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Have you ever felt fully present and in the moment, where everything just connected? That moment where the mind subsided and the activity felt pure and simply immense?

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1. HUGH GRANT’S BJ IN A BMW The handsome, dashing, debonair English actor Hugh Grant was at the height of his fame when he reached rock bottom.

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“I will cover you with love when I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy.”

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Right, so let’s start with the pants. When I saw that they were somehow able to combine floral, paisley and plaid, I knew I had to have them.

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At one point I had an erection and it seemed like we were both trying to undo my belt and unbutton my jeans. I weakly imagined what would happen if my jeans were removed and heard her say “we just met” from what seemed like an enormous distance and felt that I was asleep, or dreaming, or something, while “knowing” I was moving and therefore not asleep.

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For the better part of the last year, bloggers have frantically attempted to wring every possible cent from keyword-rich stories covering Sarah Palin, Tiger woods (see above headline for proof), and a dozen other celebrity names coveted like gold in The Often Trifling Age of Pageview Journalism. It’s become a weekly, if not daily, ritual.

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In the virtual and hardcopy seas of so much slush, Good Writing is a rare and rarefied feat commensurate with Good Conversation or Good Sportsmanship or Good Sex. It is, to say the least, all any of us can ask for.

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The new Xiu Xiu music video “Dear God, I Hate Myself” is kind of like the art-school version of David Letterman’s extramarital confession. Or Lady Gaga for real monsters… It unveils what the mainstream constantly tries to veil: vulnerability, imperfection, and the (often) filthy grit of reality.