Ethan's bugging me to update again, so I decided to appease him. As usual, not much has happened since I last checked in. Well, a few things happened, but nothing earthshattering.

Ethan's phat neighborhoodie finally arrived. It is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadass, if I do say so myself. I intend to photograph him in it for their photo gallery and will post the picture here when I do. Check out the site if you haven't before. The merchandise is top notch and the staff are very friendly--I got a handwritten, hipster thank you for my order included in the box. It's little touches like that that will make my buy from them again.

As E mentioned on his blog, we've been on a health kick for the past week and a half. In our defense, we started right after Xmas unlike all these schmucks with their well-meaning New Year's resolutions. We've finally gotten a clue and realized that the only real, permanent way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. Not that we ate like hungry, hungry hippos before, but we were certainly as lethargic as the aforementioned beasts. It's going well so far--we've both lost about 2 1/2 lbs. Go, go Superjews!

It's a cold, rainy day in JC, but thanks to my new diet, exercise regimen and annoyingly positive outlook on life, I'm actually looking forward to going out tonight. We're meeting friends at the Film Forum in the Village to see "Hitler's Hit Parade"--sort of a montage of German pop culture from the Nazi era including home movies of der Fuehrer shot by civilians, anti-semitic cartoons, the whole megillah as my adopted people would say. I'm very jazzed. Jazzed for the movie, jazzed to be going into the city for the first time in about 2 weeks, jazzed to see people with whom I neither live nor work. I'm just super stoked, obviously. Can you tell?

I just scrolled up to re-read what I'd written so far and was sort of struck by the "nothing earthshattering" comment. Obviously I'm referring to my own life there, and not the horrible and ongoing tragedy in East Asia. Not to get heavy here, but please consider donating to the charity of your choice to help out. Good hearted Americans have donated over $3 billion so far. I like to think that the bulk of that $3 billion came from lefties who were mortified by Bush's initial stinginess, but I'm sure just as many people on the right dug deep as well, and for that I thank them. Once again, a horrible tragedy seems to be the only thing that can bring these two warring factions together. Fucking beautiful.

Ethan's cleaning the kitchen all by himself and I feel like I should be helping out, so I'll sign off for now.

(This post is dedicated to the memory of Jerry Orbach, Law and Order's beloved Det. Lennie Briscoe).

V