For new readers to my site, ha ha, you might not know that prior to my living here in perpetually depressed and depressing Dayton, I resided in Colorado Springs, Colorado. My talented film festival friend sent me a link to this!

A website and blog after my own heart.

While Colorado Springs is indeed home for many of our national religious ultra-conservative groups -- click around on that link to find out who! -- for whatever reason I found it much easier to meet people and make friends there than back here in Ohio.

(And I grew up here!)

There have been plenty times when my bitterness cup runneth over on those points. But truth be told (and politics aside), the acid over Ohio has faded in the past year. Dayton hasn't turned out to be that bad. I have friends now; it just took a little longer to find them.

And politics not-aside, I recently saw an Election '04 chart. Inside Dayton's city limits: Rock Solid Blue.

Which reminds me: I think I've met Toiletpaper's author. At a film roundtable held days after 9/11, some guy -- I think it was this one -- sat answering questions. I looked at this guy's arm and asked myself: "Is that a tattoo of Nancy?"

Nancy, as in the cartoon character Nancy.

Yes. It was.

Now, there's a sense of humor!