Timelies all!

Went to work despite the snow. (Policy was that workers could get to work no more than 2 hours late, or take unscheduled leave. I got to work at 8. Whee.)Snow stopped and the roads are clear now.

Blago gets six-figure book deal

Fuck him.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who became famous across the country in part for allegedly saying of President Obama's old Senate seat, "I’ve got this thing and it’s fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for fuckin’ nothing," will apparently make some money off the deal after all.

The news just out from his PR people is that Blagojevich has scored a six-figure deal with an independent publisher, Phoenix Books, to pen a book about the process of picking Obama's replacement. Somewhere, any lawyers still remaining on the former governor's legal team are cringing and popping Aspirin.

Here's hoping he gets the kind of sales that Joe the Plumber has gotten with his book.

Seeing that "fuck him" reminds me of the Colbert bit from last week, with the red button that shouts out whatever the segment's tagline is. This time around, it was "Fuck 'em!", and part of it included a great rant about the mental travails of going to Six Flags Great America with your buddy and two girls from French class, one of whom you have had a crush on since sixth grade but of course, that's the one whom your buddy has to sit next to on the Demon, and the other girl hooks up with a guy from 'Tosa East and you have to get home on a bus from Gurnee! "Fuck em!"

Isn't that profiting from his crimes...well, I've got the perfect title: "If I f---- did it"

Isn't that profiting from his crimes...well, I've got the perfect title: "If I f---- did it"

"If They'd Let Me Sell the Fucking Golden Thing"?

Better. Dare I say fuckin' golden? Who's he gonna get to blurb it? Clay Davis? "My absolute favorite Polack whiteboy. No sheeit." --Clay Davis

playdate was good. it's always good to see how other kids play. this kid plays ROUGH and boy howdy going through a defiant stage with his mother. I heaped praise on mac for being a good role-model as the older friend and for being wonderful in general today. We are 1/3 of the way through the science project and will probably be 1/2 done before the night is over.

I even got some house stuff done during the playdate, but not what I wanted since the mom came over to hang out. She never leaves him solo on first playdates, which is probably a good policy.

The Google logo today is a Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss.

eta: I'm trying to remember which book the yellow bears in the middle are from.

I *think* they're from Hop on Pop.

Yes, those are the bears who "Walk walk we like to walk / walk talk we like to talk / Hop hop we like to hop / we like to hop on top of Pop."