December 15, 2003
Bestofme Symphony, 2nd Edition
The Bestofme Symphony is showing good growth with the second edition attracting 33 submissions by 27 people. Much thanks to the people who've submitted posts either from their own weblogs or from ones they read. Thanks also to the webloggers who've posted about the Bestofme Symphony to get the word out to the Blogosphere.
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So without further ado, I present the second edition of the Bestofme Symphony:
| Post | Author | Weblog |
| Venomous Disclaimer | Venomous Kate (Submitted by Jim) | Electric Venom |
| This edition's spot of honor goes to Venomous Kate, mistress of the second weblog I ever started following regularly. Nobody but nobody does snark and sarcasm better than the <strike>Callipygian</strike> Venomous One. | ||
| Rush's Dilemma: The Truth About Oxycontin | Nick | Patriot-Paradox |
| Rush is not alone. | ||
| Find Joy In My Suffering (a trilogy) | John Collins (Submitted by JimiLove) | Collinization |
| This guy was really funny, and when he got pissed off, which was about twice a day, he got even funnier. Too bad his internet access got interrupted. ( however, I strongly believe he will, one day, return!) | ||
| Afghanistan | Jennifer | Jennifer's History and Stuff |
| Afghanistan has long been a patchwork of different ethnic groups spread across its mountainous landscape. The largest group, the Pashtuns, makes up less than half the population. This group provided the leaders of the country. | ||
| Pull My Finger | LeeAnn | The Cheese Stands Alone |
| I received a lot of nice feedback from this post, although luckily not from the gentleman it was about. | ||
| Gallery Preview: Roomfull of Phantoms | Catherine King (Submitted by Jerome du Bois | The Tears of Things |
| This piece began for me before I realized I had started. A little collection of paranormal photographs banded together, and by the time I noticed it, the recreation of a haunted room was composing itself. | ||
| One Day | Pixy Misa (Submitted by Susie) | Ambient Irony |
| This is a short and sweet post of Pixy's that's one of my favories. | ||
| Just your typical Saturday Night | Susie | Practical Penumbra |
| I don't know why I am blogging when I should be sleeping---has anyone told the Surgeon General about this blogging phenomenon? It could be a health hazard or something..... | ||
| The Sad Saga of the Cat Who Pooped Too Much | Johnny Huh? | Intellectual Poison |
| [It was] originally posted 9/30/02 and is pretty funny. Its the first one I've come across since rereading my entire blog that I like enough to submit. | ||
| Tears to Share | Helen Adelaide | Everyday Stranger |
| There are more ways to communicate than mere words. | ||
| Leon Kass and the "case for the virtues of mortality" | Craig Newmark | Newmark's Door |
| Harassing the Brother - Sara Scores 1 for Little Sisters Everywhere! | MojoMark | MojoMark |
| An 18 month old little troublemaker springs to action when her older brother takes a surprise nap circumventing Dad's counter-terrorist activities. | ||
| Comrade Kim's Korean Restaurant | J. Fielek | Quibbles-n-bits |
| If North Korea were a restaurant... | ||
| Don't quit your day job | Jess | Apropos of Something |
| A glimpse at the poetry of one George W. Bush--and the author's own attempt to one-up the President's verse. | ||
| Holy Smarterchild | Dan K. O'Leary | Dan K. O'Leary Dot Com |
| Ok here is the backstory- my friends and I like to torment the AIM bot, smarterchild. This is a conversation highlight from July of this year, right after Kobe Bryant got arrested. Anyways- enjoy the filth. WARNING- Contains adult language. (Originally posted at BlogSpot, July 2003) | ||
| 200 WORDS OR LESS: MEANINGFUL ACTIVITY | Harvey | Bad Money |
| Introducing FRENCH-MAN! The world's most cowardly and annoying superhero. | ||
| Men's Rules | MojoMark | MojoMark |
| Listen up ladies! Here are the rules from the male side. (Not an original composition, but received in an email from a friend and not seen published elsewhere) | ||
| Some suggestions for better ways to evaluate university teaching | Craig Newmark | Newmark's Door |
| Dodgers Sold to Boston Real Estate Man | Captain Ed | Captain's Quarters |
| I am a huge Dodger fan, and this was the first post I wrote at any length that really included my personal feelings. | ||
