Lawyers, they're the worst! I wouldn't be surprised to find one of my former employers joining the tsunami class action bandwagon. Just wondering, if you sue God for a natural disaster, must you obtain personal service, or would service by publication (in a newspaper of general circulation) do, I wonder? But seriously, did the NOAA have a duty to warn the entire world of the earthquake (assuming it could have done so)? When Germans and Austrians pay taxes to the U.S. government, perhaps they can make such demands of its agencies.
That Austrian and German plaintiffs are suing a French hotel chain in this whole mess is amusing, in a way. Maybe the families of soldiers killed in Iraq should sue the German and French governments for doing nothing to help - emotional distress, and all that.
Speaking of the tsunami, the body of the boyfriend of model Petra whatshername has been found, story here.
Why am I rambling aimlessly at 5:30 a.m.? Mr. M's bad cold woke me up at around 3:45 a.m. It will be a long day - I'll be heading to Pgh this afternoon to stay at my mother's tonight in order to take her to the hospital at 6 a.m. Wed. for a heart catheterization.
This spring's hottest fashion garment - Martha Stewart's prison poncho - was made by a convict who crochets while serving time behind bars. Stewart premiered the poncho everybody's talking about at her first public appearance in five months - her release from Alderson prison in West Virginia last week.
"This is not from a fancy store," she revealed yesterday. "It's from Alderson."
Stewart's garment was made by a fellow inmate she didn't name. The yarn, she said, came from the prison commissary.
"She crochets 12 hours a day," Stewart said of her jailhouse buddy. "It's her thing. The night before I left, she handed it to me and said, 'Wear it in good health.' I hope she is reading the news and watching TV because I'm so proud of her. This is a beautiful thing."
The poncho made headlines after its debut early Friday. And fashion experts are predicting copies will soon become a hot seller in stores. Mr. Blackwell, famed for his annual worst-dressed celebrity lists, said, "I don't think Martha intended this to be a fashion statement, but shawls and ponchos will now become very popular. It was warm and kind of her to wear that, and it showed an appreciation of friendship."
