Just for grins, I did a search on IMDB for Emily Deschanel, the actress who stars in the TV series Bones (see older posts). It turns out she is Zooey Deschanel’s sister. Zooey is one of my favorite young actresses. She was the depressed teen girl in the movie Mum­ford (which I’m sure very few people saw but was written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who also wrote Empire Strikes Back); She played Tril­lian in the movie Hitch­hikers Guide to the Galaxy, one of my other favorites. Unfor­tu­nately, she was also the female lead in The Hap­pening. We won’t go into that.

And more strange: Emily and Zooey are the daugh­ters of Mary Jo Deschanel. Her lim­ited credits include the por­trayal of the kind and slightly sad Eileen Hay­ward in the Twin Peaks series. As we all know, this is the greatest TV series ever.

Unre­lated infor­ma­tion pro­vided by the great and pow­erful oracle: lupus is an autoim­mune dis­ease. Monica was asking me about this today because it’s come up a few times when watching crime/science tele­vi­sion shows like CSI and Bones or doctor shows like Pri­vate Prac­tice or Grey’s Anatomy. The Lupus Foun­da­tion of America pro­vides a quick overview of the dis­ease which is not life threat­ening in every case. How­ever, all auto-immune dis­eases are a bit dis­turbing. Much like having an unsanc­tioned civil war occur inside your body.