Well, so far I can only find two New Weblog Showcase blog entries (that are not mine) to link to...
The first is actually more interesting than the blub made it sound: Occasional Subversion on biotechnology or crop mutation or something. This is my favorite passage:
"Humans have modified crops for centuries through selective breeding; indeed, it would be difficult to name any crop which is "pure" -- just defining purity would be a challenge. The people who argue against genetic modification are often arguing from a point of view which equates something they call "nature" with purity, but such a view of nature has less to do with science than religion."
The next showcase entry I am voting for, Triteness Studies, I enjoyed because I had previously read that news article on the "privilege walk" and had been pretty annoyed that anyone was forced to take that class. The money quote from this essay is "History is much a tale of one people oppressing another. " So true and yet so cynical. Must be why I liked it. (Plus, my grandparents grew up German--in America--during World War I, so my "people" suffered oppression, too.)
Anyway, maybe I'll re-read some of the other entries tomorrow in hopes of finding a third candidate for linkage .
And remember, a link to my entry is a vote for me, a link to my blog is an indication of your taste and refinement....... :)
(Author's note: please pardon the ponderous prose and dangling participles--I am practicing my sleep-typing again!)
Tiger says:
I will stop as soon as someone devises an inpatient program where they keep you doped up for years until you have absolutely no more craving for nicotine. I am eager to trade my nicotine addition for an addiction to a better drug.(Amen!)
Frank offers a handy reference list for future Presidents on what Executive orders can and cannot do.... (and denies he is Gephardt's speechwriter).
Pixy Misa wonders what's all the fuss about Harry Potter ... (I am on page 440! halfway there!)
Loyal Reader Pete points out in my comments that we have never seen Frank and Bill Whittle at the same time.....
Pietro has the last word about Saddam's WMDs. (Mmmm...grammar check: Since WMD is shorthand for Weapons of Mass Destruction, why do we always see it pluralized? Shouldn't the newmedia treat it as we do other words that are both singular and plural, such as elk, sheep, etc., and say "a herd of WMD was spotted" or "hoards of WMD roamed the desert unchecked"? Just a thought.....)
Seeing as yesterday was my "weekend," today has a Mondayish kind of feel to it, which is reinforced by by the fact that the new In My World is another cliffhanger!
Frank, just because George Lucas obsesses over that whole trilogy thing doesn't mean that you have to, too! (tho' I must say you look hot with a light saber....)
In other news, Tiger has a new logo!
Pixy Misa is back from his trip, with photos to prove it! (He has also posted some cheesecake photos, giving his site the coveted PG-13 rating!)
John is hysterical (as usual) on marketing ploys for sports teams
Jamie has an ethical question that he needs to send to Frank Answers
Thanks to Victor (wet T-shirt photos? please, Victor, this is a family blog!) I wandered over to James Finch's new site VRWC, and found the transcript to a recent conversation he had with Bubba--I mean, former President Clinton.
Wow, James! How come all those dweebs have your phone number???
Tiger is depressed because Glenn Reynolds hasn't linked to him....
Shall I remind him that Frank J has not only answered my stupid questions, but left comments on my blog? Nah, that would just be mean......
Pietro is making up for not blogging over the weekend......
John Collins was, um, ticked off this weekend....
Don't you hate it when your favorite blogs go the entire weekend without an update? It's almost as if some of these folks have an actual life or something....
Ok, I am as flattered as the next woman when my blog is the top story for days, but it seems like Glenn, Tiger and Frank are the only ones considering MY entertainment needs....
(Pixy Misa is granted absolution because he warned me he was going on a road trip, and left me a catalog of his music to keep me amused til his return.)
Get with the program, guys!
UPDATE: Let me reiterate, Glenn(NOT Reynolds), TIGER and Frank worked very hard over the weekend to keep me entertained!!!!
Frank is even hotter with a shotgun!
Yes, the Peace Gallery is now up, AND there is a new In My World!
See, this is why I love Mondays......
The winner in the New Blog Showcase this week is An Unsealed Room
I'm kind of relieved, even though I didn't vote for it, because as far as I could tell there were no duplicate votes credited to this entry. Those of you further down the voting list (John) can take heart in the fact that some of the blogs above you really didn't garner as many votes as they seemed to.....
I emailed Bear about the duplication thing, but haven't heard back from him yet.
Wonder if he's sorry he started this whole showcase thing.....
Oh no! I go to work and Frank menaces a sweet little kitten!
This man definitely needs a wife!
