A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE COUNTRY; NOW HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS: I can't tell you how much time I wasted today reading how everybody got here. Put me in a great mood. It also got me to look into the web sites of the people who listed their homepages. Here's a roundup of recent activity:

• Christina teaches us the right way to crack an egg.
  
• Marsha and her son's dialogue about boogers is almost a haiku.
  
• Ticky makes me laugh out loud choosing the names of this year's tropical winter storms.
  
• CW reads Newsweek the riot act for finally catching on to what he's already blogged about and what we know: TV these days is better than the movies.
  
• Bob in SA's homepage is a dead link. Such droll commentary, Matt's uncle!
  
• Carrie is writing her second book. Although its theme song is by Nada Surf, Carrie herself shares a theme with a certain little red-haired girl with no pupils. I'll bet Carrie has pupils.
  
• Tosy & Cosh gives you a great hour-long playlist consisting of only five songs. It does not include "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" (which I once programmed into a juke box five times in a row; not a popular decision) or the live versions of "Dazed and Confused" or "Cowgirl in the Sand." As a bonus, T&C invents a finite, palindromic, non-unique numbering system to organize his list.
  
• Mark (whose blog may or may not be named for a song from Anodyne and loads so slowly that for a split second of white-screen you may fear that Mark has nothing at all to say) in fact does have something to say about a recipe for delicious-sounding french toast.
  
• We all know of injustices in the world that can push us into outrage. For Stevie, that injustice is awarding a Grammy to "My Humps."
  
• Ted picks up the story of the student who sued Professor Strahilevitz in U of C Fashion Court for poor dressing (tortious sartory?).
  
• Finch is all business, and has been since he last updated his page a year and a half ago.
  
• Jessica wants to know why Japanese people take pictures of food. Because it's better than eating pictures, duh.
  
• Jennifer has a helpful sidebar that tells you what promotional holiday it is, like "Return Shopping Carts Day." Also, she's a champion knitter, so don't mess.
  
• Daniel has 24 separate thoughts about Idol, neatly divvied up into 12 thoughts each about the men and the women. Query: Is Antonella the anti-Clay?
  
• Christy is knitting a baby blanket. Gold-Medal Knitter Jennifer, Christy wants me to tell you that IT IS SO ON.
  
• Cagey asks some thought-provoking questions in the titles to her posts. As to the woodpecker question, my guess is yes, and some kind of mesh netting.
  
• Helen just got over running the Philadelphia marathon. In fairness, she posted that on November 30. I recommend changing the post title so that it no longer reads "update."
  
• Andrew links us to a robot playing 'Trane's "Giant Steps." I don't know, dog, it was a little pitchy, but you're doing your thing, it's all right.
  
• Heather needs a new iPod.
  
• Alan Sepinwall has professional-caliber thoughts about Heroes, which I can't read yet for TiVo-related reasons, and S60 and HIMYM, which you've already read.
  
• 3under5 claims that, movie-wise, she's easy to please. In completely unrelated news, she also liked Music and Lyrics
  
• Natalie went to Spain. It was a while ago, but it takes a while to get all that ham out of your system.
  
• Bill likes Fishbone so much he linked to their version of Freddie's Dead. Suppressing Curtis Mayfield protection urge.
  
• Jeff Martin has the opposite of my Tuesday night problem: too much TV.
  
• Sean owns the title of Blog that Uses the Most Words to Keep us Updated on UCLA's Record, but it's okay, because I once virtually set him up with a cute competitive eater.
  
• The last five posts on Sara's site, which promises a book recommendation every day (for those of you who read 365 books a year), go: education satire; vampires; cultural identity; race; call to comments.
  
• Tony wants you to know that Bowling Green beat Michigan in hockey. Rough year for the Wolverines; Hockey Orange also beat them in bowling.
  
• Finch, yes, Finch again, has a new blog in the few hours since I first posted this. He doesn't know what to write in it. Hasn't stopped us, Finch.
  
• Jennifer Weiner was on TV with Martha Stewart, and looks great in the pictures, by the way.
  

By the way, if you want me to remove your site from this post, just let me know and it's done.