Thursday Update: New Book (TGO 6) / IM Meetings / Lunches and TGO Radio / Columns / "The Boondocks", et cetera

I have narrowed next book (which I'm calling "TGO 6" until everything comes into focus) ideas down to a solid four. Sometime this Saturday, Jennifer and I will have an instant message chat about the new project ... the frontrunner would take, by my estimation, about two years to complete (researching and writing), and I have great doubts whether I can dedicate myself to such a task. Though I can make no promises, word may come as early as next week.

Jeff (former co-host with me on the legendarily ill-fated TGO Radio show) and I are having lunch Friday ... I haven't spoken to him for months, for personal reasons I chalk up to his disrespecting me. I plan on breaching the subject of TGO Radio ... if writing work gets as serious and extensive as I think it might, TGO Radio would be a great distraction, but I'm not going to press the point.

For those of you unfamiliar with TGO Radio (that's all of you), I'll be spending some of this weekend working on a greatest hits package, which will be posted somewhere soon. Yes, it will include the Pat O'Brien sex call tape. Further updates as they warrant.

Have to get to work on tomorrow's column, scheduled to be about the Oregon suicide law / Supreme Court decision. Here's a quick update to keep your levels even.

Saturday, 21 January at 11pm Eastern is your next chance to see "Return of the King," the ninth episode in The Boondocks cartoon series. The premise: Martin Luther King, having been shot in Memphis, lives but slips into a coma, from which he awakens in October 2000. The episode follows his life through the following few years, including his becoming a social pariah after 9/11 and his finally slamming the popular black culture when he can't take it anymore. This is an utterly brilliant 22 minutes of television, one of my favorite episodes of any television show I've seen in the last year. Watch - 11pm on Adult Swim, the late night function of cartoon Network.

eBay bargain of the week: Bid on this man's "Slut bag ex-girlfriend." Genius.

"A nude tourist was arrested at the international airport in Cancun, Mexico as she tried to raise funds for her return airline ticket by stripping in the terminal and asking for money from other tourists." And why not?

Another reason to dislike France: "Concern that French children's attitude to sex is being warped by early exposure to hardcore pornography was exacerbated yesterday when eight adolescent boys were placed under formal judicial investigation for the gang rape of a 15-year-old classmate.

"Details of the alleged crime, in a relatively upmarket district of France's second city, Lyons, emerged the day after the publication of a survey estimating that nearly half of France's children had seen an adults-only sex film by the time they were 11."

Ever think of exacting revenge against someone by sticking a nasty bumper sticker on their car? I don't ... I just keep a list of people I plan on torturing via the telephone, and their numbers. But if you'd like to go the bumper stucker route, may I suggest Sticker Revenge?