beth, your yard is lovely. And, that is a LOT of wood chips. Percy is, of course, adorable. I love the pic of him in the box.

Cute skirt, Jilli!

This week is going to be better than last week. This is my decree to The Universe. To prove this theory, I am wearing my new skully skirt, because it makes me very happy.

Jilli, my co-worker wants to know if you're going to wear that skirt to the premiere of The Corpse Bride.

Jilli, my co-worker wants to know if you're going to wear that skirt to the premiere of The Corpse Bride.

Probably, yes. With a bat-wing hem frock coat.

Jilli, great skirt.

I have met in my life exactly one person who looked good with blue hair, and that's Jess. Most people should avoid it.

Beth, your yard is perfect for a wedding! It looked lovely, particularly the wood chips.

I love all the gold cranes.

I clipped one streak of bright-blue hair into mine last week; got a lot of compliments. And then I unclipped it, and all was non-committy.

Stunningly enough, a consensus seems to be forming around the copper-red. Which I was leaning towards, as it's easier to get that color to actually happen, and actually stay.

I really like the blue as well, but I don't know if I can pull it off.

Photos from my guests' trip start here: [link]

Gratuitous cat photo not included in the link above: [link] (pelicans are the mascot of Mykonos).

It's interesting that so far only a set-up guy and a #5 starter have been busted for 'roids, though the diminishing performances of a number of pitchers there's a lot of whispering about who was using and who wasn't. It actually makes more sense for pitchers to use performance-enhancers, especially chemicals that reduce inflammation and speed recovery time. Sadly, the media just focuses on hitters.

I definitely think that steroids were very common amongst relief pitchers.

You're right that pitching styles have changed quite a bit. It seems like only a few of the older power pitchers (Pedro, Schilling, Clemens) can do that cruising thing where they'll reach back for an extra couple mph in the 7th or 8th inning. You don't see Clemens going up the ladder like he used to in his youth. Huston Street was awesome in a showdown with Vlad in their last series, repeatedly power pitching right on his hands until he sawed off Vlad's bat. Brass balls, babyeee.

Hey, erika - guess what's in the mail?

Also, issues of Serenity are winging their way to Cash and DXM.

Cash, #3 isn't out so I just sent the first two.

DXM, you got an extra CD of Jangley Guitar Pop.

Yay!A little(or a lot of )soul for my soulless town...that's kind of our cliche. A local artist made a lot of money making "Phoenix is Boring" t-shirts a few years back...I have a lot to learn about self-loathing apparently.