HBO Blogosphere — 8.20.09

Escapee/Atmospheric Ruminations offers this photoshop of a raccoon, nicknamed Houdini, who appeared on HBO Wednesday via the AP photo wire.

• Evidence that school rankings don’t matter /Blue Moose Democrat
• Honoring harvest and Hermiston yellow seedless /Gathering Around The Table
• Battle on the Beach: CdA to host rap contest /Get Out! North Idaho
• I have very strange kitties /JeanC’s Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• 10 things I packed for Disneyland /Midnight Marauder
• Mooseknuckle and huckleberries /Nuts & Nonsense
• Later … and not later /Slight Detour
• Turning over a new leaf in that old worn-out plant of my life /Soul Doubt
• Letting go /Synaptic Disunion
• Labor Day on the grass /Taryn A. Hecker Photography
• Graceful, decay, riot /Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Wednesday, Aug. 19): 8401/4914