Tonight’s weekly family dinner was more somber than most, but as you can see, we tried to not let that show to the kids.  Dave is still in intensive care on life support.  The doctors don’t all seem to be on the same page about his treatment, which is rather annoying.  As of last night we were preparing for the worst but this morning there was a glimmer of hope in the form of a tracheotomy.  As it is, he’s one of the oldest Cystic Fibrosis patients on record.  Please keep him in your thoughts.

My favorite picture of the evening….look how happy the little goober looks with his toothbrush.  LOL

Song of the day

Ah, the innocence of children and puppy dogs!  Let the healing begin.

Andy & Roxy

Tommy & Roxy

Tressa & Roxy

 Welcome to the family Roxy!

As most of you probably know, Saturday is The National Day of Climate Action. If any of you are interested in hiking up to the Hollywood Sign, let me know.  There will be some great photo opps.   If not, there are events all over.  You can check www.stepitup2007.org  for more info.

On this one spring day, there will be hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the country.  There are gatherings in every state, and in many of America’s most iconic places:  on the levees in New Orleans, on top of melting glaciers on Mt. Rainier, even underwater on the endangered coral reefs off Key West.  In Florida they’re hoisting a huge boat up in the air to show people where  the water levels will be in 50 years!

There will be rallies outside churches, along the tide lines in our coastal cities, in cornfields and forests and on statehouse steps. Every group will be saying the same thing: “Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80% by 2050.” As people gather, pictures will be linked in real time via the web–before the weekend is out, it will be the largest protest the country has ever seen. Here in Hollywood the peaceful demonstration will take place at:

***THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN***

April 14, 2007 01:00PM to 03:00PM

Today, Seth and Jessica dropped off their dogs, Garbo & Ruby (I did a blog for the dogs last year, before I started this one, LOL), for a mini-vacation at the luxurious Hotel Careyfornia.   They brought their 16 month old daughter Hannah (the genius child….she’s working on the Rubik’s Cube, watch out Tyson….she loves it!) and I snapped some shots.  (Mind you, this is in between phone calls from the Ford Child Modeling Agency and Toyota, who needs a precocious red head for their latest commercial.  Two words:  Danny Bonaduce!!)  j/k (Don’t freak out Jessica!) LOL

Hannah really is smart though, she’s got the vocabulary of a six year old, and man can she sing!  She makes Sanjaya sound like William Hung!   Anyway, I’ve got the dogs until Wednesday.  It’s funny, whenever they stay with me they need a vacation afterwards.  I walk them for miles every evening, all around West Hollywood.  They attract a lot of attention.  At home they’re used to going to bed at 8 or 9 with Hannah, and when they’re here, we sometimes go for walks at 3 AM, when I’m done writing this thing!  So, needless to say, their schedules get all out of whack, but they certainly have fun!  Have a good evening everyone.  Hope to see some of you at the rally tomorrow!

Hannah in Garbo’s bed

New York to Paris  – Pay special attention to #23

Thanks to zealousalien for finding this one – Google 411  FREE Directory Assistance. Screw Cingular!

And finally thanks to Bhavin for another reason to love the elitists at Google. Free Wireless Broadband!

And don’t forget GoogleFight.  Let’s try Sanjaya vs. Clay Aiken

Deconstructing Sanjaya

Now they’re saying he can win.  And apparently it’s national news!?

First of all, I’m aware that Sanjaya came before the serious stuff, but I swear every other Google search that comes to my site from anywhere in the world, comes for Sanjaya.  It’s crazy!  Anyway, like a lot of Americans, I’m troubled by the racist remarks of Don Imus.  I’ve never listened to or watched the guy.  Frankly every time I see his face on TV, I cringe.  He makes Howard Stern look like Brad Pitt!  What he said was indeed racist and stupid, though I’m not sure why there’s such a big stink now.  From what I read, this guy has been a hate monger for years.  I wonder why there wasn’t such a public outcry when Mel Gibson or Michael Richards spewed their rants?  I don’t remember this kind of uproar in those two cases.  I live literally a block away from The Comedy Store where “Kramer” went crazy.  There were reporters and of course Jesse Jackson out in front of that place for about 3 days, and then it miraculously subsided.  What’s up with that?

I do believe however, that it is a slippery slope when corporations encroach upon freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution to every American citizen.  Let’s face it; Don Imus has been spewing this hateful nonsense for years.  Why is it news now?  How ironic is it that the 3 year saga of the Duke lacrosse “rape” case was dismissed this week?  Two examples of disenfranchised black women vs. admittedly privileged white males.  I really don’t know what to make of it.  Do you?  There’s certainly enough hate to go around with conservatives though, and they all stand behind the Patriot Act, until it’s their ass on the line.  Take a look:

Limbaugh: Gonzales is “under fire by white liberal racists in the Senate”

Beck continues attacks on ABC colleague O’Donnell

CNN’s, ABC’s Beck on Clinton: “She’s the stereotypical bitch”

Limbaugh suggested Edwards camp “leak[ed]” false information to Politico reporter “to jump-start the campaign”

Beck said “I’m a little ashamed” for calling O’Donnell “a fat witch” — then added, “But she’s so fat”

Beck smeared ABC colleague Rosie, claimed “I never said that Hillary Clinton was a bitch”

These people all think WAY too much of themselves.  Rush Limbaugh this morning was saying that the Imus situation could actually help the troops in Iraq.  I like to listen to Rush sometimes, just because of the whole, keep your friends close and your enemies closer rule.  But this morning, I had to turn him off.

Meanwhile, in Washington, President Bush is still searching for a brain.