THE SUN, British tabloid, is running a story about famous busty women overflowing their corsets. Don't know if y'all are into that, but it ain't hard to look at.

ONE THING THAT'S REALLY EXCITING ABOUT FITNESS GIRLS is how often their bodies change. Take Timea Majorova--sometimes she looks like she could benchpress a Yugo, but other times she looks like she doesn't have the muscle to carry her own groceries. Luckily she's good-looking all the time.

GO TO THE MIRROR. Open your mouth. See the really sharp teeth off to the sides? They're for tearing MEAT. They're not there because they look pretty.

JUST CAUGHT A FEW MINUTES OF BLIND DATE, there was a female bodybuilder contestant. She wasn't huge or anything, but she was more than big enough to stir my sensibilities. The guy she was set up with was kind of a stiff, and turned her away at the end of the evening. She was pretty cute, too. Very feminine with nice, thick arms. She only flexed once, and it was pretty quick. Here's MicroTVFan's summary from DtV.

A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WRITES:

Hi there, your friendly neighborhood DocA calling to counter you on a point you made on your blog about the elective surgery.

It's funny because you write for a website about busty, powerful women... and a lot of women achieve the look you hold so dear - via... wait for it... you guessed it, elective surgery. :)

Of course, boob jobs and dick jobs are two totally different animals. There are incredible boob jobs, and there's horribly botched ones. See: Torrie Wilson (good) and Stephanie McMahon (bad).

It always amazes me that the women with the most money, Stephanie and Tori Spelling, had the worst boob jobs. I guess for them it was about instant gratification and not doing your research.

Anyway, the problem with elective surgery, especially when it comes to dick jobs, is that techniques are still new and no one knows what works and what doesn't. So let the poor saps who don't do their research get mangled.

Besides which, the "horror story" sounds the same as a story Maxim ran last year. Wouldn't be surprised if it was "recycled", given the time of litigation and the fact that it's the British press.

Just something I found funny in your post.

Look, I'm not a doctor, but it seems to me a lot of people go under the knife for vanity, and some admittedly small portion of them don't leave the operating room alive. My father had an 86-year-old cousin who used to do perfect cartwheels. She was in perfect health--or just about. But it seems she had some heart valve irregularity--nothing too serious, but her doctor wanted her to slow down a bit. Since she wanted to keep doing cartwheels, she underwent elective surgery to correct the defect. She got an infection while in the hospital, contracted pneumonia, and died about a week after her operation. Thus my caveat.

I do my best to stay out of hospitals, courtrooms and slaughterhouses.

LET THIS BE A LESSON TO EVERYONE: Never let someone cut you open if you don't have to. I've heard more stories about elective surgery gone awry...

I THINK I'M GOING TO MAKE ANOTHER RENDER LIKE THIS ONE again, in the near future. I just love the setting, and the frustration of the vanquished male. The new Vicky 3 model can even be used to make less-masculine male figures, which can add to the fun.

SO I RECENTLY DISCOVERED A NEW WAY OF MEETING WOMEN--"READINGS". It works like this: some poet or hack is scheduled to drone on for an hour at a coffee house or bar/lounge. Most everyone who shows up is an attractive woman. A few men show up, mostly not very impressive looking. Making eye contact is easy because everyone quickly tires of the hack. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. You just have to avoid the East Village--unless you like women with pervasive piercings, facial tattoos and Marxist leanings. (I myself do not.)

MARKNEW IM'D ME THE OTHER DAY to point out that I've been posting waaaaay too much war material on what's supposed to be a blog about powerful women. He's right. Hopefully you can understand my fixation on this; I was very close to the whole thing on 9/11, and like a lot of New Yorkers I tend to get upset about it very easily. To this day I look up and can't believe the towers are gone.

But when I started this blog last year, I chose a topic range. I acknowledge that I should really try to keep within it as much as possible. You guys have been great--traffic hovers between 500 and 700 unique users on most days, and that's nothing to sneeze about. In fact the blog is often in the top 50 on Nedstat's Adult sites list. When you consider that this isn't a porn site, or anything remotely like a porn site, that's a very strong showing. So I'll try to post more on topic from now on.

