Best of the Friends’ Blogs — 7/10/07

Photoshop: Idaho Escapee

Idaho Escapee/Atmospheric Ruminations used this HBO photo post as part of a post about remembrances when things were cheaper here .

*I look back over the nearly forty years I have struggled with clinical depression, and one damning reality stands out: The harder I try to get my way, impose my will; the harder I try to hang on to something or someone, the more what I want becomes slippery and shoots, like a fresh perch, out of my grasp — Raymond Pert /Kellogg Bloggin’ here .

*In her latest 10-mile road trip, Inland Empire Girl and her escort ride the Barnaby Creek Loop and have photos to prove it here .

* Toadman /Synaptic Disunion writes:
“I must be naive. I must be a silly person with no grasp on reality. I have this sense in me that hopes against hope that people, specifically, the people I do business with, are being honest with me” here .

* Wayward Episcopalian has mixed emotions about the prostitution scandal that has enveloped Repub U.S. Sen. David Vetter of Louisiana here .

Meanwhile, Marmitetoasty and a matie see singer Rufus Wainwright in concert here , Sadness stalks Peanut here , Red State Rebels reacts to Micron layoffs here , and JBelle wishes a happy birthday in photos to PDX Pup here .