The 61st edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is waiting for you over at Peaktalk. It's big. Spooky big.

I wonder how large this thing is going to be by the time I'm hosting it...

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Then shame on you! We're just getting into the good stuff now. But still, there are other worthies out there that can complement our battle to the death.

Nick Queen over at Patriot Paradox is organizing a Blog Tournament. Currently the tourney needs both contestants and judges. This contest runs in a two week cycle so even if you don't get into the first edition it shouldn't be long before you're playing.

I wouldn't recommend playing in two contests at the same time, which is why I've volunteered to help with judging but won't be competing until after Dec 03. The rest of my island friends will have relatively shorter times to wait before being able to join the Patriot Paradox tournament without conflicts. Jeff, you can go ahead and sign up now.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities is hot and ready. Stop by and warm yourself with the flaming rejects of the blogosphere.

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I've just received word that Luuk, the Everyday Bear, has left the Peacock household and is on his way to his next Angry destination. Lovely Wife saw him off after giving him a quick Scotchguard treatment. (Hey, Don is his next stop. Safety first.)

We got a bunch more pictures of Luuk in the past couple days and I'll get those up as soon as I can.

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1 Can't wait to see the pics. I get Luuk after a while (after his visit with JimiLove), and I need to start planning and rule out any cool Atlanta places you may have covered.

Posted by: Joey at November 18, 2003 08:42 PM (Jq6q/)

2 Shouldn't be too hard, Joey. After all, we've got more cool places than you can shake a stick at.

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The second challenge for Blog Survivor is to come up with a slogan that will appear on forthcoming Anger Management T-shirts. This is a delicious opportunity for a warped and evil person such as myself. Here's a couple I came up with off the top of my head:

• Sucking up to Frank J since January, 2003.


• Adventures with my objectionist mangina.


• Almost but not quite completely unlike a weblog.

Actually, that last one can go a lot of different ways. Sub out "a weblog" and insert "humor" or "entertainment". You see where I'm going here.

Oh, I feel like a kid in a candy store.

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What the hell is Buy Nothing Day? Apparently it's supposed to be some sort of statement against American consumerism. This is a participatory project (which strangely enough started in the Pacific Northwest, who woulda thunk it) for people who think that capitalism will be the doom of America.

Ummm...

Right. more...

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The Letter of the Day is was "H"

"H" is for Happy Medium. Not the "pleasant muse" type, we're talking the state you need to attain before you can successfully spend 3 hours in a car with somebody who has radically different musical taste.

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Wander over to Venomous Kate's Snarkfest for the best of all things snarkish.

Oh what savage delight grips these unworthy bones at perusal of such delicious vitriol.

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The Letter of the Day is "G".

"G" is for Gone. See ya, Pylorns!

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The votes are in for the first elimination from Survivor: Blogoshere Island. Happily I received not a single vote to toss me. Unhappily for Pylorns he received five of six and got booted.

Pylorns, don't look at it as getting tossed, look at it as winning the first vote by a landslide. If only you had voted for yourself it would have been unanimous.

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1 Honey, in my part of the hemisphere, getting tossed means getting a hand job. Did YOU give him one?

Posted by: Helen at November 14, 2003 12:15 PM (k78uM)

2 I win! Dopple-G thought Pylorns would jump on that first but I said "No way, man. Helen will be on that like Rikki-tikki-tavi on a cobra." :-)

Posted by: Jim at November 14, 2003 12:29 PM (IOwam)

3 That's not what you said last night...

Posted by: pylorns at November 14, 2003 01:32 PM (oMGhn)

4 Last night I was medicated. Totally doesn't count. I call drunk guy exemption.

Posted by: Jim at November 14, 2003 02:02 PM (IOwam)

5 Not only did you guess that I would pounce on that linguistic error, you mentioned Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in a post. It's official. I worship Jim.

Posted by: Helen at November 14, 2003 02:14 PM (k78uM)

6 Man I love that movie. I used to try using references to it all the time but nobody would get them. If you move, I will strike. If you do not move, i will strike. Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Jim at November 14, 2003 02:46 PM (IOwam)

7 Movie.. Book man Book!

Posted by: pylorns at November 14, 2003 03:52 PM (mkbJL)

8 Rudyard Kipling was the bomb in phantoms.. er..

Posted by: pylorns at November 14, 2003 03:54 PM (mkbJL)

9 It was the movie for me, as a very young lad. Although I've got both on my Wish List.

Posted by: Jim at November 14, 2003 05:01 PM (IOwam)

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Hey! I'm vain as hell. How come my entries keep getting lost? This is like 4 out of the last 6 where I'm missing. Dammit.

Anyway, it's over here.

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(I wonder how many times I'll use that as a post title before it gets old?)

It's time to vote for the first Immunity Challenge for Survivor: The Blogosphere Edition.

