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11/21/08

Clear the desktop Friday

Funny dog, Tampa, FL.


Today is the day to pass on my clutter to you.


From: Chas. "Hi hi! Thought you might find this amusing...."


From: Vicki, Amy Ray show. "Lili has hijacked my phone. Keeps insisting on sending you pictures. Sorry!....It was a lesbo super group! Kaia Wilson, Melissa York, Julie Wolf were all in the band."


From: Neil.


From: Marla.


From: Sunshine Thuggery's Victory Collection.


From: Deb D. No battleship for you.


Plant one today.


Elliot

11/20/08

Where the Mekong and Rio Grande Meet

Hello down there. Albuquerque's at 5314 feet, an altitude at which some of us shouldn't drink alcohol. Last night Chez made smoked Basa fish with a poached egg, kale, quinoa, and a spicy peanut sauce. My job was to smoke the fish, which I half did. Eric's job was to make real margaritas, which put me down for the count. Here's dinner:

But before dinner could be made, we had procure foodstuffs. So we rode our bikes to the co-op, where I saw this thing, which I'd never seen before:

Chez says it's Romanesco cauliflower. She was happy to be at the co-op, and so was I.

But before we could ride to the co-op, our route had to be planned. Our route planner picked the Paseo del Bosque bike path, which runs alongside the Rio Grande.

But before we could plan the trip, we had to arrive here at La Casita. Jill and Eric thoughtfully display a youthful photo of me on the mantle, a reminder that I've been gay and nearsighted for a long time.

In order to get here, we had to drive up I-25 from El Paso. On the way we had to go through one of these checkpoint places, where they ask you if you're a US citizen, and if you are smuggling people into 'Merica. We had to hide all the illegals in the back of the Prev.

Here ends the dream-chronology portion of this post. Below is the great Jill "Sherman" McElmurry, hard at work on a book. I can see her over there in her studio from my table here in the guest house. Aside from the fact that I'm working (7-3:30 Mountain Time), this is pretty much The Life.

11/18/08

Happy Birthday, Anisha!

No time for funnin' today, but wanted to lend a hand to a needy friend of a friend in these trying times. Good thing we had fiscal conservatives running the country. Just think how bad off we'd be otherwise!

ps. i hope i am doing this right now

11/17/08


'those things over there are not giants but windmills.'

This morning we're in El Paso, Texas, home of Chez's Aunt Mona and Uncle Al. We drove eight hours yesterday from South Llano River State Park, in Junction, TX, where we'd van-camped through an 18-degree night. We are really digging the state parks, and checking out the RV-lifestyle. Llano River was clean, friendly and lovely, with good hikes up into the hills and gobs of deer, Rio Grande Wild Turkeys, armadillo, birds and birders. Here are some illustrations:

Driving I-10 across southwest Texas was about as pleasant as an eight-hour drive can be. There's something about the big emptiness from horizon to horizon, and the 85mph speed limit that really makes those miles roll by. Eventually the sun set, the big waning moon popped up, stars filled the sky like handfulls of shiny sand, and that put us in the mood for burritos.

The odds of happening upon decent food on the road in the middle of nowhere Texas are small, so we pulled out the TomTom. Chez's dad sent us the TomTom for our trip, and I was immedately and mostly thereafter disparaging of it in every way, however, I've since been schooled in its usefulness in food gathering. (I...was....wrong.) Last night it found us Chuy's Restaurant and John Madden Haul of Fame, in little Van Horn, TX. What luck! The Cowboys-Redskins game was just starting, too. The food wasn't good, but they had homemade tortillas, decent table salsa, and we spotted two gay boys. Also:

The day before we'd driven from Chez's mom's place in North Zulch to Austin. I'd never been to Austin before and I was pretty psyched. We only had a few hours so we hit Barton Springs Pool, which is a park with a big public swimming hole, which every city should have, and then we rode our bikes to Flipnotics Coffee and then Uncle Billy's Brew and Que. We tried their Pale Ale, Amber, Porter and Stout. Mmm... And when we were done sampling a nice and not-creepy guy picked up our check. Yay nice people!

