Hello? Newsroom?

Two arm movements away from talking to Frank Miller on the phone. TWO!

Instead the Asst. Metro Editor picked up and began to ask, "Frank Miller? Who's Frank Miller? WHO?"

I usually avoid the phone for two reasons:

1. My phone is as old as I am. It doesn't transfer properly - requiring a long, repetitive explanation of why the caller has to call again and when to dial the proper extension.

2. S.J. people are nuts. I can't quite find the humor in Commerce-bank-poisoning-the-Camden-water-supply-killing-millions-of-albino-crack-babies-this-year tips when I've got a website to run. Note to hobos with phones: If electric cuts out in your rowhouse it's because you didn't pay the bill, not because President Bush ordered a nuclear attack on the East Coast.

But .... FRANK MILLER!