I couldn't remember ordering anything. I clicked on the link to see what was heading my way.

The email address was mine, as was the name. But the address to which the package was being sent was the same as the woman whose co-op board memo and tax documents I had received. I thought about forwarding the email to debschwart1, but I felt it might ask more questions than it answered. After all, the package was going to the correct address.

I haven't heard from anyone else looking for debschwartz1 lately. But Brian forwarded me an entertaining email exchange the other day. It went as follows:

From: concert
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: **Tickets for puchase to Billy Joel @ Shea!**
Congratulations!

This is to confirm that you can purchase 2 tickets @ $111.00 each (total $222.00) for Wednesday, July 16, 2008 for Billy Joel - The Last Play at Shea, From the Beatles to Billy concert.

Please complete the attached spreadsheet with your credit card information and return to concert@[REDACTED] or fax to [REDACTED] by 3:00 pm, Thursday, July 12. We will let you know where to pick up your tickets

If you are no longer interested in these tickets, please let us know as soon as possible.

Please call [REDACTED] should you have any questions.

Thank you!

From: Brian Geller
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:24 PM
To: concert
Subject: RE: **Tickets for puchase to Billy Joel @ Shea!**

I never signed up for these tickets. Am not interested.

From: concert
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:28 PM
To: Brian Geller
Subject: RE: **Tickets for puchase to Billy Joel @ Shea!**

Sorry- was sent to wrong geller

From: Brian Geller
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:30 PM
To: Deborah Schwartz
Subject: FW: **Tickets for puchase to Billy Joel @ Shea!**

This is probably the strongest I've ever come out against Billy Joel...

The report that Brian was working on came out. His name is announced at the very end of this press conference and his name is listed on the report. I thought that was nice. Though not, in my opinion, worth the very long hours he stays at work.

Lastly, JM, of Heck's Kitchen fame conducts a heart-warming interview with the father of the lesbaby.

Or, at least, it was a number of days ago when I had initially intended to blog.

I'm kind of obsessed with Photoshop. I like retouching my face so my zits disappear and I no longer have evil-demon eyes. I enjoy Photoshopping friend's faces onto other people's bodies. But what I really love is spotting the Photoshopping in big, glossy ads.

My new glossy-ad obsession is the poster for the movie Hellboy II I know almost nothing about this movie, save it stars Ron Perlman as a big red man with one stumpy-looking arm, and that it was based on a comic book. And its movie poster has some pretty lame Photoshopping going on.

I became obsessed with this ad one day when Brian and I were waiting for a G train. Because it was a G train, we had been waiting for about 12 hours. That's when I spotted the poster. I stood with my nose about three inches away and spotted one problem after another. By the time the G train finally arrived, I was frothing at the mouth.

Let's take a look.

Here is a picture I took of the poster. Big red man with one stumpy-looking arm, no?

Here is a detail of the figure from the waist-down.

His feet are two different sizes and coming from two different angles. He appears to have two left knees. And light is hitting the image from the far-right, from the center-right, and from the far left. This looks like some crazy-sloppy Photoshopping here. Am I wrong? Who approved this poster? Were they drunk?

I went back to the Photoshopped pictures of the Iranian missiles. I actually didn't catch the fake one. When they pointed it out, I could see it, but I fear even super-sleuth The Diminutive Pinky would have missed the fourth Photoshopped missile.

I have been trying to do a small amount of housekeeping here at debcentral so no one will mistake this website for a Collyer brothers-like piece of cyberspace. Thanks to Heck's Kitchen's lovely masthead collection, I was inspired to do something with many of the loose pictures floating around my blog. So I made this: Debcentral's blog's image library. Automated by Photoshop. Thanks again, Photoshop. Enjoy!

An upside-down hanging office chair

A guy with an athletic jersey, a kilt, and one leg significantly bigger than the other.

Brian took a brief break from working to go to a Mets game. Here he is looking out the current Shea stadium with the new stadium in the background.

Shortly after this pictures was taken, Brian ran back to work, and I haven't seen much of him since.

This makes me sad. But going to the Mets game made me happy. As did winning two gold-rimmed Stella Artois glasses playing bingo with friends Susan, Lauren, and Alberto on Monday night. And Susan and I went to the 2008 I.D. Annual Design Review at Parsons last night and I got a free egg poacher, a kitchen sink strainer, and some magnetic measuring spoons. I love free stuff!

Is this video really old? It's the first I've seen of it:
Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency.

Most mornings, this yields one of two results.

1. I wake up.
2. I pretend to still be sleeping.

Monday morning, I jolted up in bed with the great fear of god gripping my chest like a tightly clenched fist. I cried out, and Brian looked at me totally baffled.

I was incredibly confused and shaken. I couldn't even talk at first. But when I tried to describe it ... how could I describe it? Such dread. Such incredible dread. It felt like... It felt like... It felt like I had woken up late on the first day of school with a whole load of assignments due.

I was shaking, and I made Brian hold me. To calm down, I just kept saying to myself, "I'm not in school anymore. I'm not in school anymore."

Now I feel dumb.

From Heck's Kitchen, Bob has sent an important message
Alana & Xander say goodbye to Jessie Helms.
Slice takes a Park Slope Slice Walk.
My coworker heard that Tofu may increase dementia risk

Enjoy!