I guess I want to comment on this rumor about an Atlas Shrugged movie. I'm so not going to see it. I love this horrible synopsis of the book:

The Russian-born author's seminal tome, published in 1957, revolves around the economic collapse of the U.S. sometime in the future and espouses her individualistic philosophy of objectivism.

My husband came home ranting about this, saying that Hollywood types might be surprised to find that the "economic collapse of the U.S." isn't because of global warming or Bushitler's junta. This book is about the triumph of capitalism, so it's ironic that they're considering Miss UN for the lead role. Seriously, Angelina Jolie is a fan of this book? She can read?

And I'd love to see the trainwreck that is Oliver Stone's version of The Fountainhead.

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1 Those will be good ones to watch after I they are free on cable, and even then only to watch the 'train wreck', as you say! I'm not sure that it could translate to a movie, even when done by people who understand it. Jolie as Dagny Taggert and Brad Pitt as John Galt? .... NOT!

Posted by: Barb at April 29, 2006 12:25 PM (g9qHI)

2 Oops, I meant to add that this description just points out the uselessness of Hollyweird even attempting these two movies : "Rand's individualistic and character-driven stories ..." They obviously don't get Rand or objectivism.

Posted by: Barb at April 29, 2006 12:28 PM (g9qHI)

3 I expect they will play up the romantic angles while downplaying or outright ignoring any of the underlying philosophical motivations. Atlas Shrugged will be reduced to a love story.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at April 29, 2006 05:51 PM (DdRjH)

4 An Atlas Shrugged film could be the greatest fantasy film since Lord of the Rings. I just hope it's not too fantastic - industrialists who are responsible... CEOs who are hardworking and actually know how stuff works... it's a hell of a good yarn though.

Posted by: Will at April 30, 2006 02:32 PM (eIQfa)

5 Why the shot at Jolie's literacy? I thought you were above assuming that everyone who disagrees with your politics is unintelligent. Are you willing to believe that I'm literate? I don't follow her all that closely, but my impression is that she puts her money where her mouth is in a way that a lot of spokes celebrities don't. I would think that you could admire that even if hyou don't completely share her principles. Plus, she's hot.

Posted by: Pericles at April 30, 2006 08:16 PM (eKf5G)

6 Is she hot? Really? I'm told she is, but I've seen her picture everywhere, and I think I'm missing something. I assume I'm wrong on the matter, and I'll try harder to see her hotness in the future, but I just hope TV and People Magazine aren't lying to me again.

Posted by: Will at May 01, 2006 03:33 PM (eIQfa)

7 I didn't see it at first either. And I do feel awfully bad for Jennifer Aniston. Still, yeah.

Posted by: Pericles at May 02, 2006 05:56 AM (eKf5G)

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Note to those who are moving: When they say that your unaccompanied baggage will be picked up any time between 0700 and 2100, they ain't lyin'. Nothing like giving you a 14 hour time window to sit in an empty house. Our guys showed up at 1800.

Second note to those who are moving: The vehicle registration office closes at noon the last business day of the month for inventory. That info would've been nice to know when we set up our car shipping appointment for the last business day of the month. They're also closed on German holidays (Monday's Communism Day, I mean May Day), so if we hadn't raced to get there at 1120, we would've been out of luck for clearing.

Third note to those who are moving: Don't get a billeting room with a kitchen when you're outprocessing. Your TLA is double! Woo-hoo. That will offset the money my husband had to shell out to CIF.

Thank goodness this week is over.

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Well, the house is packed. The movers said they had never spent four hours packing a kitchen before. I guess fourteen boxes of dishes and kitchen stuff is a bit much. Our household goods are mostly dishes, yarn, and books.

I noticed one thing today. You'd think that people who design military housing would make it conducive to moving. Since people are always moving in and out, maybe twisty staircases and right angles in the hallways are not a good idea. I watched the movers bang my stuff a million times while they were trying to maneuver out the front door and down the huge step. These houses should have ramps!

