MERRY CHRISTMAS.

I hope your holidays are merry and bright.

HOT AS BALLS.

OH GOD I'M DYING.

"Woman Arrested for Setting Boyfriend's Crotch on Fire"

Fire crotch. Literally.

WISH LIST.

A few more wintery items.

A lot of things from this website but I particularly like these:

by Rachel Comey.

Yakira Rona Leaf Ring. This one is real cheap.

Built By Wendy, an old stand by.

These are made by Sanchez's friends over at Aheirloom! Totally affordable and adorable and they have lots of other states to choose from.

LISTEN.

I fell in love with the ending of this song and was listening to it on loop, the way it transitions into something totally different and fades out, but now I just like the whole thing.

The High Road by Broken Bells.

GO MIZ MILLAH GO!

My stupendous friend Miz Millah of Memphis fame has reached a new height: SHE IS PUBLISHED.

AND PLAYBILL WROTE ABOUT HER.

New Book About Tony-Winning Musical Memphis Released

By Adam Hetrick
14 Dec 2010

A new 160-page book chronicling the Broadway life of the rock musicalMemphis — from the first performance to its big night as the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Musical — is now available.

Official Memphis blogger Carolyn D. Miller, an associate of the musical's producing team Junkyard Dog, has kept the blog since the hit musical arrived at the Shubert Theatre Sept. 23, 2009.

"Memphis Lives in Me: One Blogger's Journey to Broadway and Beyond" is a collection of blog entries detailing the onstage and backstage action of the musical's first year on Broadway.

The soft-cover book includes numerous backstage photos by cast member Betsy Struxness and production photos by Chris Owyoung. "Memphis Lives in Me" shares memories of the first performance and opening night, as well as the recording of the cast album, celebrity visitors and fun facts about the cast and the show.

Tony Award-winning Memphis book writer and lyricist Joe DiPietro penned the intro to the tome that is edited by Sarah Nashman.

"Memphis Lives in Me: One Blogger's Journey to Broadway and Beyond" is currently available for purchase by clicking here. A representative for the musical told Playbill.com Miller is hoping a publisher will take on the book for wider distribution.

Bon Jovi songwriter and band member David Bryan and DiPietro penned the score to the musical, which is flavored with gospel, R&B, rock and soul sounds.

The rock musical about an interracial love affair in the 1950s segregated South stars Tony Award nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover.Memphis opened on Broadway Oct. 19, 2009, at the Shubert Theatre under the direction of Christopher Ashley.

Visit MemphistheMusical.

GO BUY HER BLOG BOOK NOW!!!!!!

I AM SO PROUD OF YOU MILLER.

I HAVE TO GET HOME TO NURSE JOSHIE BECAUSE I'M JUST BUSTIN A LA GUFFMAN.

IF I WERE HOOTIE I SO WOULD HAVE HELD YOUR HAND IN THAT ELEVATOR.

FREEZING. LIZA. ALAN. GENIUS.

I am freezing my jingle balls off today, but this song featuring my girl Liza and my homie Alan Cumming is warming my soul with its total and utter insanity. You should also buy the CD because it's for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS.

"IT'S SHO COLD."

My favorite is when she says, "What's in this drink" because it makes me feel like she is really asking me that question as we sit in her living room, downing cocktails and reminiscing about the old days when we would run around with David Gest and MJ and do fan kicks with Judy and Kay. What I wouldn't give to drink with her.

WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE.

FOR A DRINK.

WITH THIS.

IT COMES IN BLACK aka I AM EXPLODING.

I'm dying.

Please, for the love of Liza, let this dress go on sale. I have already nabbed these for over half off and the fact that this comes in black is KILLING ME.

YOU'RE KILLIN' ME, SMALLS.

EPIC FAIL: SAN FRANCISCO DE YOUNG.

You can't draw in a museum!?!?!??!

I still remember going to exhibits as a kid with my mom and sister, sketching the pieces that I liked, and how much I loved being able to do that.

Way to curb creativity in the very place where it is supposed to be celebrated and discussed.

Fail, De Young. Fail hard.

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR.

And download this live recording of The Tallest Man on Earth performing in D.C. and listen to the entire thing.

The whole thing.

All of it.

It is so good, so perfect for wintery days, and so something I wish I could have seen live.

A little guy and his guitar keeping people captivated for over an hour. Not an easy thing to do, but man does he do it...I'm in love.

GET YOURSELF TO THE MARKET.

Narrated by Bill Cunningham of the New York Times, this video just makes me smile. I LOVE his voice, both literally and figuratively.

And the fact that I just got back from the Farmer's Market makes it that much sweeter.

FORECAST: FROZEN MUSIC.

The temperature right now is 31 degrees with a chance of flurries.

I'm about to go play a gig outside.

I am praying that the singing will prevent my mouth from freezing shut.

I LIVE UNTIL THE CALL.

WHO WANTS A ONE WAY TICKET TO A HOT FIERY DEATH.

The Final Frontier: A Mars Mission With No Return

by NPR STAFF

As the nation attempts to go on a debt diet, the cost of federally funded space missions, like the long-awaited manned mission to Mars, is being questioned. But two scientists are recommending a different approach that could change space exploration forever: leaving the astronauts there.

