in my cd player... Splashdown Stars and Garters   on the page... Katharine Graham Personal History   in my glass... the last of the Earl Grey iced tea   debating... the freedom of speech and the ethics of editorial staffs   clad in... his underwear   more check ins... from Krista and Howard... that make me feel so touched and loved.   a breakthrough... I got the meanest pharmacist in the entire District of Columbia to tell me to have a nice evening.   more Coupland... "I was in New York visiting my mother and was standing beside a traffic island in the middle of Park Avenue. I'd never been out of L.A. before. I was entranced by the big city. I was looking up at the Pan Am Building and contemplating the essential problem of Manhattan which is that there's too much weight improperly distributed: towers and elevators; steel, stone, and cement. So much mass up so high that gravity itself could end up being warped-- some dreadful inversion-- an exchange program with the sky."