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Charlie Puppy made it off OK this morning. I think. He was crying up a storm when we had to leave him, but I think he was only crying slightly harder than I was. He still has another 11 hours until he gets to the Midwest.

We're getting ready to take apart the computer. It goes in unaccompanied baggage, along with ma games and trophies. (There's a little AFN humor for ya.) We're staying with Erin for two nights, so I might find the time to hop online at some point before we go.

Now I'm off to organize our school clothes, and maybe a winter coat.

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1 We got a big kick out of this

Posted by: The Girl at April 24, 2006 01:55 PM (HqRyY)

2 I remember our last night in our on-post housing. We were only qualified to have four nights in the Krystall Inn so we "roughed" it for two nights on our own...only the army bed in the guest bedroom with one blanket and pillows...thank goodness it was the beginning of August and we didn't have to worry about staying warm! We caved in through and eventually went across the street to the Boggianos...yeah, we're babies!

Posted by: Nicole at April 24, 2006 07:49 PM (CpOyu)

3 Safe travels Charlie Boy! (oh and happy belated birthday..)

Posted by: MaryIndiana at April 25, 2006 12:50 AM (YwdKL)

4 Godspeed on your travels Sarah! Oh and for Charlie too! I am sure he arrived in style and complete comtempt from being stuck in the belly of a plane, I'm mean come on according to him he should have been lounging in first class! We just sent our puppy Bella back two weeks ago and I cried while the dog gave me this pathetic look. Bella arrived fine and I am sure Charlie will too! HH6

Posted by: Household6 at April 25, 2006 01:14 AM (Gj0PV)

5 I'm guessing my grandpuppy should be in Kansas City by now. I'm sure the airlines took good care of him, even though he probably was wondering what in the world was going on and where are my Mommy and Daddy? Good luck with the movers on Tues. and I will talk to you soon. Love you both, Mama

Posted by: Nancy at April 25, 2006 03:01 AM (5taAd)

6 Less than a week! LESS THAN A WEEK! That last night goes on forever. You can't sleep. I sure couldn't. The tacos, they are calling your name.

Posted by: Jason at April 25, 2006 10:04 AM (vPhtz)

7 Just a note. Charlie is doing fine and loves the backyard. He can not decide which animal to chase or smell. The only bad thing is that he brought cold and rainy weather with him from Germany. I guess it might help with the transition. Love, KC Mom

Posted by: ME at April 25, 2006 06:44 PM (g1qn0)

8 Maryellen, I've been thinking about Charlie and wondering how he did with the flight and adjusting to new surroundings. He's probably in heaven with his new playmates and the backyard. Have fun! Nancy

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Charlie just loves that big bear that his friend Lewis gave him. He drags it around everywhere with him, apparently even when he has to pee. Just a minute ago I heard my husband downstairs say, "Charlie, you cannot take that thing outside."

Tomorrow starts the big moving process. We take Charlie to the airport at the crack of dawn on Monday. Our phone and internet gets shut off on Tuesday, which is when the movers come, so I will probably be out of the blogging loop for a while.

Only nine more days until Dairy Queen.

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Pixy saved the day again, it appears. I guess he changed servers for mu.nu and I didn't know to redirect my site. But now it appears to be working! If we ever have this trouble again, know that my site also appears at its home in Munuviana: http://tryingtogrok.mu.nu

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Yesterday was Charlie's first birthday. He invited six of his closest friends over to the house. They had Beef Bacon Cheddar cake and Charlie got lots of toys and treats as gifts. And all his friends went home with party favors as well.

The party went much better than you might expect for inviting multiple dogs into your home. We videotaped the event, and this was the one screen shot where we could get all seven dogs in the picture. So here's Charlie being the center of attention...

And here's Charlie, worn out at the end of the night, playing with his new birthday bear...

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1 While my irrational fear of dogs (above knee level) would have sent me through the roof, the party looks like a success. It almost looks as if Charlie is giving everyone his "Thank you for coming" speech.

