So I have just one more thing to say on the topic of Liz Phair, and then I'll shut up about it forever.

A. and I have been playing Exile in Guyville, Whip Smart, and whitechocolatespacegg non-stop lately. (She took some crap for WCSE, but I think it's a great record.) And beyond the outrage, confusion, and feeling of being betrayed, I'm just ... well, I'm still just a non-believer.

Because how could a woman that wrote brilliant, insightful, in-your-face-fuck-off songs backed up by gritty guitar — unlike anything I've ever heard — turn into an artist who's so bland, so unimaginative, so lazy.

It's like she's a totally different person. Liz, I just don't know who you are anymore!

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Oh, and while I'm sharing my ire.

Fuck you, Dubya:

"Yes, I am mindful that we're all sinners," the president said Wednesday when asked for his views on homosexuality. "And I caution those who may try to take the speck out of the neighbor's eye when they've got a log in their own."

You're evil. Evil evil evil evil evil. And more shocking — nobody's really trying to stop you.

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On another political note: The recall election in California is absolutely fascinating.

Just FYI for y'all who care: I'm voting no. I don't really have an opinion on what kind of governor Gray has been, having only lived here three years, but I do feel he's taking the blame for an economic recession and lots of other things that are so much bigger than him. My husband (the future politician, I'm convinced) claims he's been a terrible governor, and A. is usually on target about these things. But to attempt to recall a governor who just won a second term for no reason at all ... dumb. A waste of time and money. Also, not exactly a proper way to elect a new official. Just my two cents.

But. In typical California style, the whole thing is becoming quite the circus. Some cutesy Silicon Valley programmer chick is running and is getting all sorts of press for her campaign thong underwear. The caretaker of the Interstate 280 rest stop is planning to run. And of course, what would the whole thing be without a movie star? The media are eating it up. It's all ridiculous and chaotic.