Is it just me? I mean, perhaps I am kind of a prude. But do friends really kiss each other on the lips? Is that something people are doing and no one told me? I need to get out more.

http://gizmodo.com/5335942/an-insider-on-the-apple-tablet
OMFG, I think this is really exciting. It's exactly what I've just been saying, that if there was something like a kindle, but that is somewhere between an iphone and a computer....

PRESS BRIEFING BY LARRY SPEAKES

October 15, 1982

The Briefing Room

12:45pm EDT

Q: Larry, does the President have any reaction to the announcement ­ the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, that AIDS is now an epidemic and have over 600 cases?

MR. SPEAKES: What's AIDS?

Q: Over a third of them have died. It's known as "gay plague." (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it's a pretty serious thing that one in every three people that get this have died. And I wondered if the President is aware of it?

MR. SPEAKES: I don't have it. Do you? (Laughter.)

Q: No, I don't.

MR. SPEAKES: You didn't answer my question.

Q: Well, I just wondered, does the President ­

MR. SPEAKES: How do you know? (Laughter.)

Q: In other words, the White House looks on this as a great joke?

MR. SPEAKES: No, I don't know anything about it, Lester.

Q: Does the President, does anyone in the White House know about this epidemic, Larry?

MR. SPEAKES: I don't think so. I don't think there's been any ­

Q: Nobody knows?

MR. SPEAKES: There has been no personal experience here, Lester.

Q: No, I mean, I thought you were keeping ­

MR. SPEAKES: I checked thoroughly with Dr. Ruge this morning and he's had no ­ (laughter) ­ no patients suffering from AIDS or whatever it is.

Q: The President doesn't have gay plague, is that what you're saying or what?

MR. SPEAKES: No, I didn't say that.

Q: Didn't say that?

MR. SPEAKES: I thought I heard you on the State Department over there. Why didn't you stay there? (Laughter.)

Q: Because I love you Larry, that's why (Laughter.)

MR. SPEAKES: Oh I see. Just don't put it in those terms, Lester. (Laughter.)

Q: Oh, I retract that.

MR. SPEAKES: I hope so.

Q: It's too late.

http://www.aegis.com/pubs/atn/2004/atn040607.html

Robert Moses had the Central Park Zoo built for Al Smith--the former governor, and president of the Empire State Building--who lived near the park on the Upper East Side. Moses gave Smith a night key, and the elderly former king of Irish New York would go down to the Central Park Zoo by himself to talk to the animals. Smith loved to spend hours in the zoo after hours, "and he would switch on the lights as he entered each one, to the surprise of its occupants, and talk softly to them...And if one of the zoo’s less dangerous animals was sick or injured, Smith would enter its cage and stand for a while stroking its head and commiserating with it.” [Caro, 382]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/58170/
Christina Hendriiiicks.

Hope you enjoyed that Chelsea Peretti clip, she's pretty funny huh?

Here's the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are



I think it looks really good! I'm not sure if it's because of the awesome choice of a song, or because of the scene where he's looking into the other room and sees his mom kissing someone, but it looks to me like its going to be one of those really poignant movies about growing up that's actually heartbreakingly portrayed from the point of view of a child.

Ep 4 Chelsea Peretti's All My Exes: Lowell