My tweets

• 06:50 @MrPandaBehr : we used to walk out of classes that went seriously over time...you have great patience. #
• 06:52 @MrPandaBehr : i have fond memories of Friendly's, but I thought they'd gone belly-up years ago. Glad to hear they're still above ground... #
• 06:55 morning tweeters. off to seek legal advice this morning; this PM, settling down with a Manhattan to watch the Inauguration. #
• 16:21 watching the backwards bush counter now...lovely! #
• 16:23 oh, and watching the inauguration too. Bush I looks pretty infirm with cane, the other exes look OK. Cheney in a wheelchair. #
• 16:25 obama's kids are so cute #
• 16:54 aretha franklin sings "America"--what a beautiful headdress she has. #
• 16:55 can't help thinking Got Save the Queen as she's singing #
• 17:01 the bush counter...just stopped. biden is sworn in, obama is president now as his term begins at noon on january 20th #
• 17:02 musical interlude yo yo ma seems to be having a good time. #
• 17:05 roberts fluffs oath #
• 17:07 obama speaks. the crowd goes wild #
• 17:20 speech started off kind of like a stump speech, but is getting better as he goes on... #
• 17:21 no 'ask not...' lines yet #
• 17:24 he is rallying the citizenry... #
• 17:26 the ending was good...bush looks a bit wan. #
• 17:27 a bit of poetry now to round off the day. #
• 17:35 very elderly Rev Joseph Lowry delivers Benediction... #
• 17:36 obama prays along with his eyes closed and face tilted toward heaven #
• 17:37 AMEN!!
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• 17:45 obama really dissed the Bush years in his speech. #
• 17:45 mc cain smiles gamely on the platform #
• 17:50 Former President George Bush...how sweet the sound. #
• 17:55 i am drained. #
• 18:03 and obama is a leftie--left-handed, that is. #
• 18:04 wolf blitzer thinks obama's penmanship is excellent #

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Today's Great Thought

is from ptownnyc, to whom I'm eternally grateful.

…(M)any years ago when I lived in DC, … we would sit around and read the classifieds in City Paper for the freakiest ads possible. One guy advertised for years with the following tagline: "Will clean your house/apartment in exchange for verbal/physical abuse." A female friend of mine was very into the concept after she broke up with her boyfriend. As she said, "I am pissed at men and my apartment is a pigsty. We can both win here!"