Oh, Friday night my friends and I got a limo to celebrate my friend Ryan's birthday. Ryan is a bartender at Pallas Club in Portland.

In other news, this Paris Hilton sex movie scandal thing is intriguing the hell out of me. What do you want to bet that she was fucking Shannen Doherty's husband in a room at the Ramada? Four Seasons? Funny.

First off: I wouldn't bang either one of the Hilton sisters. If I wanted to, I'd just put a blonde wig on a twelve-year-old boy and, well. I can't get into the waif thing. Never could. The Hilton parents are mad that the video is being released and vow to "vigorously" prosecute the "criminal" responsible for the footage shot three years ago. I'm desperately trying to get a copy of this video off KaZaa, but KaZaa has sucked lately.

November 2003 marks year four of the existence of this website. From it's humble beginnings as a blog (before the term "blog" existed) on some free web space (the original URL was http://www.teleport.com/~gooch) to having it's own domain name: gooch-1.com, to it's current status as a 117MB website residing on the goochonline.net server at URL http://www.goochonline.com, it's been a journey that has spanned three residences, two girlfriends, graduation from college, a home purchase, a hiring and a layoff, the rise and fall of Jam Magazine, appearances on cable access, 9-11, internet dating... and this run-on sentence (in no particular order). I've almost killed the site more than once. I think that would be mistake. It's been an anchor, a focal point for me. I've always felt a low pressure necessity to keep it running if only to give myself a journal with which to look back and reflect. I've taken the time to write thoughtful columns and blogs, and sometimes I write something and don't even bother with the spell check. As far as commitments go, however, this is as good as it gets with me.

Every now and then I put up a link to some "blogs" from the genesis of this site - before I used the blogger service. HERE IT IS.

With my personal and professional lives seemingly in a continuous state of change, this site has been one of the few reliable constants.

BLOG UPDATE: Here's the picture I referred to in the November 7 blog: