in my cd player... Elvis Costello All This Useless Beauty   on the page... Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay   into... DSL; big words that I need the American Heritage Dictionary to define for me; hiding my car from the DC police; having two office snow days without the snow   24 steps... On my way to the post office today, I counted the number of steps from my back doorstep to the Starbucks that is opening soon just around the corner. I knew he would want to have those details on hand.   a week full of Mariannas... First I received a random email from WMBR-Marianna after she had found her name on my site. And then last night a new message from Ms. Marianna the Actress popped up in my inbox. Todd would say it's a stalker's dream come true.   quiet and small... LA Michael thought it was a bit strange that I was so adamant about seeing Spring Forward, considering his long, glittery list of SAG promotional videos and DVDs. But I can now say that it was one of my favorite films of last year. Liev Schreiber is definitely one to watch.