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Last year my uncle featured in a TV show about ‘miracles’. He told the story of how he found a photograph of himself in a book he picked up from an antique shop, while on holiday in England. It’s a true story. This month the show is letting viewers decide which stories should be repeated in a clip show to introduce the new series.

Do me and my kin a favour and vote for ‘De foto’ on the ‘Wonderen bestaan’ website. You’ll find the poll on the right hand side and ‘De foto’ is the last option in the poll (which doesn’t give it much of a chance of winning!).

It’s a great story and my uncle, who is an author and lyricist, does a great job of telling it (well, duh, he does readings and theater shows for a living). In short: About 20 years ago he was on holiday with his girlfriend L. and another couple. It was a miserable day and he hadn’t even wanted to go to England anyway. When they stopped for lunch, they came across an antique shop.

My uncle had a thing about ‘a book without a title’. He had been talking about this obsession during the trip, of wanting to find this ‘book without a title’. His friends had said books without titles didn’t exist.

Looking through the books on the shelves in the antique shop, he didn’t find anything he wanted. But there was one more book, sitting on a table. Picking it up he saw the book’s cover didn’t have any marking or lettering. It was a book without a title! And when he opened it, he found a picture of himself taken when he was a young man.

Cue theme of the Twilight Zone. Vote now. Vote often.

Mine’s Lynette.

I’m asking, because ‘everybody’ hates Lynette, especially after the lastest episode. Bree seems ‘everybody’s favourite. She comes second with me. (Susan, Gabrielle, Edie are next.)

People hate Lynette mainly because she can’t cope with / doesn’t like her kids and regrets having had to give up her career in favour of motherhood. Same reason why I think she’s fabulous. She’s the only person on the show who is ‘real’. If I were a housewife, and desperate, I’d be Lynette and I’d be putting those horrible boys up for adoption. So there.

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10:27 AM. ‘If you are receiving this notice the current demand on the site is too high to allow you to continue at this moment.’

No tickets for the prol yet. Too many people online these days. Why don’t they all f.o. to wherever they were in their pre-connected days.

Update 4pm: No joy whatsoever. I can’t remember not being lucky with online sales. The problem lies in U2.com’s presale code. Once there’s an error, the system thinks the code has been used and renders it useless. Oh well, next shot on the 28th when general sales start. Wasted 40 dollars on U2.com membership. Bono can give another round in the Clarence. But someone I know will suffer greatly for this.

Meanwhile, USA pre-sales are starting. The first complaints are trickling in. Wheeeee.

Update 6pm: One of my mates got through for Brussels. So I’m sorted for that gig. London, however, not yet.

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