i never finish anything

started watching "the big lebowski" last night, one of the greatest movies of all time (of all time michelle!!!), but didn't get to finish it. such is life. . .i did catch a rerun of south park though, and laughed my ass off - i am always amazed at what twisted bastards parker and stone are. . . brilliant.

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ewa and i start house sitting duties today - beautiful house in the richmond near the park, as well as our dog buddy cyrus. this time there is two dogs, the other being a fat minuature beagle puppy who whines all the time. . . sign me up!!!


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this weekend ewa and i get to attend the san francisco debutante ball - i know you are all jealous. i am actually pretty excited - it's at the st. francis, is black tie, and will be chock full of society type folks. . . since the closest i get to them is seeing their picture on the society page of the chronicle, i'm looking forward to it. mom and paul are sharing a suite at the st. francis with rossanna (who daughter is the deb we are there to see), so we have a place for pre and post cocktails - a must in my family . . . st. francis beware, the kahns (and supporting cast) are on their way . . .

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finally, ewa sent this to me, and even though it is a bit long, i laughed my ass off:

If you're over the age of 25 you will enjoy this...
"When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with
walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through
year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs too
their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a Straight-A average
despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where
they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from
starving to death. And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it. But I can't help but
look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so fuckin' easy. I
mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned Utopia. And I hate
to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it.
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet--we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves.
And there was no email. We had to actually write somebody a letter--with a
pen. And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in
the fuckin' mailbox and it would take like a week to get there. And there
were no MP3s or Napsters. You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the
goddamned record store and shop lift it yourself. Or we had to wait around
all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the
beginning and fuck it all up.
We didn't have fancy shit like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal. And we didn't have fancy Caller
ID Boxes either. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be
your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't
know... You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister.
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with
high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had the Atari 2600. With games like "Space
Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass. Your guy was a little
square. You had to use your imagination. And there were no multiple levels
or screens, it was just one screen forever.
And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until
you died. Just like LIFE.
When you went to the movie theatre there no such thing as stadium
seating. All the seats were the same height. A tall guy sat in
front of you, you were screwed. And sure, we had cable television, but back
then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu. You had
to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on. And there
was no Cartoon Network. You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning...
....D'ya hear what the fuck I'm saying?. We had to wait ALL WEEK, you
spoiled little bastards. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You kids
today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God. You guys
wouldn't last five minutes back in 1985."