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Did I not ask you people if anything major happened while I was in Italy? Did I not?

All of you failed to tell me that Jenna Fischer (of 'The Office') is back on the market. After all I do for you people -- providing mostly pointless news and personal tidbits... And no one can tell me that my TV crush is single? What a slap in the face. I'd really be angry if it wasn't for this being such good news and Jenna's radiant beauty.

Like Picasso had his blue phase, I'm in my blonde phase right now, but Jenna, I'll make an exception for you. You know how to contact me on MySpace.

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This year's Crazy Man of '07 award goes to Danny!

As many of you know, Danny is the drummer in Seattle's best hard rock band, focuspoint, and my former roommate. He also is just plain crazy.

To the left is a self-portrait by Danny, taken during his nearly 3,000-mile roundtrip to Arizona and back on his motorcycle. Even crazier: Danny rode the whole trip alone. Not only is this wild, it's stupid and unsafe, which makes Danny crazy.

Here's his route:

And he made the trip to hang out with crazy goons like these:

Congrats on the award, Danny. You're crazy.

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A couple recent blog posts worth reading...

Over at "Bend There Done That," a note about how meeting the family of a crush. The author writes that after meeting her crush's father she fell for him, too: "Not in the 'I want to date you' way, but in the 'I want to be part of your family' way. Because I know where he came from, the son has moved up a crush level," she says.

And from one of my colleagues, "Mr. Cleantech," a blog post about poop and the need for water-free, compostable toilets. No shit.