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PARTY!

I'm going to a party tonight with dancing, video games, Santa... oh I am so excited!
Have no party tonight? Never fear, this video is all you need -- it's like a straight shot of SHAZZMATAZZ!

Kinda Really Cool

We often give our friends Angie and Steve our wee cabin upstate for the weekend.

The best thing about this is someone else can enjoy it when we can not.

The second best thing is that they always leave it tidier than when they arrived. I call it a "reverse break in." We go around the house shocked as we uncover things like a bottle of wine they've left for us and even better, the opposite of damage to our house, e.g. "Oh my gawd... Ed, come quick...someone has...completely organized the kitchen cabinets!"

The third best thing was a surprise we got this week. Apparently one weekend Steve had a book cover due and he incorporated a ton of our precious items (read: junk) into the painting. Check it out:

Organize Your Corpses by Mary Jane Maffini

Above you see a few of our lamps, a decanter, a clock, our rug from Anthropologie and even an antique croquet set my mother got us. The dog seems to be patterned on our Stan mutt, but maybe that's just wishful thinking. I am ordering and can't wait to read the book. What a wild way to find a new author!

Oh and the dead body was Angie modelling, so they say. But you know, they do clean the place before they go, so I have always wondered what they're trying to hide.

Anyway, until the authorities figure out that their nice artist personas are just a big sham, check out Steve's porfolio Website and Steve's sketching blog, which also features the occasional pic by Angie and lots of naked people.

Desmond the Wonder Fish

Old Desi does not get enough play on the blog. Here he is modelling his newish tank.







Well done Desi!

Introducing "Offendar" -- the radar that alerts you if a sex offender is near. Offendar also wins our prize for the least sexy vibrating electric device ever. -- Susie, blogging over here.

There's a fabulous poll attached to this brilliant blog post I wrote today. Vote early and often. Thanks.

Yep.

I posted here everyday in November for love and no money.

And every weekday here for love and money.

And what's more?

Every post I did was 1000% awesome.

I do hope you enjoyed it.

Don't forget to tip your waitresses on the way out.

Git Outta Here!

Today I'll be posting other sites you really should visit. Keep checking back for updates.

-- My co-worker and foodie friend Jessica (who I snapped tasting goodies) uncovers the dark side of the recent Manhattan chocolate show on her personal blog.

-- My friend Liam is touring around Europe doing comedy and staying in rat holes. He doesn't post enough from the road but we'll take what we can get.

-- Author, New Hampshire rep and cool lady Margaret is also travelling. She's over the pond and showing up Liam by sharing amazing tales and pics, sometimes of real rat holes.

-- Speaking of over the pond, my ex-pat old college comrade Lara, is cooking up a storm in the UK, making and sharing a new recipe every day. Just go, marvel and drool.

-- Buddy Steve is still sketching and sharing his days, and getting better all the time.

-- Gal pal Jen is back from three weeks overseas, entertaining the troops in the Middle East. Go back and follow her exotic adventures on her blog.

Oh no!

Oh yes...

I am random bichon-wearing-a-hat busy yet again.

Sorry!

Remember: I also post at least daily here under the cunning alias, "Susie."

Bichons in hats mean



...I am too busy to blog.

Sorry!

If you're not on Facebook...

You haven't see this expert "Superwall" Sarah did of me wearing what my friend Rosie called my insouciant little blue chapeau.

Other than the aforementioned and posted pic, you are not missing anything with this Facebook business, other than the opportunity to act like you're twelve again.  Which isn't wholly bad, IMHO.

Sunday

Day of rest:



Day of corn muffin making:



Day of me having to jog off the corn muffins:

Ho, ho, ho! I am hilarious! Also, semi-serious.

Gotta go run off the thanks I gave this week.

Later!

I watched Klute tonight.

In it Jane Fonda plays a call girl/aspiring actress.

My man tells me Jane won an Academy Award for her role(!). So back in those days you could get an Oscar just for having skeleton thin hands, famous Hollywood parents and no qualms about taking your top off to expose your tiny twosome?

We've come a long way baby!

Oh, wait... what's this then?



Ah yes.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

Bogged Down

Yesterday, I made cranberry sauce. I had no idea how easy it was.

Cranberries. Sugar. Fire.

Orange peel if you're feeling sassy.

I am full of regret for all the years that I could've been enjoying homemade.

I feel betrayed by the cranberry sauce myths that kept me hooked on the canned stuff.

WHY! WHY! OH Thor above, WHY?

I need... me... some... Edith... NOW!



Thanks Edith!

East Coast/West Coast Sibling Rivalry

My brother thinks he can take home a coveted Glutty this year.

Here's what I say to him:

You're going down this year. We've been injecting marshmallows and freebasing yams since 8AM. And we're still famished. We're having Blutduken tonight, which is a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey stuffed in a blue whale. Gotta go. Kinda hard to eat this capon-on-a-stick while typing.


Good gravy!

GIRLS GONE MILD!

Tonight is traditional Thanksgiving Eve with my friend Angie, in which we eat, drink and bake.

However, baking has been moved to breakfast tomorrow as we went nuts on the Thai, talking and enormous trio of popcorns covered in unhealthy stuff tin I bought from the kid next door to help support the Boy Scouts.

Yes, I blame the Boy Scouts!

Boo Boy Scouts!

OK, I am outta here. 10-4 good buddies.

Enough Already!
a continuing series of strong opinions by Susie Felber

Enough already with the mod bird motif!
Oy!

We get it, birds are cute!



But it's like an unstoppable mod bird virus!



I don't want any mod birds on my notecards...



Let alone on my gazongas!



I say it's a load of bird crap!

Come on, this felt bird pin is so ugly, I saw a macaroni and glitter painting laugh at it.


So: I hereby declare mod bird stuff uncool!

And if I say it -- must be true.

In conclusion,


It's no longer a hoot.

Fly away mod bird merchandise...

Enough already (tm) with the mod bird motif!

Thank you.

Something You Might Not Know

I have a wall-mounted fish bowl...


With a fish in it, even!

The very same fish I blogged about back in August 2006 and photographed expertly in his boring old bowl. Three cheers for Desi the Wonder Fish!*

*As in, wonder why he's still alive

Were You

Were you to search the Internet for cat darts...

This is one of the things you'd find:



So's this:



But you would also find a picture of a cat with a blow dart in its face.

So don't do it.

The cat who has been darted? Doesn't look the worse for wear.

Honest!

But it's still not the kind of family entertainment one expects from "cat dart" searches.

And in conclusion,

Catwoman and her darts of fury:

I am in the country, fleeing from the paparazzi.



OK that's ridiculous.



But I am in the country.


Back soon. 10-4 good buddies.