Hmmm...

Speaking of celeb sightings, I happen to live in a celeb-heavy neighborhood and probably pay $300 more per month than I should because of it/have zero closet space/a mini-fridge, but I like it that way. Because celebs make the world go round, don't they? They make life worth living. If anything, they certainly make NYC a more tolerable place to live, and this is coming from a person who wouldn't live anywhere else besides NYC unless that place was LA January through April. I don't usually write about my celeb spottings, because they are plentiful (evil cackle), but I think I'm going to start because they are also kind of amusing and eye-opening. You know all of those photos of Hugh Jackman tooting around on his razor scooter? Yeah? Well he and his daughter almost ran me over the other morning on Bleecker Street whilst I was just trying to walk my dog. Solid sighting, if I do say so myself. But the best is the followup. A few days later I'm stopped at the same corner next to his "wife" and daughter (no Hugh as far as the naked eye could see) and the wife is chatting along with the daughter in her native thick Australian accent. "We're going to Hugh's house because he has a backyard," she says, nonchalantly, and the daugher kind of nods her head, tantalized as she should be by the backyard. And then I'm thinking, "Wait. Hugh's house? Don't they live together? Minor detail, but why do they call him Hugh?" And I'll just leave you with those thoughts because they are provoking, aren't they?