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I blog today not about myself or my stupid shit, but to point all three of you readers to the writings of two verra cool women – Jenny Crusie (one of my favorite people and an amazing writer to boot) has blogged about The Squid Question, questionable tattoos, and eating with people she loves; Karen Harbaugh (whose wonderfulness I would not know of if it weren’t for Jenny’s Cherries) has blogged about revering the spaces between. Here’s my mix-it-up to keep things interesting – pick something or someone you feel reverence about/towards/with/pick-a-preposition, and then ask yourself The Squid Question about your assumption/position/opinion.

NB – from Jenny’s blog post, The Squid Question defined: “At some point, somebody said, “You know what would be a good idea?” and then ran with it. And whether it remained squid or became calamari depended on what he did with it, but the point is, he ran with it.”

My new favorite website is the Double-Tongued Word Wrester. A timely citation:

three plastic animals rule n. the legal determination that secular symbols in a government-sponsored year-end seasonal display (such as a Nativity scene) can mark it as not endorsing a specific religion or religion in general.

Thanks to my sweetie, TGP

… and everybody’s gotta – this is a better way to rage against the dying of the light, by not resting from travel but drinking life to the lees:

Around He Goes: Bob Shetterly, oldest solo circumnavigator - a wonderful story about what the father of a friend of mine has been up to in his impending senescence.