Hmm, is that a new form of porn or something "StewMadeOfPants.com" ?

Gronk. I ended up sleeping most of the day. My ankle is hurting less, though.

It was a funny misspelling, though, because "hosen" suggests a stew made of pants.

There's a band (possibly a metal band? I can no longer remember) called Die Toten Hosen, which I find endlessly amusing.

(The Dead Pants.)

(No, I don't know why that's particularly funny, and yet it is.)

smonster, glad to hear the foster cat is feeling better. I totally forgot to say this yesterday but you can give a cat Metamucil - 1 tsp. in 1/3 c. water, and use a dropper to get it down (good luck getting the cat to stay calm long enough to get it all down). Also, a teaspoon of petroleum jelly is another remedy for constipation that cats can take - it is the active ingredient in Laxatone hairball remedy but without the added flavor or color. You open the cat's mouth, smear it on the roof of her mouth, and sit back to enjoy the weird look on her face. It would, of course, be best to get an ok from a veterinarian before giving that stuff, in case it is not appropriate for Grace's circumstances.

All of us hanging in the kitchen, listening to iTunes, and singing "I'm No Superman" (theme song from Scrubs).

Makes me smile, this mental image.

I was just going to say, we don't bite...unless you ask.

Nicely.

Go, P-C, sticking to your boundaries!

Teppy, it sure does sound like someone secretly replaced that guy's grey matter with excrement to see if anyone would notice.

Hi, Cricket! Pull up a keyboard and stay a while. So, how many bunnies do you have? We seem to have a family warren of wild ones in our yard. Watching them is a favorite passtime of both the two-legged and four-legged members of this household.

Bookstore has been accomplished (gads, I love having a FABULOUS indie bookstore two miles from my house!), shopping has been accomplished, and how I have barbequed short ribs going in the slow cooker (with a locally made ancho molasses sauce... le YUM) and will roast potatoes with sea salt in a bit.

Localistas, we really have to make a plan to get together or my poor husband is going to weigh four hundred pounds.

Skippy skippy to post more pics of my baby boy! Starting here: [link]

As you may already know, it is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked. He must commit suicide if he does.

I did plan to go to bed, since I am to get up in six hours, but seeing this... I just needed to say, clear and loud, that Liberal Islam is perhaps the most tolerant religion I'm familiar with (I'm not that familiar with polytheistic religions, but it's most certainly more tolerant than Liberal Judaism, and what I know of some sects of Christianity).

And that's coming from a mostly-secular Jew, in Israel, in one of the focal points of what we love to call "the conflict/the situation".

A sin? Perhaps, under very strict circumstances. The "punishment"? absurd and a lie. And I just wanted to say that, in case people here didn't know that about Islam (not that I know much, but I'm learning a lot from this guy [link] this year.

When in such a deep and split situation, at some point (IMHO) it's not so easy anymore to categorized things into "good" and "evil", for you have to be extremely blind in order to keep the separation between these two concepts that all share. And just as I refuse to become "the other" by mere being a woman, a Middle Eastern (and oh, how I despise my "privileged" university for not acknowledging Arabic as a third language, and only "European" languages counts - so much for the idea of collaboration between Middle Eastern scholars. I'm so glad I learned it in high-school), or Jewish, I refuse to "othernize" other people. L'enfer, c'est les autres indeed, but the others aren't of one religion, one race, one gender or even from one part of the world. And in order to know what's right to fight, one must know what's not to fight, and in the spirit of Judaism - if there's one good man in a city, one must not cause harm to anyone it.

I also highly recommend of "Lectures on Islam" by Goldziher, if anyone interested in further reading.

Damn, and now I really have to go to bed.

I was angry, then I saw some baby Shane pictures.

You've got one miraculous kid there, Missy.

Glam, he's beautiful. Just beautiful. As are his mamas.

Aww, Shanie pics were very needed after that dark, depressing movie.