Happily Aarghless in Aarghville!

I'm not surprised I'm enjoying my decompression, though I am shocked to not feel the slightest symptoms of the bends. Remember that six centuries between Texas/Ohio and Pennsylvania? Ba'al, that's a blink compared to the five months ahead, and no use raging about the ugly until the ugly truly gurgles. I can wait, and while waiting, turn to urgent matters.

Here's what I want to know: yesterday, at the club watching the fabulous last twenty minutes of Turkey/Czech Republic on the arc, the front desk had tuned in the 80s' muzak station: How far from consciousness have 10,000 Maniacs fallen?

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Natalie Merchant, another of my former lovers, and her session band were HUGE! Absolutely ubiquitous on the radio, everywhere.

I confess, I'd always preferred looking at Natalie Merchant than hearing her. I never bought any 10K Maniacs or her solo stuff (for me; for Earthgirl, yes). The music didn't offend (beyond spawning shitty 10K Maniac imitation bands like the truly shitty Edie Brickell and Her Band of Shitty Set Musicians). I don't miss hearing it (though it didn't bother me to hear it then, or yesterday). I was just surprised when hearing it yesterday how long it'd been since I'd heard any.

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• Still, Obama is a smart politician.
• Still, Obama is a smart politician.
• Why Hillary as veep. Why not Hillary as veep.
• Leave them alone to grieve, all will be OK.
• Leave them alone to grieve, all will be OK.
• Though is deserves remembering that mcauliffisters turned me anti-Clinton, cause if she surrounds herself with mcauliffisters, she's a mcauliffister.
• A maverick unto himself.
• This is sooooo going to happen.
• Mo'better Liberals, please.
• My only acknowledgment is posting this.
• Today's Tool or Fool candidate is clearly tool.
• Water sanitation problems of the Third World.
• Three days late, Friday Hope Blogging.
• NO WAVE!
• Don't anger the cat. (Or, this is the cat my Sara would be if she wasn't a, um, coward.)
• Kitten Warz: The Sequel.

Updates later. Or not.

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Google weirdness updated:

pOOf! After seven days of 600+ hits a day on this, yesterday at precisely 4PM EDT, the spigot was shut off, and I've not received one hit on those search terms since. WTF?

No, seriously. WTF?

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Kitten Warz resuming? Fleabus, staying alert?