I secretly want to visit the Los Angeles area and walk around until Jay Leno asks me something like, "Who's on the Supreme Court?" Then I'll tell him, "Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Ginsburg, Kennedy, Souter, Stevens, Scalia… and, uh… the ninth Justice, which I believe is the 'Mystery Justice.' " (I can never remember Breyer. I always have to look him up.)

Anyway, Leno will probably follow-up with several other questions with far more obvious answers in the hope that I'll say something like, "Uh, I think the capital of Texas is Sweden." Pfft. No way, man. You'll never catch me on Jaywalking. If he asks a question I can't answer I'll start to hump his leg or something.

Whenever I think of the Supreme Court, I always think of the Eagles. Justice David Souter always reminds me of J. D. Souther. On the VHS release of the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over concert, Don Henley mentions something about "co-written by our good friend J. D. Souther." That line drew a smattering of polite applause. Maybe two or three people in that packed amphitheater knew who J. D. Souther is and found him worthy of applause.

Before the Eagles become light hits superstars, Souther was like the sixth member of the band. He co-write a bunch of their songs, worked as a session player on some of their studio tracks and even played a few lives shows with the band. (I can't find any references, but I swear I read something like this years ago in the liner notes for Desperado.)

How much does that suck? The guy was a whisker's breadth away from being an icon. Now hardly anyone remembers him.

For a while I've been thinking about adding some kind of linkblog setup here. I've seen a few people who use something like "asides" or "mini-blogs" or whatnot. Some designs I liked, some I didn't. Well, I finally got around to setting up my own, which you can see on the front page.

The thing I like most about it right now is that it doesn't require any plugins, just a few template tweaks. I'm not sure I'm satisfied with the look right now, so I'll probably change it around a few times before I'm happy with it. One thing that's a little weird is that there's a bit of an optical illusion kind of thing happening. The color of the linkblog "bubbles" is the same as the color of the sidebar boxes, but the colors around both of them make them seem noticeably different. That one color seems much lighter in the sidebar than in the main column. Or maybe that's just me.