Talking Points

* Sign the petition! You can also send a letter to the governor of California.

* I hesitate to take picks this week because as I was on the phone with a football-loving poet last weekend extolling the virtues of a certain QB the QB in question had his leg ripped off. I jinx, that's what I do. I moved out of Boston and they won the World Series. That said: Pats, Bears, Colts, Redskins.

* 8 is my favorite number (tattooed to my arm).

* It's a holiday weekend. Comments are >on<.