For Michael

Since I know you’re reading this stuff lately, Michael, I figured I’d just post it here and address it to you.  I noticed in your press conference (the one where you said it was supposed to be all Canadian reporters) that you were confused about my phone and how my voicemail works.

First of all, you blocked your caller ID.  The ID that is sent from your end was blocked, either by you or by the person who owned the phone you used.  Perfectly normal for celebrity numbers of course, and even some international calls.  When it happens, it triggers something my phone company calls “Privacy Manager.” It’s an automated system...a computer answers and asks you to say your name.  It then rings through to me.  If I answer, it tells me I have a call from (recording of you saying your name here).  If I don’t answer, it kicks you to voicemail.  All automatically.

I did not answer your call and manually punt you to voice mail.  I just wanted you to know I wasn’t ducking you, at 9:16 AM I was still asleep!

For everyone else: If you haven’t listened to the audio file of Mike’s press conference, please do.  It’s fascinating.  I’ve converted it to a smaller-yet-still-quality file for easier downloading.  You get some of the feeling of the foreign press reaction, you get to hear Michael under strain, being heavily and sometimes almost angrily questioned about French health care, Canadian issues - and especially Cuba - and then getting...softballed, I suppose is the word.  Plus, at the end he talks in some detail about the order of events as posted on this site, so, Mikey’s watching the watchers watching the watcher. 

We’re like a living Möbius strip.  He’s the watcher of government (ostensibly), we’re watching him, he’s watching us watching him watching them, we’re now watching him watching us watching him watching them...it’s like the plot to an episode of Three’s Company only without the sex.

I call dibs on being Larry.

OK, total honesty time.  I wrote this whole post just to use that Three’s Company/Möbius strip joke.  It’s just that good of a joke.  Right?  RIGHT?  ;)