  Did I mention that after meeting urlLink Dennis DeYoung last night, I thought he was pretty cool? I found him to be rather down-to-earth and not at all the kind of guy you would expect to be calling a has-been. This morning, he was the talk of the coffee shop where I was doing my reading. And the funny part was that of the almost dozen comments I overhead from talking about the TV show last night, I would estimate that about three-quarters had to do with how he seemed so down-to-earth.
So, I guess you could call it the effective projection of personality. I'm ready to be back home, to be out of the suburban-hell I've been living in for the past few days. I spend close to a month here every year doing TV work, and as much as I like it, I can't stand all the driving around. Driving to get to a decent (read non-suburban ) coffee shop, driving to the gym, driving wherever I want to go. I do enough driving at home, but I have this theory that driving in the suburbs is worse than in cities.
The traffic is higher as people try to get to the malls, etc. I don't know... it seems worse. Or maybe it's my bias against the suburbs that's expressing itself. Oh, and let's hear it for my alma mater, Iowa State... which made hash out of Iowa today in urlLink wrestling . The 'clones are now 7-0 for the season but the win against rival Iowa was particularly sweet! Our first win over Iowa since 1987. 
