The March of I'ds

Today is the Ides of March, folks. With apologies with Shakespeare –People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1590– I'm posting my Third Annual "March of I'ds."

• I'd have a rough time coping if I didn't have friends and family members supporting me each step of the way and telling me that I can beat cancer.
  
  
• I'd like to know how the guy who got the first human tongue transplant back in 2003 is doing these days.
  
  
• I'd pay a much higher co-pay than I am charged now at Kaiser for the high quality of care I get there.
  
  
• I'd pitch a brilliant idea for a new theme park to the president and CEO of Disney if I ever got two minutes in an elevator with him.
  
  
• I'd go batty if I couldn't blog to compensate for not having a speaking voice.
  
  
• I'd snap up as many tickets to Michael Jackson's upcoming 50 shows in London as I could afford if the King of Pop would just let me pick the songs he would perform.
  
  
• I'd like you to keep this a secret, but every day I dial my number at the office just to hear the voice mail greeting and remind myself how I used to sound.
  
  
• I'd pay three bucks a day for The Los Angeles Times if that would keep more of its employees from being laid off.
  
  
• I'd like to believe that Monkee Peter Tork's voice will be as strong as ever when he performs with his Shoe Suede Blues band in Cerritos in October.
  
  
• I'd like to think that when this cancer business ends happily for me, that I somehow will be a better person for having gone through it.
  
  
• I'd love to see Jon Stewart interview Octo-Mom.
  
  
• I'd weigh 400 pounds today if food fantasies were actual calories.
  
  
• I'd like to believe that all of the rock stars I idolize are all upstanding human beings but two books I've just read have shown me that a few of them are real jerks.
  
  
• I'd like to pick up my cycling routine right where I left off when I stopped riding, but when I recover I have a feeling I'm going to need training wheels.
  
  
• I'd be less prepared to deal with cancer and AIDS if I didn't have the example of my late Mom's incredible strength and courage to inspire me.
  

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