And it was a sad day in the ecosphere (a pre-coffee rendering of ecosystem/blogosphere, I guess) when my new provider's network upgrades, which were supposed to be over with by 5:30 am, are STILL locking me out, and here I am back at blogger...
Gawd, the IRONY of that....
I had lots to say, too!
Frank looks very hot in his Nuke the Moon T, armed and dangerous for the first Peace Gallery photo.
The Emperor may unleash his wrath on all of us if we don't start coughing up pizzas at a faster rate.
Tiger has an excellent musing on tolerance, race, and humanity.
And I must be off to the theatre shortly, where I will be held prisoner 'til near midnight... I hope that my new blog is back by then.....
UPDATE: It's baaaaaack........ and the above is a copy of my post from 10:20 this am at my old blogspot site. Kudos to Tiger who found it there!!!
Once again, Tiger has laboriously waded through and critiqued ALL the entries to the New Weblog Showcase.
Thanks to his efforts, I am going to go back and read a couple of the entries that I had skipped over because the title or the blub just didn't grab me. Maybe I will even link to them, who knows?
UPDATE: here is a good entry..thanks, Tiger!
I have been completely remiss in not linking to Frank's new subtitle!
Despite the fact it's NOT the one I voted for, I think it is an excellent description of Frank's site. And, there is NO mention of monkeys!!!!!!
I bumped into Tim the Michigander hanging around the comments at Frank's and Bill's, and feel that he is link-worthy (why am I suddenly reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine discovers that the sponge has been discontinued?), despite the fact he cracked on Indianaians (Hoosiers makes me think of Hooters, for some reason...) So check out his blog!
Today is John Collin's bithday! As a present to him, I am urging everyone to link to the Trilogy of Terror...
And, Victor....you have to link to the POST, not the blog, for your vote to count!!!
However, John says it's not about winning, it's about getting read. But I say if you win, more people will read you!!!! So stuff that ballot box, Loyal Readers...pretty please? with sugar on top?
Oh! Bill! Where is your vote for John?
Pixy Misa has a secret identity: Composer!
I enjoyed Crunchy Frog Blues so much, I still haven't listened to Stir-Fried Grasshopper.....
John has threatened to kill a bunny if I don't vote for his entry in the new blog showcase.
John, why did you wait til so late to enter?????? All the good linkages are already taken!!!! Unless you can get your entry to register the double-votes like that White Whine person (and I noticed Glenn got double credit for 2 links, too...) you are pretty much out of the running!
Ok, Loyal Readers.....go read the Trilogy of Torture that John has posted as his entry, and cast your vote for him by linking to it.
Or he will kill a bunny.
Ok...one last post before I head off to the theater...
Go to Bill's and VOTE in the State Motto competiton!
And if any of my Loyal Readers votes for the Long Island Iced Tea one, they will have to write me a 1000 word essay on why they picked the least funny of the bunch!
I don't know if it a glitch that NZ Bear will catch before voting closes on the New Blog Showcase, but if that White Whine guy can get multiple links from a few blogs counted toward his total, I don't know why I shouldn't stack the deck in favor of the three I have chosen. So here they are again:
Perry of Obnoxious Fumes dissing Michael Moore
Revsparker of Across, Beyond, Through musing on his Prodigal Father
and Norbizness of Happy Furry Puppy etc. etc. discussing a smoking ban. [Ed.: I Hate Smoking Bans.....]
Oh, and as long as I'm doing this, here are some "pity links" for my buds:
Mapchic's not really one of my buds, but I like her blog... and I think the template is cool....
I knew it!!!! The cats are trying to take over the world and Pixy Misa has proof! This explains why, when I come from from work, my kitty is "sleeping" in my computer chair and the screen saver has just kicked on......
Bill has extended his State Motto contest and some of the late entries are hysterical.
My favorite of the crop is:
Illinois: Miles and miles of corn, interupted by small pockets of urban decay.
This is not only hysterically funny, but true! [I am allowed to say that--I was born and raised in a one of those pockets of urban dacay and also went to college in Illinois. One of my best friends from college lived in Springfield--the capital, for those of you non-Land-of-Linconers reading this--and Springfield should be the poster child for urban decay. The only good thing about Springfield is the "horseshoe"...but I digress].
Anyway, head on over and read the rest of 'em.
John has an excellent fisking of Bill O'Reilly. It's his entry from yesterday if the the link doesn't work correctly...
