Bunny Energy, Hong Kong Mini-Multi-Unit, Just Noshin', Dead Fly Art, Canine Synchonrocity

Five curiously energy-raising links:

Bizarrely, but I am not kidding, watching this video will boost your energy. Worked for me anyway.

Hong Kong Mini-Multi-Unit
Ingeniously horrible.

Just Noshin'
From Cute Overload. Dangerously addictive blog. P.S. Try the "soich."

Dead Flies
(I think they speak German.)

Pabu Meets Pabu
A Jungian synchonicity of a canine encounter.

P.S. No, really, I do not spend all day surfing the 'Net.

Happy Birthday

To Pabu, the world's greatest Tibetan Spaniel.

Alice's Tulip Analogy

The other day I described this blog as not a diary or log, not a community bulletin board, but a filter. I've also said many times that a blog doesn't have to be this or that; it can be whatever the blogger wants it to be--- a diary, a newsletter, a column, a recipe book, a whole novel.... I recently met with fellow blogger Alice of Alice and Pabu, who posts a little something a couple of times a week in the channeled "voice" of her Tibetan spaniel, Pabu. She's not trying to sell anything--- there's no book, no DVD, etc.--- she does it, as she puts it, as one would plant tulips in the front yard.

"You hope other people enjoy them. But they might walk by without noticing. Their dog might pee on them. They might steal them. But most people are happy that you've planted tulips. Anyway, like I said, you do it for yourself." 

That's Alice's photo of me with my pug, Picadou, admiring some early spring tulips.

Blogification

It's a linky - linky world... and so we go, sculpting our very own info-scapes in time & space. Re: the upcoming panel I'll be chairing (Feb 9th) on blogs as new literary genre, and in particular, writers's blogs, for the Washington Independent Writers All-Day Fiction Seminar. My amigo, David Lida, author of Travel Advisory: Stories of Mexico, and a forthcoming and sure-to-be- fascinating book on Mexico City, sends me this link to a New York Review of Books article, "Blogs", by Sara Boxer, editor of the forthcoming anthology, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web. But a caveat: there's language in there not for the prim. 'N dikshun drops galore-o-rama.
--->Gracias, also, David, for the link to Luc Sante's delightful Pinakothek.

--->And Alice (pictured above left, channeling Isabella Gardner): Yes, Pabu's is the best dog's blog on the 'Net.

More anon.