Welcome to the premiere performance of the Bestofme Symphony. Participation has been fantastic with 28 entries in this first edition. Like any good symphony, you'll find a lot of individual sounds that have been coalesced into one. I'm very happy to be offering some of the best stuff in the Blogosphere for your reading pleasure.

Comments on presentation and content, future Symphonies, etceteras are appreciated. If bloggers out there would link to this it would help enormously to get this meme launched in grand style and I'd be eternally grateful. Well, maybe not eternally, but at least until something really important pushed it out of the swiss cheese I like to call a brain.

Without further ado, the Symphony begins:

Post	Author	Weblog
Some Of You May Remember This From A LONG Time Ago - The Long Distance Lesbian (Scroll down to November 19)	Ryan Rhodes (Submitted by Jim)	Rambling Rhodes
The post that inspired the Bestofme Symphony. Ryan writes about his relationship with a very troubled young lady.
Sex, drugs and Rock & Roll	Andrew	Dodgeblogium
Wrote it during the Dodgeblog days of old (well 2002) with a bit of a new twist...or rather enhancement? Why is it good? Well its about Sex, drugs and rock & roll...what else do you need?
Molech	The King	King of Fools
Why This Post? I felt it combined both creativity and history nicely. Plus it was completely overlooked when it was fresh - blogspot (former host) went down for several days just after I posted it.
Real-Life Operations Other than War Story, or The Coolest Kid I Ever Saw	Joe McNally	The Short Strange Trip
It's just one of my favorite not quite war stories, written when I was still in the irrational exuberance phase of blogging.
Separating the Art from the Artist	Dean Esmay	Dean's World
A photo-essay on the life of a genius, and the morality of art.
Fast Food Reflections	Jess	Apropos of Something
It's a somewhat random rant about ridiculous fast-food advertising that turned out quite a bit funnier than I expected.
Action Where Action is Required	Pietro	The SmarterCop
This post is being submitted as a 'best of' my blog because it's a heartfelt appeal to its readers to remember the choices our past leaders have made and the consequences of those choices.
That Thousand Words You Asked For	LeeAnn	The Cheese Stands Alone
It's concise, to the point, with visuals. Just like sex should be.
The Terrorist vector	J. Fielek	Quibbles-n-bits
This is an astute analogy for the way the War on Terror works, versus the way typical wars are fought.
Blog Wars	Don Watkins	Anger Management
This is my best-ever story describing the infamous war between Frank J. and InstaPundit. Not only is it funnier than anything ever written for the blogosphere, it is also very long.
Thanks Daddy	MojoMark	mojomark.com
Daddy displays superior skill and intellect when he comes to the late-night rescue of his recently-sleeping-now-screaming-hysterically 20 month old little girl.
What We Stand For	Matt	Overtaken by Events
A graphical fisking of Fisk himself. The post led to my highest traffic day ever, and an incredible amount of hate mail.
OverThought	Johnny Huh?	Intellectual Poison
One of my favorite posts of all time.
Rights and Power	Ilyka Damen	Ilyka Damen
In which I claim Rosemary Esmay is, um, wrongheaded about a few things, most notably about the concept of unalienable rights. I don't know if it's really, really my best but for some reason, I tend to get most fired up in responding to the musings of others, and I think that shows here. It definitely qualifies as (1) old and (2) overlooked (I had no comments on it at the time).
Bobby Bonds	Ted	Rocket Jones
My tribute to baseball in the 60's and what it meant to me as a kid growing up.
Customers	Publius	Publius & Co.
It's one of my better because I think it's well written, and the lesson to be learned is one a *lot* of people need to learn some day.
Invective Alert	Susie	Practical Penumbra
It's called "Invective Alert" because it's on one of the few topics that can make me swear--taxes+nannyism--and swear I do.... (well, they are only nickel swear words, not dollar ones like a lot of bloggers use, but I'm pretty mealy-mouthed and "Drat" is my most common epithet....)
Dreaming of Food	Nic (Submitted by Victor)	Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax
Well written, and it's about Ocean City food.
Pineapples for Peace	Heather	Angelweave
A Heather rant on "tax dissenters."  I think it's damned funny.
FleshZilla	Glenn from GS-7	GS-7
This was one of my more creative posts. At the time it was really funny, and I think we need to see more movies like this in the mainstream besides just on Mystery Science Theatre 3000!
The Perfect Cup of Tea	Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Sumbitted by Shell)	Across the Atlantic
Lionel describes the setting and atmosphere of an English countryside perfectly. You can almost taste the cucumber sandwiches. He has converted me into a tea drinker.
Justification: A Post-War Review	Jon Henke	QandO
It's a postwar review of the official Justification for war, as codified in the "House Joint Resolution Authorizing Use of Force Against Iraq".      Link-filled evidence that virtually every official claim in the authorization has been vindicated.     Submitted, because I think it's a good, fact-based resource for analysing the justification for war.
Erections and Professionalism	Doc Shazam (Sumbitted by Ilyka)	Mr. Hassle's Long Underpants
If there were a dictionary entry for "too much of a good thing," I'm pretty sure "see: priapism" would be listed first under it.
Ancestor Worship	Kelley	Suburban Blight
The post is an opinion piece on the use of the confederate battle emblem on state property in Georgia.
The Ulitimate Martini	The Bartender	Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon
The utlimate recipe for Martini drinkers. A customer of mine taught me how to make them this way and every Martini connoisseur who's ever tasted them tells me they are the best they have ever tasted! Plus it gave me the idea for my Ultimate Bloggers Recipe Contest!
Pastors for Peace	MJ Pechar	Interested-Participant
This post scratches at the veneer of an anti-American, pro-communist organization that uses a facade of religion to mask its true agenda, which is to promote the radical overthrowing of the US government and the American way of life.
Compromise, or Compromise?	Helen Adelaide (Submitted by Jim)	Everyday Stranger
Helen nails the "driving with the partner" dilemma in hilarious style.
Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July	Jim Peacock	Snooze Button Dreams
An SBD post about an encounter with a monster canine during a walk in the park. For newcomers, SBD (Snooze Button Dreams) posts are in the "tall tales" tradition but are often loosely based on real life happenings.

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