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Thursday, July 19, 2001

This is one of the more bizarre things I've seen lately. Mr Nice Likes to Dance. (Link via Amers.)
posted by John Heaton 11:50 PM | link

I tried this online Personality Disorder Test tonight ... here are my results:

Disorder: Rating

Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: Low
Avoidant: Moderate
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Low

So there you go. I'm surprised I didn't rank higher in avoidant behavior.
posted by John Heaton 12:20 AM | link

Tuesday, July 17, 2001

It may be big news in New York, but it would be hard to understate the degree to which the Lizzie Grubman story is a non-story virtually everywhere else. It's certainly isn't making the headlines or gossip columns here in DC. But I ran across an AP slug about a lawsuit that has just been filed against her, and on a whim I plugged Lizzie Grubman's name into Google this afternoon and found her PR firm's web page. Browsing around, I found an article about her and her publicist friends reprinted (without permission, so it would seem) from New York magazine. It's really quite appalling. I wouldn't want to have anything to do with Grubman or any of her friends.
posted by John Heaton 7:01 PM | link

Condit's team: Chandra was no angel. So my question is, when the final chapter on the Chandra Levy case is written, will this be singled out as the dumbest thing done or said by anyone on the Condit team, or will someone stoop to the occasion and say something stupider? I wouldn't think so, but I've been consistently surprised so far, so I can't rule it out.
posted by John Heaton 6:52 PM | link

I mentioned the other day that I thought it was possible (but unlikely) that Chandra Levy had staged her own disappearance. Richard Roeper says the same thing in his column today, and provides a precedent that I had comepletely forgotten about: the mysterious disappearance of Scott and Carolyn Swanson in 1988. They were missing for four months, but eventually turned up alive in California. This was such an incredibly huge story in 1988, especially in Chicago, where I lived at the time, that I'm a little surprised I forgot it so thoroughly. And that Roeper is the first person (the first I've seen, at any rate) to link the two cases.
posted by John Heaton 6:39 PM | link

Monday, July 16, 2001

This was a cute idea. I like to do stuff like that -- write a message in the middle of a pad of Post-It Notes and wait for the person to find it. It's a joke with a really delayed punchline. I like jokes like that. Back in February, I left a note on my friend Ginni's calendar that read, "John's birthday -- buy him a present." I didn't, in fact, get a present, but I did get a nice chuckle when she told me about her reaction to finding it.
posted by John Heaton 6:09 PM | link

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