Week of 10/29 thru 11/4/06
Rob's catching up on the sleep he missed when Datsa woke us up (yes, we're glad he's still active and in fact even alive at 14, but geez, it would be nice to sleep in one of these days) and I'm feeling much better today than yesterday. I've planned lunch and dinner (now if only I could locate my electric wok) and caught up with blog-reading at last, so it's time for the weekly Liberal Coalition blogaround plus a few extras:
• Speaking of beloved pets, Echidne is dealing with a chipper 14-year-old of her own, as she gets ready to celebrate her third blogiversary this coming Wednesday. As she puts it, "I hope that we can combine partying for the blog and for a saner world."
• Elsewhere in the pet parade, Moi's beloved Feak gets a haircut, and NTodd gives us insight into a typical night on the farm with his brood of five.
• Have you bookmarked Jude's new blog address yet? I'm hoping that this time she'll have a full rather than partial feed, since as a rule I'm much likelier to read and comment on full feeds, which are easier for a busy blog-reader.
• Bora/Coturnix has decided to expand his blogroll, the madman. He's going through things alphabetically, so hop on over there if you feel like making some suggestions.
• Jeff has a rather creepy monkey-see, monkey-do story.
• Kathy on Kathy - Harris actually prays that God will "bring the hearts and minds of our Jewish brothers and sisters into alignment" then her spokesidiot claims she meant Republicanism, not Christianity. Note to Harris - Florida's Jews aren't as stupid as you think they are, and they still haven't forgiven you for insisting they voted for Pat Buchanan in 2000.
• Speaking of Katherine Harris, Mustang Bobby live-blogs round two of the FL senate debate. He also remembers William Styron, and asks the open question "What was the first election you voted in?" Jimmy Carter, 1976, and mighty proud of it.
• Maru helps Bush use teh Google.
• Cheating a bit in that the post is from today rather than this past week, but Norbizness has a great point that Saddam Hussein's sentencing is for crimes committed when he was "our bastard." Regardless, hanging's too good for him. I have no desire to see our bastard martyred; let him rot in a hole until he's obscure and forgotten. That would also have the added bonus of distinguishing the good guys from the bad guys, for people who still believe good guys aren't supposed to kill. (You already knew that killing Saddam wouldn't magically resurrect those 148 people nor even bring closure to their families, right?)
• NTodd reviews the winner in the Iranian cartoon contest (and finds it, and others, more haunting than anti-Semitic), compares our current election season to the best of Python, and celebrates the Miami Metrozoo's acknowledgement that everybody poops.
• Steve G and Jen are busy cooking and eating. Jen gives her recipe for chicken soup, whilst Steve extols the virtues of sandwiches here and here. Steve also reminds us that Brooklyn Jews are no stupider than Floridian ones, particularly when it comes to idiots dressing like Hitler for Hallowe'en. Yes, he was a monster, but as Steve points out, "just because you can say something, doesn't mean it's the smartest thing to do so."
• Lastly, upyernoz notes that, when mature countries engage in diplomacy, those with immature leaders throw around baseless accusations to drum up more hostility.
And as promised, here's some recommended reading from non-LC bloggers:
• I think Barb's analysis of Bush as the eternal adolescent is one of the best pieces she's done all year, quite worthy of a Koufax nomination.
• Cathie from Canada has dramatic BBC photos of the Dutch horse rescue.
• Ilyka ponders at Feministe, "what has blogging really accomplished?" Isn't that really a case-by-case question? I mean, you might as well ask what writing or thinking accomplishes. For me, it's given me the discipline to keep writing every day, it's made me new friends, it's expanded my political and cultural thinking, it's made me more aware of the world around me... you know, little things like that. Of course, Ilyka seems to mean what has blogging accomplished for the wider world, which I guess would be that, worldwide, it highlights and draws attention to stories that most people wouldn't otherwise know about, and helps energize an engaged citizenry. Oh yeah, and that community-building thing, it does that too.
• Amanda highly recommends the Salon review of Ugly Betty by Rebecca Traister. Me too, it actually made me want to watch the show.
• Over at Mark Siegel's blog for First Second Books, FS author Gene Yang responds to Tony Long about prose being an inherently superior medium to comics. I love how he comes about this from an Asian POV, pointing out the pictorial nature of written Chinese characters. Yang quickly become a must-read writer/artist for me back when American-Born Chinese debuted online and I recommended its Monkey King segments to Alan Davis (and "introduced" the two via email), and I hope Gene starts a blog of his own soon.
• Speaking of comics and things Asian, both Colleen Doran and Heidi MacDonald wax rhapsodic over yaoi. Yowee!
• Here's CT-based Mike Gold on why Lieberman is a shanda for the goyim.
• I neglected to mention that Paul Henry has posted the last two parts of his War of the Words Ken Burns-style parody skewering right-wing pundits. Here are Part IV and Part V.
• Happy seventh - yes, 7th! - blogiversary to Backup Brain! Tom and Dori are celebrating by cruising around New Zealand and thereabouts.
Oh, and for the record, I have no desire to see Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie. Watching Cohen reminds me way too much of watching Andy Kaufman - I could appreciate what he was doing on an intellectual level, but it made me cringe to actually view it.
• Speaking of beloved pets, Echidne is dealing with a chipper 14-year-old of her own, as she gets ready to celebrate her third blogiversary this coming Wednesday. As she puts it, "I hope that we can combine partying for the blog and for a saner world."
• Elsewhere in the pet parade, Moi's beloved Feak gets a haircut, and NTodd gives us insight into a typical night on the farm with his brood of five.
• Have you bookmarked Jude's new blog address yet? I'm hoping that this time she'll have a full rather than partial feed, since as a rule I'm much likelier to read and comment on full feeds, which are easier for a busy blog-reader.
• Bora/Coturnix has decided to expand his blogroll, the madman. He's going through things alphabetically, so hop on over there if you feel like making some suggestions.
• Jeff has a rather creepy monkey-see, monkey-do story.
• Kathy on Kathy - Harris actually prays that God will "bring the hearts and minds of our Jewish brothers and sisters into alignment" then her spokesidiot claims she meant Republicanism, not Christianity. Note to Harris - Florida's Jews aren't as stupid as you think they are, and they still haven't forgiven you for insisting they voted for Pat Buchanan in 2000.
• Speaking of Katherine Harris, Mustang Bobby live-blogs round two of the FL senate debate. He also remembers William Styron, and asks the open question "What was the first election you voted in?" Jimmy Carter, 1976, and mighty proud of it.
• Maru helps Bush use teh Google.
• Cheating a bit in that the post is from today rather than this past week, but Norbizness has a great point that Saddam Hussein's sentencing is for crimes committed when he was "our bastard." Regardless, hanging's too good for him. I have no desire to see our bastard martyred; let him rot in a hole until he's obscure and forgotten. That would also have the added bonus of distinguishing the good guys from the bad guys, for people who still believe good guys aren't supposed to kill. (You already knew that killing Saddam wouldn't magically resurrect those 148 people nor even bring closure to their families, right?)
• NTodd reviews the winner in the Iranian cartoon contest (and finds it, and others, more haunting than anti-Semitic), compares our current election season to the best of Python, and celebrates the Miami Metrozoo's acknowledgement that everybody poops.
• Steve G and Jen are busy cooking and eating. Jen gives her recipe for chicken soup, whilst Steve extols the virtues of sandwiches here and here. Steve also reminds us that Brooklyn Jews are no stupider than Floridian ones, particularly when it comes to idiots dressing like Hitler for Hallowe'en. Yes, he was a monster, but as Steve points out, "just because you can say something, doesn't mean it's the smartest thing to do so."
• Lastly, upyernoz notes that, when mature countries engage in diplomacy, those with immature leaders throw around baseless accusations to drum up more hostility.
And as promised, here's some recommended reading from non-LC bloggers:
• I think Barb's analysis of Bush as the eternal adolescent is one of the best pieces she's done all year, quite worthy of a Koufax nomination.
• Cathie from Canada has dramatic BBC photos of the Dutch horse rescue.
• Ilyka ponders at Feministe, "what has blogging really accomplished?" Isn't that really a case-by-case question? I mean, you might as well ask what writing or thinking accomplishes. For me, it's given me the discipline to keep writing every day, it's made me new friends, it's expanded my political and cultural thinking, it's made me more aware of the world around me... you know, little things like that. Of course, Ilyka seems to mean what has blogging accomplished for the wider world, which I guess would be that, worldwide, it highlights and draws attention to stories that most people wouldn't otherwise know about, and helps energize an engaged citizenry. Oh yeah, and that community-building thing, it does that too.
• Amanda highly recommends the Salon review of Ugly Betty by Rebecca Traister. Me too, it actually made me want to watch the show.
• Over at Mark Siegel's blog for First Second Books, FS author Gene Yang responds to Tony Long about prose being an inherently superior medium to comics. I love how he comes about this from an Asian POV, pointing out the pictorial nature of written Chinese characters. Yang quickly become a must-read writer/artist for me back when American-Born Chinese debuted online and I recommended its Monkey King segments to Alan Davis (and "introduced" the two via email), and I hope Gene starts a blog of his own soon.
• Speaking of comics and things Asian, both Colleen Doran and Heidi MacDonald wax rhapsodic over yaoi. Yowee!
• Here's CT-based Mike Gold on why Lieberman is a shanda for the goyim.
• I neglected to mention that Paul Henry has posted the last two parts of his War of the Words Ken Burns-style parody skewering right-wing pundits. Here are Part IV and Part V.
• Happy seventh - yes, 7th! - blogiversary to Backup Brain! Tom and Dori are celebrating by cruising around New Zealand and thereabouts.
Oh, and for the record, I have no desire to see Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie. Watching Cohen reminds me way too much of watching Andy Kaufman - I could appreciate what he was doing on an intellectual level, but it made me cringe to actually view it.
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