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Miss South Carolina: The Musical

I felt, and still do feel, the media was far too mean to poor Miss South Carolina who spouted gibberish when asked about the lacking geography skills of American students.

That said, the Pace University Freshman Cabaret managed to find a new angle on the debacle as student Danicah Waldo (remember that name; you heard it here first) performs Miss SC's answer, set to music by Jason Wetzel, in "Miss South Carolina: The Musical" and wonderfully captures the poor girl's deer-in-the-headlights thought process:

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The "West Wing" parallels are getting downright spooky

So in the last season of "West Wing," while the Democratic party was splintered in a divisive struggle between two contenders--one of them a long-time DC operator and the other an idealistic minority candidates--while the already decided white-haired GOP candidate, unpopular within his own party because of some of his policies waited patiently...

The President serving the second term of his presidency was busy organizing a wedding for his daughter.

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Ariel went to Arizona for an Avril Lavigne concert...

...and all she got was a lousy t-shirt.

Well, not lousy; it is a perfectly serviceable shirt with a perfectly serviceable picture of Avril Lavigne on it. But it is not by any stretch a concert, and that is because there was none. The concert was canceled due to laryngitis. So although she wound up spending a perfectly decent weekend with her mother, she still shlepped two thousand miles for a non-event. And since she thought she was going to see Lavigne in Arizona, we made no effort to see her locally.

So Avril Lavigne, if you happen to be reading this, try and swing by Long Island next time, okay?

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The Iron Man Premiere

Since I knew I was going to be in LA during the week that Iron Man opened, I checked with my contacts at Marvel West to see if I could go to a screening. They came through.

What I didn't realize was that this wasn't simply an employee screening, as we have in New York. This was the formal premiere. We're talking red carpet, banks of reporters, and a reception for cast and crew.

In LA with a few days to kill

I'm out on the left coast working on trying to get an animated series up and running. These things are always long shots, so it's far too early for me to go into any sort of detail. But you never get anywhere if you don't at least try. So some producing partners and I are making the rounds of Nickelodeon, Disney, Cartoon Network and others and we'll see if something comes of it.

Tonight I'm going to the premiere of "Iron Man." So if you see some guy who looks like me walking in the background past Robert Downey Jr. on E! or something, there's a possibility that it is, in fact, me. Or it could be Dick Cheney...

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While Peter is Out of Town

I figure we could do another round of Ask the Wife to pass the time.

Please do understand that if I say I can't answer a question or make a comment on something, it has not much to do with your question and probably more with agreements that we have signed with various companies and groups.

Don't ask me where Peter is or what he is doing right now. Just think good thoughts for our leader.