HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 4/26/06

* Family Phil has a list of “superfoods” on his refrigerator that’ll help you lead a long and healthy life here .

* Mari Meehan /Dogwalk Musings reflects on an attempt to do a good deed that went bad for lack of cooperation on the part of another here .

*Despite all the doom-and-gloomers out there, Cis Gors /From A Simple Mind isn’t afraid to face the next 10 years here .

* CDADave provides tips on the fine art of bird feeding here .

* Sam Taylor /Vandal Sense is being taxed by his final paper for a Literary Journalism course, a report on the unsolved murder of gay UI student Wil Hendrick here .

Meanwhile, ErinG reports that sickness is running through her family here , Marianne mourns the passing of William Shakespeare here and the virus that ate three years worth of family e-mails here , and Stebbijo discusses “blog feelings” here .