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everyone told me last year when i came back from europe, i'd miss it terribly the first few weeks i was home.

it took me a full year to catch up to that, though. every day this month i've been dreaming of my 3 month vacation, and today is probably the worst yet, since last year on this day i was in Cinque Terre, Italy. ugh!!!

flossy miscellany

wholly. check out this amazing blog of re-imagined movie posters, grindhouse-style. i guess my favorite has to be milo & otis, page 8.

um, if you are good at drawing monsters, this guy in the bay area needs your help. it's for a great cause and a really original idea!

speaking of original ideas... i'd love to meet the genius who thought of the bed jump blog (which brilliantly now supports a hotel booking web site). this blog is definitely in my favorites and definitely is going to get addictive!! thanks amy for the fwd.

another favorite blog i read this week was the scariness of science fiction-character weddings... eeeeeeeeeeeeyikes. halloween & weddings just don't seem like a good combination in my mind.

the above link is via mental floss, my favorite blog so far. it's everything you didn't know you wanted to know, but are so glad you now know. like that there's such a thing as extreme croquet.

and for a real bust-a-gut laugh, check out these unconventional someecards that say what you really want to say, but never would dare to.

queen of the cheezy

today's news about hilary asking the public to pick her campaign song just made me gag - especially her song choices! jesus jones, right here right now? if you're gonna go back to that horrid era, why not just go with MC Hammer's 2 Legit 2 Quit? and U2... how cliché can you get! hilary is like, so trying to be cool, and it's like, so not working. barack is the one whose web site tactics are working, hil. nobody likes a copy cat.

i still think barack should pick a rage against the machine song for his campaign. well, maybe that would scare a few midwestern voters away. but how about "talkin' bout a revolution" by tracy chapman? yeah?

safe to say one of the biggest things on youtube this week is a bruce campbell commercial for old spice where he sings "hungry like a wolf" lounge-style. i'm more curious about the underlying strategy of this commercial... is it ever actually going to be on television or did old spice just "leak" it on youtube to get free advertising? i'm thinking the latter.

two web sites i'm really addicted to lately, and really crack me up:
the cool kids' dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/yesterday.php boochabla!
and the site for all the news that's random - http://www.mentalfloss.com/

more coffee please.

i love this web site

check out this author's web site for her new book.
http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

so much to say

lots of news this week...
stop the press - paula abdul just released her greatest hits and that gives me hope that she is giving up on ever continuing with her recording career.

Oprah has officially endorsed Barack Obama (which is no surprise) but I was surprised at the impact several sites are predicting this could have on his odds...

in flip flop news... new james bond style flops with hidden pockets under the soles just came out. this will probably sell really well in nudist communities but other than that environment, i can't fathom a reason i'd want to carry cash or a credit card in shoes that are meant to be worn in the water. duh!

dylan sighting

this story about bob dylan singing to a kindergarten class is almost too good to be true. i'd be scared, too! but glad to hear he's getting along with his son & grandson. jakob dylan is one of the most underrated semi-young talents of this day & age.