Prop 8 Protests

While we were being useless vacationers, our friends around the country were protesting discrimination. Here's Nathalia in Tampa, FL:

And here's our Shauna, writing it up for DCist: Rain, Delays Didn't Keep Prop 8 Protesters Away

FAT

Right now I'm working and Chez is reading an advance copy of The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race, by Barry Popkin, passed onto us by my bookstore-working sister. I don't want to harp on the diets and lifestyles of the peoples, but we've been in the South for a while now, and on the road, and it's hard not to notice that what's largely available and what the people eat is fried fat and sugary junk. But hey, we're all doing better than Bob's people....

Bob's hometown of Huntington, WV, has been named the nation's unhealthiest city. Nearly half the population's obese! The AP story makes the residents sound like barely-literate globe-shaped savages: "They stare hard at any stranger in a new car." Hahaha....anyway, check it out: W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking.



A likely suspect: Tudor's Biscuit

-30-

11/14/08

Three County Highway


Ray's Drive In, in Lufkin, Texas. Grilled cheese, tator tots and onion rings. Lengthy review at Texas Burger Guy. Pic by CA.

Today I rode my new bike down State Highway 21. I love my new bike, and I love riding my new bike. I dislike when big trucks crammed with chickens go blowing by, snowing white feathers and billowing chicken stink. But, this isn't California, and extending humanitarianism to chickens probably falls somewhere below extending marriage rights to pit bulls on the Town To-Do List. We are in North Zulch, Texas, created around 1907, when the railroads bypassed plain old Zulch, rendering it fit only for ghosts. The weather has been beautiful and it is quiet aside from dogs and trains.

1. Coach interviewed Indigo Girl Amy Ray for TNG

She did an awesome job.

Amy Ray: The New Gay Interview

2. Heck's Kitchen Public Service Announcements

3. Oblama Reports

4. XXX - Kitty Porn - XXX

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11/12/08

Natchitoches, Louisiana

(Tonight at 8:00 EST on Planet Green: Chef Chez will appear on Emeril Green: Vegetarian Paradise. Chez is going to make something awesome, and Emeril is going to make his Vegetarian Pad Thai, which I frankly doubt holds up to my own Bachelor(ette) Pad Thai.)

Natchitoches


Grin like an idiot if you want a meat pie.

Established in 1714 by the French as an outpost to trade with Mexico, Natchitoches, Louisiana is the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase. It is home of the Natchitoches meat pie. It is the setting of the film Steel Magnolias, and is famous for its annual display of Christmas lights. It should not be confused with its sister city, Nacogdoches, Texas, which is also that state's oldest city. Both were named for the Natchitoches Indians, who once lived there, and were part of the Caddo Nation. The Caddo lived in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas from about 500AD until a series of events, including the charming Mr. De Soto, missionaries bringing the gift of smallpox, and finally the state of Texas, whittled them down and removed the rest to Oklahoma.

Louisana is divided into parishes, rather than counties. Counties are presided over by Boss Hogg and Rosco P. Coltrane, whereas Parishes are ruled by tiny priests.

We are here visiting Chez's bro's family. They've got two cute lil ones and a batch of kittens.

Pick up a drive-thru daiquri at The Filling Station. Straw included.

Rabi and Chez happy together at Pioneer the Pub.

Aja's ten kittens, possibly inspired by batch of new kittens outside.

Florida

Before Lousiana was Florida. Between was Interstate 10, which I'd never traveled before, and which includes Pensacola, Mobile, Biloxi, and Slidell, where this unfortunate thing just happened. "'The IQ level of this group is not impressive, to be kind,' St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said Tuesday."

A few images from the Sunshine State, if you're inclined.

The Board of One City Ministries. No, I never would've guessed. We are from top left: Donna, Michelle, Brenda, Pastor Fritz's wife, Pastor Fritz, AJ, AJ's mom Kathy, Pastor Q, Mandy, Jesse, me.

A meeting of Team Endless Yard Sales.

Extreme Yard Sailing.

This frog was hibernating in the door jam of the Caddy.

Next we spent a night in the van at Big Lagoon State Park, outside Pensacola. We could've stayed there a while.

Content, if not correctly dressed for the beach.

The girl must be in constant motion.

I didn't finish this update in time and now we're in North Zulch. We drove small highways through a very foggy East Texas night to get here. More later.

11/06/08

Mailbox

Knocks on Fox in socks on box

From: Brian
Subject: soviets!