In their article from the Journal of Cosmology, scientists Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University and Paul Davies of Arizona State University propose making the mission to Mars a one-way trip.

"The purpose of doing this is to save money, to put it bluntly," Davies tells NPR's Audie Cornish.

"I think we've all had this dream of going to Mars — it has been something that has, for decades, been proposed — but it's one of these on-again-off-again projects because it is so phenomenally expensive. But by making the trip one way, you cut the cost dramatically, not just 50 percent, probably about as much as 80 percent. Then it becomes feasible."

Not A Suicide Mission

Davies envisions the astronaut who will travel to Mars to be in his or her 60s, with enough life experience and training to willingly take the journey into space. They would live off of a power source of some kind, ideally a nuclear reactor, and take enough medical and food supplies to sustain themselves through the rest of their life.

Ross D. Franklin/AP

Paul Davies, of Arizona State University, is one of two scientists who are proposing we send volunteers to Mars and leave them there.

Davies stresses that the journey would not be a suicide mission — more like the opportunity of a lifetime. "If you send a scientist to Mars, it's like a kid in a candy store," he says. His mailbox is already overflowing with volunteers ready for their final frontier.

"Really, this isn't a joy ride," says Davies. "You have to understand that the motivation for doing this is to not only open up a human presence on another planet, but to provide the opportunity to do some fantastic, groundbreaking science."

The U.S. Can Lead The Way

Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was the second person to step on the moon on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, agrees with Davies, to a certain degree. Aldrin is not one of the many volunteers lining up for the one-way mission to Mars, but he feels that the trip is inevitable — and it's important for the U.S. to pave the way.

"If we slow down now," Aldrin tells Cornish, "we will lose the opportunity for leadership in an international lunar development corporation."

Earlier this year, President Obama addressed a roomful of astronauts and scientists at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He spoke to them about the future of space exploration in the 21st century and affirmed his belief that NASA will be able to send astronauts to Mars and back by the mid-2030s.

But if scientists like Davies have their way, we may actually be living on the red planet by then.

"If Mars is worth going to," Davies says, "it's worth staying on."

IT'S SNOWING OUT.

I don't want to go to the gym or work.

I'd rather stay home and drink some champers by my holiday yule log.*

*By Yule Log I mean the one Sanchez put on my computer. It is incredible. You can practically feel the heat.

GREY'S EPISODE DESCRIPTION.

"Mark, Teddy, Callie and Arizona help Sloan deliver her baby; the doctors treat a crab boat captain who was stabbed with a giant shark hook."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Oh the absurdity.

I MISS MCDREAMY.

I loved him back when he was Ronald Miller.

Can't Buy Me Love is just an all time classic, and I have always wanted him to come and pick me up with his lawn mower.

That would just make my life.

*Note to self: get a lawn so I can be picked up by said lawn mower.

And then I went to college in Maine, where he grew up, and saw an advertisement for the pilot of a little show called Grey's Anatomy that was just getting started. The very first episode was going to air and he did a little interview with the local Lewiston, ME news and I watched it. Obviously.

LOOK AT THAT HOT MAN HOTNESS.

I distinctly remember watching the pilot and falling madly in love with Mister Dempsey all over again. The first few seasons of that show were SO GOOD. I never missed an episode and when I was living in San Francisco I would to go over to my aunt's house every week so we could watch it together.

And then, the show got kinda...not so dreamy. Even though I was a die hard fan, I stopped watching it.

I don't know what triggered it, but today I had a longing for McDreamy and his hospital antics. I want to watch him bein' all in charge of lives, messin' with hearts, yearning for a baby with Meredith (did they end up getting married?!), and I want to see him walk out of that trailer door by the lake all scruffy with bed head wearing a flannel, holding a cup of coffee.

Sweet holidayz I'm almost as hot as I was yesterday at the gym.

I think I'm going to Netflix Grey's and get back in the game. I'm really hoping it doesn't disappoint.

WINTER WORKOUTS.

Yesterday the weather here in NYC blew. It was rainy, windy, and I had a major case of "don't wanna leave my apartment" in the morning. I did not make it to the gym. Go figure.

Which brings me to today's topic: Exercise facilities during the frigid months of the year. Today I finally realized that winter had arrived when I got to the gym and it was so hot in there that I wanted to barf. I know that many buildings suffer from this disorder during the winter, but a gym is the worst possible place to have heat issues.

1. You're working out and already generating enough heat as it is.

2. Extra heat makes the already "Sweatiest Man Alive on the Treadmill Next to You" sweat even MORE (which I previously did not think humanly possible).

3. When you get out of the shower post workout and get dressed, you start sweating all over again because the heat is, literally, on. There is no "cool down" after your work out. The only thing going "down" is the sweat travelling from my back towards my ass and there is nothing "cool" about it.

4. When you walk out the door after said experience, you are greeted with a blast of whapass chill that feels a million times worse than it really is because you've been stuck in a glass box of tropical torture.

So, I beg of you gym, turn the heat DOWN. Save some energy, save some lives, keep me hydrated, and for the love of Liza, do it for the Sweaty Guy. I don't think he will survive much longer.