...finally

But I wrote 150 words about not being able to write anything. That's gotta be something.

Hey Al,

Um, let me try to put this delicately. Uh, all your friends are here to support you and we were thinking, um, maybe its time you took a little break from the whole blog thing for a while. Just a break, but a chance to refresh yourself. You know, take a little time to clean out, I mean, detoxify, I mean ... well, you know, take a break. Anyway, we all support you %100. Good luck and God bless.

Hans

Whew...really? That would be great.

have some more coffee. you'll be fine. write about the goat farm. and where's the link to the soft porn?

Gulp. (racing pulse.....)
Yahoo has a photo of Molly Sims wearing a diamond bikini worth 30 million, from the Soft Sports swimsuit issue. If I win Powerball this weekend, 365 million and counting, I could easily buy that bikini for the wife...

Jeeezzz, since when does Latvia have a kick ass hockey team??? How embarrassing. HOWEVER, the women's ice hockey probably comes down to US versus the evil Canadian hockey team.

I'm kind of there with you Alan. I've been struggling too. Do I go deep or do I go trivial? What the hell is there to talk about that can't wait until tomorrow? Will I hurt anybody's feelings? Have I shared everything I could possibly share with the whole frigging world...

Both of you should relax with the confidence that your readers are willing to take the ball and run with it. And the Swimsuit issue is something we can run with, I think....

....the wife says she doesn't want a 30 million dollar bikini somebody else has been wearing. I think the very rich have tough decisions to make in this life: 'hmmm, what next? diamond bikini? Lear Jet? Golden Rolls Royce? Carribean Island? Small third world country?'

Actually, Cyn, I was just being lazy this morning. No big crisis. But on the obligation thing, once when I left a law firm I was challenged by someone saying "but what about your clients?" The utter self-answerability of that question left me a-gaukin' at the questioner.

What with all the soft-porn, I doubt I shall ever run out of things to type about.

Ah, but you are the specialist. I, by comparison, am the generalists' generalist and flounder awash in the sea of banal fact overload that is the farce of the information revolution.

Hee hee hee. Down here in the placeholder between Canada and Mexico, it is a tradition for Vice Presidents to shoot someone.

Well, at least with two data points we can define a line, and therefore project a trend...

Howzzat? Raise your spirits any, you pathetic excuse for a Bolshie?

8^D <====== Emoticon for the readers who don't know me...

Whoowee, John, ya'll got our attention! But the real question is, which Bolshie? Many of us here lean left, but you know, we have more fun, just like blondes.

Hey. I have no idea who #7 is but I know John. And he buys me hats. You buy me treats and you can call me a Bolshie. New rule.

Hee! 007 doesn't know me if he thinks he has more fun... #82!

But, since Alan has failed to exterminate the Kulaks, he's a pathetic excuse for a Bolshie. Just as what passes for conservatives in the Great Plaid-wearing North are pathetic excuses for good veins-in-the-teeth Right Wing Nut Jobs!

Sounds like you're an honest right-wing-nut-job.

Hey Al, you usually have a better clientel in here(usually I'm the lowest type varmit you let in here). What's with letting John and James Bond in, eh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

You are not helping.

Heeeeee.
Here how about this, maybe for the friday free for all.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/washingtonstate/index.ssf?/base/business-2/1140055743122750.xml&storylist=orwashington

Canada, the WTO, and soft timber rulings, oh my!

Oh, fine. Fuzzybear Lioness has cast the gauntlet at the feet of men everywhere (wish she'd taken the fishing weights out of the thing first) at Lex's place and John and Ry are up here snarking the neighbors.

Ooooh! New tradition! Mention cool goings-on and deliberately forego dropping the links! *hint to commenters: alan knows....*

Honorable Contrarian, it sounds like you could use a nice River Horse Tripel ale or three--swing by stately Tuttle Manor the next time you're sojourning to the Jersey Shore.

Leave the "Trotsky Died for Your Sins" bumper sticker home this trip, though...

Al, you need an inspirational enema which, hopefully, will relieve your constipated thinking. There is more to life than the three Bs; beer, baseball and bullshit!

Shoeless--you are right, in a way, there is more to life than the 3 B's(and I hope I do not offend my friends here when I say)there is the FOURTH B-Bikinis. And add an H for hockey. 007 has it right: progressives have more fun, especially on a week when the vice president.....
Gotta go, I'm having breakfast with Ted Kennedy and Howard Dean.....

"I, by comparison, am the generalists' generalist and flounder awash in the sea of banal fact overload that is the farce of the information revolution."

I was about to let you go on vacation, but after a phrase like that, I'm sorry: You have to maintain your vigilance. Back to the keyboard, gunner!

I pass by Heuvelton at 3:00 pm tomorrow. I will wave.

I was going to post this with the one about tying Latvia, but I see there's greater depths to the US team's pathetickiness (it's a word now!).
Sweden vs Canada for the gold? At least we'll have some variety.
They tied?
Well, tying Latvia! They should be celebrating till summertime!
There needs to be more teams competing for the gold here, for this to be a tournament.
Sigh.
On a related note, the CBC's Don Cherry is again making a fool of himself, as our fellow non partisan Canadian at Chimera's Cavern noted.
Cheers,
lecentre, of yet another non-partisan site, Centrerion