SHE'S DEFINITELY BEEN DRINKING HER MILK AND TAKING HER VITAMINS. Over at DtV, Marc2410 linked to the most adorable muscle girl I've seen since Alphie Newman first showed up. She could easily be the "after" girl in one of those "I might not look like much now, but I'm drinking milk!" TV ads. He linked two photos:

But he did not give any information. Well, I was transfixed, because I think she's gorgeous (the pigtails have a definite Pippi Longstocking effect, doncha think?), so I spent some time trying to figure out who she is. Voila: her name is Ana Dukovac, she's 5'6", lives in Toronto, and those terrific muscles grew from next-to-nothing in just six months--she weighed about 124 last spring, and topped off at almost 140 in October. That was three months ago, so who can say where she's at now? I found two articles about her (1, 2). Also, Google turned up some info suggesting she used to be a pretty decent sprinter, so I'm guessing her legs are at least as impressive as those bulging arms she likes to show off so much.

I figure the odds that she's got a boyfriend are somewhere around 75 to 1 in favor, but we can dream. (She's also got kind of a young Meral Ertunc thing going on, which doesn't count against her at all in my book.)

HERE'S ANOTHER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

I'VE BEEN CHECKING CRAIG'S LIST A LOT LATELY, more out of entertainment than anything else. Found a couple ads (1, 2) from guys like us, and two (1, 2) from the kinda girl we tend to like.

MORE SERENA. God, she's got a nice body. Take a look for yourself.

JUST READ THE BLURB FOR DOCUMENT 27.

READER BRIAN sends this link about Serena with this commentary: "Damn, she's big." She sure is.

MERDE...posts aren't showing up.

IF YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE ACCESSING SITES, it's because somebody launched a worm in Korea, and it's causing traffic backloads all over the Net. Here's the Slashdot explanation.

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? I don't remember Mariah Carey being anywhere near so pneumatic as this.

FUNNY SITE CALLED "JAPANDER.COM" that archives Japanese television spots featuring American celebrities. Found this while searching for the milk ads.

10° FAHRENHEIT AT MIDNIGHT. Please warm up soon, Mr. Weather. I'm freezing me arse off.

STACKED IN THE STACKS.

THE WASHINGTON POST IS RIGHT ON THIS ISSUE.

OH, AND ONE OTHER THING, specifically regarding our military activities in the Middle East. We were attacked on September 11, 2001, and we are entitled to defend ourselves and crush those who would kill our citizens and cities. And if Germany, who we protected from the Soviets for over 40 years--despite the repulsive behavior of its citizens and government in the 30s and 40s--feels morally superior in denying us that right, then to hell with Germany. And France, a country we protected from the Soviets despite the repulsive behavior of its citizens and government from 1939 through the present, despite its efforts to actively undermine us throughout the Cold War, wants to continue to undermine us today, even after we have been grievously wounded in an attack on our shores. Well, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys, it's a new day, and we're going to shove this insult down your fucking throats sometime soon. You just watch.

READER KEITH WRITES TO SAY THAT I AM WRONG AND THAT THE U.S. DID SUPPORT THE KHMER ROUGE, and then provides examples that took place years after the Vietnam War and after the genocide in Cambodia. Here's his original claim: "The US supported the Khmer Rouge, responsible for killing a third of Cambodia's population, just because they were fighting against the Vietnamese who's invasion stopped the genocide." The truth is that the U.S. provided minor aid to the Khmer Rouge after they'd been defeated by North Vietnam and exiled to the border regions--this was largely in the form of allowing them to partake of food aid sent to the refugee camps. It was granted well after the genocide had ended. The genocide never recurred, thanks in part to oversight by the U.S. (and European) government(s).

The point is: the U.S. was in no way complicit in the genocide, which is what I inferred from Keith's statement. The U.S. vigorously opposed native Cambodian Communist movements (including the Khmer Rouge) from 1969, through the coups, civil wars and genocide, until after the North Vietnamese conquered and occupied the country. Then we provided a trickle of foreign aid to try to stabilize the situation. If any of you want copies of any of the emails, let me know.

