It’s 25 Comments Day, so I thought this week’s question should at least relate to that.
(No, I haven’t done mine, yet…but I will!)
Before first, Rick, of “Mmmm, That’s Good Coffee,” was first to play last week. Congratulations, Rick!
On to this week’s question!
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
Name seven blogs on which you last left comments.
Either answer the question in a comment or answer it in your journal and include the link in a comment. (To be considered “first to play,” a link must be to the specific entry in which …

There is news — long-awaited news, in fact — that the 17-year-old at the center of the “Jena 6” controversy in Lousiana, has finally been released from jail on a $45,000 bond after ten months.
Mychal Bell’s release came a week after 20,000 protesters from across the country, including well-known civil rights activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, converged on the tiny Louisiana town of Jena.
USA Today reports that the $45,000 bail was posted by a Lake Charles, Louisiana man who doesn’t know Mychael Bell.
Moments after his release, Bell appeared …

Now that fall has begun, stores are putting up Christmas decorations. This means, of course, that Halloween decorations have been up for weeks now. This week, good old All Hallows’ Eve is our topic.
But first, there are two important orders of business.
The first involves a few reader requests. This week, I am not going to force a “jump” into this week’s edition, meaning that the full post will appear on the front page. I received a couple of comments last week that adding the break that …

I’ll admit it: I’m terrible about leaving comments!
I read other blogs through Bloglines because it’s quicker, so I often read from a third-party site where there’s no way to comment without clicking through to the source blog. (No, it’s not much of an excuse, but that’s all I’ve got at the moment!)
So I thought I’d offer a solution…for me and for those like me.
Why not set aside one day as “25 Comments Day” in the blogosphere! Everyone who wants to participate should right-click on the logo, save …

I spent part of the weekend in Columbia helping my mom on a project. While I was home, I made every effort to do a post, and to approve a few comments. Unfortunately, my parents’ computer, a low-end eMachines model, and a ridiculously slow dial-up connection with AOL made connecting with the internet a twenty-minute ordeal. And once I finally made it to the blog, it took forever for the login to work and the comments window to appear so that I could approve them.
I think I …

I found this over at James’s blog, and he had found it at Rick’s.
1. What were you doing ten years ago?

Working at a job where I was realizing that I was not going to get the support I needed for a while. I assumed at the time that it would eventually come, but I didn’t think things would work out the way they did.

2. What were you doing one year ago?

Packing and making last-minute preparations to move to Charleston.

3. What are five snacks you enjoy?

Popcorn
Ice Cream
Doritos
Apple
Pastry

4. What are five …

If you’ve ever seen an episode of TV’s Batman from the 1960’s, you’ll immediately recognize the image. Any time Batman or Robin found themselves in some physical altercation, true to comic book form, the screen would fill with an example of onomatopea when punches were thrown.
“Kapow!” was always my favorite.
Here’s a website where someone has taken the time to collect a bunch of them, most of which feature the typeface over a color background. (Superimposing the word over the action proved a costly measure in the 1960s.)

This week I updated the look of this blog and the graphics for the Saturday Six and Sunday Seven. It took me several weeks of searching to find a template that I liked and felt would be relatively easy to customize.
But I had to search through a lot of blog themes. And that got me thinking about what makes some themes better than others.

It is now official:  fall has arrived.  It’s my favorite season of the year, for a variety of reasons.  Scenes like this (captured in 2005) are one of them:

I’m sure some of you might be somewhat put off by the title of this post. But there is a story behind it.
Two years ago, I posted a new take on an old prayer in what was then my religion-themed blog, The Cross Examination.
What made it a “new take” was that it was the familiar Lord’s Prayer translated into the language that might be expected (or may actually be used) by Native Americans. I thought it was an interesting way to look at something we’d all learned at …

Married and wishing you weren’t?  If a new proposal by a Bavarian lawmaker ever goes anywhere, it might be the news you’ve been waiting for!  (Although you’d probably have to have been married and living in Germany for it to have the impact you want.)
Gabriele Pauli wants marriages to last seven years, after which they can be renewed by the couple or the marriage would be automatically dissolved.
I wonder how long it’ll take the defenders of the “institution of marriage” to start protests over that idea.

One of the newest commercials for Bowflex — at least it appears to be a new commercial — has a guy who claims to gotten into great shape with the use of the fitness machine.
During the spot, he says, “I gave my ‘fat clothes’ to my fat friends.”
Considering his ability to make such a remark, after having allegedly been out of shape himself, this isn’t the kind of person I’d want as a friend.
This isn’t exactly a commercial that warms me up to the product.