In a blue state (update!)

(An aside, or simply an update, I can't create links from my computer at work. It's a shoddy iMac. The links/editing feature for this site doesn't even show up. So I'll try harder to fix them on my laptop so my equally lazy readers don't have to cut and paste. I know it bothers all five of you. Carry on.)

Great column by Frank Rich in the NY Times on Sunday. But I've never heard of this red state-blue state thing? Is this new?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/14rich.html?8hpib

I loved this graph. Tom Coburn is the new "morally strong" Oklahoma senator who said that lesbianism is so rife in local schools that girls can only go to the bathroom one at a time. Where is this school and when can I join the faculty?

"But the distance between this hard-core red culture and the majority blue culture is perhaps best captured by Tom Coburn, the newly elected Republican senator from Oklahoma, lately famous for discovering "rampant" lesbianism in that state's schools. As a congressman in 1997, Mr. Coburn attacked NBC for encouraging "irresponsible sexual behavior" and taking "network TV to an all-time low with full frontal nudity, violence and profanity being shown in our homes." The broadcast that prompted his outrage on behalf of "parents and decent-minded individuals everywhere" was the network's prime-time showing of Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List." "

Another link, though to a site slightly less austere than the Times, http://www.jasminrosemberg.com, found through the magic of friendster.

Pretty good writer, though I'm guessing, just guessing, she's been slightly influenced by Sex and the City. I don't know why. Read her upcoming projects link. Very impressive to be writing a book at 24, though the subject matter just might have been covered before (missing sarcasm font here). Then again, I'm still working on that TV pilot about the sassy robot, so what do I know?

Ms. Rosemberg (I love the m taking the n's place. This is like a girl renaming herself Sharyn or Katerzyna) did a somewhat interesting diary for the NY Post about living in a shared house in the Hamptons (p.s. I lived in a basement apartment this summer. my journal is actually going straight to the cinema). I'm sure it was well-read by her core demographic of 20-something girls working in PR.

Really funny line here, basically encapsulates every Jewish girl in Chicago, and I'm guessing NYC.

"Sitting and scrutinizing the other females, Jessica and Karen were the girls wearing identical Seven jeans, Gucci purses and scowls."

I could link the excellent Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd columns from Sunday, but I'm sure you guys can do the leg work if you want to read it. That's right, I'm the laziest blogger ...

On a personal side, I broke through this Saturday with not one, but two threesomes. Yes, the first occurred around 2 a.m., when I got in a cab with two girls and one said, "three stops." The fun continued when three friends called me from New York a few minutes later, so technically, that was a four-way.

So there you go. Garden Apartment, a one-stop shop for Frank Rich, Jasmin Rosemberg and self-deprecation.