If you are in need of content, which I suspect you will not be, feel
free to share with your readers this clip from Fox News , bravely
identifying the red menace within our nation's borders.

We are capitalists

From: Marla
Subject: inauguration gear?

how to celebrate an obama victory? with yet more cool tees, of course:

like this shirt: The Prez Dispenser

and this one: new management

From: Les
Subject: Thanks

Thanks for the best 30th birthday gift, kaibigan.

(this) and this:

Making the rounds...

Sorry I don't have an original thought to share. I'm relieved and elated and proud and anxious, like everybody else. With a dash of suck it, jerks, and a bit of regret for missing the spontaneous street party in DC. I'm in Florida, visiting sisters and helping with the house and working. It's quiet and peaceful and weird being surrounded by the detritus of a family's lifetime accumulation of stuff. But soon Chez will get up, and it will at least cease to be quiet. More later. Love, JM - Patriot

11/05/08


From Shauna

Happy Happy Joy Joy in The District: Washington, D.C. Celebrates Obama Victory Well Into the Morning, DCist, and D.C.'s Obama Celebrations in Videos, DCist. (!!!)

Obama wins: Approaching street scene at 14th and U, by dddc80

From: Brian
Washington, DC, 2:55am
Subject: U STREET

there were TEN THOSNAD PEOPLE on u street
right in the middle of the goddamn road for ten blocks
i have never done that much hollering in my life
or hugging of strangers

WISH YOU WERE HERE

aso i am drink

From: Coach
DC, 1:18am
Subject: 14 and U

11/04/08 - Scrabble them tiles.

Reports from the ground:

8:42am, Jacksonville, FL: "There's a homeless area in downtown Jax and this morning it was covered w/ Obama signs and homeless folks waving at the passing cars saying VOTE. Amazing." - SBolen, tax attorney, folk singer.

8:58am, Washington, DC: "The kindergarten is chanting 'barak obama!'" - Ms. Shellington, school teacher, rocker.

1:45pm, Virginia: "For the Kitchen: Overheard at Boston Market while canvassing in NoVA....Woman: I tell anyone who knocks on my door, 'You have 20 seconds to tell me whatever you want.' Then I close my door. Man replies: What makes them so selfish as to think they can just knock on my door." -egill, reporting live from VA

To Do:

The revolution will be pretty, and abundant with kittens.

11/02/08

Don't worry about pig; go to church


This week's Stranger, c/o Seattle correspondent B. Eskridge.

The Grand Old Party cooked up a base of crazy and now they've got to eat some crazy soup. Some crazy soup with the former president of the Harvard Law Review, watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken. And in a turban. Because they're totally not racist. In Spartanburg, SC, the local Republican Party Chair showed up at the polls and got picked on by little old black ladies! Haha, just kidding. Republican Ayslum has been turned over to the imates, and Sarah Palin is just one consequence. So go build your personal armories and forward your idiot emails, and claim that Christians are Muslims, that capitalists are socialists, that education makes you dumb, that qualifications make you unqualified, that tax-paying Americans are un-American, that homosekshuls cause hurricanes, that pigs fly through a sky that isn't blue, because soon this great nation is going to elect Barack Obama president. And my comrade Brian may not gloat, but here at HK we'll gloat eternal.

(please win)

A cool email my mom got

From: Mom
Subject: An email from a friend

Good morning cute kids…I may have told you about this email. I seldom ever look at my gmail…I stumbled upon it the other day while trying to find my blog to update! Anyway, this email was in there from August! I think it's AMAZING that she just happened to stumble up my blog!!! Love you all….hope you got LOTS of candy last night! :) and that you want to share it…dark chocoate m&m's, jelly beans, dk choc m&m's, spice drops…oh dad likes all the snickers! :) love you all…later! zemom

Hi Mrs. Gilbert,

You don't know me but I wanted to email you. I found your blog Jambo! and was reading it and it really touched my heart. I never met Sean but I became close friends with Jeff about a month after Sean's death. The way Jeff talked about Sean was amazing, the way everyone talked about him was. I truly felt like I had known him and his amazing personality. I moved out to tampa in June 2007 and eventually met Jeff. I developed an addiction to oxycotin and was drinking regularly. Jeff began living at my apartment and I heard stories about Sean daily and his obituary was even above the visor in my car for a month or so. Even though I never met Sean I want you to know that he touched my life because of Jeff. I was raised in a christian home and began going on mission trips at 13. In 2003 I went to Africa for the first time, Kenya, and it was amazing. I truly had my life focused and never thought I would stray away and get into the situation I did. I completely lost sight of things for a while though and my life only consisted of partying. Since last October I have been living with my parents again and have realized the mistakes I was making in my life. I turned my life back over to God and he took control. I was able to go back to South Africa this May and am planning on going again next year. I was actually headed to the airport when I got the call that Jeff had killed himself. It was hard to deal with but I realized that God had it planned and if I would have been here and focusing on it I probably would have ended up back in the situations I was before. My mom actually saw the story of you guys on Keeping the Faith and told me about it because she had heard me mention Sean's name before. I just want you to know that you both are in my prayers. I know God will truly use you in Uganda. I hope to read great things in your blog in the months to come.


God Bless

Cool, huh?

Savannah, GA

Speaking of flying pigs, HK proudly presents a recurring feature called...

Bob's Hometown Paper Letters to the Editor

Don't worry about pig; go to church

I think it is a shame that people care more for a pig than a human life. When they eat bacon, sausage and ham, they don't think about a poor little pig. I think it is better a child is chasing a pig than a dope dealer. If you stop and think about it, the child is off the street and having good, clean fun. So picture that poor ol' pig smelling good as it is cooked, fried or baked.

So instead of fussing, those people ought to go to Lighthouse Baptist Church and just see how the Lord has and is using that church to reach the likes of those who are the complainers. Keep on doing the Lord's work, Lighthouse Baptist. Huntington needed a church like yours for a long time.

David Sneade

Huntington

Scurry Art

My sister has some neat creepy art up at a club here in Ybor. That's my other sister and bro-in-law pictured. As a bonus, Chez got her first view of the Senator.

Improved

10/31/08

Return Home with Bimbo

Mornin, hon. I hope you want the usual.

Last night we watched the rerun of Barack on The Daily Show, and I thought he was charming and relaxed and funny — should I say Clintonesque, with less smarm? At one point he copped to seeing a shrink to help his white half fight the Bradley Effect when he goes to vote.

Then we watched The Wire creator David Simon on The Colbert Report, and I thought he managed to get some words in sidewise . I looooove Colbert, but I wish he'd drop his wingnut egomaniacal commentator schtick during his interviews. Anyway, special correspondent and fellow Wire fan Annie sent what we somehow missed: On the Road: Raleigh, North Carolina, FiveThirtyEight.com.

"A fiery Sonja Sohn told the large crowd, 'When you look at The Wire, you see how institutions fail.' Passionately, she advocated for Barack Obama because, in her view, he was the candidate who would not continue to ignore those who fall through the cracks. 'He said to me, "I am my brother's keeper," y'all!'"


© Brett Marty

In case you have forgotten or don't know, Sonja Sohn played Detective Kima Greggs, our very favorite boozing, philandering lesbian detective. Also present were Chris and Daniels.

"These ladies don't exactly stop on a dime," an officer explained.

I missed the annual pleasure of standing in the cold and watching drag queens run down 17th street, but Shauna didn't: Campaign Faces Join Usual Suspects at High Heel Race, DCist.

Mayor Fenty's endorsement pictured, by Joe Tresh, Washingtonphotojournal.com.

Family stuff

I thought my mom had given up roaches in bed years ago, but I guess the boredom is getting to her: Today, I Ironed Boxers.

Sister Mandy and bro-in-law AJ modeled for sister Jesse yesterday.

It's hopeless

Sometimes I realize that it's hopeless. Like when I find the Harriet Carter catalog in my grandma's bathroom. Imagine the resources used to manufacture this shit. And then just give up on trying.

I didn't know your mom sold bread

Last week Chez and I were walking down 14th and spied this bread truck.

It's like the latin Pillsbury Doughboy ("a small anthropoid character apparently made out of dough"), plus Wonder bread, plus dumb broads. I wondered at having never seen this brand before, but then we saw it again last night here in Landrum, SC. Just so you know.

Is our children learning?

