Celeb sightings, eating contests and heroic acts

Andy Dick - Yesterday at a grilled cheese eating contest. He was the VIP guest. I posted about the contest on blogging.la. My post is here.

The Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese - Also at grilled cheese eating contest.

Jeremy Piven - Shopping at a store in Santa Monica on Main Street. I was in a car outside. My fiance pointed him out through the window.

Greg Kinnear and Jessica Alba - Brent saw them at yesterday's UCLA basketball game (not together)

After the grilled cheese eating contest, we came home to find a visitor on our balcony: a headless bird beneath the table of our bistro set. Brent and I both hate birds, but Brent really hates birds. Ya know how they say people can move cars stuck on top of other people when they have enough adrenaline in their systems? Well, I usually wouldn't come near a headless dead bird on our balcony (especially one covered in ants like this one was), but something in me snapped. Maybe it was the look of fear in Brent's eyes. Maybe it was the trembling in his voice. Maybe it was him hiding, crouched in our kitchen. I grabbed a dustpan, covered it in a trashbag, went out and scooped the bird over the edge of our balcony and into the foliage below. His resting ground is now a pile of ivy. Perhaps his head is also there and they're reunited at last. And I hope that freakin' bird doesn't decide to haunt us.

Brent said that if he hadn't already, he would have proposed right then and there. Mind you, Brent is by no means a wuss. This bird incident has just guaranteed a life's worth of bug killing from Brent. Birds are to Brent as bugs are to me. Yuck!

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost." - Arthur Ashe