Since This Will Be the Slowest Week of the Year in Blogstown....

New links below.

You know, it might be this Ellis. Be curious - not mysterious - but curious I found him twice quite accidentally. If there are accidents.

Reminding me again to think about my blogroll policies - this Ellis quit, so I, ahem, and shouldn't or should what, create a memorial of still honored but dead links? - and then reminding me not to give too much a fuck.

Anyway, I'm going to do some purging of places I no longer visit and hopefully be adding some new stuff to keep me entertained - BLCKDGRD does exist solely for me and mine - and I might do some rearranging, though Ba'al, I hope I haven't the energy. Do check out the New Toys - new links have appeared recently.

And as long as I'm metablogging, now that I figured out how to css a border around uploaded photos, check out Ask Fleabus - it's amazing how much better Planet's amazing photos look with the border.

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New linkages, added Monday afternoon. Read them while they're fresh!

• And buttplugs! Buttplugs too!
• Excellent reminder of what you know.
  
• Two votes for Lizard People.
• Hey, Mocos, Track Twenty-Nine.
  
• Thanksgiving appreciation.
• Friday Hope Blogging.
• Praise The Smothers Brothers.
• Sweetness, listen to this guy.
• Holyfuck, dance. (Holyfuck, her voice sounds Kate Bush's)
• Jeebus, when was the last time you heard this?

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Maryland wore black on black at home, encouraging fans to wear black for a Blackout. When your colors are red and white and you wear black on black and encourage fans to wear black for a Blackout, you deserve! to have your asses kicked.

Teams that always wear black on black at home will be similarly loathed when they don't wear black on black at home.

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• Billy Joel in flame war w/Ed. MUST !! READING !!. I've talked about my first influential English teacher, David Sampselle, at the high school in the town below, whose one truly inane moment was trying to teach 10th graders poetry using the lyrics of Billy Joel's Piano Man and America's Tin Man. I cut class in protest.
• One of my favorite critics, Steven Moore (who turned me on to Harington, and has written smartly about Elkin) reviews 2666. (I'm 120 pages in, and AWOO! it's gaining relentless momentum.)
• Atwood's non-fiction about The Clusterfuck. Earthgirl just finished Oryx and Crake and tells me that's what I'm reading next because she wants to talk about it.

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The town I grew up in is the best place in Moco to raise your kids according to Business Week?

Gaithersburg, a former farming town at the terminus of the D.C. Metro's Red Line, is a diverse, affordable place with a shopping district called "Old Towne" that dates back to the 19th century.

Former farming town? Brinda Fanton dumped me in 10th grade because her friends from Rockville teased her for dating a potato farmer. And that's "Olde Towne," annoyingly.

Would that be this Olde Towne:

On 11/18/08 at 3:24 pm the victim was walking in the 400 block of East Diamond Avenue when the suspects approached from the rear. They stole a PSP and fled on foot. Investigation to continue.

That's downtown Olde Towne's Main Street, 3:24 in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon.

My folks still live in Olde Towne, not oldfartfully old Olde Towne but just as well, and I worry  about them.

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Shame I didn't know I'd be writing about Gaithersburg this weekend when I posted Go-Betweens "Streets of Your Town" last week. Have more Go-Betweens: