2002-12-31 - 12:43 p.m.

Down visiting Lily's family. We've been spending an awful lot of time in the rent-a-car. Nothing is near anything else around here so everything is 30 minutes of freeway driving from everywhere else.

As a result of this, as the designated passenger, I've been spending a lot of time listening to the local pop radio stations. Therefore, every single day I get to hear "Jenny From Block" by Jennifer Lopez at least three times. This song is growing on me, in an inverse way. That is, every listening is better than the one after it.

I don't know what's more annoying about this song, the fact that JLo is so pretentious that she actually needs to insist that she's still the same old girl from the Bronx, or that she thinks that we're all stupid enough to believe her.

Then again, maybe she was ALWAYS a high-maintinance diva! To see what sort of a down-to-earth girl Jenny is, go check out The Smoking Gun.