Posted by: Vonn at April 19, 2006 09:11 AM (dEgRi)

2 You girls are just tooo funny! I love it! As much as I love Toby, I never thought to have a birthday party for him! And party favors too! Wow! Wish I could have been there! Your mama

Posted by: Nancy at April 19, 2006 11:28 AM (6s7Zq)

3 It is so cute to see those "tired eyes" in our dogs. When we keep ours up to late she just looks at us like please, please let me go to sleep. Charlie had a big day!.

Posted by: Ruth H at April 19, 2006 11:35 AM (uZYtv)

4 Sarah, I love how your husband is corralling Lewis while MY husband is just sitting there...

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Look at this bunny's feet! Happy Easter indeed!

And Kelly found the most wonderful project: The Binary Hat

I really enjoyed reading this blog post about teaching other people to knit. I have taught many people, and most of them have continued knitting. I love that. Erin and Kelly were the funniest though. They came to me and said, "We want to learn to knit. Teach us to make socks." Seriously. That was their very first project. No scarves for them. They didn't learn to purl or cast off for ages! Nothing like starting with the hardest project.

I've been thinking a lot lately about branching out. I've knitted English for nine years, and I really want to learn continental. But every time I try, it's so awkward that I just switch back. But all knitting is awkward in the beginning; I just need to push through the pain and learn it.

Then I could knit standing up!

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1 Eww! Why would you want to knit standing up? Erin

Posted by: Erin at April 19, 2006 01:25 AM (EKdUA)

2 The binary hat is the coolest!

Posted by: Vonn at April 19, 2006 09:06 AM (dEgRi)

3 Here's one from a Jersey Knitter. http://knitalongwithme.blogspot.com

Posted by: Jim - PRS at April 21, 2006 01:57 AM (njBz/)

4 Just wanted to let you know that I FINALLY picked my knitting back up this week. We are making a long car trip across the U.S. and I am so happy to have something to keep my hands busy! I been feeling so guilty every time you talk about your knitting students - I haven't touched my blanket since Gabi was born - but you'll be happy to know, that I'm back on track. Too bad I didn't work on this more while you were still around to teach me some new stuff! Oh well... guess I'll have to resort to learning on-line like Vonn! Miss you! Good luck with your move!

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Charlie likes to sit on our bed and look out the window. Here's an old pre-haircut photo of him doing it.

Two minutes ago he was sitting on our bed like this and caught sight of our neighbor going out to her car. He barked once and then leapt towards the window, crashing into the glass, nearly impaling himself on the window handle, and falling to the ground.

Sometimes I think he's brilliant, and other days I'm not so sure.

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Reader Jim sent me a link to a hilarious knitting project. I first thought the link was going to be something more like this. So I had a good laugh when I saw what the Tree Sweater really was.

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Mark Steyn on Iran:

You know what's great fun to do if you're on, say, a flight from Chicago to New York and you're getting a little bored? Why not play being President Ahmadinejad? Stand up and yell in a loud voice, "I've got a bomb!" Next thing you know the air marshal will be telling people, "It's OK, folks. Nothing to worry about. He hasn't got a bomb." And then the second marshal would say, "And even if he did have a bomb it's highly unlikely he'd ever use it." And then you threaten to kill the two Jews in row 12 and the stewardess says, "Relax, everyone. That's just a harmless rhetorical flourish." And then a group of passengers in rows 4 to 7 point out, "Yes, but it's entirely reasonable of him to have a bomb given the threatening behavior of the marshals and the cabin crew."

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My mom was having a hard time getting into my website over the weekend for some reason, so she googled my site to try to access it that way. If you've been following my site for a few years, you may remember the day I got Lefty-lanched, when hundreds of people came to my website to tell me how dumb I am. My mom ended up back in the middle of that mess via google, and what she found really surprised me when she told me today.

Someone didn't like a blog post I wrote. They thought it was dumb and mathematically unsound. So he wrote a post about what an idiot I am. I personally think that's in very poor taste, but whatever, it was his choice for his hate-filled website. But his comments section went too far. Apparently some commenter published my name, address, and phone number, and the contact info for my parents as well. Thankfully, other commenters thought that was a low blow and the owner of the site took the info down. But, man: I just realized that two years ago I was personally attacked for something I said online. People who disagreed with me seriously meant to hurt me. And I didn't even know it until today.

