Random Notes:

An oil tanker that's sinking off the Northwest Coast of Spain is threatening to cause about twice the damage of the Exxon Valdez.

The duo of Liza Minelli and David Gest freak me out more than Michael Jackson. These are all odd folks in their own right, but I think with Gest and Minelli working together, it pushes them atop the others.

I've come up with a story for a short story contest due in early December, and this is the first sentence: "The last song I ever heard alive was Sister Sledge "We are family." Quite a few possibilities with that one, and it seems a little more interesting than the other idea I had, a war between a small kid and a Canadian Goose.