HBO’s Best of the Friends Blog — 4/5/07

“So I’m sitting on my comfy couch in my comfy living room eating my comfy supper in front of my comfy TV when suddenly I feel not so comfortable because something is crawling on the back of my neck: I grab it, look at it, squeeze it with all my might until I feel the faintest little snap. Die, assassin!” (rest of story here ) — Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographic, Muse You Can Use.

* Idaho Escapee /Atmospheric Ruminations is aghast at the possibility that Rolling Stones bad boy Keith Richards snorted his father’s ashes along with whichever drug he was inhaling at the time here .

* Inland Empire Girl /Gathering Around the Table sings the praises of raised-bed gardening here and pens a coupla poems in recognition of National Poetry Month here .

* Brent Andrews /Chronic Discontent had never heard about the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe before he moved to North Idaho to work for the Coeur d’Alene Press in 1999. What he learned about the tribe after that impressed him greatly here .

Meanwhile, Green Libertarian is solar installing in Cheney, Wash., here , Mrs. T /Meet the Taylors explains why she loves IKEA here , The Unbearable Bobness of Being continues to reminisce (complete with photos of his boys at a younger age) here , Sam The Reporter /Vandal Sense has been published on … Wikipedia here , and Nathan Empsall /Wayward Episcopalian offers another prayer for holy week here .