Rob's last entry was great.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I'll do the same - AB, I really like your splash page. The V4.0 one.

Poor Squishettes.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

I seriously thought I posted something earlier. What the hell?

Uh, what I had said was is that Kymm linked to me for my 11th entry and I got so many hits. But now they're all small and sad again.

Also, yes, poor KC! But I'm so trashy because I want the scoop.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Have y'all been keeping track of Sara at http://www.astruc.com/tommy.html?

It's totally heart breaking.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Hey, I'm home.

I will not, in fact, have to interview people tomorrow. The temp agency is sending me someplace else to make a few more bucks an hour. Woo!

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Hmph. Fine. L_L me.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Poor Sara. As totally depressed as I feel, at least I didn't know anyone in the towers, and at least I don't live there.

What a nightmare this is.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001

Hmph. Fine. L_L me.

Why must I always bitch when it's no longer even relavent? Stupid.

Al & T - what was the reaction in ATL like when they announced that the city might've been a target? I freaked out is what I had done.

I know. My heart breaks for Sara. I want to write her, but I don't know her well enough I feel like. I don't even know what to say.

The theme of the A&F Quarterly Back to School 2000 issue was NYC and the cover is just a night shot of the skyline and [my] Sara was just looking through all her magazines for something and picked that one up and almost started crying. I have a postcard of the Houston skyline on my fridge and I was looking at it the other day and I can't even begin to fathom one of those buildings not being there.

-- Anonymous, September 17, 2001