Goddammit this fucking city, I am moving to Jersey.

YIKES.

Good ghod, it's 97 out here in PA

Plus major league humidity. Whereas in Utah it's 97, but with 6% humidity. Bad enough, but if I can lay motionless in a shadow it's not too horrific.

I don't think I could bear to go back to Pennsylvania in summer.

Avoid DC at all costs - it's just as bad, possibly worse. As one writer described the air quality in the summer, "it's like trying to breathe clam broth."

Huh. I can see how that wouldn't be what you might have wanted...at the same time, I wonder if he was talking about himself.

Lukewarm and transparent - like most people, Henry (is).

He has certainly said stuff like that about himself in the stuff I've heard.

One flash of this came in the first episode I watched, where he interviewed Oliver Stone. Stone came in and made some comment about feeling like a child because the overstuffed chair they sat him in was really the size of a loveseat. (Kevin Smith quite cutely just curled up in it)

Henry was totally thrown and went on to fumble some apology...'we. have. um. big. chairs. um.' And then caught himself being a total pratt. The look on his face was something like 'what a dick am I?'

From the "things could be worse" department....

At least we're not all on Mars. Mars currently has a dust storm that's thousands of miles wide. Occasionally Mars will get a dust storm that covers the entire planet.

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This was the thing when I was in Vegas -- sure, it was 106, which is hot as hell. But (a) dry heat, and (b) icy cold a/c everywhere. I was really only actively hot for minutes at a time.

Avoid DC at all costs - it's just as bad, possibly worse. As one writer described the air quality in the summer, "it's like trying to breathe clam broth."

Oy. VEY. Todd, have you been outside? I just took Bartleby out and nearly got thrown to the ground by the weight of the air.

I'm feeling like trundling down the block for a snack but I'm afraid I might need a rescue squad before I get back. Sheesh.

It's only 85-90 or so here, but we've got 72% humidity, so it's like being shoved into a crappy sauna every time you go outside.

Combining the Bitches' YouTube frenzy with the Rollins discussion, I present one my my favorite early '90s videos: 3rd Base - "Pop Goes The Weasel". Check out who plays Vanilla Ice.

Henry Rollins once bit my sister.