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Stuff I Missed This Past Week

I'm staying home today, feeling a bit under the weather after yesterday's 11-hour workday, and using the time not spent in bed to catch up on my blogroll, with which I just haven't been able to keep up for the past week or so (see previous entries whining about that stupid worm on my work computer, etc.). Please keep checking this entry throughout the day for updates as I keep finding milestones and some great posts I've missed.

A very happy belated birthday to Anne Zook, who celebrated yesterday. Anne has quickly become one of my total blog heroes.

A happy belated birthday as well to Linkmeister, who turned 53 on Tuesday.

Congrats to Seth Farber at finishing the NY Marathon.

Fortunately New Yorkers weren't fooled by the Bloomberg PR machine (which is saying something considering he's a local media mogul as well as mayor and even the media he doesn't own seem to defer to him) and voted no on Question 3 last Tuesday. Julia H, bless her heart, has been following this story all the way through. Here's an utterly brilliant bit she wrote that evokes Lenora Fulani. "Now, there's a name I've not heard for a long time..."

Bob Goodsell reported that, according to the Guardian, "Anti-war campaigners will prop grinning effigies of George Bush on to pyres around the country, hoping to stoke up opposition to his state visit to Britain this month." This apparently happened yesterday (see "Remember, Remember" below). The Bare Your Bum At Bush people were all over this one too.

Some guy calling himself Kos has become a daddy. Seriously, many congrats to Elisa and Markos Zuniga on the birth of their son Aristotle Alberto.

Eli Stephens reports on a UN General Assembly vote I'm ashamed to admit I didn't follow, the 179-3 vote against the US blockade of Cuba.

A couple good caption contests are going on at Counterspin Central and The Hamster.