Lovely Wife has her own blog! Yay!

This entry has been moved to her place.

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My post quality and quantity suck in an inversely proportional relationship with the quality and quantity of the blogs I read. That is to say, it isn't my fault when my blog sucks. Blame these guys:

If little boys are made up puppy dog tails and snails and other gross stuff, and little girls are made of sugar and spice and other nice stuff, what is a centrist made of?

Whines and complaints
that the big parties ain't.
That's what centrists are made of.

Trey has a two parter on the ketchup queen. First he notes some things from her speech that sound alright. Then he fisks the things that blow chunks of socialist redistributionism garbage all over the place.

Random Penseur has a mini-bio on a philandering, embezzling, murderer. To top it off he was also an incompetent officer and a crooked politician! Check out the second edition of the Behind the Curtain series.

LeeAnn has issues with the dentist. That reminds me...I better set up an appointment whilst I still have insurance...

Simon hasn't caught up to me yet in the procreation contest but he has nailed what it's like for men to live with a pregnant woman.

Robert got published. Like in a real paper. Not just this bloggy stuff that we do. Woah.

Our own Pixy Misa has compiled a philosophy primer. It's just chock full of allegorical goodness.

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Lovely Wife has her own blog. Yay!

This entry has been moved to her place.

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1 I'll give you a login to Clancy's View... Wir konnen auch auf Deutsch redden wenn es dir besser wird! (OK, my conversation German is OK, my written German is horrid)

Posted by: Clancy at July 28, 2004 03:04 PM (EGVPL)

2 Oh too funny! I decided last week that there would be no more Heinz products purchased with MY hard earned money.

Posted by: Ronda at July 28, 2004 03:10 PM (caz42)

3 Kroger, huh? I personally just wait until the name-brand stuff hits the shelves at the dollar store

Posted by: Tiffany at July 29, 2004 01:59 PM (5Tm0V)

4 We have enough dollar stores here to choke a barrel of monkeys. And if that doesn't win me some sort of contest for mixed metaphors I don't know what could.

Posted by: Jim at July 29, 2004 02:41 PM (IOwam)

5 I heard that John Kerry actually changed his middle name so that his initials would be JFK. Is that true? Also, LW should get a blog.

Posted by: Trey Givens at July 29, 2004 09:29 PM (3RnFT)

6 "Now you may call me John Fucking Kerry!" I bet a bit digging on the internet will give us the truth about him.I am just not sure if I want to be sick for a while. Have I mentioned that I will apear in the NEWS PAPER on saturday???YES,for I gave an interview today.Supposively MY name will be in it. Ahuh...I'm that good!

Posted by: LW at July 29, 2004 10:48 PM (behRF)

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Tiffani is fishing for pics. Seeing as she's my blogdaughter and all I'm happy to oblige.

WARNING
Women should sit down before clicking this link. Snooze Button Dreams will not be held liable for swooning.

Who knew I cleaned up so well? Actually I had this picture up when Snooze Button Dreams was on Blog*Spot until the infamous cow picture fell into my clutches.

Special bonus picture for Helen: My furry arm

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1 You know I love my men furry. Bravo. LW must be in heaven. That said, it still doesn't proclude you from being cursed with wild monkey hair, you know. It'll be like...extra. Is it possible in your other pic that you look a bit like the cat who caught the canary? Like: "Who's your Snooze Daddy now, bebe?" type of look. Just wondering. Don't get all paranoid like I would.

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 06:06 AM (pS7+B)

2 Er...I meant "preclude". Not "proclude". I hate when I have bad use of vocabulary.

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 06:08 AM (pS7+B)

3 LOL! Helen, I had the same thought -- that's quite the self-satisfied grin. I'd tell you that I'm surprised that Jim's such a Hot Ticket, but one look at that mug a year ago and I knew Sexiest Male Blogger when I saw him. Good looks and brains and a wicked sense of humor, too? That's our Jim. )

Posted by: Emma at July 27, 2004 06:12 AM (NOZuy)

4 That's my standard grin. I have an entire flock of canaries that I consume on a regular basis. ;-)

Posted by: Jim at July 27, 2004 07:41 AM (IOwam)

5 Do you know how torturous it is to see page can not be displayed when I click on those links? Worse than finding out Matthew McConaughey is gay.

Posted by: Tiffani at July 27, 2004 10:13 AM (xpNFK)

6 WHAT?!!!! Matthew is GAY!!???

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 10:35 AM (pS7+B)

7 That's odd...he never told me he was gay and we were together for years... *cough* I mean, those links seem to be working just fine. Must have been a temporary glitch.

Posted by: Jim at July 27, 2004 10:59 AM (IOwam)

8 No..but that was a torture thinking he was right? That's what I'm going through right now. If Matthew is gay. You might as well just shoot me dead now. I couldn't go on living. I saw "how to lose a guy in 10 days" for the 4th time just to see his beautiful face.

