PeopleNews talked with Sarah Michelle Gellar who denied the Britney Spears rumours. yay! (couldn't find it on their slooooow loading site. hope it's true)

yummy Marc Blucas news... (that's yummy as in Marc is yummy, not the news)

Cockfighting vote petition clears hurdle. yay! maybe we'll actually get to vote on this in November. or not. the OK Supreme Court keeps allowing opponents to request a rehearing. they're reluctant to let it get on the ballot because (most people don't know this), the OKSC building is rented out after-hours as a cockfighting arena. a cockfighting ban would be a loss of income for the Court, and they need the money to pay for the hip robes they wear and for the big red velvet chair the Chief Justice type guy gets to sit in.

i thought this just a quick list of little head-nodding truisms about retail, but as i scanned through it, i hit #8 (yah, i'm an easily amused goob) and spit coffee through my nose (thank Juan Valdez that i ice my coffee!).

just because every day should have a Buffy link: Unsung 'Buffy': Props for A Magical Musical Moment. it starts out with the Buffy-Getting-the-Emmy-Shaft that's so popular right now, but then goes on to explain the episode ("Once More, With Feeling"), and it does so well enough for even the non-watchers.

i saw this badphotoshoppery thing a couple of weeks ago, and i've been starting my day by looking at it every morning since. it cracks me up way more than it should.

i like getting letters from Congressmen (though none from outside my state ever write me back. assholes). i send them email condemning something they've done, they send me a nice letter with Congressional letterhead. i especially like to write them concerning votes they cast on bills up for consideration five years ago. i usually get a letter that's about three lines long, thanking me for my input, but reminding me that it has been a closed issue for a while now. today, i sent two more on recent issues, but i don't think Mr. Lucas responds in writing if you live outside his district, and all i asked Mr. Carson to do was update his website.

another winning Oklahoma Congressman, Frank Lucas, according to his official website, proposed an amendment to protect the Pledge of Allegiance. while i group this in with the Flag Protection Amendment proposals (you know, the whole "Elevating the Symbol above the Meaning" thing, the realm of fanatical fascist nuts), this is what really bugs me about Lucas' statement: “I can’t think of a better way to educate our children about the value of patriotism and democracy than by reminding them that we are ‘one nation, under God’.”

Mr. Lucas isn't very bright, i think.

hallefuckinglujah! the corrupt sonuvabitch says he won't run again! or he could be lying (again) and trying to win some concessions. at any rate, i'll spend the rest of the day happy, then tomorrow i'll think about the whole Congressional redisticting brouhaha (Oklahoma is losing one of six seats in the House), then on Friday or maybe Monday next week, Watts will release a statement that "That's what I'm doing today in announcing my retirement from Congress at the end of this current term" was taken out of context and that he meant no such thing.

anyone know if APX is a reputable news source? cause i'm not liking news that News Corp is pushing to break up Gemstar-TV Guide. i don't know why Gemstar would go for it. according to this SmartMoney article, "most of Gemstar's revenue and earnings come from TV Guide magazine," so that'd be dumb, right, for Gemstar to trade us away? right?

i can't find this anywhere else, so i'm not reading anymore news today. it i don't see it, it doesn't exist.

Rocky To Rise Again: "The Fox network will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the camp SF movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show with The Rocky Horror Birthday Show, a two-hour movie to be produced by Fox TV Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter."