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My first 11-hour day at the office and, I hope, my last for a long time. Onwards! Speaking of which:



Via Val D'Orazio. And yes, I got even more exhausted just looking at it.

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Persistence paid off - I'm finally done reading through one of the four overstuffed boxes of DC comps we've received over the past goodness-knows-how-many months, and am now caught up in the DCU up to last month. Next I tackle the non-DC stuff that I've bought over the past couple months, then I delve into at least a year's worth of Vertigo and Wildstorm titles, then I'm sure the process will start all over again. But I wouldn't do it if I didn't love it. And I did all of this after having watched the President's "100 days press conference," leading me to propose the Obama Teleprompter blog (via Corrente) as today's site.

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Didn't sleep well last night, and had a long day today, so blog participation goes by the wayside again. In the menatime, please enjoy Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal.



Via Lance Mannion.

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Yeah, I've had about enough of this little heat wave. Even though it's comfortable enough in the office, I've had to wash my face once already this morning (never a bad idea anyway what with flu strains floating about). And now that James Kuhn's big project is over he can wash his face too! Here are some of his 365 facial designs from the past year; the site also links to a video which presumably shows more. Via Sheila Lennon.

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Bills all paid, and I'm almost through the "S" titles in my combined last-3-months DCU comp box (of course, the new one arrived this week, but I'm not even going to tackle that until I make some headway with a year's worth of Vertigo and Wildstorm titles). Didn't miss doing blog stuff at all. Perhaps my comics reading was a bit lowbrow, but no more so than, say, Homer's Odyssey on Twitter (via Xeni at BoingBoing).

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Via BoingBoing and lots of other places, we present Bohemian Rhapsody as you probably never thought you'd hear it:



Ah, I remember the whir of those old disk drives...

Belated Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

Never got around to snapping any photos yesterday, so here are the li'l darlin's today:



Datsa on his living room plinth.



Amy wetting her whistle.

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What a great time we had on Firesign chat last night! I reminded the assembled that it was Willie the Shakes' 445th birth anniversary, and Jimmy Lee was kind enough to interrupt his regularly-scheduled programming (An Evening with Nick Danger) to play "Anythynge You Want To" just for me! Unfortunately I had to, as Robin says, Do Stuff during much of it (filing medical records, prepping my comics list for a visit to Midtown after work today, general house-straightening), but I caught the last 10 minutes or so. Then I looked at my saved Silly Sites this morning and realized I'd neglected to add Shakespeare's MySpace page that I'd seen via Susie, but hey, that's what The Day After Shakespeare's 445th is all about, I guess. "And summer's lease hath all too short a date," methinks, so I plan on enjoying the next few days of summer temps as much as I can!

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To commemmorate the 445th anniversary of the Bard's birthday, we present Talk Like Shakespeare (which I'm way too tired to do at the moment; you try iambic pentameter at 6:45 AM!) and this following YouTube audio:



Sorry about the boring slide show and relatively bad sound, it was the only video of this song that Robin could find.

Earth Day Blogaround

This morning my supervisor spent a few minutes with me this morning looking through my favorite clothing catalog to determine what tops are and aren’t work-appropriate; at lunch I attended a fun continuing education session (my company gives lots of them, and I’ve enjoyed them all); and I’m just generally feeling really good about things on this Administrative Professionals Secretaries Day. I’m even more grateful when I think back to this time last year when I was still unemployed and getting quite discouraged. This is a good day to remind ourselves not to take any of our privileges and good fortune for granted! Let’s see what I’ve bookmarked:

• Oh, today’s Marie Javins’ birthday. Hey Marie, need an emotional lift? Read this Best Post Ever About Susan Boyle from Elizabeth Tillinghast at HuffPo.

• It’s also Cara’s second blogiversary, and the self-titled Feminist Beatles Fan Extraordinaire has some interesting musings on Phil Spector, as does my other go-to Beatle-loving blogger, Richard Eskow, who I believed just coined a new term with “Madness Chic” (although the thing itself is of course nothing new in rock and roll circles).

• Last week saw the 100th anniversary of the Kewpies, and Colleen Doran celebrates with a comprehensive and compact history of Rose O’Neill.

• Also from last week, one of my favorite Waid Wednesdays ever, but that’s how I roll.

• Always good to see Cheryl Lynn talking about comics again, like this post talking about the unfortunately-marketed upcoming Marvel series Divas.

• Bully reminds us that the much-vaunted fannish sense of entitlement is nothing new.

• Melissa Krause gets her rant on about mermaids.

• Hannah Howard at Serious Eats examines tipping. I agree, it’d be really nice if U.S. restaurants paid their waitrons a living wage so tips were not necessary, but refusing to tip on that basis doesn’t send a message to any powers that be, it’s just being a dick.

• What dday at Hullabaloo Said, about some Republicans who only believe an election is fair when their side wins. It’s the same nonsense that produces “tea party” attendees claiming there shouldn’t be taxation without representation, not understanding (or refusing to admit) that “without representation” doesn’t mean “your duly-elected representative doesn’t happen to agree with your personal views.”

• When I’ve heard people go on about the “black swan” phenomenon, my first reaction is very similar to what Kevin Drum says here. Just because you personally didn’t see something coming doesn’t mean it wasn’t predictable by anyone else (or, in the case of the current economic collapse, a lot of anyone elses). One of the better bits of Elizabeth Warren’s recent appearance on the Daily Show was when she said

There's a financial panic. Every 10 to 15 years, there's a financial panic in our history; you just look at it. And there's a big collapse, big trouble, people lose their farms, wiped out. Until we hit the Great Depression. We come out of the Great Depression, we say, You know, we can do better than this. We don't have to go back to this kind of boom-and-bust cycle. We come out of the Great Depression with three regulations:
• FDIC Insurance — it's safe to put your money in banks.
• Glass-Steagall — banks won't do crazy things, and
• Some SEC regulations.
We go 50 years without a financial panic, without a crisis...

I don’t think enough blogs can spread that bit of history (I got this transcript here for the many, many history-impaired among us. On a related note, I don’t think there can be too many blogs passing along this NY Times article from 10 years ago quoting the late Paul Wellstone, as well as still-Senator Byron Dorgan, about the tragic mistake they clearly saw their colleagues about to make. Particularly Dorgan: “I think we will look back in 10 years' time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930's is true in 2010. I wasn't around during the 1930's or the debate over Glass-Steagall. But I was here in the early 1980's when it was decided to allow the expansion of savings and loans. We have now decided in the name of modernization to forget the lessons of the past, of safety and of soundness.” So, you know, don’t tell me this is a black swan, okay?

• What Nobel laureate Paul Krugman Said. Why this observation about U.S. torture isn’t blindingly obvious to everyone, I’ll never understand.

• Speaking of “up is down” thinking, I was so used to thinking of the internet as freewheeling I never realized how heavily and well-regulated it’s really been until I read this bit from Publius at Obsidian Wings. Some good points made!

• Like Virgo Tex at First Draft, I’m skeptical of Thor’s plans for Coney Island as well, but I like and trust Dick Zigun, a personal acquaintance from my Coney Island Hysterical Society days back when I lived in Brooklyn, so maybe it’ll turn out okay.

• Melissa McEwan sings the praises of Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, who sound like a really nifty showbiz couple.

• Lastly, Sheila Lennon introduces her readers to Google Profiles; I’ve just created mine.

And once again, just like that, I’ve finished the internet!

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Happy Earth Day! I'd be all pumped except Gaia seems to be attacking me. "Predominant Pollen" today, it says, consists of "Maple, Cedar, Juniper, Poplar, Aspen, Cottonwood." At least one of those has not been good to me or Robin these past few days, but the site doesn't have a mechanism to enable me to chart specific predominance over the past few days because, er, that would be too convenient? In any case, here are some Earth Day online games you can play, and don't forget your free Ben & Jerry's cone! Update: It's also Denim Day; nobody tell George Will!

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Lately I've been beefing up my LinkedIn friendships, but I still can't get excited about Twitter, which I've been on for at least a year. Maybe if I used the automatic Twitter Status Update Generator (via the Generator Blog)... or maybe once I'm caught up in comics reading in addition to blog reading...

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You know, I couldn't figure out why Family Guy had that hysterical "Bag of Weed" production number last night (I'm not likely to look at "Me Ol' Bamboo" from Mary Poppins the same way again, and I'm sure that pun was deliberate). Robin said he was sure that was Seth MacFarlane's take on FOX's "Green" Sunday, and that sounded a bit plausible... then this morning I realized, today is 420 Day. Here's NORML's clever web campaign to mark the day. I tried to find other silly sites associated with pot (which of course has the rep of making everything around one just that much sillier), but my company's server understandably blocks most marijuana-related webfare. So there you are.

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It's never too late for Peeps on Parade, is it? Is it?

Repurposed

I've given up on the Earamid. It's pretty but just not practical. Got me a couple acrylic earring holders, much better for both post and hook type earrings. Just the thing after my major jewelry-shopping with my coworkers on Friday. Here it is with everything hung up on it:



Meanwhile, I've taken the plastic thingie that my supervisor gave me, fitted it with some tiny curtain hooks Rob had in his toolkit, and created something on which to hang my combo necklace-earring sets:



I also organized my health insurance files yesterday; still a lot to throw away before I can close the accordion file properly, but at least it's all in categories now. And I've located my most recent eyeglass prescription, so there's a bonus. Now, on to this weekend's ironing!

Belated Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

Just finished watching Grey Gardens, and wishing I had some Grey Goose to go with it. Those winters out in the Hamptons are brutal, and I feel like I just spent an entire decade's worth of Hamptons winters in an hour and a half. It certainly passed the Bechdel test (hey, I just found out there's a whole blog about that), and I liked the last 15 minutes or so, but wow, what a slog to get there. Still, an interesting paeon to what might have been, had this mother and daughter not been so utterly incapable of taking care of themselves. And there were kitties. Lots of kitties. Not as pretty as ours, though:







One of my favorite bits from the movie (which, trust me, didn't have that many "favorite bits") comes at the very end of the credits, when Drew Barrymore reads the disclaimer about no animals being harmed, in Edie Jr.'s voice.

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Via Rich Watson in email, you can now chat with God online. Be aware, though, that God needs your system to allow pop-up windows in order to achieve this communication. Is this a step up from burning bushes? By the way, Rich also informs me and the other Glyphs judges that our votes are in, and of course the winners will be announced at ECBACC next month. Not sure if we're going yet, it's a long way to Philly for a day trip, but then again I haven't been there in awhile so I may head down. It'd be nice to see folks like Susie again, if she's around the city that day...

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I'd heard about these "bush" ads, but couldn't bring myself to watch 'em on the YouTube. Then came Sarah Haskins:



So now I don't have to see the actual ads!

Possibly Beautiful

This past week hasn’t been easy for me physically. I think my springtime allergies trigger some icky muscle woes. I seem to recall my hip bursitis flaring up this time last year, or maybe it was 2007. And all week, every few minutes or so my left hamstring feels as if it’s just about to cramp; I will go a long way towards avoiding a hamstring cramp, possibly one of the most painful spasms I can imagine (especially when it suddenly wakes you up in bed and you’re lying there screaming until the excruciating pain dissipates and it’s never soon enough). So I wind up favoring one side and throwing out even more of my body alignment, and generally feeling worse.

But in the virtual and tee-vee world, a few things have made me feel a lot better about myself and other people in general. The first is, of course, the Susan Boyle phenomenon, which I watched yesterday when I got back from work. I identify a great deal with Boyle, certainly physically and age-wise, and to see the stick-figure people undergo such a teachable moment about their own prejudices was very viscerally satisfying.

Then I turned on the TV and caught a few minutes of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, starring the big black and strikingly beautiful Jill Scott, followed by a rerun of Tuesday’s Colbert report with guest Susie Orbach talking about the futility and nonsense of body hatred. And I grinned even more.

Of course, yesterday was also a good day for taking stock of Wednesday’s events, with the very welcome mockery on both MSNBC and Comedy Central of the various FOX-sponsored “tea party” rallies filled with racists protesting tax hikes that will only affect the super-rich, not getting their own taxes will be cut, even when blogger Sinfonian pretty much spelled out for them in Pensacola. And the coverage of the President’s educational press conference on Tuesday gave me even more hope. After eight years of the government actively trying to dumb down its citizens, it’s great to see the desire to be smart becoming cool again. Despite the droning on of old media, I’m convinced that more citizens than ever are taking self-education into their own hands.

Indications are that people are less and less willing to be duped. When Elle magazine features “Stars sans fards” (literally “without makeup” but with the alternate meaning of “openness”) and Photoshop Disasters ranks consistently among the most popular websites, that tells me that I’m not the only one sick to death of style-over-substance appearance and thinking. Perhaps Susan Boyle’s gorgeous voice will presage the end of the plastic American Idol types with their digitally-tuned vocals?

While the signs may be there, we humans love to create patterns out of the randomness, just to make ourselves feel better. Much of the reaction to Boyle felt staged (the signature Cowell smirk, the audience “spontaneously” jumping to their feet) and, even if it didn’t, it appeared to me to be some sort of orgy of self-congratulations. You know, “PC” in its original meaning of “look how enlightened we are, yay us!” Still, while this series of coincidences may not presage a permanent backlash against the fake morality and topsy-turvy excesses of the last 30 years, the hippie and fat-acceptance activist in me can’t help but applaud even this subjective-looking trend.

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Well hey, it's even got "Silly" in the title. Via Neil Gaiman, a Gahan Wilson adaptation of a story Neil wrote:



More on the above-linked post.

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Tired, so so tired. Tired of hearing about these stupid tea parties too. Here's all one needs to know about this nonsense. Can we move on now?

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Via vastleft at Corrente, the Sorry News takes on religion:



Apparently it's not really news, and they're not really sorry, but then, neither am I for watching it. Except I wish they'd tell the host not to keep swiveling between Camera 1 and Camera 2 like he does, it's rather disconcerting.

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Thank you, Dark Wraith, this stop-motion treat is absolutely perfect.



Made me smile all the way through; so clever!

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Happy Easter to my Christian readers! As Gary Sassaman notes, "Jesus died for your sins and the right to bear fuzzy purple bunnies and cute little duckies, not to mention chocolate covered rabbits and crucifixes." I don't know, I don't find bunny sweatshops all that funny, but maybe it's just me. Via Bully:



And for those of you who prefer more your Easter references more modern, Scott at Polite Dissent has the Peeps Titans wishing you a happy Easter, and Erin at Serious Eats displays some eggs inspired by WALL-E's character EVE.

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We have returned from the Land of Matzoh! Say, what do you do with matzoh after Passover, anyway?



Via Bora.

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We had delicious matzoh brei at my brother's house, and everyone thought I was weird for putting whitefish spread onto it. But it was, as Rachael Ray would say, delish. Hey, ever wonder how matzohs are made?



Via Robyn Lee at Serious Eats.

To Mom's House We Go Blogaround

I wonder how the roads will be on Good Friday. Ah well, not leaving for awhile, so let's tackle all my saved posts, shall we? But first, a public service announcement via Matt Tobey at Comedy Central's blog:


Thank you. Onward!

• Michael Davis finds he needs to be cruel to be kind to some email scammers.

• Colleen Doran has, to my mind, a very reasonable fanfic policy. Likewise, if you're going to violate copyright by posting a complete comic book on the web, Bully shows you how to do it right.

• I can't help but wonder if Wizard bought the Big Apple Con -- which will be in October (if Allan Rosenberg is still handling tables, we should be there even though the Pier 94 venue is a bit less convenient than the hall across the street from Penn Station) and may conflict next year with Reed Exhibitions' NY Comic Con -- in response to Reed putting on the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo in 2010 opposite Wizard's Chicago Comic Con. Just saying.

• Mom just called to let us know we'll have no TV at her place, so we'll be bringing the laptop with us, and maybe I can finally catch up on all the April Fool's sites Heidi listed.

• If you're as big a Torvald fan as I am, you'll be delighted that Laura has now posted 92 new pictures of him with all sorts of folks from last weekend's Emerald City Con.

• I may no longer be called "Waid Girl" in comics circles (or, heck, even thought of that much in comics circles), but I still adore Mark's writing, and his essays about writing are pretty good as well. I got a lot of out of his "characters need to surprise you" post, and his musings about how the three qualifications for making good in comics have now changed was not terribly welcome news but it's hard to argue with his logic.

• My dear old friend Vinnie Bartilucci is also a must-read, and I was very moved by this lovely post about fathers, written very close to the second anniversary of my own Dad's passing.

• If you missed it the first time around, Scott has posted a rerun of his screamingly funny Zardoz review from a few years ago.

• Natalie Davis writes about the Blessing of the Sun, but I'm still confused as to how one is supposed to be able to calculate the exact position of the sun "when God created the world." Do they mean 5769 years ago? Because that's doable nowadays, what with computers and all. But that would mean Jews have become as literal about these things as Christians, and that just wasn't what I was raised to believe. (For instance, the way I recall the whole "created the world in 6 days" thing being taught to me was that the English equivalent of "yom" -- "day" in Hebrew -- could mean "eon," and who can accurately calculate six eons?) It's just one of those things that, to me, seems as wacky as magical Jewish string theory.

• Will wonders never cease? Bourdain thanking Rachael Ray, in public? I love this sort of thing, it's a great glimpse into how fakey the TV game can be, how made-up these silly rivalries are.

• Thomas Dolby sings the praises of Mark Knopfler, and deservedly so.

• Sheila Lennon has a link to some video from the Radio City concert we couldn't afford to go to, which featured lots of McCartney and Starr. And John Farr at HuffPo catches up with Macca and daughter at a recent benefit.

• Meanwhile, Bora's lucky enough to see Topol reprise his role as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.

• I had no idea that Autism Speaks didn't include any autistic folks until I read this post from Cara.

• Cathie thinks the computer liberated women from being secretaries. As a secretary I both agree and disagree; even though the advent of PCs spelled the death knell for my first long-term job back in the late '80s/early '90s, no way can any of my bosses type as fast as me. A hundred words a minute still gets you in many doors come job-interview time. On the other hand, I do admit that typing for my bosses takes up much less a percentage of my job nowadays than organizing their stuff. Fortunately, I'm also very good at organizing.

• Speaking of my job, Erica Barnett at Shakespeare's Sister seems confused about a New Orleans business called The Occasional Wife. I agree that the name is awful, and presupposes that women don't also use personal assistants, but it's a sad fact that a lot of PAs are referred to that way; in my last job my boss' actual wife occasionally referred to me as his "office mommy."

• If you're gonna resign, and you're on good speaking terms with your employer and all, you could do a lot worse than to submit your resignation letter on a cake.

• Amanda Marcotte has a bone to pick about movie soundtracks taking the place of actual story. She also talks about a Nice Guy® who's all kinds of wrong.

• I hope this post from Jesse is for real, rather than a parody of the Ann Althouse engagement announcement, because I really, really want to congratulate Jesse. Love is the coolest thing there is, period.

• What Digby Said, about how self-deluded some MSNBC blowhards are. I swear, I will never even completely trust Rachel Maddow until she stops letting Mrs. Alan "Helped Create This Economic Mess" Greenspan substitute for her and be her on-air BFF. Every time Andrea Mitchell appears on any NBC show, it frustrates the hell out of me that there's not a bold disclaimer stated right at the top concerning her obvious conflict of interest in reporting on national events. Speaking of Howard Fineman (another reporter in MSNBC's pocket), County Fair's Jameson Foser notes how he speaks for the Establishment rather than for actual citizens/viewers.

• Eric Boehlert brings up a very reasonable question about making up radio ratings when nobody knows the actual numbers.

• August believes that pissing off liberals is many right wingers' prime directive, but frankly I don't think they really give that much of a hoot about people who don't agree with them, and believing they do is kind of self-centered. Then again, I'm the kind of person who doesn't believe anyone ever thinks about me when I'm not around.

• Karl Frisch at County Fair has started a regular Red Scare Index, the result of a TVeyes.com power search for terms like "socialist" and "Marxist" on various networks. Here were the numbers when he started, and here's where they're at as of last Wednesday.

• Jeff Fecke tries hard not to laugh at the stupidity of Michael Steele, and seems to fail.

• I agree with KTK at Lean Left -- the main purpose of Twitter is to read Christopher Walken's entries. And Karen Salmansohn at HuffPo covers deliberately comedic Facebook status updates.

• Hilzoy notes that a number of religious fanatics seem to be clueness about the concept of appropriate venue, and has a great take on Going Galt.

• Your must-reads from Melissa McEwen: What's up with modern movies believing that stalking is acceptable or desired romantic behavior? And another brilliant post on language and gender and humor. And of course, more News from Shakes Manor.

Finally, from Tintin at Sadly, No!:



And this mashup via Pam Spaulding:



And with that, it's time to get ready to leave. Of course we'll be taking the laptop with us...

Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

Off to my brother's house later this morning to pick up Mom and take her to her Jersey home! Naturally it's supposed to rain this afternoon and tomorrow (in time for our journey back home). "Rain" and "New Jersey" have sort of become redundant in the Riggs Residence. But I wanted to empty the camera before taking it with us, so here are this week's kitty photos. First, Datsa peeks his head above the file cabinet whilst resting on his pillow...



Next, both cats in their accustomed positions in this room, taken just this morning:



There, now maybe I can get a small blogaround in before we leave...

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Not really a silly site at all, but I really liked this blog post about a feminist seder plate (via Jill at Feministe). Also via Cara at Feministe, a belated nod on my part to the Guardian's April Fool' Day post.

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Happy Passover! Via my brother Jay, who will be having First Seder tonight at his in-laws with my Mom, it's the Facebook Haggadah.

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Yay, Mom's back in New Jersey! Since she flew in during the daytime I doubt she got to see any of these cool night-light cities:



Via BoingBoing.

Earworm Mixups

I knew there was a reason I stopped listening to the Alan Parsons Project's "Turn of a Friendly Card," one of my regular-rotation records back in college. It's because I keep inserting lyrics from other songs which scan the same into the verse. Today it was both LedZep ("Stairway to Heaven") and the Beatles ("Rocky Raccoon"), the latter quite unbidden.

I mean, really. Imagine

There's a sign in the desert that lies to the west
Where you can't tell the night from the sunrise

only with "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving" or "And then Rocky came in, he was stinking of gin, and proceeded to lie on the table." Or, worse, both of those lines in the same verse.

Damn this iPod, anyway. I'd just loaded it with "Turn of a Friendly Card" yesterday and of all the gin joints 3871 songs I've got on there, that would come up first (okay, second) thing this morning. I knew there was a reason I stopped listening to music regularly some years ago. Damn misbegotten earworms.

Edited to add the audio via YouTube:



Just so's you know what I'm talking about here.

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Via Digby, why can't you heartless people just Leave Limbaugh Alone?:



As the fellow says, who doesn't have issues?

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Trying to think of something appropriate to celebrate Phil Austin's birthday. Maybe some inappropriate sex-related stuff, since that sort of squickiness is one of the things that makes listening to Roller Maidens From Outer Space an occasionally uncomfortable experience for me (being, you know, a girl with, you know, a female gaze and stuff). So here you go, Phil, your very own bed snake bat (via Val's Cool Aggregator site). Or, I suppose, it should be the Blonde's very own bed snake bat?

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As another season of religious fervor looms upon us, it's incumbent upon us to observe moderation in all things. Lest we forget, there are sites like Fundies Say the Darndest Things, which lets ultra-religious fanatics condemn themselves with their own words. Here's a video they did:



Via Amanda Marcotte.

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An unexpected long workday leaves me little desire to sit at a computer and write (particularly as part of my day involved using my writing skills; again, pretty cool to get paid for something I love doing so much!), so this Silly Site posting's a bit late. Speaking of writing, I think something gets lost in this translation of Little Red Riding Hood, but at the same time so much is gained...



Via Bora, who really has a knack for finding cool stuff like this.

Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

As you may recall, Amy celebrated her 11th birthday this past week. Here's the birthday girl in one of her favorite spots, perched atop my ironing board playing with the cover string:



One of her favorite games is getting Datsa to play along with her:



Just taken moments ago. It'll be interesting trying to wrest the board from the cats long enough to get through the mounds of ironing I have to do this weekend...

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Terrific day at work, I'm finally caught up again after my recent holiday. The fact that my main boss was out of the office helped a little. :) Interestingly, my work style doesn't seem to fit anything I've clicked on with the GL Work Style Index (via GeneratorLand), but maybe that's just me.

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White Rabbits, and happy April Fool's Day! Remember, maintain a healthy skepticism about everything you read and hear today. As my job left me no time in March to properly celebrate Women's History Month on this blog, so I have no time to scour the 'net today for cool April Fool's sites, so I'll leave you with a 3-year-old hoax perpetuated by Tom Tomorrow and others - the Mighty Freedom Fist blog.