I break bones and laugh.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pop star Britney Spears was taken to hospital for tests to see if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and for a psychological evaluation after police were called to her home Thursday night to mediate a custody dispute, a police spokesman said.

If you haven't heard, there's been pretty interesting developments in the West Memphis Three case recently. As the Guardian reported last month:

"Defense lawyers have tested two hairs found at the scene. One was found entangled in one of the ligatures tying up one of the boys. It has been matched with DNA samples from Terry Hobbs, a stepfather of one of the victims. Another hair, found on a tree stump, has been linked by DNA sampling to David Jacoby, a friend of Hobbs who was with him on the day of the murder and provided him with an alibi. No DNA evidence of any kind has been found at the scene to match any of the West Memphis Three."

By the way, if you're thinking "stepfather" and WM3, your first thought is probably of the guy who was featured so heavily in the Paradise Lost docs but this isn't him*. This is one of the other parents.

Damian Echols, one of the WM3, who has been on death row for 13 years, gave an interview to Larry King a couple of weeks ago. Here is part 1.



*And in fact, he states in the Larry King clips that he believes Terry Hobbs to be the true perpetrator.

I have Oolong's tank sitting on my desk so he can see me and he won't get bored so easily. I glanced over at the tank a while ago and he was nowhere to be found. I figured he was just hanging out behind the filter, since he likes to hide back there and chill. A little bit after that, I looked over and he still wasn't around. "Ooh ooh, where are you?" I wondered. [Approximately five seconds after he was named, he became Ooh Ooh or Oolie almost exclusively.] I checked all the places: behind the filter, behind the plants, in the back, floating at the top (oh please no, oh please no). I couldn't find him anywhere. So I took the top of the tank off to look.

( Where in the world is Oolie? )

Let it begin.

A. Tina Fey is a sorceress! Back when this sketch aired, everyone was like, "Oh-ho-ho, what a charming farce!" And now? :-/



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And because I'm sleepy and still feeling memey, 10 random facts about me.

1. Salome can get Blackjack with just one card.
2. When you play Monopoly with Salome, you do not pass go, and you do not collect two hundred dollars. You will be lucky if you make it out alive.
3. There are four legal methods of execution in the United States: lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair and Salome.
4. Salome can hit you so hard that she can actually alter your DNA. Decades from now your descendants will occasionally clutch their heads and yell "What the hell was that?"
5. Salome can speak braille.
6. Salome uses Tabasco sauce instead of Visine.
7. Salome starts everyday with a protein shake made from Carnation Instant Breakfast, one dozen eggs, pure Colombian cocaine, and rattlesnake venom. She injects it directly into her neck with a syringe.
8. When Salome does division, there are no remainders.
9. Most boots are made for walkin'. Salome's boots ain't that merciful.
10. If you spell Salome wrong on Google it doesn't say, "Did you mean Salome?" It simply replies, "Run while you still have the chance."

Now you know.

This is what scared me away from coke. I have a heart murmur too, yo.

Better move it on home...

So to clarify more about my last entry, I had nothing to do with that. I was thinking that I'd probably be in my forties before I'd pay off my student loans. And hey, I still have the loans for the studying I'm doing now so maybe I will! But anyway, my dad started bugging me to let him into my loan account. At first he said it was because they just couldn't believe that my loans were that much but I was like, "It's a private school--more expensive" and that seemed to be the end of it. Then last month, he started saying that I should give him my log-in because "it might be beneficial for" me. Honestly, I figured that if anything, he might spot me a cool $100, based on past history. And it's not that I wouldn't appreciate any gift he gave me; I'm just saying this as a statement of fact. My dad is very much into practical matters--my big gift from him last Christmas was a new set of tires, for example. For another, when my sister turned 16, he gave her a bucket. And a full set of car-washing supplies but still--I enjoy telling her, "You got a bucket."

[That actually isn't too bad, though, because my sister's the type of person who can usually think of only one thing she wants. Starting when she was three and asked for a "maganet" all the way up to like, two years ago, when all she wanted was a full-length freestanding mirror. It's charming but she impossible to shop for.]

Speaking of my sister, she doesn't think it's my dad that paid off the loans because "he just made me pay $200 for my insurance." Hi, have you met Daddy? That's what he does! But I don't see who else it could be, because it's not like I gave out my log-in info for that site willynilly. Although maybe I should have, if people are going to be so generous.

And on that subject, I'm not sure exactly how to thank my dad. A card doesn't seem enough. Neither does a thumbs up and a "Nice work, sport!" I called him Thursday finally and I was going to say something then but I forgot he was in Colorado. And he was shopping and the line was fuzzy so...I still haven't said anything.

Let's see, what else is up? Well, I had midterms this week. That's kind of misleading, though. I had only one actual midterm exam, which was in French. I'm not sure yet how I did but it wasn't too painful. And it gave us the excuse of having study group, which was super fun. It must have been because we sat at Books a Million for four freakin' hours. Hey, they have magazines! And pumpkin spice lattes!

Saw The Heartbreak Kid last week. Eeeee. It could've been a lot better, I think. That is me, Empress Obvious. And I thought maybe I'd misread the movie until I asked my companion, "Wait--he [Stiller's character] was a douche, yes?" and he agreed with me.

We had dinner at a restaurant whose menu amused me--it features the famous drink, the Sherry Temple. And birthday cake is listed in the desserts at "market price." Really?

Besides that, I've mostly been working on perfume stuff and planning for travel. I finally decided on a Halloween costume but I'm not going to say what it is yet--you'll just have to see the pictures. But while we're on the subject, I'd like to praise Leather Delight [may be NSFW], the site where I got my costume. Somehow, my payment went through but my order didn't, and the owner herself e-mailed me to let me know, which was awesome. I'm kind of sad that I probably won't get to carve a pumpkin (because I'll be in NY on Halloween) but I'm excited about my trip. I have a few people that I'm planning to see while I'm there but overall, I'm looking forward to spending the weekend in a city that is not mine. Even if I'll miss the one appearance of the Young Wild Things tour here, boohoo.