It's funny because at that time, I got some really hateful comments. This site had nasty comments too -- including the ones that said that my husband left his wedding ring home from Iraq so he could get laid -- but this other blog owner also got a handful of comments defending me. It was nice to read this comment:

I saw all of this via cruel.com, and really don't get why everyone piled on. It didn't seem to me that she was doing a stat analysis so much as making a (not very carefully worded) point about reporting bias highlighting certain aspects of a poll already suffering from several questions that presented insufficient response choices to options that begged other questions.

I was not under the impression that she literally thought that only 615 people in the entire United States responded in a certain way to question quoted above. In fact, it was obvious to me that she wasn't. To think that's what she meant, you'd have to assume an almost non-functional level of stupidity. I guess the assumption of simple-mindedness was in place because of the general trend for lefties to view righties as intellectually inferior, for the simple thought crime of not being lefties.

Coming from cruel.com, I'm used to good quality links of people making asses of themselves. I'm still waiting for the punchline on this one, and I can't tell if the intended stupidity was supposed to be the original blog entry on tryingtogrok or all of this odd, over-the-top follow up.

Now that's some common ground I can enjoy! (emphasis mine)

I've been thinking a lot about comments these days. Lots of the big right-leaning sites don't even have comments sections, and I can completely understand why. Charles Johnson has to answer for everything that's written on his blog, when he himself only posts links and pithy snippets. But he's a "racist" and a "fascist" because of his comments section. I've often wondered how Markos Zuniga lets people post the crazy things they say under the umbrella of his site. No one takes note of the diarist; they just attribute the whole thing to Zuniga.

So what's our relationship to our comments? The other day I somehow managed to get a comment from a White Power site. I don't know how they found me or what they thought they read in my words, but there they were. Does it make me a white supremacist because someone thought he had identified me as one? Am I a religious fundamentalist just because Will Sommerset called me one?

A lot of times I've just considered shutting my comments section down. But I guess I've grown accustomed to the noise.

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1 The haters think but calling people names it dulls their pain. Their pain of self hate and drepression brought on by their believe in a negative ideology. I had a slight taste of that myself this week. http://jameshudnall.com/blog.php?/weblog/secular_religious_zealots_in_action/

Posted by: James Hudnall at April 17, 2006 07:04 PM (F+Wqc)

2 What vakue would the blog have to you without a comments section? How would you know anyone was listening? Needless to say, though, I take issue with the person you quote. As if "righties" treat "lefties" as THEIR intellectual equals or superiors. Yeah, I'm always warmed by the respect with which Ann Coulter treats people who disagree with her.

Posted by: Pericles at April 17, 2006 07:07 PM (eKf5G)

3 Argh. Typos. I should have proofread that. "The haters think by calling people names it'll dull their pain. Their pain of self hate and drepression brought on by their belief in a negative ideology." Leftism is largely based on angry emotions and that comes largely from depression. The left wing elites feed that negative reinforcement. It has become a cult of self hate kind of like the Palestianian jihadists are trapped in a death cult.

Posted by: James Hudnall at April 17, 2006 07:12 PM (F+Wqc)

4 "What vakue would the blog have to you without a comments section? How would you know anyone was listening?" There's always e-mail. Works for me. Never had a comments section since I started in 2002.

Posted by: Amritas at April 17, 2006 08:06 PM (mb59o)

5 James---Thanks for proving my point about the level of intellectual respect that the left gets from the right.

Posted by: Pericles at April 17, 2006 08:27 PM (eKf5G)

6 I don't believe I've ever gone onto someone else's site and made a confrontational comment. If I think the person is full of baloney, I'll just move on and likely not ever return. Life is too short to be going onto people's sites to pick a fight.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at April 17, 2006 10:13 PM (njBz/)

7 I only wish I had the courage to write about some of the stuff you've written about. I know that my skin isn't thick enough to handle the kinds of comments you receive...I would have shut down the section long ago. Thanks for being gutsy and putting it out there!