Let me put it simply:
The U.S. has never been an amoral force in world affairs. The United States fought and defeated, at its own expense and with tepid support from most of Western Europe, the greatest threat to liberty the modern world has ever known: International Communism. The Left, particularly in Europe, can never forgive the destruction of its socialist pipedreams, and is thus dedicated to slandering and misrepresenting the United States and its true allies at every opportunity. In every crisis, the Left sides with whomever the U.S. opposes, regardless of how odious or destructive the foe. In the last fifteen months it has defended and protected the Taliban, Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath Party, and North Korea. Read Democrat Michael Kelly's column in today's Washington Post for a more centrist explanation, if you like. But you must not believe their claims that America is the root of evil in the world--it is a lie. The truth is closer to the opposite--subtract the United States from world history and Europe would today be languishing under commissars, if it had ever even managed to graduate from kings. Regardless, without our example and our willingness to fight, Despotism of one stripe or another is what they'd have today.

And that is the truth, so help me God.

OK, IT TOOK SOME DIGGING, but the name of the "...but I'm drinking milk!" ad campaign was "A Glimpse of the Future", and it was put together by Drummer Productions. There were six ads completed. The one I remember most clearly was the last of the ones I saw--it was explicitly sexual, and basically involved a girl in her mid-teens being ignored by boys at a party, then cut to her drinking milk, and then pictured again at what seemed to be the same party, this time sporting a very impressive set of gazongas, lustily stretching the fabric of her t-shirt.

"I MAY NOT LOOK LIKE MUCH NOW, BUT I'M DRINKING MILK", says the Nerve.com personal featuring a very well-developed young lady. You're gonna need a userid and password to see this--and while she's pretty cute, I'm linking her mainly because of the reference to the milk ad many of us remember so fondly.

I WONDER WHY CARTOON NETWORK moved Cowboy Bebop to 1:30 AM? I'm gonna need to get a TIVO if I want to follow it anymore. Sigh.

WELL, I'M SHUTTING DOWN KAZAA NOW. Damned RIAA.

ALRIGHT, SO I WAS HARSH. I apologize. I re-read my snarky comments to Keith, and I was a little over the top. But in all seriousness, we need to colonize an oil-producing state. There is too much at stake to leave the world's energy supplies under the control of Islamic wingnuts. We need a large, secular base of operations in the region and Iraq looks like the best bet.

And who's really going to get hurt, here? If things go as planned, the Iraqis will quickly fold and we'll be able to quickly start improving life there. The alternative is to leave the Hussein family in charge, free to acquire nukes and hold the whole region hostage.

"No blood for oil" is the cry of people who don't remember the economic havoc of the early-mid seventies.

READER KEITH, DUPE OF THE STALINIST PRO-SADDAM HORDES, WRITES:

And what about terrorist groups not affiliated with any specific country (like, oh, al Quaeda)? Do you nuke them where they are hiding? Is Manila on the hit list?

Of course Manila isn't on the hit list. Is the Philipine government itself supporting al Qaeda or Abu Sayyef? No. In Bush's with us/with the terrorists formulation, the Philipines is clearly with us. Plus it's a Catholic country. If Catholics start flying planes into skyscrapers, I'll think about it. But that was just a rhetorical question, wasn't it?

I assume you would therefore have supported the position of the British nuking Boston due to the IRA supporters raising money there, not to mention IRA guys themselves who had fled to the US, during the 1980s and who were studiously ignored by the US government?

Ah, so you found some bad Catholics.

And while we're on the subject, it might make you (and other Americans) feel good to go on and on about going into Iraq, but the reason a great many people are opposed is that there has been no reason given as to why this is necessary right now. Despite the best efforts of the US to produce propaganda on the issue, there's no evidence of a connection between Iraq and the groups who have been responsible for most of the recent terrorist attacks, including those in the US. Iraq isn't attacking anyone (or threatening to) at the moment.

