December 23, 2005
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
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I shall leave you, my devoted Cake Eater Readers, with my smiling seven-year-old face to warm your heart with holiday cheer.
Yes, that's me. I already know I look like a boy, so you needn't tell me.
Anyway...we're on the road today, and I have a feeling the next couple of days will be inordinately busy so blogging will be light, if not non-existent, and I wanted to catch you, my devoted Cake Eater Readers, while you're still stuck at the office, but before you get drunk. I know you're just waiting to be let loose on that vat of spiked eggnog that's sitting out by reception for the office Holiday party. I realize the siren song of the nog is tough to resist, so I will keep the holiday greetings short and sweet.
Ahem.
A very Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Cheery Saturnalia, Wonderful Winter Solstice, Krazy Kwanzaa, etc., to you, my devoted Cake Eater readers.
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Merry Christmas, Lady!!
Stay safe.
; )
Posted by: Chrissy at December 23, 2005 12:55 PM (YZGrt)
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Merpy Criskwanzukkah to you and yours, Kathy.
(You DO NOT LOOK LIKE A BOY!)
Posted by: Margi at December 23, 2005 01:15 PM (nwEQH)
Posted by: Paula at December 23, 2005 10:32 PM (gOF1b)
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You had a beard at 7? Who was the kid on your lap?
Posted by: RP at December 27, 2005 03:00 PM (LlPKh)
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My college sophomore James was about about six years old when we took him to the bank to cash a birthday check from the grandparents. The teller asked for some identification and before we could dig out our driver's licenses, James whipped out a laminated photo of him sitting on Santa's lap. The teller took it and said, "OK, that should do it. This bank can trust anyone Santa vouches for."
Posted by: Bob at December 27, 2005 05:22 PM (yMzz+)
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December 19, 2005
Adjust Your Blogrolls Accordingly
The Crack Young Staff of the Hatemonger's Quarterly, we'll just call him "Chip," for the time being, has a new address.
A moo knew address.
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Kathy--
You are our first "trackback"! Admittedly, we aren't terribly sure what the heck "trackback" is, but we're delighted that you could be our first. What an honor.
Posted by: The Crack Young Staff at December 19, 2005 10:37 AM (ryEgr)
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We're so very pleased to have you, Chip. Welcome!
Posted by: Kathy at December 19, 2005 12:49 PM (aRC3x)
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OK, so now we get those pictures that the "Crack Young Staff" said they couldn't get to work with that other web host?
Posted by: Bob at December 19, 2005 01:54 PM (yMzz+)
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December 07, 2005
A Gentle Reminder Correction
Let me repeat this for the umpteenth time: yes, I live in Cake Eater Land; no, I am NOT a cake eater. Look to the left on this here blog, there will be a little link in the upper left hand sidebar that rather impudently asks, "What is a Cake Eater?" Click on it and learn, children.
I am most certainly not "well-to-do." Crikeys. If I qualified for membership in the Cake Eater club, I would not have done what I did yesterday, which was to scrub the walls in my home office with Clorox Clean-Up. Why, you ask, did I scrub the walls with a bleachy cleaner? Well, I quit smoking a few months back (Do "well-to-do" people smoke nowadays? Nope. Because, supposedly, with more wealth comes the intelligence to know when you're killing yourself in the name of stress relief. They only fire up when they're stinking drunk and because, Gawd, they need something to make themselves feel alive, and smoking reminds them of when they were particularly naughty in college tha one time...) and it's been slowly dawning on me how yellow my supposedly white walls were.
If I were "well-to-do," rather than slapping on a pair of rubber gloves and hoisting a bottle of Clorox Clean-up, I would have simply wired the house with explosives and blown it up whilst watching from the other side of the street, swaddled in mink, an ice cold martini in my hand raised in honor of that master manipulator of nitroglycerin, Alfred Nobel.
But we is po', so I scrubbed the walls myself. That disqualifies me from Cake Eater Membership. I looked it up to be sure, too.
Oh, and while I'm at the correction business, Lileks lives in Minneapolis, not Edina.
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You can afford rubber gloves and fancy pants Clorox?! Ooh, la-dee-dah!
In Fridley, we have to scrub our walls with our bare hands using nothing but battery acid. We DREAM of one day saving enough for just one rubber glove and an ounce or two of Clorox.
Posted by: Doug at December 07, 2005 11:11 AM (7P5xE)
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Doug, you actually have walls that aren't made of sod?
Posted by: Bob at December 07, 2005 04:52 PM (yMzz+)
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yes yes yes I know, but when you spend your entire childhood in Richfield, it's mighty hard to resist. Catereater=Anyone who lives in Edina. Living in Edina makes you a cakeater desite ANY evidence to the contrary. I don't care if you live in The Colony (if you actually live in the Colony, I'm not a stalker). Yes, I read your bio before writing my article. Doesn't matter. Edina=Cakeater when you grew up in Richfield. The membership criteria=Address in Edina. This is based solely on Richfield graduate standards.
When I there was a big Richfield Spartan-Edina Hornets basketball game coming up, there were Richfield kids who sold those annoying white Edina Hornets hats; we bought them, put on our khaki pants and white shirts and went AS A JOKE. Kinda like how my link was A JOKE. Even the teachers dressed up and served cake to the kids, decorated with a great big Hornet. Mmmm. Yummy.
Of course, Edina kids would have Richfield dress-up days were they'd argue with their parents so they'd let them wear baggy goth pants and those wallets with the chains. Dad-the-doctor surely was grumpy at the 5 o'clock shadow and Spartan T-Shirt despite paying half-a-mil for a 2-bedroom house so the kid could go to Edina.
Goodness. Can't we be friends? Settle the rivalry?
For the record, I had no clue where Lileks was from, but 'ol boy constantly talks about Chuck E. Cheese, the Galleria, and Southdale: All located in Edina. Just made the logical guess, ya know.
Posted by: Feisty at December 07, 2005 08:47 PM (ZqxzQ)
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Feisty,
I know your link was a joke. Relax. This was a joke, too.
Posted by: Kathy at December 07, 2005 09:07 PM (wN32K)
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Feisty, huh?
::sigh::
(You cracked me up again with this one, Kathy!)
Posted by: Chrissy at December 08, 2005 06:34 AM (zJsUT)
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Yeah, Chrissy, I know. Weird, eh?
Posted by: Kathy at December 08, 2005 08:44 AM (wN32K)
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Just *dot* Dayum, Kathy!
; )
Posted by: Chrissy at December 08, 2005 01:24 PM (j1Uqr)
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