Posted by: Nicole at April 18, 2006 08:02 PM (Sa9Kb)

8 Wait. You're not? (just kidding... I think)

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Erin asked me if I was going to write a post about Easter today. My day started out great, with the last Sunday Knitting Club at my house. But it was all downhill from there. My husband needs a military vehicle early tomorrow morning, and we spent over two hours driving all over Bavaria trying to find the soldier who has the TMP keys in his pocket. At that point we were both already quite grumpy, so after dinner we sat down to watch a movie and relax. Of course it didn't help our mood when the disk started skipping and we had to restart the DVD player five times. And then Charlie nipped my husband's hand while they were playing and got him pretty hard on the finger, and I cut my hand on the medicine cabinet and started bleeding myself. We gave up and came upstairs to go to bed and forget about today.

But Happy Easter anyway.

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1 Sad. Don't you hate those kind of days? Happy Easter.

Posted by: Erin at April 16, 2006 03:44 PM (2D/WI)

2 Be thankful the day if over and look forward to a great week.........and only 15 more days in Germany!

Posted by: Vonn at April 16, 2006 07:13 PM (Wy1BF)

3 That sucks......Thank god it's over, now watch Racheal Ray and have a better day!

Posted by: Kelly at April 17, 2006 01:34 AM (a54xk)

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The Girl finished her first major knitting project. It looks so nice. And she made up the cable on the sleeves herself! Her brother's baby will be so cute in it.

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If it's at all possible, never arrange to move the week when your husband has finals for his MBA classes and when he's acting commander because the real commander is on leave. That's a scenario to avoid.

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1 Sarah, I think I can trump you on this one. Once in a land far, far away - the past, when my husband was finishing up his MS thesis he was working for the Tex Parks and Wildlife, not named that at the time. I was very, very preggie, scheduled for June to have a baby. Well, baby didn't arrive till July 17, tne thesis was completed and signed off on and the new job was in Virginia. Long story short, we left Texas when the baby was 17 days old, I nursed him all across the country, the three year old was car sick most of the way and I was exhausted! But we had fun. And it is fun to look back on.

Posted by: Ruth H at April 15, 2006 03:17 PM (w20rj)

2 Yeah moving...my least favorite topic in the military When it rains, it pours! (of course)

Posted by: Nicole at April 15, 2006 04:24 PM (Sa9Kb)

3 I remember when you were 18 mos. old, and I was six months pregnant with Michael and we were moving from Tulsa to Pittsburgh. Dad had to go ahead and move to Pittsburgh, and "you" and I were left behind to sell the house, arrange the move with the movers (they packed my car keys and also repacked a truck at midnight because they didn't listen to me when I told them all of our things would not fit on the truck they had brought). Such fun! Your dad handled the next move and has helped with all the rest since. I think he realized when he came back for the closing on the house that I was not a happy camper! Somehow you'll manage! Hang in there! Love, Your Mama

Posted by: Nancy at April 15, 2006 10:51 PM (6s7Zq)

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I'm working on a basic sweater right now. I've made this pattern as a pullover, but now I think I'm going to try to convert it into a cardigan. Anyway, here's the beginning of one of the sleeves.

And The Girl wants to learn to do entrelac. I had never done it before, but I remembered seeing this pattern on Knitty. So I made myself a little swatch. Entrelac is actually pretty fun; it's like a knitting puzzle. I couldn't imagine it by just reading, so I grabbed some junk yarn and saw it come together before my own eyes.

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1 18 days, 21hours...and you haven't had to pack your knitting?

Posted by: debey at April 13, 2006 09:18 AM (o52PP)

2 That is one pattern that I have printed out to knit this year. Do you comment on knitty?

Posted by: dkswife at April 13, 2006 09:26 AM (/l6sd)

3 Debey -- We decided to "tough it out" in the US instead of here, so we're not having our household goods picked up until a week before we leave. But don't worry, there will be plenty of knitting in my suitcase DKS -- I have never commented on Knitty, but I check in with them all the time. I'm too big of a wuss to make my own patterns; adapting a pullover to a cardigan is a Big Deal for an anal person like me who follows patterns to the letter.

