"You did have an elephant. His name was Stampy. You loved him."

How often do you get to see a real live freaking elephant at work?

Today I did. As I was eating lunch in the comissary, someone pointed to the window and yelled "Elephant!" And everyone looked and there, right outside, was in fact a gigantic elephant walking around the midway area of NBC! Yep, we had an elephant, among other things today, on the Tonight Show. We also had Hillary Duff.

So yeah, let's just say that after seeing Ms. Duff perform, I have even more respect for Avril Lavigne now (I initially gained a lot of respect for her when I saw her on MTV: Icons - Metallica, when she belted out a pretty kickass version of "Fuel.").

Why no love for Hillary?

Now I don't want to insinuate anything, I don't know the whole set of circumstances ... but for one thing, she barred all NBC staff from watching her OUTDOOR rehearsal, which is kinda hard to do if you think about it, seeing as how she was on an elevated stage in the middle of the NBC midway. Secondly, when she came out to perform for the show, let's just say that it appeared to be a very-Ashlee Simpson-esque performance, and I don't mean just because Hillary was sporting an odd-looking black wig for some reason (on a funny sidenote, some guy yelled out "We love you Ashlee!" at Hillary when she took the stage, presumably in response to her black wig, and she got very flustered by it ...). Finally, even with her, um, "enhanced" vocals, three backup singers, and a band, Hillary's songs were not exactly pop classics. But hey, whatever. Kids love her and were flipping out for her music, so more power to her. But at least fellow teen pop icon Avril sings and plays guitar and puts on a rockin' show, that's all I'm saying ... and, um yeah maybe also that Hillary should stick to acting?

I somehow met a ton of random people at the Tonight Show today, also. I met this woman who was there with a Hillary Duff-sponsored charity group who is a backup drummer for Journey and Pat Benatar!

There was also this totally psycho woman in the Guest Relations lobby today. She was really hallucinating or something, because she was banging on the walls, trying to "open" them as if there were some invisible doors there or something! And then, she tried to push her way into the video room where we begin the tours - I had to forcibly push the door closed from the inside so that she couldn't barge her way in! Crazy ...

Well, I'm keeping things short today for once.

Now can you dig that ....

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Suckaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!