rubinville

Yes, I'm alive and well. Just needed a couple days. Thanks for all the e-mails making sure I was okay.

Actually, I only got one e-mail, and it asked quite simply, "Are you dead?" If writing this isn't proof of life, I don't know what is.

One thing that's nice to see is that comedy goes on even when I am off. Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Kazakh reporter Borat has been doing some amazing things lately. He has been parading around Washington trying to invite President Bush to the premiere of his upcoming movie. This of course resulted in the Secret Service having him removed from the gates of the White House. Those Secret Service guys just have no sense of humor. That's in stark contast to war-monger Donald Rumseld, who I'm told is quite hilarious.

Even better than that event, the Kazakh government actually is working on a PR campaign to show people that their country isn't filled with all the cartoonish stereotypes that Borat projects. Basically, it's a comedian versus a country, and only one side is getting the joke. Good stuff.

I think that's all I got for now. This wasn't much of a post, and if anything it just promoted someone else's comedy, but I'm nothing if not a giver. Give, give, give, give, give...