I'm waiting for Emmett and Matilda to wake up so I can shovel cereal into their little baby bird maws and take them to the matinee of Despicable Me.

It looks gorgeous and sunny out my back window. It hasn't been as foggy as usual this summer.

Check it out Chicagoistas:

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The U.S. Senate voted unanimously late Wednesday to name a post office near Wrigley Field after the late folk singer and Cubs fan Steve Goodman.

By unanimous consent, the Senate gave the go-ahead to the resolution, which was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley D-Ill. and which passed the U.S. House in April in a 371-0 vote, to rename the Lakeview post office at 1343 W. Irving Park Road the “Steve Goodman Post Office Building.”

A Chicago native, the Grammy-winning Goodman died at age 36 in 1984 and is known for, among other things, having written the Cubs-themed songs “Go, Cubs, Go,” which fans sing at Wrigley Field after every Cub victory, and “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request.”

“While most Chicagoans know him for the song we sing after every Cubs win, Steve Goodman’s contributions reach far beyond the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley,” Quigley said in a statement in March, when he introduced the legislation. “Goodman was one of the most prolific American songwriters and performers of our time whose songs have been played by Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett and John Denver and whose short but tremendous life reminds us how one person can impact so many others.”

you don't have to call me darlin', DAR LIN'!

I'm sure there's someplace in Chinatown that will sell you those noodles, Jess.

I am already hungry for lunch! Damn diet English muffins -- they run out too fast.

you don't have to call me darlin', DAR LIN'!

Wow -- now I am having a karaoke flashback to like 13 years ago.

I'm sure there's someplace in Chinatown that will sell you those noodles, Jess.

Oh that's a good idea. Or Sunset Park.

you don't have to call me darlin', DAR LIN'!

Ahahaha! This inevitably got sung at a karaoke bar in Nashville a few years ago when juliana, amyth, jessica, and katep and I met up there... I distinctly remember turning around while belting it out, along with the rest of the bar, to see bemused and maybe a little horrified looks on the faces of jessica and katep. David Allen Coe - not a universal phenomenon.

The cats do not like the doorbell. not at all.

Hivemind query - you know those crispy fried noodles that come with Chinese takeout soups in the little wax paper bags? Has anyone ever seen them in a grocery store?

I'm guessing those are different from chow mein noodles? Because I've seen those in the stores a lot.

Yay, Steve Goodman! Earlier this week on another board, someone posted a YouTube of one of those old Boxcar Willie ads, which got me to respond with the lyrics to "Vegematic": (When he brought the) Vegematic / And the Pocket Fisherman, too / Illuminated Illustrated History of Life / and Boxcar Willie with a Ginzu knife / A Minute Mender / and a needle that'll knit or crochet / And a tied-dyed day-glow souveneir shirt from Six Flags Over Burbank...

So, kinda a once in a lifetime thing. HMNS's corpse flower, Lois, is on the brink of blooming and you can follow her progress here [link] and watch it happen here [link]