"The Los Angeles City Council voted ...to ban plastic carryout bags in the city's supermarkets and stores by July 2010 -- but only if the state fails to impose a 25-cent fee on every shopper who requests them."

We need to use less plastic. Plus the plastic bag advocacy group is called the "Save the Plastic Bag Coalition", which, admit it, is a silly name. I don't want any packaging manufacturers to go out of business, but I cheer on every plastic bag ban.

I didn't much hope for Hancock after it failed to make much of an impact in the summer blockbuster market so I was happily surprised to not be mournfully disappointed. You see, I have a mancrush on Will Smith. Genuinely funny and worth the time, though I have a feeling the original idea was for this movie to be much longer.

I don't necessarily want to turn this into a blog about my journey to 100 push ups, so I'm going to try to keep the updates to a minimum. I'm still convinced it's not possible in 6 weeks, for me at least. I am excited, though, by the challenge to complete 100 push ups, so I'm going to keep doing 5 sets of push ups every other day. For now, anyway. I was concerned about having to re-do a couple weeks, so even though I'm only one week in, I've completed W2D3 and W3D1. Tonight I'm going to give W3D2 a shot.
I've found that set 1 and set 2 are pretty easy, but the 60 second break just isn't long enough after sets 3 and 4.
BM wonders,"Is this really a six week program?" He's 6 weeks in and is working on completing week 3 right now. No updates on how my 28 co-workers are doing, though the folks I talk to seem to be plugging along. How's it going for everybody else?
(First Update)

Allow me this post that will interest absolutely no one outside of those who read the Boston Globe Sports Page. It looks like squeaky-voiced Tony Massarotti will join the Boston Globe. I wonder what this means for his regular appearances on WEEI.

Chuck Palahniuk wrote Choke while listening to Pablo Honey, so the director of Choke asked Radiohead to write a song for the closing credits. Radiohead liked the movie so much they decided to score the entire film. SCORE!

This column from before Manny was traded is unremarkable except for the revelation that Manny doesn't like to use toilet paper.

This Tom Brady feature is relatively unremarkable except that it refers to Bill Belichick as "that inscrutable martinet", which I thought was funny.

If you feel our conversation has been hacked, it's because of this article.

Maybe I'm feeling the outrage that people felt when companies started selling ripped jeans, and I know J Crew isn't the first company to sell new clothes that look old, but I still think a painter's destroyed oxford is ridiculous. I was going to excerpt the description below, but it's too good to cut up, contrast side-seam gussets and all. Also, monograms are available. I wonder if they did this hoping for a viral backlash that would send a torrent of angry web-traffic coursing though their store picking up socks, scarves, and belts as the case may be.

"A faded and frayed collector's item with paint splatters, a repaired pocket and cuffs-it's our vintage oxford taken to the next level. Dense two-ply cotton oxford with a shorter, hipper collar point. Aggressive stonewash with grinding for that "beat up," worn-in vintage look. Tailored fit—a slimmer, more tailored cut with a made-to-measure feel. Button-down collar. Hand-nicking at collar, placket and cuffs. Standard placket. Chest pocket. Back yoke with box pleat. Contrast side-seam gussets. Narrow cuffs. Shirttail hem. Import."

Chris Piascik has a show at Grand in Union Square, Somerville on August 22. Check it out.