| Another DUMASS AWARD wiener | Northstar | The People's Republic of Seabrook |
| I think this one will work quite nicely | ||
| Postmodernism | John Ray | Dissecting Leftism |
| John Ray says that Leftist postmodernism does not matter -- Fascist though it is. | ||
| How Hofstadter's famous "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" applies today | Craig Newmark | Newmark's Door |
| The Minds of Our Troops | James Joyner | Outside the Beltway |
| Here's one from the very earliest days of OTB. | ||
| Coming Full Cycle in the Taiwan Straits | Joseph Bosco | The Longbow Papers |
| I am submitting [this post] now because of the present level of tension over the "Taiwan Issue." The reason I wrote it at the time is in the title: Literally, on a short boat ride in China, my life and 50 years of it, came full cycle. I am: Joseph Bosco; an American author, journalist and screenwriter; currently I am a Visiting Professor of "Media & Foreign Policy" at the China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China P.R. | ||
| October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month | Trudy W. Schuett | Desertlight Journal |
| This one is about the realities of Domestic Violence, and how most current services have it all wrong. I wrote this in hopes people will begin to think about the under-served and ignored "hidden" victims of DV. | ||
| My Israel, Our Security | Pieter Dorsman | Peaktalk |
| This is one of my best posts, judging from reader feedback. I dusted off some childhood memories to realize that at the end of the day we are all responsible for our own security. | ||
| Oh, the Unfairness of Marriage... | Marty McKeever | Vigilance Matters |
| Same-sex marriage is not the bottom of the slippery slope, just wait til you see what's next. | ||
| An Attempt At Lasting Significance | Jay Manifold | A Voyage to Arcturus |
| Also known as the "Baby Boomer Apocalypse" post. It quotes from GENERATIONS: "Other generations of spiritualist elders have had visions of apocalypse; this one will have the _methods_." | ||
| Olfactory Testing | Mike Pechar | Interested-Participant |
| Excerpt: I now know that aging affects the sense of smell the same way that it does with sight and hearing. Progressing age significantly diminishes a person's ability to sense any odors. It's a generally unknown handicap and it's important to know because older folks sometimes will eat rancid food because they don't smell the putrefaction. | ||
| Alzheimer's | Matt | Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love |
| I write about some of the surprising things that I discovered about my grandfather through Alzheimer's Disease. | ||
| No mafioso stepped forward this summer... | Bob Felton | Civil Commotion |
| Excerpt: ...to say that Jimmy Hoffa rests uneasily beneath a Ten Commandments monument in New Jersey, but that's only because no journalist had the wit to suggest it. By any reckoning, the Commandments monuments' silent reproach of passersby was the summer scare-story. | ||
| Up a stream of conciousness without a paddle | Jim Peacock | Snooze Button Dreams |
| The post that got my blog on the first heavy hitter's blogroll, this is a snapshot of life with a message of contentment at the end. | ||
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Uh, Gorgeous? Don't be angry now, but the format of this post is all wild and crazy. Is it just me that is having problems with it?
Posted by: Helen at December 15, 2003 08:45 AM (UFEEq)
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All fixed now. I had bad html in the mailto link.
Posted by: Jim at December 15, 2003 08:48 AM (IOwam)
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Sorry, scratch that. She be working now. And if Kate's was the second blog you started following regularly, what was the first (if you say "Mad Pony" I will beat you up!)
Posted by: Helen at December 15, 2003 08:48 AM (UFEEq)
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The very first was Meryl Yourish. I only read Mad Pony for the pictures. ;-)
Posted by: Jim at December 15, 2003 08:52 AM (IOwam)
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Great stuff this Bestofme posting. I'll try and get something to you for the next one. Well done.
Posted by: Simon at December 16, 2003 01:53 AM (UKqGy)
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