Posted by: Sarah at April 13, 2006 10:01 AM (ZP5Sl)

4 I love that gray--and to think that I pay $50-$60 for a great chunky knit sweater and you can make your own. Nice

Posted by: Nicole at April 13, 2006 11:48 AM (Sa9Kb)

5 Entrelac is pretty cool. However, I think I need to master cable-knit first. I'll get there one day.

Posted by: Vonn at April 13, 2006 12:46 PM (dEgRi)

6 ooh I dig the entrelac, one of those things I love how it looks but just haven't gotten 'round to trying it yet!

Posted by: zib at April 13, 2006 08:40 PM (VRrH1)

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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

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Wanna read some absolutely depressing stuff about immigration?
No easy answers on immigration conundrum

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I was thinking more about that AFN commercial and I found a military compensation calculator that lets you see the equivalent civilian income that relates to the same standard of living you live at in the military. It doesn't work well for overseas because they don't add anything for housing, but try it with the CONUS average and see where you're at. Heck, this is the main reason we're not getting out of the Army anytime soon.

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As we get ready to move back to the US, I have started thinking about our European experience. Lots of people who live here put up photos of the places they've traveled. I started thinking about our collection of travel photos. My husband and I don't travel much, and when we do, we're always alone. We've gotten pretty good at taking our own photo. In fact, when we were in Prague, someone offered to take our photo and we turned him down! We've got quite a running gag going of us in front of foreign stuff. And so I present to you our travel photos.

First of all, us in front of our house, right when we moved here

Then Salzburg

Frankfurt

Heidelberg

Garmisch for R&R

our cruise

Mulhouse for the Tour de France

and finally Prague

I think it's hilarious that all of our photos end up looking about the same. I love that. I can't wait to add similar photos of us in front of places like Mt. Rushmore, the Redwood forest, and Busch Stadium.

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1 Awww. You are so stinkin' pretty (and photogenic)!

Posted by: Erin at April 11, 2006 05:02 AM (7oVGv)

2 Those are great! Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Kathleen A at April 11, 2006 06:55 AM (7qm8p)

3 Those are great! You two are adorable I can't wait to see the American versions.

Posted by: lizzie at April 11, 2006 08:10 AM (wxF45)

4 Mt. Rushmore???REALLY!!It's a 3rd of July fireworks display, to the tune of $1,000,000...if I ever go there, again, it will be for 3july...but going in the winter is cool, and usually the people are fewer...those ''great faces'' are about 7 hours, from me!spearfish canyon is awesome, when fall hits, and the leaves are changing colors, too...and custer state park, in the spring, with the wildlife and newborn babies..buffalo, deer elk.....''great faces, great places''...south dakota!i'm also 25 minutes away from the world's largest bird feeder..oops, i mean the world's only corn palace, in mitchell..so, don't be running around this state w/o a guide!!there's also some good fishing & those damned pheasents!...debey ps..glad to see erin's ''talking''!

Posted by: debey at April 11, 2006 08:33 AM (vAEec)

5 Such cute photos! They have a South Park feel to them....'Explanation=same pose, but the backgroud keeps changing.' I love it! It would be great if we could photoshop one and add Cartman.

Posted by: Vonn at April 11, 2006 10:10 AM (dEgRi)

6 Have you guys ever thought about asking somebody else to take your picture for you?

Posted by: Will at April 11, 2006 07:16 PM (eIQfa)

7 My boyfriend and I do this all the time, too! I mean we have loads of photos of us taken by someone else, but I have such a fondness for these photos, because they have such a fun feeling to them, instead of real posing. I plan on collecting all of ours and putting them together in an frame soon.

Posted by: CaliValleyGirl at April 14, 2006 08:34 AM (apdbD)

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