Best of the Local Blogs — 6/23/05

Above, terrific photo of a wood carving in CDA’s City Park by Family Phil. And you can find more of the same by following his Tall Trees link here .

*Everyone put your hands together for Kristin Hoppe /Not So Fast, who celebrated her second anniversary as a blogger yesterday, with a cake graphic here . In the blogosphere, two years is an eternity. Way to go, girl.
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*I’ve been meaning to link to the terrific post that Family Phil ran for Father’s Day because it presents the other side — when father isn’t so great — and mebbe serves as a warning to some Dads out there to get their act together here .
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*As CDADave lingers between life and his miserable head cold, he had time to jump in his Wayback Machine and visit Lake City, circa 1910, here .
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* Bill McCrory /Whitecaps isn’t impressed with snake-oil gadgetry to keep track of registered sex offenders here .
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* Cis Gors /From A Simple Mind is fighting the urge to put the air conditioner in the window of her house “cave” here .
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* Big John Rook posts a poem to “Mr. Record Man” who kept the turnstiles turning back in the days when Wolfman Jack was king here .
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*Sleeping still doesn’t come easy for Mom/Journalism Instructor Emeritus/Retiree Marianne Love/Slight Detour here .