Best of the Local Blogs — 2/14/06

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CDADave made me bust out laughing with this spoof of Granati’s fine black-and-white photo from last night. Dave’s commentary about this photo is here . And he provides sound reasoning why we should keep the potato as our mascot here .

* Colin Mulvaney /Video Journal provides a wonderful ode to Valentines Day by taking his camera to a retirement center to interview 7 couples who have been married a combined 302 years here .

*For the first time in 32 years, Marianne Love /Slight Detour is apart from her True Love ( William E. Love Jr. ) on Valentine’s Day here .

* Family Phil was curious/furious after a review of the “Curious George” by Ebert & Ropert didn’t get two thumbs up because — (drum roll, please) it is truly a children’s movie here.

* Jim Meehan /Idaho Vandals tells of a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel who believes back to the future UI football coach Dennis Erickson may stay with UI 2 or 3 years to refurbish his image here .

* Toad /Synaptic Disunion doesn’t have use for the commercialism of Valentine’s Day, but he analyzes the value of it in this nice think piece here .

Meanwhile, Blogmeister KenP tells of discontent among some readers who prefer national/int’l news on the front page to local news here , Bayview Herb deals with Seattle’s gridlock here , Cis opposes Idaho’s anti-gay marriage amendment here , and Greg tells of a Lakeland High soccer player who won a state honor here .