Two Nervous Dogs. She comes, she goes, I laugh, I cry. Go read, and enjoy some of the bestest funniest cleverest writing on the net, before she says "screw it" and packs it up once again.

How's about a little bitter to go with your caffeine? What better than Four Honkies, who are some attitudinally-blessed dudes. Excellent read so far, I have great expectations for this group.

WitNit has this on his sidebar:

Munuvians I Am Methodically Checking Out One By One Because I'm Just A Curious Kind of Guy

Add in the bondage link (I haven't followed it) (yet), and some very sharp writing and I invite you to have a looksee and maybe you'll find something to your liking.

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According to CalTechGirl:

Starting Tuesday, the BBC will be offering all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies for FREE AND LEGAL download!!!

Not precisely correct, because Mookie and I downloaded Symphonies 1 and 3 this evening. Yay!

Follow yon link for details. There was a quote painted on the wall of our music room in high school:

Music washes from the soul, the dust of everyday life.

Never pass up a chance to absorb a little culture.

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Viking kitties. You can never have too many Viking kitties.

I've missed them.

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"Africa is worth fighting for. Europe, in its present form, is not." -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair

This refers to changing the focus of his administration from joining the EU to fighting poverty in the Third World.

Thanks to Q&O for the pointer.

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A light analysis of one of his masterpieces and how defendable it is if the undead rise again. Plenty of interesting background history too, of the more mundane sort.

Thanks to Mrs. Spoons for the pointer.

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1 Heh. You found it too.

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From Gir.

Immediately following there is a list of 28 different occupations. You must select at least 5 of them (feel free to select more). You may add more if you like to your list before you pass it on (after you select 5 of the items as it was passed to you). Each one begins with "If I could be..." Of the 5 you selected, you are to finish each phrase with what you would do as a member of that profession.

For example, if the selected occupation was "linguist," you might take the phrase "If I could be a linguist...I would learn Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Italian and Chinese." See how easy that is? Here's the list:

The list thus far:

* If I could be a scientist...
* If I could be a farmer...
* If I could be a musician...
* If I could be a doctor...
* If I could be a painter...
* If I could be a gardener...
* If I could be a missionary...
* If I could be a chef...
* If I could be an architect...
* If I could be a linguist...
* If I could be a psychologist...
* If I could be a librarian...
* If I could be an athlete...
* If I could be a lawyer...
* If I could be an inn-keeper...
* If I could be a professor...
* If I could be a writer...
* If I could be a llama-rider...
* If I could be a bonnie pirate...
* If I could be an astronaut...
* If I could be a world famous blogger...
* If I could be a justice on any one court in the world...
* If I could be married to any current famous political figure...
* If I could be a superhero...
* If I could be a comic book character...
* If I could be a jail guard...
* If I could be an animal...
* If I could be a hacker...

If I could be a gardner, I'd love to have acres to play with. Formal, informal, meadow, with plenty of minions to do the heavy scut work.

If I could be a chef, I'd probably lose weight. I eat less when I'm doing serious cooking for some reason.

If I could be a librarian, I'd be in heaven. To be paid to be surrounded by books and to do research all day would be wonderful. I think I'd like to be involved in the efforts to commit historical works to eformats.

If I could be a llama-rider... sorry, I don't swing that way.

If I could be an astronaut, when I wasn't in space, I'd want to be doing educational initiatives for younger kids to get them excited about science and math.

I'm not going to pass this one on to anyone specific, but if you want to take a whack at the ol' meme-pinata, feel free and link back. Your name will show up at the bottom, so there's the link-carrot to go with the pinata-stick.

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I'm up early this Saturday morning because Mookie has her SATs. I think this is her first try at the new ones, I know she took the old version at least once. She's not done badly, but since you can submit the best scores you get, why not spend a few bucks to improve the numbers, eh?

So while waking up for the drive across county (why can't they schedule the dang thing nearby?), I thought I'd knock off a meme that was handed to me a while ago by Elisson, who just happened to post this bizarre bit o' arcana recently about the oddest guest appearance in a comic strip (plus, he flew rockets).

Anyways, the meme is:

Take a picture of your fridge and/or describe the contents in poetry form.

Uh huh. Right. Early on a Saturday morning, I'm gonna wax poetic. Being a bit cranky and rushed this AM, I'll do a quick description in free form (play those mental bongos in the background and call me beat, daddy-o).

Two types of eggs. Eggs for baking. And reduced-cholestorol eggs for jes' plain eatin'. Lots of each, because two of us went to the store separately last time and both bought eggs without realizing the other did too.

Sodas, the giver of caffeine. Diet Coke (wife), and Diet Pepsi (yours truly), with a few odd Dr. Pepper's tossed in there because I like a little variety. In the drinkable liquids category are also ice water and several cartons of OJ. Milk is there as well, but we use it mainly for splashing over cereal (oh heavenly cornflakes) and cooking.

A half-empty carton of heavy cream, used for cooking, and the remainder used for scrambled eggs and/or mashed potatoes. Also in the back are my containers of base, one chicken, on beef, for making stock when I cook. More convenient than canned, boxed or homemade, and better tasting than those frightful cubes.

A huge jar of diced garlic, for convenience, next to a small jar of horseradish, for fire.

Yogurt. Our traditional at-work breakfast is to snag a container of low-fat yogurt and a piece of fruit. Been doing it for years, and you'll usually find at least a week's worth of the "active cultures" in the fridge.

With summer here, in spirit if not officially, veggies abound. We have a huge old Tupperware salad-bar thingie that is chock full of grape tomatoes, broccoli florets, julienned carrots, diced scallions, sliced cucumbers and more. That sits on the shelf above another monstrous bowl full of salad greens. Dressings are in the fridge door (which reminds me, we need to restock as I'm out of Bleu Cheese).

Leftovers. Last night we had Italian sausages grilled, with grilled fruit and veggies alongside. A platter of sausages, pear quarters, green pepper and slabs of onion are waiting for lunchtime picking at.

There's a container of Chicken Mo Fo in there too. Oldest daughter Robyn took some to work yesterday for lunch and brought back rave reviews. That makes me happy.

The crisper drawers are stuffed full of more veggies (top) and meats and cheeses (bottom). The door contains a few various jams and jellies for PBJ's, some ketchup, mustard and other sauces (mostly for cooking) and a brand spanking new jar of yeast for the breadmaker.

Gotta run.

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First, new Munuvians. Yay! Each of these people had to be nominated to join our happy clan of bloggers, and then voted on in a super-secret process involving thought and counting and everything. We're like the Island of Misfit Toys. I'm the Teddy Bear with the very large ego and the very small diplomatic ability. But hey, my questions get answered.

So please go visit and welcome:

Feisty Repartee
Snugg Harbor
One Happy Dog Speaks
Stuff I Think You Should Know
Quality Weenie
Bobo Blogger
Drunken Wisdom
Two Roads Diverged
AAFFLLAACCKK
And What Next
Id's Cage

Bring pie. Pie's always nice.

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Gordon Tatro does it again!

It would not be correct for me to copy and paste the letters here (they would not look correct or official anyway, if I did that), so please click this link and read it...the reply from the owner to the State of Michigan...is GREAT!

Don't'cha love it when the beauacracy plays straight man?

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Laughing my ass off at these twisted "Love is..." cartoons.

Wegg, thanks. I needed that.

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But this week's poetry day offering, courtesy of annika, is wonderful.

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Over at Spork's place, an absolutely outstanding photo taken on Memorial Day.

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