Nothing to report. The column is going strong at www.times-standard.com.

Despite my love/hate relationship with Weezer, I always like to read Rivers Cuomo's writing. His two pieces for Details in 1995 were hilarious and well-written. He has a piece in a teen girl magazine this month, either seventeen or Cosmo Girl or something, called "My Apartment," but I can't find it online. Help?

Haven't bought a CD in weeks, but Christmas is coming, which at the very least means the annual trip to Hastings in Spokane. Two weeks of vacation = relaxing, writing (I hope), reading.