Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

I was going to post at some point about how lately I’ve been finding all kinds of people on Facebook–people I haven’t seen since grade school, people I’m glad to have found, people I wish I hadn’t found, etc–but just now, I got the following message from a writer from a well-known glossy weekly magazine.  I’m redacting the identifying info, but this is otherwise intact:

Hi Wroth,

We are on continuing coverage of the Alex Rodriguez/Cynthia Rodrigurz divorce and would love comment from you, on of Cynthia’s friends. The NY press/Alex’s side is putting out not the most flattering portrait of Cynthia and we would love to get her side: how great a mother she is, how much she loved her husband, gave it her all, what kind of friend she is, etc. Would love your help!  We are on deadline so I would need this, if possible, today (Friday).

Thank you so much for your time,

Writey McWritesalot

Well-known Glossy Weekly Magazine

I…don’t know what to make of it.  Is it spam?  A joke?  There are quite a few typos… I responded w/ a terse “sorry, wrong number” message, and now I’m wondering if I’ve got a doppleganger out there.  A tiny part of me wishes I had responded with a long, glowing report, just to see what would happen, but I do NOT want to be dragged into a media circus for the sake of a larf. 

Also, “continuing coverage of the Alex Rodriguez/Cynthia Rodrigurz divorce”?  Please people, our president just made a joke at the G8 about the US being the world’s largest polluter, and you’re concerned with demi-celebrity divorces?  Jebus Crust.

Yay, new camera!

Our old digicam was shorting out–we could take pictures, but they would show up with big bars of color across them (it looked like when the V-hold on your old TV acts up).  I had hoped it would last more than 5-6 years, but no (now we have to find a way to dispose of it properly).

So yesterday, RB brought home a Canon Powershot Elph–SD1100 IS– which is much smaller, yet more powerful than our previous Canon (an A60).  We got the brown one, shown at the bottom of the linked page.

Anyway, the camera itself is nice enough, but its the taking of kitty pictures that makes me cry “yay!”  Behold the cute of Orange Cat, Little Cat, and Old Cat:

RB took these early this morning, before I was even out of bed.  Happy Friday.