Here's two reasons: 1) Someone has to pay for 9/11. Someone must be scapegoated to make the point. 2) If we knock out two dictatorial, armpit-of-the-world regimes every time there's a major terrorist assault, and do a little nation-building as a follow-up, pretty soon there won't be anyplace worth living for them to hide.

Is Hussein a villainous dictator? Sure. But there are lots of villainous dictators all over the world who aren't on any American hit lists, and being one generally isn't seen as a rationale for launching an unprovoked attack.

Oh, this is my favorite argument from the pro-human rights lobby. You people would be jumping for joy if the U.S. started knocking off despots for altruistic reasons, but if it serves our national interest to do so, suddenly it's "unprovoked".

And make no mistake, the rest of the world, including the majority of American allies, see that an American attack on Iraq right now as unprovoked.

Their opinion plus $3.75 will get you a grande double-soy-moccachino at the Astor Place Starbucks. Remind me to give a fuck what the French think when their best-seller lists no longer include that book that claims the American Government blew up the Pentagon.

What we (those outside the US) see is a country, having been attacked by someone, using it as an excuse to get into a scrap with someone unconnected just to settle an old grudge.

Very observant. Did you have a point?

Don't assume this is just liberal pansy peace-flag waving, either.

The thought never crossed my mind.

I supported the intervention in Afghanistan. I was wishing for someone to take out the Taliban long before Sept 1, 2001, when most Americans hadn't heard of them.

Al Gore was calling Bush's supporters "The Taliban Wing of the Republican Party" during the 2000 campaign, so I think most of us were pretty conversant with their milieu.

I know Saddam Hussein is a dictator, and that his probable successors (his sons) are a moronic bully and a sociopathic monster. Someone dropping a rock on their heads would make me happy.

Then a 15,000 pound daisy cutter ought to make you come so hard you soak your Birkenstocks.

But this anticipated invasion has nothing to do with doing what's right and a hell of a lot more with getting back at Hussein for having the gall to stay in power for 11 years after the Gulf War and not meekly surrender to the US. The US has a history of holding grudges against countries that they see standing up to them, to the point of supporting even worse people. The US supported the Khmer Rouge, responsible for killing a third of Cambodia's population, just because they were fighting against the Vietnamese who's invasion stopped the genocide.

That's just a total fabrication. One of the reasons we bombed and invaded Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 was to destroy the Khmer Rouge. And if, after we left Vietnam, Maoists and Stalinist came to blows and weakened the cause of world communism, well, that's hardly our fault. Nor is it what I'd call a drawback.

It supported mobsters in order to fight Castro.

Who were unfortunately--as you might recall--unable to kill the bastard.

Right now there's suggestions that there's talking between the US and a Shi'ite terrorist group that's been operating in Iraq and who Hussein himself is worried by.

Whatever.

A fundamentalist shi'ite group that has previously attacked Americans.

Oh, THAT Shi'ite terrorist group. That really narrows it down.

But hey, if they're fighting Saddam, well, they can't be all bad can they?

You said it, not me.

War on Terror, my ass.

{YAWN} Anyway, he goes on like this at length--the whole circular leftist Weapons of Mass Destruction argument follows from here. Blah blah blah. If you actually want to read the rest, let me know and I'll forward it to you. But mocking this stuff is only entertaining up to a point.

I SAW A TRAILER YESTERDAY, for a new Gwyneth Paltrow movie called View from the Top. It seems unremarkable, except for what may be a running joke in the film: Kelly Preston's character's gigantic breasts. See the preview here. I wonder if they're really Miss Preston's? She has given her husband quite a few kids--they may be home-grown, rather than prop-department-grown.

SO THE FRENCH AND THEIR NEW FRIENDS-IN-NON-ARMS, THE GERMANS, are opposed to the war, displaying a unity of military purpose not seen since the days of Marshall Petain. Nauseating.

SORRY IF I'VE BEEN POSTING TOO MUCH WAR STUFF lately, but those boobs on the Mall really piss me off.

