I reviewed the new Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore film Music and Lyrics for the Rhino website.  The review is worth checking out if only for the bad photoshop, which is very good (I explain the importance of good bad photoshop in an early HelloRocky article).  I also used the word "insouciance" in the review, in the hopes of earning an invite to  some literary round table.

The Rocky Cup remains in Japan.  I've been monitoring the wire services all month, and as far as I can tell, Yone Minagawa is still alive (and still a woman, despite what an earlier post may have intimated).  And still the oldest living human.  Once you win that title you keep it for life, like being Pope or the football coach at Penn State. 

HelloRocky.com continues to generate heavy traffic.  Our three-part summary of the Best Picture Oscar nominees was especially well received. 

The popular political blog ObamaFest picked up on my angry letter to the L.A. Times.  This in turn generated heavy traffic to this blog.  Which is nice.  Just because you're focused on Senator Obama's campaign for the White House doesn't mean you don't care about how Rocky Petralia's day at Costco went. 

February is a chippy little month, the calm before the storm known as March Madness.   Savor it.