First of all, I must say, Procter & Gamble Satanic Company, that I am very, VERY disappointed in you. Here I go making your stalking public, offering free publicity, promising people that if they couple your name with demonic connotations you will come and visit them, all to what end? Not one hit on my blog since. Not one! What gives? You're making me look bad and I call foul. I'll give you the weekend to bot my blog then we have some serious issues. Like, I'm going to encourage my regular (13) readers to boycott and never ever buy Charmin again kind of issues. And then you're up a creek. Because my readers? Social workers. Activists. By God, we can talk friends and tell them not to buy Charmin either. And they won't. Know why? Social workers. Don't mess with us.
Secondly, it's funny that I was just thinking of Molly Ivins the other day and wondering in just what wonderful way she would skewer both candidates, the houses of congress, and Sarah Palin Moose Hunter these past few weeks. Salon read my mind and offered this ode to her yesterday.
Thirdly, I just love our little community of bloggers (see sidebar). When I first started this thing, basically on a whim one night, (and granted, with delusions that I could become the Heather Armstrong of social work blogging), I could only find Prin when I searched around for "our kind". Now, we have a little cyber village and I think it's fabulous. I love that we all read and comment on each other's sites, that we're able to get ideas and support, that we have our token dude (rock on, AntiSWer!), and that it's a community beyond the US.
Sorry. Got sappy there. I apologize, it won't happen again. It's the wine....
Forthly, I'm warning you now that I have some serious rants and info on tap for next week. I just don't have the inclination to put it all down in any sort of coherent or organized fashion now.
Fifthly (is this a word?), for the second time this week, I'm shamelessly promoting This American Life, to absolutely no benefit of my own other than to hope Ira stumbles upon me one day and profess his undying need to have me on his show. His most recent episode, entitled "Going Big", features what sounds like an unbelievable program in Harlem, NYC. It's about a man who decided to literally put an end to poverty in this community and how he went about it. Fascinating stuff. The segment is precisely 30.5 minutes long and you can listen to it for free here.
Lastly, everyone needs The Flaming Lips in their life:
See you Monday! ->
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