"Me bumming money?" shouted McDonald, "not on your life. I am a decent, hard-workin' Irishman, and if I gets drunk once in a while I am the one that suffers most, not the community. I have been in Washington six months, and this is my first offense. I will see the priest this afternoon, if your honor will let me go, and a five-year pledge for mine."
Amy channels her inner Jerri Blank, above, and shows her pretty smile, below.
What a fun day yesterday turned out to be. I was reading the Daily News at Starbucks after having lunch with my Mikey when I noticed a listing for a wine tasting/book signing with my girl Amy Sedaris. I ran home and gussied myself up a bit and then got Michael to meet me over at Bottlerocket Wines and before I knew it Michael was snapping photos of Amy and me. Later, she got up on top of a desk (as you may recall from her appearance on "Martha," she is quite petite) and demonstrated one of the arts and crafts projects from her hilarious book "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence," and then she took questions from the audience. During the Q&A she made a Ruth Buzzi joke (right up my ally) and then commented that no one probably knew who Ruth was. Later when she was signing my book I told her that I certainly knew who Ruth was, and that in the early '90s I used to frequent an El Pollo Loco on Sunset and La Brea in Hollywood that had an autographed picture of Ruth hanging above the cash registers -- the one and only celebrity photo hanging on its walls! She giggled and later I realized that in addition to cutely misspelling my name (North Carolina schools? She also asked a guy named Anthony how that was spelled!), she incorporated out mutual love of Gladys Ormphby into her autograph. What a doll! (See the rest of the photos here.)
Amy gives the crowd what they want, above, and then shows how much cuter she looks in glasses than I do, below.
"I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence"
The Washington Times is reporting that the Bush administration is beginning to make plans for withdrawing Harriet Miers as the president's nomination for the Supreme Court -- sort of.
"White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people, saying, 'We're not discussing pulling out her nomination, but if we were to, do you have any advice as to how we should do it?' " a conservative Republican with ties to the White House told The Washington Times.
Well, OK then. As long as you're not discussing it ...
Full story: Insiders see hint of Miers pullout (via Washington Times)
(Photos via A Sociate's Life)
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