The Wisdom of Laura and I (or Me and Me)

Excerpt from last night:

Laura: Are you drinking tonight?
Me: No, I feel like I'm getting a cold.
Laura: Oh, did you know alcohol cures colds? It also helps you lose weight.
Me: Yeah, I heard that too. It also makes you smarter and prettier and funnier and sexier and more desirable...
Laura: Yes, as long as the alcohol is in the hands of the people you're with.

Which then lead to the formulation of our L.M.L.T.Y. self-help seminar: "Love More Liquor, Treat Yourself"! The idea came from the wonderful hypothesis -- nay, scientific likelihood -- that alcohol helps you lose weight. What started as a sarcastic comment Laura made to some friends on the way to Vegas has now turned into our (soon to be) wildly popular inspirational power point presentation! The basics are these: alcohol is empty calories, but this is often misinterpreted. Empty calories must be filled, and do so by filling up with full calories already in your system. For example, if you have 100 calories from dinner and you drink 100 empty calories in alcohol, the empty calories get filled up with the full calories, giving you a total of only 100 calories, instead of 200 like you thought! Amazing! With Laura's and my blonde charm and impeccable credentials (cognitive science, marine biology majors, my glasses) we'll be charging $50 a head in no time.

Oh, and LMLTY actually originally stood for "Let Me Lie To You". But I like the Love More Liquor version. Sigh, it's so good and I'd love to do a series of spoofs like these but I'm afraid people would actually take us seriously and we'd end up getting sued for other people's stupidity when really, all we want to do is make sorority girls fat.

In the bloggingly Los-Angeles-traffic-experience update, I spent two hours yesterday driving a 16 mile round trip journey. Between 2 and 4pm on a Friday. Average 8 mph. Wow. For the sake of equality, I drove there on the freeway and back on surface streets. (At least I had lovely company for the trip!)

I'll leave you with this:
Laura: I understand why some people don't like Christmas carols but... why don't people like Christmas carols???