A GREAT ARTICLE FROM THE ASIA TIMES depicting the attitudes in the Arab states about the impending U.S. war on Iraq. Apparently, the various and sundry terrorist organizations are threatening to strike the U.S. directly if we wage war on Iraq. A few points:

They've been threatening impending attacks every three months for the last 15 months.

We have 8000 nuclear bombs. Do they really want to play escalation games with us?

Do they understand that we're not giving up? Do they understand that to stop them, we will kill as many people as we must?
Hezbollah is among the organizations threatening us. Do they know that we know they're a proxy organization for Syria and Iran? If Hezbollah were to, say, detonate a car bomb in a U.S. city, we would probably just respond as if Syria or Iran had done it directly--that is to say we would treat it as an act of war.

SEEN ON THE JERSEY TURNPIKE TODAY, on the Newark Bay Extension approaching the Holland Tunnel, a van filled with six Arabs. One of 'em--his camera pressed against a window--was enthusiastically snapping photos of the superlative view of lower Manhattan to the east. First time I ever considered ramming another vehicle with my own.

GREAT BIT REGARDING THE PRO-SADDAM SCUM ON THE MALL THIS WEEKEND.

TODAY IS THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BLOG, started January 19, 2002.

A GREAT PIECE ON US NAVAL ASSETS BEING MOVED TOWARD IRAQ. So when you see all sorts of Western Europeans and self-loathing Americans saying all sorts of crazy, nasty things about the United States of America, try to remember the sailors, airmen, soldiers and marines who are preparing to perhaps make the ultimate sacrifice, so that all of us can live in a better world. When I see those pro-Saddam protesters on our National Mall, and in the capital cities of our so-called allies (France, Germany, etc), it brings to mind the scum who danced in the streets on 9/11.

INSTAPUNDIT on today's protests.

I JUST WATCHED THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS on DVD. Am I the only person who cries at the end? I'm such a sucker for that sentimental bullshit.

NOTICE HOW ALL THESE SO-CALLED "ANTI-WAR" ACTIVISTS never mention September 11? They don't want people to connect Bush's policies to what happened 16 months ago, and instead mouth mindless platitudes like "No blood for oil". What is it they're really opposed to? I suspect they are simply self-loathing Americans. And they should be ignored.

MY MAN MOSSBERG on the new Apple 12" Powerbook.

HUNG OVER, LAYING IN BED, AND SURFING THE NET. This is what 802.11 was made for, baby. I heartily recommend it. I'm surprised I made it home alive last night--it was Jack London cold and I was Ernest Hemingway drunk. So yeah, at Rivertown I kept eyeing the fitness-girl bartender--at one point, while facing someone to my left, she reached up with both hands to correct her hair bun, and pronounced Twinkie-like biceps jumped up from her arms. I almost asked if I could suck out the creamy filling, but remembered the surly, half-frozen 300-pound behemoth at the door and demurred. I also spent a little while at Pianos, around the corner on Ludlow, which had a really cute cocktail waitress with just a hint of "waitress muscle".

I don't normally share my bar-hopping activities with you fellas, so let's just consider last night an exceptional case.

CRAP, I'm not kidding--I've been indoors for twenty minutes and I'm still shivering. I should have worn warmer clothes when I went out today. It's unbelievable!

SOMEWHAT MUSCULAR BARTENDER, at Rivertown Lounge on Orchard St.; cute little blonde with a tight, athletic figure. And, pardon my French, but it is fucking cold out tonight. Accuweather says it's 11 degrees fahrenheit (and feels like -9,!!) which for you benighted souls using centigrade is about -11 degrees (feels like -21 C!). I had to walk 1/2 mile through this moonscape. My nose feels like it's going to fall off.

NEW YORK MUSCLE CLUB SHOW, two weeks from tomorrow, on West 42nd St. near the Port Authority. Check it here.

NOMDRESERV POSTED A STORY BY A WRITER NAMED "MAX", called "Backfire". It's a good story, but I wouldn't mind if Max spent a little more time on detail, especially the muscle transference parts.

THE MIRACLES OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY. So OK, I decided to get on board the 802.11 bandwagon, and installed a wireless router in my house tonight. Right now I'm sitting on the couch, watching TV and surfing the Net with my laptop at the same time. Which is, as I might have mentioned, really cool.

I POSTED A NEW RENDER, similar to one I posted at Wreck Shop's place last night.

TOUGH BIRD.

I POSTED A NEW RENDER TO WRECK SHOP, right here, #3.

A VERY PLEASANT AD, banned in Norway!

NO MUSCLE, but this 3D girl sure is pretty. (And nude.) Lots of post-render work, obviously.

I'M A BIT SURPRISED that no one came back with other bars that have female bodybuilders working in them. Somehow I've found two, but the rest of you guys haven't found any? I don't drink that much.

HEY ALL--Wyrmmaster posted a new voluptuous jungle girl to Renderosity, and I posted a couple demo renders to Wreck Shop.

MET ONE OF THE INVENTORS OF BLOGGER TONIGHT, at a party. Had to play it dumb, pretend I didn't know what it was.

AN ARTICLE IN THE POST ABOUT HIDDEN BARS. Funny thing, Angel's Share and Chumley's are two of my favorite places. Two other bars I used to frequent, the XR Bar on Houston and one on 10th St near 1st Ave, had female bodybuilders for bartenders. I was quite fond of those. Does anybody know any similarly equipped bars today? Let me know, anywhere in the world.

SOMETHING HEAVY GOING DOWN AT THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. Not sure what, but tons of emergency vehicles. The story is that ice is falling from the top, but the ice all melted yesterday. Smells fishy to me.

READER TED WRITES IN ABOUT THE NEW APPLES:

Yeah, I saw. If I hadn't just bought my iBook a few months ago one of them would be mine. :-) I'm going to have to go see them "in person" and then one of them might be mine still.

I should check ebay to see how many iBooks went on sale yesterday. If the mini-powerbook had DVI out, I'd definitely be moving up, my desktop is slow as well and needs replacing, and the mini-powerbook is enough to fit the bill if I could get a LCD monitor hooked up to it. Now the big-daddy one...I could go for that, but I think it might be a bit big (I like the size of the ibook for portability). But it would make a cool desktop replacement.

Apple does make really nice laptops. And the open source community is going ape over them. That means open source software gets ported in a hurry. And it's nice to re-learn all that UNIX I forgot. And I'm too lazy to program unless a) I'm using Interface Builder, or b) I'm tossing off some script in perl (though realbasic is pretty neat) or (I should add), (c) someone pays me $$$ to do something. And if you didn't notice (most normal mac people didn't but the Slashdot linux community did), Apple also released their beta-vesion of X11 support (needed right now to run OpenOffice). Me, I'm one of the "gimme the unix command line" mac users. Makes doing web work easier having Apache run locally.

Plus well, I make money off supporting macs. Well that, and MS Access. I find it very funny that the "mac guy" is the one who has to pull the "windows guys" butt out of the fire because I could figure out how to modify this Access database and they couldn't. But then, I'm not religious about my computers: best tool for the job. But it's still funny as most "windows guys" think that mac people are clueless loonies. Some of them are (just like the majority of windows users a clueless), but then, some of them know _exactly_ what they are doing, which is why they use macs.

Now if Apple could just manage to get a faster desktop out....something w/ that neato IBM PowerPC 970 in it should do the trick.

I did notice the new X11 support--very nice. I haven't run an X terminal since 1998, and I do miss it. A friend of mine in the reviewing business thinks OS X has made all the difference--drawing in all sorts of people who want UNIX but witht an elegant, useful GUI. Last night's trip to the Apple Store was not particularly fruitful--the new Powerbooks aren't in store. And contrary to the "genius" tags on the help, they hadn't even managed to install Safari on most of the demo Macs in the store. I think I'm going to get one, though.

SO DID YOU FOLKS SEE THE NEW APPLE POWERBOOKS? They are very pretty. I might finally switch. The laptops are superlative pieces of technology and design--they do everything you expect, and they've got 802.11 built right in. But another good reason is that, thanks to the OpenOffice project run by Sun Microsystems, free office software--fully compatible with Microsoft Office--is now available for all major OS platforms. These are bad times for Microsoft--you mark my words, this OpenOffice suite is the beginning of the end for Redmond dominance.

I might go down to the Apple Store in SoHo this afternoon, to get a look at one firsthand.

SEAN PENN IS SUCH A DOOFUS.

ONE OTHER THING. Have you ever tried to stand up in an open car going 60 miles per hour? The wind damn near lifts you right out--in fact that's a real danger with convertibles. Now let's increase the speed five- or seven-fold. There's no human being alive who could keep their grip on a motorcycle in the face of a 300 or 400 mile per hour headwind. It's just not possible. So will it have a closed cockpit? I mean, imagine what would happen if a piece of gravel hit you in the knee while you were traveling at those speeds! Who would have the reaction time to drive one of those things? And wouldn't it create an air wake that could suck small children and animals right off their feet?

The whole thing seems ill-advised.

SO CADILLAC IS BUILDING A V-16 BEHEMOTH, AND CHRYSLER IS BUILDING A V-10 MOTORCYCLE. What the heck is going on? Who needs to go 200 or 400 miles per hour? And where would they do it? The are cool looking, though--the bike looks an awful lot like something out of Akira and the Caddy resembles the Batmobile.

I GOT EMAIL FROM D.J. WALLIS! Oh my God! It was brief--I think she was "ego-surfing" and found some posts about her from May. She thought they were funny and appreciated that we ("we" being mostly me but also some reader emails I posted) were more interested in her work and personality than the size of her biceps and "glute tips". Stay tuned for more details--I'm trying to lure her into an email conversation (shhhhh!).

And since she mentioned it, she's got me wondering about the size of her biceps.

CAN YOU TELL I'M KEEPING BUSY AT WORK TODAY? Here's a great bit on chasing chicks, from the New York Sun.

I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF FAVORABLE MAIL on the Korea post from New Years Eve. Couple of former U.S. servicemen more or less agree with my thoughts. Look--everywhere our troops are stationed, it is with the full permission of the host country. Certainly any country could tell us to leave--and several have--but by and large it's a boon to have them; the benefits outweigh the inconveniences for nearly everyone involved. I think what it comes down to is that we keep troops in all sorts of places where they're not feared. And since they're not feared, they become objects of contempt for snotty teenagers and maladjusted young adults. The Germans, for instance, occupied France during World War II, and you'd better believe there were no mass demonstrations against them for anything. And let us not forget Tiananmen Square.

Also worth noting is that the South Koreans riot at the drop of a hat. It's a national sport--has been for decades. They're pugnacious, loud people--"the Irish of Asia", in P.J. O'Rourke's words. (And he obviously meant that as a compliment.)

LAUGHING SO HARD I CAN'T SEE STRAIGHT. Just to balance the pro-Frist PR that resulted when the new Senate Majority Leader helped save several human lives over the weekend, UPI--the ridiculous paleo-Marxist decaying corpse of a news service that still sends news-fossil Helen Thomas to hector the White House staff--ran a story revealing that while a med student, Frist vivisectioned cats. (UPI was aiming for lowest common denominator impact here, so of course they didn't use the word "vivisection".) Even worse (gasp!), he adopted them from animal shelters and then cut them open! And for the trivial goal of becoming a better heart surgeon! What cruelty!

UPI fails to mention what happens to kitties who aren't adopted from animal shelters after a week or two, but let's just say that "animal shelter" is one of those oxymoronic euphemisms, kinda like "industrial park".

MY FIRST NEW RENDER OF THE YEAR. Starting working on this yesterday. Did quite a bit with it--wanted it to be just right.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, by the way. I got home at 4 am--hit parties in the SoHo and TriBeCa areas, mainly. There was a naked girl at one of them. "Aren't you cold?" I asked.

GREAT ARTICLE ON THE CROUCHING RED MENACE IN CHINA. In some ways I miss the Cold War--there were communists about and everybody knew it. Today if you talk about the reds, people think you're unbalanced. But they're still out there.