Posted by: Tiffani at July 27, 2004 11:01 AM (xpNFK)

9 I still have no takers on the quest for the identity of our fellow bloggers. Wimps. Yeah you heard me. Wimps. All of ya. Jim. I agree with Helen. Love the furry arms.

Posted by: Tiffani at July 27, 2004 01:28 PM (xpNFK)

10 In order to spur compliance by those lazy bloggers, I suggest you threaten to begin "assigning" them photos from the lovely selection at Cliff Yablonski Hates You. Not that I read that site. That would be mean.

Posted by: Deus ex Macrame at July 29, 2004 03:24 AM (lzBvv)

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It might end up being cheaper than an Explorer. Then again you probably wouldn't get amusing anecdotes like BigWig's out of a Winnebago.

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"Winnebago"...it's synonymous with "passion", no?

(Snagged from Ryan)

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Who knew? LeeAnn, the Cheesemistress of the Apocalypse is also a spyhunter extraordinaire. I hope I didn't blow her cover...

POINTS: 2 points to the first person to name the tune that played throughout the Spyhunter game. No searching please.

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Nick Queen is putting together a Yahoo Fantasy Football league. The goal is 8 to 10 bloggers/commenters participating (currently there are 3 signed up).

Joining is simple:

Go here and use the following to join the league (you'll need a Yahoo ID):

League ID# is 171767
Password is paradox

For the team name use your blog name and leave a message at Nick's place.

If you have any questions, Nick can answer them.

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Happy birthday Tiffani! My blogdaughter has turned 34. In Tiffany's honor, here are some memorable events from 1970, her birthyear:

(Year you were born doohicky found at Ilyka's and Emma's love shacks blogs)

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Courtesy of Dopple-G I bring you: Dodge trucks are for pussies.

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Rob is back, too!

Everybody pause while we do the happy dance. A jig would be fitting, I think.

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He wants to know just what is up with Rachel Lucas' ever-recurring popularity. Despite multiple exits from blogdom she is received yet again with open arms by a hungry and waiting audience. Well Harv, it's like this...

Rachel is the queen of all that is good and right. She is the Easter Bunny in disguise and supplied Santa with toys during the great elf strike of '94. She personally tracked down Saddam Hussein and tipped off the Army to where he was hiding. She took a bullet for the Pope, just because it was the right thing to do.

Which is to say, she was instrumental in lifting Snooze Button Dreams from obscurity. That only ever happens once in a blog's life. She helped a lot of people in large or small ways. She was friendly when a lot of big bloggers weren't.

She absolutely and completely despises Hillary Clinton.

She also was one of the finest ranters I've ever read. She's erudite and well written and uses base logic to support her emotional views. She posts dog pictures. She's an all around good read.

I understand why you're confused, Harvey. You got there when Rachel had started faltering. Her posts weren't as tight, her focus was wandering. She was finishing school and looking for a house and her blog showed signs of neglect. And then she retired, came back, retired again, came back sort of, then quit. Without a firm grounding in Rachelism from before the Time of Troubles that's absolutely a definite turn off. Hell, even for loyalists it was still a turn off.

But now she's back again with a new style, the new version of MT and humorous rants about John Edwards and dog urine. So of course we're welcoming her with open arms, hearts and blogulations.

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1 She was one of my first daily reads. I'm sure I found you through her - actually, through Helen if I remember right, and I likely found Helen through Don and I know I found Don from Rachel. See? - it's all connected. Rachel is the Queen.

Posted by: Clancy at July 14, 2004 09:26 AM (EGVPL)

2 Oh. My. God. That was like the most bendy-over and kissing-the-assy Rachel post I have read yet. Kudos Her blog is a revolving door of appear and disappear. As for me, I can't handle people coming and going forty times-I can understand taking a break, reconsidering, but for the love of God, that kind of indecision is reserved for the insecure and screwed up in the world, not "blog leaders". If she's going to exit stage left, do it already.

Posted by: Helen at July 14, 2004 10:08 AM (LlkAL)

3 hmm.. brown noser...

Posted by: pylorns at July 14, 2004 02:06 PM (FTYER)

4 You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2004 02:14 PM (IOwam)

5 Ok, that would explain it then. And I think I was test driving Rachel & finding her lacking last summer. Does that sound about the right time frame?

Posted by: Harvey at July 14, 2004 03:53 PM (tJfh1)

6 Yup, that's when the Time of Troubles was upon us. "Test Driving Rachel" sounds like either a chick flick or a bad porn.

Posted by: Jim at July 14, 2004 04:12 PM (bmLWy)

7 If Rachel is willing to write, I'm willing to read. She's the best free reading outside of a library. It is sad that she has more to her life than entertaining us (from my point of view) but it's probably good for her. Most of my favorite authors are dead; most of the rest publish about every year, and a few publish every week. It seems a bit much to require a writer to write something several times a day. When she's willing to rant, I'm willing to read, because her rants are generally worth reading. I must say that I really do not care for dog pictures, but I suspect that is a failing of mine and not Rachels.

