Enjoying Cup Noodles at grandma's house...

- mike lee

Lord, they've even got network diagrams about Annals money trail on the Today Show this morning.

- mike lee - wheaton, md

On my way home from my early exit from jury duty, I stopped into Bed, Bath and Beyond to see what was out for their storewide clearance sale. While it wasn't on sale, I couldn't resist picking up the adorable Crane Hello Kitty Humidifier (with built-in nightlight!). Pix here show Cianna enjoying the water mist. I love how the mist shoots upward in two plumes from kitty's ears. So I couldn't resist adding two pieces of black gaffer tape to kitty's face to make ... Steaming Mad Kitty!

- mike lee - wheaton, md

When I got to jury service this afternoon at the government building complex in Rockville, MD, there were surprisingly few people in the large waiting room. After a while, a woman in a business suit motioned another man and me into the front office. She announced that the reporting time on the summons letter was incorrect. If we had listened to the entire phone recording the night before, we would have heard mention of the time correction. What a surprise it was when she went on to say that for our trouble, we'd be excused from jury service for the next TWO YEARS! I said sweet, see you in 2010.

Besides my usual work day of meetings, more meetings, and still more meetings, here pictured is child playing in the morning's "dump" of 2" of snow, my new Nora Jones CD, and reading bedtime stories. Mommy is in New Orleans until Sunday.

- mike lee - wheaton, md

More than just three talented artists who do a strip tease while wearing chicken suits, the Chicken Strips are one of the many amazing acts that will appear in the second of Fluid Movement's Glitterama shows in April at Load of Fun Studios. It was an honor to photograph them today.

According to M.C. Ted, an episode of Duff Goldman's Food Network show Ace of Cakes will be centered around last December's Glitterama show. I can't wait!

More photos on Flickr.

- mike lee - baltimore

MySpace surfaced at a third place on Friday night at the Full Moon Saloon in Fells Point for model Payton's birthday party. Payton is a wild child in real life and heavy user of MySpace in the virtual. I've photographed her several times over the last two years.

Pictured here is birthday girl with me, her dog Jules, with her friend Rosie, and me with Freda, the owner of the saloon. Freda's husband Zeke, who booked many a blues band over the years, passed away last summer. The saloon will sadly close soon.

Not pictured were the many shots of Jim Beam consumed by birthday girl and her wobbly decline over three hours to collapsing in her friend's car for a comatose ride home.

- mike lee - baltimore

...from the kids' meal at John Steven, Ltd. restaurant in Fells Point.

- mike lee - baltimore