Rolling Stone wants $15.97 to reapply for subscription. I came here intending to be thrifty, and I shall adhere to my new strategies, even if they lose me great investigative journalism like "Dirty War: Ashcroft's Crackdown on Cannabis-Loving Canadians" and reviews on the release of Jeff Buckley's fourteenth "Lost Sessions" album this year.

Stage combat class again today, which is not so bad except that it's in the middle of the day, 12-3, which seriously cuts into my time to get into the city. I must see Kill Bill. It will be mine. Oh yes.