POTPOURRI PLEASURE

The Kiss Heard Round The World

Six reasons I'm in a good mood at this moment:

1. Ned Lamont's victory (or, really, Joe Lieberman's defeat) in Connecticut. Huge.

2. Crazy Itch Radio, the new Basement Jaxx CD. Fresh.

3. "Pick Up Lines: The First Draft" by Mark Vanderhoff in McSweeney's. This is the kind of comic genius that I read and wish I had written first. Example: "Are your legs tired? Oh, well, I'm not surprised; your thighs are almost comically muscular."

4. The trailer for the upcoming film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

5. Stephen Colbert on NAACP & respect.

6. I just learned that when you type in 'famous soul train dancer' into Google, my personal website is the first to pop up. Holla! Also, a friend tipped me off to the fact that I have risen above Junichi Inamoto (famous soccer player), Junichi Masuda (videogame music composer), and Junichi Yoda (famous guy with the last name Yoda) as the leading search result in Google for those looking for a 'Junichi'. I shouldn't care, but hey, I have arrived!

--Junichi