some one offs:

- end to end, this week's SNL with Al Sharpton was one of the worst ever. Pink is just horrible...like Alicia Keys horrible. even bringing back Tracy Morgan didn't help. note to Tracy and Chris (Gelman) Kattan: you can't go home again.

- Mona Lisa Smile stars a bunch of hot actresses. and also Julia Roberts.

- birthdays mostly suck.

- Ted Leo, the hardest working man in rock, is coming back to Vancouver on January 25, 2004. he was here twice last year, once with the Pharmacists, and once on his own. i got the setlists for both shows. i'm still compiling my best of 2003 list, but i don't think anything will beat Hearts of Oak.