This is going up now. As the day goes on, I may do more, but I have to work for real today.

 I'll start assembling another one tonight for tomorrow morning if anyone is interested...I probably make better picks when I'm drinking coffee, but I have a lot more fun doing this when I'm drinking wine...Enjoy, and don't yell at me if I've pissed you off. The pay sucks.

 Oh, Splendidly Average, maybe it's my Canadianness that loves this, but it's sublime...a little French Canadian folk tale for those who want a break from the usual. It has a skunk in it. How can you not love a skunk? (Note: if I could do those image thingees, I'd put a little skunk in here)

 This is a really sweet post listing all her favourite things from Life Is Good. I mean, how can you not love someone who chooses that as a screen name? I will cop to nodding along when she lists her fave singers...Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits and Rod Stewart - gravel and whiskey garglers, all.....Life is Good is a really gentle soul among us. I like that. (Note: Life is Good already has some nice pics on her post. Go there)

 I will admit to not knowing why I'm putting this in here. mkdonato  is chronically honest about her bad on- line dates. I am intrigued by these posts. I am also alarmed that her most ardent fan is that I.C. London freak, but I digress. I really, really want mkdonato to have a good date.(Note: I really don't want pics for this post. Sorry.)

Thought provoking post by the zen haitian regarding reparations for Blacks. If the poster pictured doesn't stop you in your tracks, there's something wrong with you. If you don't consider the entire post, there is something more wrong with you.

Here's the crybaby post for me...what a wonderful piece of writing from randypd. Really. Just beautiful.

Marcela, thank you for introducing me to a woman, Negra Sosa,  who has so obviously been held in the hearts of not just Argentinians, but so many others around the world. Flip on your speakers and listen to this. It's important.

Now, to anyone who's smoked a little weed or gotten into their wine or JW, you really need to enjoy a little micalpeace. While you can pick up any of his posts almost at any point - he's perfected stream of consciousness - go back to the beginning and give the gentleman a little more of  your time. Usually stream of consciousness pisses me off, to be honest. But this guy has some pretty wonderful layers in there, and his sign off of ' cool beans, hippy mike, peace'....well, it just makes me smile every time.

The Foodie Posts: Well, it is  Tuesday, after all...

 Verbal with a lovely eulogy for Gourmet Magazine...the woman knows that of which she speaks. Or whatever the proper grammatical sentence should be. Pair it with Juliet Waters' interview with Ruth Reichl, the woman who made the magazine great.

Here's my foodie post. Because I'm a shameless hussy. Don't like it? Make your own damn cover. Let he/she who has never cooked with an Easy Bake Oven cast the first stone.

iamsurly thinks she can cook.  We all know she's just putting in these vintage recipes to make everyone barf. Today I'm including her shephard's pie because it happens to be what I'm making for dinner tonight. Without the orange potatoes.

Debbs4 wrote some shmoo about cooking zucchini. I was going to include it, but it has an awful lot of ingredients for something I could just go buy at the bakery. Then again, anyone who can turn vegetables into cake should probably earn a direct spot here every week. Send me some; I'll trade you for a tiara.

If my mom were alive, I would so be getting her to make this Orange-Vanilla Pound Cake for me. Thanks, Nini Kahler. This will be stuck in my head all day. And I bet your cakes don't run all over the counter. And I see you have proper pans, as well. Sigh.

Leave it to O'Really to make me self-conscious about eating with my elbows on the table... but everyone should probably read this...and squirm.