Yes. Students Find Body in Anacostia Cleanup, Shauna: "'did the 'DUM-DUM' from Law & Order sound right after they found it?' asks one tender commenter."

Let's close with a completely relevant photo of Coach and Madge accosting a coworker at an office party.

10/30/08

Things happen, a pictorial

Things have happened since yesterday, involving teeth, vans, and Bob's foot. But the only hard news I have for you is that Chez and I drove eight and half hours to my grandma's in South Carolina and we got in very late. Here is a picture of my co-pilot scaring the crap out of me with a mask she sneakily bought at the CVS. I put the mask on later when we stopped for gas, and she snuck up and scared the crap out of me again. I cannot win with this mask.

Don't take candy from the old man in the van.

(Grandma is in the living room right now, yelling at The View.)

I forgot I took this picture of myself last week at another CVS. If you look closely you might be able to tell that I'm wearing a Hillary mask. When that guy at the DMV told me I looked like "someone famous" that day, I figured he meant Ellen, but now I'm not so sure.

We replaced mom's Jesus fish with this sticker, guaranteeing safe passage through the red states.

Debbie's Rules

My mom was in Skirt! magazine a couple months ago, but I hadn't seen it until arriving at my grandma's last night.

Debbie Gilbert | Ministry Founder — she's so skirt!

A Mezcal Minute with Madge and Ed







Lez Zeppelin

10/29/08

Elliot Arthur Check!

Papa Check writes, "Born this morning at 4:01 am, weighing 5 lbs and 14 ounces. Jessica is resting comfortably at Holy Cross and we are up for visitors. More pictures and info to follow. Please forward!"

(Sent from my iPhone)

Welcome to the internet, son!

My mom is out of toilet paper, M&Ms

Mom's posted Some Things About Uganda. Neither would I enjoy bargaining for pineapples.

PS. Cornelius has game.

10/28/08

"When will the media or ESPN report this story?"

My sister ran into my favorite star of the 1995 hit comedy Clueless yesterday whilst votin in Florida.

From: Jesse
Subject: Another great reason to vote

…celebrity sightings!

Alicia Silverstone was in town leading an Obama rally across from the county center today, where I was innocently voting on my lunch break. While waiting, she ended up pulling up the whole parade in line right behind me. She was super nice. I told her I wouldn’t be as nice as she is if I were that famous.

And, check this out, a HEART GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHER was also in line, with his camera, and shot my pic with her after we voted. (Try to remember one of us has a hair & makeup crew and one of us, well, doesn’t. )

Voting is fun!

Countdown to Hellection Elloween

Schlock the Vote

From: Coach
Subject: Schlock the Vote

how does this not register with someone as potentially weird? minstrels for obama??

*Minstrels for Barack*: Street musicians, jugglers, mimes, and so on to entertain voters standing in long lines on Election Day.The busiest times will be morning, 7 am to 10 am and evening, from 4 pm to 7 pm, but we can schedule during the day as well. If you are an entertainer who would like to use your talent in this way, please sign up at www.arlingtondemocrats.org.

Me: way to make people hate democrats.

Shauna: republican plot to drive dem voters away with mimes! you should email this to the huffington post, which i've decided is like a big pile of digital liberal cocaine with the soothing inflated sense of well-being and importance it offers.

Me: i just wrote a crazy person email to arl democrats saying that.

Shauna: i <3 you, grandpa miller :)

Coach: now don't forget to call the radio stations and tell them to stop playing the doors!

i just emailed this to wonkette, good idea shauntron.

Dispatch from Huntington, WV: The Mainstream Media

Irrefutable logic from Bob's hometown paper.

Rays drop the devil and succeed

Beginning as a new Major League Baseball franchise in 1998, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays had 10 consecutive losing seasons, with the worst record in baseball in 2007. On Nov. 8, 2007, Tampa Bay held an event and announced that the team would now be known as the Tampa Bay Rays.

The 2008 season ended with the third-best record in baseball and a trip to the World Series. The new logo has a star in it. Could it be the star of Bethlehem? This story confirms that with the devil you are a loser and with God you are a winner.

When will the media or ESPN report this story?

Jeff Madden

Ona

Headless Palin

From Cheryl's coworker: "Hello! My mom and I got into the spirit of Halloween today."

