[texasbluebell]

To longtime Bay Area music critic Robert Blades, Bush's distaste for the far West ``says to me maybe we're more trouble than we're worth.''

Hey, guy, you might be onto something there.

[vikingchick]

``We are accustomed to being a bit out of sync,'' says Wiggsy Sivertsen, director of counseling services at San Jose State University and longtime lesbian activist.

Wiggsy.