Sherry Chandler » 2006 » May » 12
Survey USA says 54% of us Kentuckians think our governor, Ernie Fletcher, should resign.
The Lexington Herald-Leader has a poll, too — online, nonscientific. Results here.
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And not the kind in a bottle.
This fellow wandered into the yard a bit ago. I didn’t have time to turn the flash off, so you get some artifact in the window glass, but if you look right smack dab in the middle of the picture you can almost see him/her:
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Well, I drew my pig and analysis says I’m a confrontational realist with no sex life.
How was that determined? I can’t tell you. You’ll have to draw your own pig.
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The other day at work, when we were all sitting around eating our sack lunches and chatting, I was asked if I was going to go see “The DaVinci Code.”
No, sez I. I don’t like Tom Hanks.
The room was galvanized. You’d have thought I’d said I spit on the flag daily. How can anybody not like Tom Hanks? I remember reading somewhere that he is the most trusted man in America.
Well, sometimes I just get contrary and take a dislike to somebody just because everybody else is such a fan. But in the case of Tom Hanks, I think he stands for a kind of sentimentalism that I find distasteful. He’s like a reincarnation of John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. Who were wonderful in their day, but their day is gone. If you want somebody playing a nice guy, give me Bill Murray in “Lost in Translation.” I don’t much care for heroes.
Still, I find myself amused and bemused to think that Forrest Gump now finds himself at the center of the culture wars. Or Ron Howard either.
“The DaVinci Code” is about as much threat to Christianity as my twelve-year-old cat. Or the Left Behind series. Here is Hanks himself on the subject:
“But the story we tell is loaded with all sorts of hooey and fun kind of scavenger-hunt-type nonsense.
“If you are going to take any sort of movie at face value, particularly a huge-budget motion picture like this, you’d be making a very big mistake.
“It’s a damn good story and a lot of fun… all it is is dialogue. That never hurts.”
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I’m not sure who started catblogging, maybe Kevin Drum, who has always considered his cats Political Animals. He, at least, is the first catblogger I found. Atrios does it. I See Invisible People does dog blogging but her cat horns in some times. Bob Harris does pudu blogging. And Rising Hegemon does miscellaneous life-form blogging.
If you like these glimpses into the private lives of cats, you can get a mega-dose at The Modulator, which does a weekly aggregation of animal blogging called The Friday Ark.
The modulator also provides links to various Carnivals to which you can submit your brilliant pet snaps (or nominate your friends), as for example the 111th Carnival of Cats hosted by pages turned.
Karen’s Blog will give you ferrets and stray thoughts on the world at large.
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