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From last week: photos of Louisiana’s capitol buildings, old (left) and new. I far and away prefer the first one, even though many found/find it atrocious–including Mark Twain, who, upon seeing it restored after a fire in the late 19th century, said:

It is pathetic enough that a whitewashed castle, with turrets and things, should ever have been built in this otherwise honorable place. But it is much more pathetic to see this architectual falsehood undergoing restoration when it would have been so easy to let dynamite finish what a charitable fire began.

So, I’ve kinda developed this unwritten policy: I’m not going to post on weekends unless (a) it’s really important, or (b) I’m really bored. Of course, since I find hemlines and potting soil to be topics worthy of press conferences, and since twiddling my thumbs has taken the place of dinner parties and discos in my less-than-jet-setting life, I doubt this policy will really amount to a hill of beans. Still, it’s there in theory.

Today, though, screw it: my boyfriend‘s pic is in the New York Times for the first time ever! (Well, except for that time he got hitched to Brooke Astor in Vegas after doing 17 rounds of Jello-shots in the big room at Bally’s. We’re still trying to put that behind us.)

Ugh. Off to Baton Rouge for an exciting day of watching cretins (well, at least a couple of them) rip apart my finely crafted grant applications. There’s nothing quite as humbling as having a room full of strangers debate your pros and cons while you’re sitting an arm’s length away and can say absolutely nothing in defense.

Note to self:     Self, if you should ever follow through on that plan to pick up stakes and move to Berlin (because Nina Hagen still needs groupies), do not, under any circumstances, take a German lover, as they seem to have a nasty habit of eating their homosexual brethren. Given the country’s fascination with eugenics, I would have thought such problems had been weeded out decades ago, but clearly, das schlongschlurpers still have some dietary aggression issues to work out.