Dear Powers That Be:

Please provide "Clear" for Washington, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Houston, and make my travel more pleasant for only $28 $100/year.

Thank you kindly,

Teddy Frank
Age 6

Slim adjusts my tie for the second time that day. Three hours later, we're watching Justice Alito from Table 42.

Me: "Hey, Alito's tie is crooked."
Slim: "When you're a Supreme Court justice, I'll let you have a crooked tie."

Separately, Justice Scalia praising his wife: "She raised nine kids, with very little help from me, and there's not a dullard in the bunch."

Different semi-serious conversation, while we're waiting for Brian to figure out how to put on a tux:
Slim: "I haven't had a time to read [a particular book we'd been discussing]."
Me: "Yes you have, you're always reading that other book."
Slim: "What other book?"
Me: "I don't know, that other book with the dragons or whatever."
Slim: "What is it with you and dragons? I'm not reading anything with dragons. You don't even know what books I'm reading."
Me: "They all blend together into one grey Clan-of-the-Cave-Bear mess with a dragon on the cover."
Slim: "First of all, Clan of the Cave Bear wouldn't have a dragon on the cover, it would have a bear cave-man. Second, my books are better than those 'Oh, I'm a bitter young Jewish man coming to terms with society' books you read, Philip Roth. 'Oh, the blond girl won't sleep with me.'"

"I'm warning you, if your ex-wife burns this place to the ground, I'm out of here."

A lot of bad election news tonight (and, even though I drove her to the polls, Slim cancelled out my vote against Amendment 3), but one bright sign is that Justice of the Peace Dan Greenberg, running unopposed, will likely win his State Representative race. My neighborhood is much more blue than I realized.