FOR THOSE WHO WERE asleep or something, we're having a Husi Writing Fun Challenge.

Since the Music Fun Challenge album cover art thing is so much fun, how about a few graphical-type folks cooking up art for the cover of the putative book, Ed Hulver and the Little People? I'm sure we can twist 256's arm ask 256 nicely, and he can hook us up with a graphics upload engine like the music fun challenge one.

A BIG THANKYOU to the folks of Husi who've expressed sympathy on the passing of our beloved Teh Dawg. She'll be missed. It helps to know we have friends who are sympathetic.

Sometimes the little moments are the hard ones. Simon, aka His Fattitude, the largest of the cats, doesn't understand yet that he's not gonna have a spoon to lick at breakfast time. Sasha is taking advantage of the absence of discipline to renew her habit of digging claws into the mudroom carpet as a kind of doorbell. She knows where the cat-door is, but she prefers the actual people-door, thank you very much. And Silas is being his usual trickster self, harassing everybody else for his own bored amusement. I think he's a troll.

BOSTON INFIDEL lunch? When? Soon-ish, I'm hoping; it's been a while since the gang got together. We chould celebrate johnny's new book, the end of $evil_project, and whatever else anybody has to celebrate.