Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Why? Because it’s lovely.

Tom (aka Roninvision) arranged a really cool outing for the Raleigh Social Group on Flickr. We headed to Durham to the Starlite Drive-In. It closed recently after its long-time owner passed away. The family wanted to have as many pictures as possible, and so we stepped in to help! A lot of really great images have appeared in the last two days. Take a look at all the photos my photographer friends and I have uploaded so far.

The Last Drive-In by Roninvision

My friend Shannon got this e-mail from her gym on Friday:

Hello,

Please excuse this interruption of your day, this is your Aquatics Department Head at Lifetime Fitness giving you a friendly hello and wishing you a great day!

We have another piece to the puzzle concerning the frequent pool closures and are trying to share it with as many of our members as possible. The “bubblers” at the shallow end of the pool, those fountains of fun shooting up from the floor are great fun and entertainment for the young ones but we have noticed that the last two closures have been the result of older children not controlling their bowel movements and so believe that the “bubblers” also act as an enema. When children plant their bottoms on or above the jets they are at risk of losing control of their BMs.

I have been trying to inform parents with children frolicking in the “bubblers”. Once again they are a lot of fun, to play in, run through, run hands through and what not but children should not plant themselves over the jets.

I hope that this helps! See you on the pool deck!

: ‘ )

Andy Carvin, a fellow Boston blogger gone south, is now working at NPR. Yesterday, he got a chance to meet Michael Moore and has posted video of his NPR interview. I think my Indie Film Meetup friends will be particularly happy to see this.

After his recent controversial appearance on CNN, it was nice to see him in a place that felt safe to him. I’m glad Andy left the bit in at the very where they are talking about Cat Stevens/Harold and Maude. It’s nice to see him interacting more informally.

You can read more about Michael Moore at NPR on Andy’s blog.

My best friend in high school was Lesley. She didn’t move to Atlanta until just before our senior year started. We met because she lived near me, and she ended up riding to school with me in the mornings.

Since I have to study, no time for lots of old stories, so I will make a long story short. Lesley grew up, moved to L.A., and married Demi Moore’s brother, Morgan. I was the only friend of hers who came to the very small wedding. Morgan didn’t make the best impression on me. The first thing he said to me was, “Oh, you’re the one married to that English guy, right?” “Yeah, that’s me.” His response? “I thought all English guys were fags.” Lovely. The main things I noticed about him were that he was very good looking, very obnoxious, and he had a lot of paintball and gun magazines sitting around their condo at this resort where the wedding was being held. He did seem to really love Lesley, so I was happy about that. Well, that was many years ago. Since then, Lesley gave birth to twins. I haven’t seen her in forever, but we stay in touch some. Recently, I got an email from her saying that she knew I loved gossip, so I should get the Star Magazine with Jennifer Aniston on the cover. That one wasn’t in my local CVS, so I got her to give me the scoop. She sent me here:

The thought of Lesley uttering the sentence “Keep Your Hands Off My Babies!” cracks me up!

The one really good part about all of this is that it is likely that Lesley will be moving back to Atlanta in the near future, so I should be able to see her more often.

Demi Moore may have a lot of money and power, but I swear, Lesley is the spunkiest and about the most clever person I know. I think she’ll pull through just fine. Still, pisses me off that she’s been disrespected like this.

I’d post a picture of us, but I’d have to scan it, and that’s not studying!