I'm not allowed to tell you which one is mine or Don will molest my cow but it shouldn't be too difficult for you to figure it out. Look for brilliance, insight, humor and smugness. That's me in a nutshell. Plus humility, of course.

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Ryan has a post worthy of all our fecal praise.

Here's the problem with shuffling up too far on the toilet seat, and this is what I noticed just a short while ago on the crapper. As any veteran male pooper knows, when you clench off a fecal fragment, your wang twitches. Or, maybe it's just me, but whatever. The point is, when I flex the appropriate kegel muscles to pinch off a turdlett, my pecker does a little spasm dance that usually involves brief upward motion.

Cuppa coffee and a poop post. Wednesday is starting very well.

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My life is rated NC-17.
What is your life rated?

Damn. How am I going to get the Junior High girls with a rating like that?

(Link ripped from LeeAnn, who will unfortunately be swimming home within a few weeks)

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It's Veteran's Day and I've had some serious blues going on. I usually do on this day. It's part nostalgia, part loss and maybe a little bit of self pity thrown in. Maybe a lot of that last one, actually.

Anyway, I just read a wonderful post by Michele that has picked me up quite a bit. Thanks Michele.

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One of the things in Kim's rant that I did agree with but didn't have the time to blog about has been expounded upon by Craig Henry. Specifically, men are protrayed as bumbling idiots in commercials and in many entertainment vehicles.

To go further, while men of all types are on the receiving end, husbands are the ones who get it worse

I don't doubt that if you totaled all the spending on these commercials you would conclude that "husbands are dumb" is the most popular advertising message in America. If TV commercials can shape the image of a sneaker or beer, what is it doing to the image of marriage.

...

I wonder if these ads are part of the reason that men are deserting TV, especially broadcast TV. The barrage of disparaging commercials just make it a little less appealing to the male demographic.

Absolutely, yes. My favorite television show is 7th Heaven. The fact that the show doesn't treat anybody as an idiot is one of the reasons that I like watching it. Other shows I watch include...uh...lemme think here...

Okay, so I don't watch a lot of shows. Sometimes I'll catch the Crocodile Hunter. Storm Stories and Mail Call are pretty good. I can always get into a decent documentary on the History Channel and Travel Channel's "Top blahblahblah of the World" are often entertaining. Notice a trend? I don't watch things that irritate me and the ever growing "guys are lovable losers/bumbling idots" thing has pretty much trashed television as an entertainment vehicle for me.

(Link snagged from Instapundit)

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We took Luuk to the Annual Pow-wow and Indian Festival at Stone Mountain Park. As expected we didn't see any Crows but we did run into some Creek, Chippewa and Iroquois. Luuk got a kick out of the inter-tribal dances. Those are the ones where anybody can join in. In typical bearish fashion he noted that the footwork of the medicine dances is quite a bit like an Irish jig. Pics are in the extended entry. Click on any of the little pics to see the full size jpgs. more...

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It's whether you win.

Survivor: The Blogoshpere Edition is set to begin and yours truly is a contestant. My competition is varied and skilled:

Jeff
Pylorns
Emily
Helen
LeeAnn

Good luck to all of my competitors. No, wait. I don't mean that at all. Bad luck to you! I wanna win.

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Fear not, Helen, Luuk has arrived at last! He's in pretty good shape except for some pretty nasty looking facial bruises. At first I was thinking this might be bear abuse. You know, it's always done by the last person you expect. I was about to call Child and Ursine Services on Don (he was the last person I expected, seeing as he hasn't met Luuk yet) but then Luuk assured me that it was a result of a bar fight. You're safe for now Don but I'll be keeping an eye on you.

He was a bit tired from his trip and passed out after 6 shots of Goldshlager. He's curled up on the bed right now. What a cutie. Fierce but cute, that is. He is a bear after all.

He got here just in time. Tomorrow we'll be going to the big Pow-wow at Stone Mountain. We're a bit south for good representation by my own tribe (Nana Peacock was a full blooded Crow indian) but there are lots of others there. Last year we were lucky enough to see a presentation by a group of Aztec dancers. Luuk and I will give you the lowdown when we get back tomorrow.

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Rachel doesn't get it.

Just in case anyone is actually still coming by (at last check, I'm still getting about 1,300 hits a day for some bizarre reason even though this blog sucks now and we all know it)

It's the same reason that Moses didn't get lynched some time during that 40 year hike. We know that some time in the future we will hit that Piquant link and be rewarded for our perseverance. Or maybe it's the same reason that a rat trained to hit a bar to get crack will keep hitting the bar even after it's changed to give him an electric shock instead of crack. Not sure which of those applies more. Anyway...

Rachel was the first big blogger to notice Snooze Button Dreams and is still at or near the top of my referers lise each month even though she's taking a break from blogging.

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