By the way

I'm probably not posting much today. Have a lot of Paris travel films to watch in preparation for the Big Trip at the end of March.

Anyway, ran into a collection of signatures gathered by "Not in Our Name" to protest the upcoming war with Iraq. One of the signatories had the first-middle name of Zoe-Iris. Occupation, musician. I'm sorry, but if you are born with that name, you have to go into the arts. It's the law or something.

I mean, it's just a waste of a cool, arty name to go into, say, banking or accounting...anything with money. I suppose Zoe-Iris would make a good name for a veterinarian, too. Maybe Egyptology. Zoe-Iris sounds a lot like Osiris, the king who watches over the nether world.