My cat – a black & gold tortoiseshell named Zosma after Delta Leonis (click my name for more info) – owns me.

Actually so does my dog. Durnnit, how’d I end up being bottom of the pack in my own house?!

PS. Zosma loves getting right up in my face between me and the keyboard when I’m on the computer – she’s sleeping now in the *good* computer chair beside me.

P.S. As the Chief Poop Scooper of a dog day care, as well as managing the aforementioned litter box for three cats, apparently I’ll be well-grounded until I’m in-grounded. . .

Exellent Blog, Keep up the great work!

Also, you are, of course, being sarcastic in your comment about children becoming killers if exposed to profanity. The problem is both smaller and larger. Smaller, because children and teenagers who constantly use profane language are not very pleasant to be around and are hindering their ability/opportunities to develop social skills; larger, because it is so much more widespread than death by violence.

And calling me a “sissy”? Are you serious?

But as you climb up from C list, you can have your people do the cat thing for you. You do have people don’t you?

So, anyway… if you ever come to Sweden, drop by at my house and go for a walk with my dogs. Picking up dog poo from the streets is bound to get you down to earth too – belive you me…

That should be easy enough: I’ve left pieces of my mind in replies to several of your blog entries.

Yes, I’m a foreigner as far as the USA is concerned (I’m British). I don’t understand why this would make me an unsuitable audience for P & T’s website. Do they include frequent cultural references that would be lost on people from outside the US? Because we have no contact whatever with US culture here in the UK (said with a tone of amused irony).

Plus, there’s nothing easier to correct (or if its totally correct, be lauded for) than an open source encylopedia!

I have no idea why that would happen. You’d have to take it up with the folks at Showtime. Sorry.

BTW, BA, I tried to follow your link to the website of Penn & Teller’s show, only to find it is only accessible from the US. What’s that all about?

Great job btw. If you are interested There are a few video blogs cropping up. There used to be a great show called ‘The Screen Savers’ that is unfortunately no more. But there was this guy on it named ‘Kevin’ that also did some internet amature video stuff… I think he still does. Mostly about tech tho. It was at http://www.thebroken.org. Also I just found http://www.videoglogs.com

I used to be a regular visitor to the BA site but haven’t been there in a while (though I did pick up your book). Then the other night I’m watching Showtime and there you are! –I like Penn & Teller’s attitude and skepticism but sometimes they lose their best points in their snarkiness–

So I went back to BA and lo and behold, you have a blog! A natural fit for your web presence, it seems to me. I’ll blogroll you and start reding regularly. Keep up the good work!

-Bill

‘A’ list are the usual hoopla of hoi polloi. ‘B’ list are those unrespected folks who make trash regardless of their intentions. But C list are usually genuinely creative and/or intelligent folks whom have something to contribute, but due to their stance on things they will never garner true wide spread noteriety/acceptance/respect.

But again, I could be totally wrong about this…..

Regardless, keep up the good work.

Rob

Simple things DO keep you in touch with reality. That’s the problem with big celebrities, they DON’T do simple things anymore. They buy an automated dishwasher that takes the dirty dishes off your table the second you’re done eating and washes it in 20 seconds! Well… that probably doesn’t exist. But you get the point. They don’t wash the dishes then put it in the dishwasher like us (I always found that ironic. Rinse the dishes, then put it in the dishwasher…).

Do they wash their cars? Mow their grass and curse at that motor which won’t start up? Or hum… do they clean their kitty’s litter? Most likely not.