HBO’s Best of the Friends’ Blogs — 8/28/07

Chris Peterson/Muse You Can Use

A pair of juvenile ospreys spar over a fish in Glacier National Park. The platform was built to keep the birds from nesting on nearby powerlines, where they could get electrocuted.

* Idaho Escapee /Atmospheric Ruminations admits that moving to the Oregon Coast hasn’t been the cure-all he was seeking. But at least he doesn’t have the bad memories he once did here .

* Brent Andrews /Chronic Discontent offers his own doodlings re: the Larry Craig airport bathroom incident here and here .

*There’s a reason why Inland Empire Girl /Gathering Around The Table never leaves her dogs alone during the Fourth of July holiday here .

* PDX Pup hates Carrie Underwood b/c she loves Underwood’s song “Before He Cheats,” although she despises two of the music genres the singer represents. Got that? Click here .

*”Can you imagine the pain? The pain of finding out the person who was your father, isn’t the man you thought he was, all your life?” posts Toadman /Synaptic Disunion. “How do you explain it to your children, your friends, yourself? I can’t imagine the pain, but I’ve witnessed the pain of others” here .

Record Blog Numbers (for Monday, Aug. 27): 13,202 page-views and 7,157 unique views.

Meanwhile, Kellogg Bloggin’ takes no pleasure in Larry Craig’s arrest here , The Perambulator admits he’s not as young as he used to be here , JBelle must be in Russia now here , TUBOB takes us hiking in Zeusland here , and Wayward Episcopalian pimps Joe Biden here .