"It's sad they would put a price tag on the animals," said Kathy Riordan, a member of the Los Angeles Animal Services Commission and daughter of Schwarzenegger advisor and former Mayor Richard Riordan.

--In reference to cost cutting measures by repealing the 6 day stay on killing stray animals.

What the hell is this woman smoking? No, really...being dogs cost upwards of thousands of dollars for pure breeds, does she think pet stores are sad and cruel as well? Last time I checked, dogs and cats weren't self sufficient.

I went to a new L.A. Fitness the other night to change things up with my workout. I ended up driving to La Verne which took about 5 minutes longer then the one I go to...apparently there is also one 5 minutes in the other direction. L.A. Fitness has more franchises than Jack in the Box. When I entered, I felt like I just walked into a Bally's Gym commercial. Nothing but beautiful people; gorgeous, slim women and muscular, raging hulks wandering about doing their routines. it was a little disconcerting really; I'm used to seeing the fat housewives trying not to break a sweat that would ruin their make up and the fat old men who do 2 reps per machine. Not at this one...they could take Global Gym's slogan from Dodgeball,"We're better than you, and we know it!" I have to say, the gym was much cleaner and had some better equipment than the one I usually go to. If I can get over feeling out of place surrounded by all the models and action heroes working here, I think this one might be my regular stop. The eye candy is much nicer.

I went to an Angel game this Wednesday with Moody and Newjen; we bought a 20 game pack before the season started so we're commited to seeing a whole bunch of games this year. They were playing their arch-nemesis the A's, so it was an important game for control of their division. Due to that Son of a Newjen, the biggest jinx there ever was, the Angels preceded to lay an egg and get whupped on 7-1. If Newjen puts out another guarantee in my presence, I swear to Bob I'm gonna lay him out. We decided that we'd seen enough and since Moody was heading out on Friday on a 2 week cruise to northern Europe, we decided to go see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Well, I should say, Moody and I decided that and set about persuading Newjen to go along. He didn't want to see it as he's never read any of the books nor even seen the first two movies. Well, after he screwed the Angels with his reverse Midas touch, we figured he could suck it up. It's not like he understands half the movies he sees anyways; walking out of a theatre with him you get barraged with 20 questions...sometimes I wonder if he even actually watches these movies. Maybe he takes a nap or something. On the way out, these two older women were...for lack of a better word, leering at us. This has to be the first time I've ever been stared at like that by a woman and it was...well, actually, it felt pretty good. I don't know what women are complaining about. This is a perfect example of the differences between men and women. Either way, after we got past them, Moody was so shocked that while talking about the incident he made up a word.

"Those chicks were bold! I was staring at her to see who would blink first...and I blunk."

He blunk...blunk indeed.

We watched Harry Potter that night and I have to say I think it was misnamed. It should have been Hermoine Granger and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry is little more than a sidekick to one of this best friends in this effort to go all women's power on the audience. I like the character of Hermoine as much as anybody; she's a much more complicated and fleshed out female character than you normally get in books, but this movie took it to the extreme. if I wanna watch empowered chicks, I'll wait for Charlie's Angels 3...I better not hold my breath, though. I'm pretty sure that last one was a big bomb.