HBO’s Best of the Friends’ Blogs — 10/16/07

“Well, never one to leave enough alone, I flipped (Pecky Cox’s shot of a golf ball splashing down at the Priest Lake Golf Course) over,” writes Idaho Escapee, ” … so it looks like the ball has ruptured the sky…and it brought to mind a little song by Blood, Sweat and Tears.” You can read the latest Atmospheric Ruminations here .

* TUBOB is doing food reviews now. He introduces his Hilltop Tacoma 7/11 one with: “I’m not a professional food critic. I’m not a “foodie” which sounds like an effete nomenclature for cork sniffing arrogant French snot machines. I’m an American and I know good convenience cuisine from bad.” More here .

*T-Boy’s wedding reminds Chronic Discontent how hard marriage can be. Even after 13 years, he notes, sometimes you simply have to decide not to choke each other to death here .

*In her Sunday scribblings, Inland Empire Girl writes about her “First Job, Worst Job, Dream Job” as she recalls her experiences as a waitress at the Humdinger Drive-in in the summer of ‘72 here .

*Raymond Pert/ Kellogg Bloggin’ , a Silver Valley sibling, focused on the single worst work day of his life as part of the same writing assignment — mucking out a launder — here .

*I think I have fairies in the middle of me garden,” posts Marmitetoasty/ Twaddle , “cos this morning in the rain I spied (a toad stool) here .”

*At Meet The Taylors , Mrs. T discusses a possible life change: “Mr. T and I are looking into going to Law School in the near future. We bought a LSAT prep book and are working our way through it. We aren’t planning on going to Law School until 2009 though so we have some time to study and take the LSATs” here .

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Meanwhile, PDX Pup covers the largest fake disaster drill in history here , and Toadman sees quiet peace in whittling here .