No Possumblog Thursday, and Odd Assorted Loose Ends
I have much dumb work stuff to get done tomorrow, so there will be none of the rich, tender goodness of Possum, the other, other white meat.

And there was much rejoicing. And now for something completely different...

Axis of Weevilry: Remember to vote for the Croix de Grits nominee of your choice, as polling will cease on the 5th. I was talking to Dr. Rice on the phone just now and she is encouraged by the results so far, as is Florence King, who tells me she is grateful to have pulled into a dead heat with the feisty Benedictine Zoettl.

Possumbooks: If you haven't read it, be sure to get a copy of Rick Bragg's Ava's Man. I just finished this last week and it's a good one. And Rick Bragg's a good one, too. I also finished up Colonel Moore's We Were Soldiers Once...and Young a couple of weeks ago. I should have read it when it first came out, because I kept comparing it to the movie and confusing myself, and the confusing nature of the battle narrative itself made it a chore to keep the action straight. I started what looks like a really good one last night--Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides. It promises to be much better than Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue, simply because so far it doesn't read like a poorly compiled set of 3x5 note cards with quotes on them. Nice and tightly written.

Google Scares Me: I noticed another spike in visits to my old GeoCities archives and found that Google's vaunted search algorithm detected some silly post I did about the imagined fleshly glories of various newswomen, such as the pleasantly wholesome Norah O'Donnell, and another post castigating Taliboy Johnnie Jihad Lindh. The Good Googley Woogley combined these posts to enable some realllllly icky person to reach the Possumblog thinking that I might have some naughty nekkid photos of ol' Johnnie. All together now-- "EWWWWWWWWWW!" And again, what pervgoogler in his or her right mind would think that something called "Possumblog" is the place to find such unimaginably horrendous things? I mean, aside from all of the other horrendously unimaginable things herein.

Anyway, see you all bright and early Friday.
posted by Terry at 4:42:00 PM