clear thoughts tied in black and blue knots

The news in brief:

• Minneapolis weekend - fantastic
• Sloan's performances in Minneapolis - also great
• What do you mean, performances? - don't you wish you knew**
• "Wedding Crashers" - excellent
• Red Lobster on a Friday night in Times Square - way better than you'd think
• weather - sucks
• erasing "Lost" off the DVR to make room for every other show - good move long overdue
• latest mania - Vince Vaughn (shocking no one)

**Realizing that sounds potentially scandalous. I got into a secret private concert closed to the public. That's all.

And by the way, licking someone's buttocks/tossing a salad is not the same thing. I've been meaning to bring up that nonsense for a while. And now that I have, I'm going out.