Man, I really enjoyed not having to work yesterday. This "day off" thing could really catch on if the word got out.....Unfortunately, I used it all up, and have to go to work today....
So---Frank has his Subtitle Contest choices up. Vote Early. Vote Often.
There is also an new In My World starring the Rumsfeld Strangler and Chomps!
Ok, how can I NOT link to a post dissing Michael Moore? Especially when it's on a site subtitled "The Ranting and Raving of a Mean-Spirited Republican"?
Being a Mean-Spirited Republican myself, I think Michael Moore is a Big Fat Idiot. (Gee, that sounds familiar....wonder where I heard it?)
Remember my motto...Liberals are stupid.
Well, I was checking out who else had linked to Across, Beyond, Through for the Showcase, and it was Pieto, The Smarter Cop, who has a great blog. So I bookmarked it, and am putting his link in my blogroll. Check him out.
My first vote in the week's New Blog showcase goes to......
(Probably my only vote, because of that vote-dilution thing, but we'll see....)
UPDATE: See how fuzzy-headed all those 12-hour days made me? I totally forgot I meant to vote for THIS entry....
See what happens when I have a day off? I spend the day blogging (taking time out for meals, of course) instead of doing laundry, paying my bills, or returning the shoes that just don't fit right--all those thing that have been patiently waiting until I have a day off so I can avoid doing them.
Thanks to Frank I have discovered Jamie McDonald and will be putting him on my blogroll because of this* post.
Any man who uses proper punctuation ability as a guide for choosing the correct woman would have my vote for President.
* the link's not working so I copied and pasted it:
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Long agoMy roommate Jim once asked me what I looked for in a girl other than the obvious (Catholic). I never really liked the whole blonde vs brunette paradigm or even stating a preference for tall or short, so instead I said flippantly, "I want a girl who knows the difference between Y-O-U-R and Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E."
And I ended up with a beautiful blonde who's working as an editor.
And the winner of this week's New Blog Showcase is Judicious Asininity!
It's also Catchup week, whatever that means.
I plan to enter again, but I have a few weeks-- time to write something of which Tiger would approve.
No offense to NZ Bear, because I think the contest is a great way to help folks find cool new blogs (such as mine!), but I would rather get a Best in Show from Tiger than win with the most links. [This is a blatant attempt to curry favor with Tiger, who posted that he found nothing interesting on his blogroll today, and, since I was (mistakenly, I'm sure) included in that blanket non-endorsement, as I am on his blogroll, I wish to ensure that he will find something of interest tomorrow. However, since, unlike Frank J, Tiger does not seem to need flagrant ego-stroking, this may not work....].
Oh, and I added Bill from Bloviating Inanities to my blogroll, since he has been mentoring John Collins [and NOT because he pointed out my laxity to the entirety of cyberspace when he posted my entries to his State Motto Competition!] --despite the fact that he didn't know what Euchre was.....
Yay! Pete found the new address! Yay! This means it is almost time to update your address books and palm pilots, Loyal Readers, because simulcasting will cease shortly.
Hurray! ...today my Assistant returns from vacation and I can return to a semblance of a normal life! Hurray!
So, first and foremost...Frank has a new In My World that has absolutely nothing to do with crass comercialism and the attempt to sell his tee shirts. Honest.
Meanwhile, my most kind and generous patron is still keeping "Secret Project X" under wraps! Like Tiger says, the suspense is killing us!
John is a smoker! You get cooler every day, John. And thanks for the link to Bill's state motto contest.
Time to go to work......ugh
Here it is Saturday morning, I've got a big paper due by midnight tomorrow, and what am I doing? checking out the entrants in the new blog showcase.
Since I'm not entered this week, I don't have to vote for three, and doesn't multiple voting dilute the power of your vote anyway? I mean, whenever I go to the polls, and it says to choose three candidates for City-Council-at-Large, I usually only vote for ONE because what if my second choice edged out my first choice by one vote?
So, I already voted for Romulus, and I'm not taking it back. But I have a second choice, and I'm really torn as to whether to link to it....
Ok, I will just link to the blog, Tales from a Yeti Suit. You can go find his entry and link to it if you want to dilute your vote.....
LOL!
In a neverending effort to avoid working on my paper, I strayed from Jaboobie's through a link to Drumwaster's and read this:
And finally, I have just about had it with all the claims from the rabidly ranting rats on the Loony Left whinging (sic) about the lack of WMD in Iraq. After all, Saddam hasn't been found either, and so, by their logic, he must not have existed either, eh?