Inside Huckleberries (2/7/05)

APhoto: Above, the famous Clydesdales face off in another beer commercial for Anheiser-Busch. Below, tell Huckleberries readers which were best and least favorite Super Bowl commercials.

5:44 p.m. Dunno if you guys were hung over today. Or I was (even though the stiffest stuff I drank yesterday was some kind of Sprite with berry flavoring). Slow day on the “comments” front. Mebbe the topics weren’t that good, although Super Bowl ads and mud-wrestling soldiers aren’t bad. Oh well, we’ll try again tomorrow. Could have been a Monday thing.

4:32 p.m. NIC instructor Tad Leach called to say he’s planning a rebuttal to our Sunday editorial: “Shooting justified; policies unclear” Sunday. In the editorial, we called for an independent investigation of sheriff’s department policies involved in the fatal Hayden shooting Dec. 28 here . Are you satisified with the findings of Prosecutor Bill Douglas’ report and want to move on?

12:05 p.m. “It’s not often you get a chance to talk with a legendary programmer from top 40s heyday, but John is all of that and more” — words used by Rollye James , a national talk show host, to describe Big John Rook of Coeur d’Alene, who appeared on her show over the weekend (1 to 4 a.m. delayed on KGA).

11:59 a.m. In the Bay Area, $1 million’ll buy you a rancher in a new Navato subdivision. In Kootenai County? Tom Torgerson of Century 21 told the S.F. Chronicle what 1M’ll buy in the Coeur d’Alene area here .

11:20 a.m. For those keeping score at home, my favorite Super Bowl commercial was the Ameriquest Mortgage ad about a cell phone user’s message being misunderstood to be a stickup demand here . Least favorite: GoDaddy.com’s ad of a wardrobe malfunction while a buxom woman is testifying before a censorship committee. All the ads are rated here . What were your best and least favorites?

10:30 a.m. The blog hit two more days of 2000 pageviews last week — 2,613 on Wednesday and 2,051 on Thursday. For the week, 12,700 — or 1814 daily. Nice start for February. BTW, I’ll be celebrating the first anniversary of the blog Feb. 16.