The Baby Cakes meatloafs on the kitchen counter in the early morning light between breakfast and mid-morning snacks.
Most fascinating local news story of the day. We traveled 20 or so miles north to Peabody to have our hair cut by the magnificent Italian/American scissorhands Maurizio. For sport we asked the Divine M. whether he had had many requests for a Britney Spears cut of late. It turned out that neither he nor any of his staff knew what on earth we were talking about. How can this be? If these good folk don't know about Britney's pate, what DO they know about? Once we revealed the state of Britney's cranium, they were totally fascinated, and Maurizio himself was in stitches at our observation that now the outer part of her head matched the inner part: Nobody home.
Tired of waiting for snacks to descend, he heads off to regroup and reconnoiter.
Lots of good stuff out in the blogosphere today. Start with Laura Lee and follow the links:
The Democrats and White Flag Republicans may eschew the word victory but the American people don’t . . .
Adventures, Trials and Tribulations in Iraq . . .
Acute Politics’ Teflon Don is the kind of young man every mother and father would be proud to claim as their own but as a mother, reading his account of a day in Iraq makes me grab for my heart because it simply takes my breath away.
We woke up in the wee hours -- as ever with the TV on -- to hear the pre-fabricated narrative of the MSM re Great Britain's long-planned withdrawal of their "twoops" [Our twoops are some vewy, vewy, vewy fine twoops] from Iraq. If you didn't happen to catch Tony Blair making the case on C-Span later in the day, you would never realize the withdrawal was, as Dick Cheney said, a sign of progress. And, of course, were you tuned into any of the cable stations, you never would have caught anything but the mind-numbingly dull LIVE trials and tribulations re the disposition of Anna Nicole's rapidly dehydrating body. May she rest in peace.
Update: Our fellow species are some very, very, very fine species. Check them out at Modulator's Friday Ark #126 and the 152nd Carnival of the Cats at Pet's Garden.
Thanks for the link Sissy! I love the photos of Baby Cakes. It drives my sister crazy that we let out cats roam all over the counters and table but that's just our tradition. Your cats are so beautiful.
Posted by: Laura Lee Donoho | February 21, 2007 at 07:20 PM
LOL - I think I know more idiotic trivia (aka bald Britney) than people who just don't look at the internet. Now I wonder if it's worth it... filling my head with tidbits of junk. Heh.
The headlines I saw yesterday were all about the crumbling of the "coalition of the willing". Apparently the left has decided that Iraq is totally lost and has no hope. They never let facts stand in their way so the word "progress" never passes their lips. *sigh*
Posted by: Teresa | February 22, 2007 at 10:54 AM
I routinely wipe down the kitchen counters before fixing any meal because I know that Timmy (my naughty little boy) is ALWAYS AND FOREVER on them when I'm not around. He doesn't know how I know, but he leaves FOOTPRINTS due to his proclivity for playing in the strainless steel (and frequently wet) kitchen sink. He's also wild about playing in the bathtub after I've showered! My other cat, Sam, is relatively NORMAL in his behaviors but Tim is just his own private party!
What would we do without our beautiful cats. And yes - I am madly in love with Tiny and Baby!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | February 22, 2007 at 12:00 PM
the MSM is so funny...
it is getting to the point where they wish to say night is day and day is night.
the problem is, does the American Public fall for it?
they seem to have bought a lot of the bull-s last NOV...
Posted by: hnav | February 22, 2007 at 07:25 PM
The media keep telling us that the ANS story is what we the viewers are demanding from them as justification for their 24 / 7 coverage of this sad woman's death along with the insane judge weeping in his courtroom.
Bull.
THEY are the ones that can't get enough of this horror story. Their eyes gleam reporting on this.
I thought it a hoot the media kept on about how it's such a bad thing the Brits will be pulling out their troops in Basra which is under control of the Iraqi government and Iraqi troops now yet it is a GOOD thing for our troops to pull out of Baghdad where 80 % of the insurgents and violence are.
Idiots.
Posted by: Tara | February 23, 2007 at 07:23 PM
Those troops are fine trops indeed. It's just that they're being sold down the drain by the current government.
Posted by: jameshigham | February 26, 2007 at 08:45 AM