Posted by: David D at July 15, 2004 07:12 PM (PWeSZ)

8 She has stopped blogging again, since you wrote this post, right?

Posted by: The Commissar at July 19, 2004 01:46 PM (VpkLq)

9 "Made ya look, made ya look ..."

Posted by: The Commissar at July 19, 2004 01:47 PM (VpkLq)

10 Not me. I've got her on the aggregator. hehe.

Posted by: Jim at July 19, 2004 01:53 PM (IOwam)

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Rachel Ann wants to know what blogger you've got a love/hate thing with.

Bill can just leave his blogroll.

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Yesterday at ZeroIntelligence.net I posted a story about black students at Harvard. Seems that immigrant blacks and mulattos are taking advantage of affirmative action programs that some people want reserved for descendants of slaves.

There is a goodly bit of commenting on Affirmative Action as a general concept and one comment by Canadian reader Don Popowich sums it up so well it deserves to be called out on its own merits.

Enough already!!! There are no African Americans, or Ukrainian Americans, or Irish Americans, or Italian Americans,or any other kind of hyphenated Americans....or at least there shouldn't be.

As a Canadian, what I admired about America was that America was a melting pot. Although, as individuals, you were proud of your heritage, YOU WERE WERE AMERICANS FIRST.

Yes. There were prejudices in past, and many members of your society faced discrimination and were treated unfairly, but, as a country you worked towards, and eventually righted many of those wrongs.

Some would argue it took too long and not all wrongs have been addressed, and that may be so, but, as a country you addressed the challenges and you worked towards bringing equality to all.

But not anymore. Now some Americans are more equal than others.

Why? Why is prejudice acceptable today if is aimed a segment of your society who has practiced prejudice in past...but not acceptable if aimed at others in your society? Either prejudice is right or it is wrong. It can't be both. more...

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1 Ummm...perhaps I am off, but I understood that the term mulatto described those who were of mixed-race descent, with one race being black and the other race (generally) of white descent. So if the persons black heritage was as a descendant of a former slave, that qualifies them, then.

Posted by: Helen at July 13, 2004 01:04 PM (LlkAL)

2 That's what I think as well but the esteemed Harvard professors have a much stricter definition. They want four black grandparents, all born in the USA.

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2004 01:08 PM (IOwam)

3 So much for the descendents of the famous Quadroon Balls in New Orleans, where young men (white) of social standing would go to meet young women (mixed) to take a mistress for a long, sometimes even life time, affair.

Posted by: Random Penseur at July 13, 2004 02:17 PM (LlPKh)

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Jennifer was disjobbed yesterday. This is an issue especially poignant to me as my own date with the axe draws nigh. Would y'all go and offer some condolences, support and maybe a job lead or two to her?

Thanks.

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McDonalds has a new Unhappy Meal featuring a salad and a bottle of water. John at Zug.com has the down-lo.

The booklet also has a radical, crazy new walking program designed by Oprah's trainer, which I will summarize for you now:

1) Measure the amount you walk per day.
2) Gradually walk more.
3) Repeat until tired.

Surely Oprah gets better advice than this, right? The guy pulls in 500 large a year just to tell Oprah to get off her ham-fed ass and walk? If walking is considered exercise, then opening the refrigerator door should also be exercise. And let's not forget masturbation, which increases upper arm strength. Why couldn't Oprah's trainer make a Masturbometer?

Don't miss John's prank call to McDonalds customer service.

(Hat tip to WetWired)

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...cookies should NOT be bright yellow.

Via American Digest comes this Family Circle Cookie Cook-Off between Laura Bush and Teresa-Heinz-Rockefeller-Kerry. Laura's entry is a delicious looking wholesome oatmeal cookie (with chunks of chocolate - yes that's right, lovely delicious chocolate). Teresa's offering is one shade off of your urine after a two day bender. The shapeless yellow glops come complete with raisins, which I do like in a cookie. Unfortunately for this particular cookie they look remarkably like the unidentifiable "What the hell are those!?" bits inside a well loaded diaper.

Which tastes better? Obviously the Oatmeal-Chocolate Chunk cookies do since there's just no way you'll get those ochre blobs past my lips.

See for yourself (and vote for your favorite) at Family Circle.

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The 32nd Bestofme Symphony is up at The Owner's Manual.

Next week's post extravaganza will be hosted by Sneakeasy's Joint.

Bestofme Symphony home base

Hosting: Email Gary at gcruse AT netscape DOT com.

Email Reminders: Bestofme Symphony mailing list.

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Ilyka needs help. She's looking for your opinion of what a Centrist is. Where do you think a Centrist on the big issues? Chime in at her place in the comments.

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1 You are, as ever, most skilled in the chivalrous arts. Now go unpack some shit.

Posted by: ilyka at July 08, 2004 08:44 AM (tyQY5)

2 We're all unpacked! Well, virtually all. We even stocked the CD holders yesterday, that's how almost done we are.

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It's the final challenge in Survivor Blogosphere Edition Part Two. The contestants are running neck and neck. On one side is detailed verbosity, on the other shocking brevity. Who will win?

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