Sentential Links (Page 30)

Yup, we’ve reached Installment #86 of Sentential Links. However, we will not be 86ing the series. Just in case anyone was wondering. :: I had a wild hair and decided to redesign my weblog. (Sean’s is the first blog I ever saw, and aside from changing the contents of his sidebar on occasion, his blog has maintained its look for the entire time — until last week.) :: Well, here it is. It’s not too pink, is it? (No. It’s more of a faded salmon color, actually. [Little Friends joke there.] Lynn redid her blog’s appearance too.) :: Every timeDown the rabbit hole….

Wherein we provide divers Links to other Blogges as time Permits, and wherein the Reader clicks them in their Fashion. :: So it’s over and we face seven whole months without football. :: I don’t mind people thanking God in these things, but I AM uncomfortable with the notion that God is on a particular coach’s or team’s side. Was God rooting for Tony Dungy, by all accounts a good Christian man, over Lovie Smith, who is theologically likewise? Somehow, I doubt God cares. Maybe, when I get to heaven, She’ll set me straight. (As George Carlin sagely noted, youDown the rabbit hole….

Eighty-six of these posts (assuming I’ve numbered them correctly)! How cool is that! Well, not all that cool, I suppose. But here are some links anyway: :: Well, you know what they say about the size of a man’s foot, don’t you? (I staunchly refuse to post my shoe size here.) :: I like Cheetos, dammit! And I am not a right wingnut! (That’s the entirety of his post, but I like his point. When did Cheetos become the default stereotypical snack of lunatics and weirdos?) :: Beltway Insiders prefer to see politics as high school, which is to sayDown the rabbit hole….

OK, here we are, a couple of days late. I got my story done and submitted last night; when it predictably loses the competition, I’ll post it here. Anyway, this week’s links. My randomly applied rule for this week is that none of these blogs are on my blogroll, and most of them are blogs I’ve never read before. I’ve picked blogs that are on my blogroll and looked at their blogrolls. (I think that makes sense.) Not one of these blogs has ever been linked here before! So here we go: :: And this is why I think BrooklynDown the rabbit hole….

OK, folks, here are the Sentential Links that have been nominated by various readers of this blog. Enjoy. Most of these I’ve never seen before! :: And I think “that’s great you’re a dumbass and a mother.” :: The breeze blew in from the ocean, the flags around the courtyard flowed and dipped, and a silver wind gauge spun…counter-clockwise. :: And last, I must say that the Salvation Army bell ringer is not a real human being in anyone’s mind. There’s the pot and the sound of the bell and you, standing there like a cartoon character. The feeling ofDown the rabbit hole….

Here are this week’s links, as selected by my rigorous selection committee. Except it’s not a committee. And it’s not that rigorous, either. :: The idea, however, that at this moment in history one could still regard a Bush-Carter foreign policy comparison as unflattering to Bush is preposterous. :: So, as we start the 45-day “month” of Black History, think about how people of different ethnicities can get real without rancor. And please let me know what that looks like. :: I will never give up on the delicious experience of curling up in a cozy chair with a goodDown the rabbit hole….

OK, I’m going to keep the submissions open for Reader Submitted Best of 2006 for another week, seeing as how only two people have submitted anything. Come on, folks! You have to have read something on some blog, somewhere, during 2006 that you think deserves a better fate than to forever languish in the archives of some blog or other! Find the rough guidelines here. And now on with this week’s links. This week’s edition is more political than most, for some reason. It all goes with my mood. :: Pajamas Media may have just fathered its own self-inflicted Rathergate.Down the rabbit hole….

It’s time again for a new year of Sentential Links. Don’t forget that I’m soliciting suggestions from The Readership (that’s you) for a kind of “Reader’s Choice best of 2006 Sentential Links), which I’d like to run for next week’s edition. See guidelines here and here, and leave your submissions in comments on either of those posts (or this post, if you have to). Or e-mail them to me. I currently have just six submissions, and I’d like a lot more than that! And now onto my own choices for this week: :: I ought to remember to say, “GoodDown the rabbit hole….

OK, I weakened: here’s a Sentential Links post. But before I get to the links, I had an idea for either next week’s post, or the one the week after: I’d like to expand it from a list of links to posts I read in a single week to posts anyone else read in 2006. So, if you have any blog posts that stuck in your mind and you’d like them linked herein, feel free to leave the links in comments. And feel free to link your own blogs! Go ahead and pimp your own stuff, if you had aDown the rabbit hole….

This will probably be the last installment of Sentential Links for 2006, as Christmas Day and New Years both fall on Mondays, and since my computer time will be sporadic at best over the next couple of weeks. (Although I do reserve the right to do a special edition or some such thing.) Click away, folks! :: My grandparents were very proud to be able to buy us all a steak dinner – something we could never afford. However, this was a CHINESE FOOD restaurant. (Aieee!) :: But in the end, most small presses have one very important thing inDown the rabbit hole….