I went to see Lewis Black last night, and I am so glad that I took the opportunity to finally see him live even though it meant I had to drive an hour each way to get way the hell out to Anaheim and back. I laughed so hard my cheeks hurt after the performance. I waited around after the show and got the opportunity to briefly meet him and tried -- though I think failed miserably -- not to gush effusively. It's a little hard not to when you meet one of three men whose stylings you've adopted out of sheer respect and appreciation of their work (the other two being Jon Stewart & Denis Leary). He's really nice in person, much calmer and personable than his on-stage act. But I thoroughly enjoyed myself. On the way back, traffic backed up on the 5, and I saw one of the strangest things I've ever seen. A cop car -- California Highway Patrol -- put on his lights, cut through the crowd of cars and zoomed to a point about 5 cars ahead of where I was. He then stopped dead in the middle of the road, keeping us all behind him (and quite frankly, who wants to pass a cop car sitting in the middle of the road?). After a minute or two, he started moving again, but was swerving all the way across five lanes of highway and back. It was really odd watching him, it was almost like he just decided to have some fun on the road. Anyone from California who knows what he was doing, please let me know.

I bought an air purifier over the weekend to try to get some of the cat hair out of the room. It's doing a halfway decent job -- I woke up this morning and felt okay, but started sneezing and wheezing a bit later on. I think it's because I was spending time in the bathroom which hadn't really been vacuumed, so I'm going to move the purifier in there when I get home and see what happens. I've got the thing running on "high" all day, so hopefully it'll make a difference.

It seems that everywhere I go, I'm hearing that damn Pink song. Personally, I can't stand Pink. I don't think she's a good singer, I don't like her songs, I think she's unattractive and I think her "I'm a tough girl so I can do what I want" act is wearing thin. Over the past two days, I've heard that "Get This Party Started" song in three different commercials and again this morning as part of a promotion for this new national morning show that the local Fox affiliate is launching, and every time I hear it, I can't help but replace the lyrics with "I'm selling out/So you better get this money started."