I skipped last week. Did you notice? Things are so quiet and I was finishing up two weeks off work. Napping one evening this week to catch up, I woke up to Joy Division on the radio and was, in that place between the dream and not, confused what year it was. I wasn't sure for half a second if it was high school or not but remembered when I figured it out waking up from an after supper nap in summer, one maybe 30 years ago when I was tired from a long day of mowing or building concrete sidewalks as opposed to sitting at a desk followed by an evening and night of the noises and demands of five kids and a cat.

⇒ The Mugs With Swastikas Update: "...tubes of toothpaste with German labels."

⇒ Your "This is news???" PEI Update: Headline: Guy Seeks Shelter From Rain.

⇒ Flickr is dying.

⇒ Look at all the other royal things in Canada. The CBC's isolationist anti-sovereigntist bias frankly sickens me. What other topics are taboo? I want to know what Duceppe thinks about anything.

⇒ This plus the current article in the New Yorker makes for some scary thoughts. How did the GOP put itself in this place?

⇒ Thanks, Tony. Thanks for lowering the standard. Thanks, DJnotsofunkyGG, for raising it.

⇒ The Gin Pennant! The Gin Pennant!!

There. That is it. Friday lays before me like a breakfast buffet at a mid-range roadside hotel in a middling town in a middling state. Hope there's sausages.