Dear Brett,

You are such a good writer, that I found myself going backwards in your time machine for months, unable to remove myself from your life, It's very strange to move backwards from a happy beginning (hi, Flo!) and winning the 2006 elections to vacations in Hollywood and so on.

I am here to praise you and thank you, and to just send up a toast to you and Ms. Flo: you are NOT a lucky fellow. You are BLESSED. Luck can come to any simpleton, but only people of good heart can be blessed. Blessings are attracted out of goodness, and they ain't no two ways about it, in my book.

That monkey in the White House? The pResident of the Very Very White House? He's lucky. He scored something he doesn't deserve (but his reputation will, of course, show him as the worst pResident to date), but he's not blessed. He is cursed. He's a fool and a whole string of very bad words. He and Barry Bonds and OJ Simpson are all liars who deserve only that place in history.

But enough about that.

YOU AND FLO: I am happy for you, because your joy clearly shows, both of you. She's like the Lily Taylor of groovy gals in the blogosphere. I like her words, AND she thinks you are handsome.

I'm with the Tony Curtis "eh" thing. He's a nice piece of steak, but they ain't no there, there.

Best of everything, you two!

brett and flo flo and bretty? she does look like lily taylor, except sweeter; flo's mom when young looked like kim darby or sean young