SUBTLE HINTS

There are tiny, little things that start to let a person know that they are drinking too much.
Maybe you're blowing through cash, maybe you're ready for another before your friends are, or maybe someone sends you a little note.

(If I lived in Tallahassee, I'd drink a lot more, too.)

SECOND BEST WEBSITE EVER

For the PG-rated fetish enthusiast:

Car Stuck Girls

BEST WEBSITE EVER

Kahn!

ARE YOU A SWINGER?

David Leip has a great site looking at the big prize in 2004.

He's built an electoral vote calculator and a 2004 prediction page.
My favorite is this map:

Swing State List (with 2000 margin):

Arizona (-4.12%)
Arkansas (-4.79%)
Colorado (-3.71%)
Florida (1.33%)
Iowa (2.11%)
Louisiana (-7.32%)
Maine, 2nd CD (5.74%)
Michigan (7.08%)
Minnesota (6.70%)
Missouri (-2.13%)
Nevada (-1.86%)
New Mexico (3.38%)
New Hampshire (2.17%)
Ohio (-1.58%)
Oregon (5.02%)
Pennsylvania (5.94%)
Tennessee (-3.12%)
Virginia (-6.06%)
Washington (9.43%)
West Virginia (-5.17%)
Wisconsin (3.40%)

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS

I just couldn't be happier. Seriously - sometimes things go exactly the way they are supposed to go.
(and for those of you keeping score - that's 2 scripts sold in a month. I think he's out of scripts for a bit.)

From The Hollywood Reporter

Cagan, MGM are 'Dance' partners
MGM has snapped up Josh A. Cagan's spec "Gotta Dance," plunking down $300,000 against $650,000. Walter Hamada, Chris Fenton and Jonathan Hung of H2F Entertainment are attached to produce. The story, described as a broad comedic male version of "Flashdance," centers on an overweight construction worker who finds out that he is the long-lost son of the greatest ballet dancer in history. He is torn between his blue-collar macho world and the life of a ballet dancer when he's called upon to save his late mother's dance company. Overseeing the project are MGM's Erik Baiers and Elizabeth Ingold. The script sale is Cagan's second spec sale in as many weeks; he sold his first feature, "Will," to Revolution with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas producing. New York-based Cagan wrote for the MTV animated series "Undergrads." He is repped by Paradigm, H2F and Colden, McKuin and Frankel. (Borys Kit)

If you have a sec - Tell Josh congrats...

DEAN GETS BACK IN THE GAME

John Dean, who became Counsel to the President of the United States in July 1970 at age thirty-one, served Nixon for a thousand days before eventually going to jail for his part in Watergate.

He's written a book I can't wait to read: Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

THE RIGHT WOMAN FOR THE RIGHT JOB

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice sure was the right woman to send to the Hart Building today. She was calm, confident and represented this White House very well.

It is a shame that the President made the decision to put Dr. Rice's face front-and-center here, a shame that he waited till the 11th hour to declassify several Presidential Daily Briefings (in part), and (worst) a shame that he rolled-over on the historic precedent of Presidential advisors being exempt from Congressional oversight - that of executive privilege.

The fact that the President extends executive privilege to his Vice President to set energy policy with the board of Enron, but does not invoke it to protect the woman he relies on to serve as his National Security Advisor certainly makes clear the President's unfortunate priorities.

Again.

G.MAIL ME

I'm the lucky recepient of one of the test accounts for g'mail (Google's new email service.)

I want to try out the features, but I need mail in this account.
So, please drop me a note:

Here's a question: Do you donate blood?

HI. I'M BOB HERBERT.

You are Bob Herbert! You're not the most sparkling
writer, but one of the most solid and selfless
on the Op-Ed staff. You focus on New York
politics, the poor, race issues, and civil
liberties. You like to quote others, and rarely
place yourself in your columns. You keep it
real. Seriously.


Which New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Are You?

TERRIBLE ADVANCE

Great story of a kid that was so bored by the President, he could barely stay awake. Then Letterman made fun of him, and people thought that Letterman edited the kid into the shot.



Now, that's some terrible advance work.

One of my first big site advance gigs with Mrs. Clinton was at a middle school in Queens. The speech I gave the kids ("THE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING YOU!" and "your school, your family, your whole life will be judged on how you look on TV") did a little too much. My friends who were watching from home said the children were so stiff it looked like they were just a painting of kids.