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If perhaps you have made a resolution to be more charitable let me take this opportunity to direct you to the link "feeding people" on the right side of this page. Clicking on it will take you to The Hunger Site, which provides information on the world's hunger problem and allows you to donate food for free. You simply click on a button that takes you to a page of site sponsor links and that's it. You don't even have to check out the sponsors unless of course you see a business that interests you. You can visit once a day. And I promise it won't hijack your browser or any such dubiousness. If you have a few seconds you can also follow links from the site to similar ones for breast cancer, child health, rainforest, and animal rescue.

First confession of 2004: Someday I hope to be as stylish as Paul Weller.

Second confession of 2004: I am fucking digging the new Marc Almond album Heart on Snow.

Vegetarian stroganoff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Creepy.

Maybe Tom Jones, the singer, once had cultural significance but at this point seeing him do "Burning Down the House" makes me retch. He looks like a slough-faced bug-eyed Jim Henson creation.

Spanish champagne has knocked me cross-eyed.

I liked Moby's sweater, but "Creep"-- I don't know.

Then again, I'm ringing in the New Year with network talk shows.

Here's wishing all my friends a magical 2004. Big Big Love.