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HBO’s Best of the Friends’ Blogs — 10/18/07

All it took was a bag of hazel nuts for Lori Hutson/Fresh Sheet to understand why friends go ga-ga over Trader Joe's here. You can check out another SR blog that debuted this month with a focus on food here -- and answer Lori's question at the bottom of this post.

Spotlight: For those keeping score at home, fellow SR blogger Shawn Vestal/The Falls has started his own best-of-blogs version for Spokane -- and Toadman made the cut today here.

*Idawa/Word Forge has a thoughtful piece re: the value of the Internet and blogosphere, stating that he enjoys Google, Blogger, Huckleberries Online, MySpace, Facebook, various podcasting services, etc., but he wouldn't pay to browse them if it came to that. Click here.

*Brent Andrews/Chronic Discontent was merely being a nice guy when he stopped the car to flick a bee off his arm -- and was rewarded for his good deed with a sting he won't soon forget here.

*JBelle/Notes from The 'Kan EWA and her chows are enjoying the nasty campaigning in Spokane this election cycle, preferring snarky cheap signs to the attack ads on TV here.

"So, I'm at work yesterday minding my own business and a system wide email arrives," posts TUBOB. "I open it. I am horrified. I am once again seized with paroxysms of wracking sobs and feel my stomach turning over and over and I am, once again, drenched in the cold sweat of bitter regret for moving here to Pugetopolis." More here.

HBO Blog Nos. (for Wednesday, Oct. 17): 7706 page-views and 4665 unique views.

Meanwhile, Inland Empire Girl honors orange here; Kellogg Bloggin' offers three more beautiful things here; and Toadman offers thoughts on the LAX International Terminal here.

Question (from Lori Hutson/Fresh Sheet): What do you buy in bulk and haul back to Spokane when you stop into Trader Joe's?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.