The Evolution of Puking Pumpkins

Danar sends this year's internet Pukey Pumpkin.

10/27/08

"Hell is other people"

"Works for me," says Mr. Stephin Merritt. We went to The Magnetic Fields' show last night, and some of it was just transcendental, and some of it was just really uncomfortable, because Stephin fusses at Claudia, though cutely like an old married couple, but he also fusses at the crowd, which is understandable when some people ignore repeated requests to stop filming. "When Frank Sinatra was photographed when he did not wish to be photographed......he didn't croon for them," he warned/scolded. After the second set, Claudia returned to the stage for the encore, and when the rest of the band didn't follow, she sang a little verse (lyrics not quite right, but whatever) of "Washington DC." Just for me. I'm sure. When he came back out, Stephin said, "Had we known we would be in Washington, DC, we would have brought the lyric sheet." Hee.

They closed with "Grand Canyon," which all hopeless romantics love. Right, Bob?

Don't bring young children to:

Bears Will Attack

Jack, Danar, Chez and I were witness to the marriage of Constance and Erik Chang-Gillespie. It was very beautiful, and then this happened:

Sorry about my lack of content lately. The other me at work quit, and I'm scrambling to get ready for a long trip, but I promise to get back to my longtime commitment to quantity over quality very soon.

10/24/08

If you don't cry it isn't love

I interviewed Claudia Gonson for TNG on Sunday. I was nervous.

Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson: The New Gay Interview

10/22/08

Breeder's Digest

Used to be Brian would write his own damn blog, but now he just graffitos his wall with the screechings of maniacs, bursts into the Kitchen in that Brian way, and starts yelling. Hooray!

From: Brian
Subject: liberals ... i mean, LIEberals

Your political report for today, in case you are in need of content...

"Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God."
-- Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)

LINK: GOP Rep.: ‘Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God’ [updated with audio]

The rich, meaty stew of ignorance and resentment that comprises the modern conservative political viewpoint is getting hotter and hotter. This is exactly the kind of thing you used to see on right-wing web forums and blogs and what-not, but now actual elected officials are saying these sorts of hateful things in public.

I'd like to blame it all on the sheer bowel-moving terror they're experiencing at the thought of a BLACK DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT, but, in all fairness, I think we can rightly attribute at least part of it to the fact that this country is on the brink of genuine change, and it terrifies them. Just think how upset they're going to be in two weeks.

We must make sure not to gloat or jeer. Reality will be hard enough for them to take on their own without us mocking them. We can afford to be magnanimous when it all comes down. "Seriously," we'll say, putting a comforting arm around their shoulders. "We'll all be better off. Just relax and try not to do such a dick about everything."

You know, I'm trying to work on my temper, and this doesn't help. If you are just some crazy motherfucker claiming that half of Americans aren't Americans, then you're just some crazy motherfucker. But when you're an elected official, you should probably be tried for treason, because this sort of inflammatory bullshit is going to get a real American killed.

Let's lighten up....

Real Americans Are Pro-Brotherly Love

From James: "Somehow edward and i became spokes models for gay marriage."

Ok, back to angry...

DC POLICE: Totally OK to Murder Someone If He Frightens You With His Gayness

Shauna came home from a meeting she covered Monday night regarding the recent surge of attacks on gays in the District, particularly the beating-murder of Tony Hunter last month, which DC Police have inexplicably downgraded: At GLOV Meeting, Disbelief that Hunter Provoked His Attacker, Shauna Miller, DCist. "Robert Hanna, 18, was arrested last Wednesday and charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the deadly September attack on Hunter near BeBar in Shaw. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference Wednesday that Hunter’s death would not be charged as a hate crime, and a police affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court quoted Hanna as saying he had defended himself against a sexual advance by Hunter during an altercation, according to the Blade."

Barksdale the Very Serious Dog Being Dressed for Halloween

Canning with the Kitchen's Top Chef

Chef Chez learns you to can tomatoes and plums, for the coming apocalypse caused by god-and-country-hating liberals. Illustrated!

My Crazy Parents in Uganda

As they nervously await a wire that was supposed to hit their account many days ago, Mom has plenty of time to write 3,000-word newsletters! Here are a few pics and words because I can't reproduce the whole thing for some reason.

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