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There are some body parts that are simply never going to look attractive on anyone unless sculpted by Michaelangelo. I leave you to figure out which they are.

Remember when you used to have friends? Now you have a social network. I don’t know about you, but that simply sounds boring and somewhat painful to me.

The state of Alaska asked me to participate in a video about underage drinking. They told me I’d just be doing a voice over where I’d read my column about the Barrow girls basketball starters who were suspended for drinking. So I showed up with no make up, in a t-shirt with a blue denim Bally shirt blowing in the breeze over it and my hair four hours away from my hairdresser’s appointment and guess what… that’s right. Marian is in heaven spinning because her little girl is now captured forever on camera with no makeup, a t-shirt and hair

So Barack is finally mad enough to want to kick the ass of whoever blew it in the Gulf.  Hmm… I’d guess that the MMS would be a good place to start. Unless they are too busy still sniffing cocaine and partying hardy with the oil companies. Gee, maybe we should send the MMS to the Gulf, give them some bags and gloves and have them walk the beaches cleaning up the tar balls. It would be more than they’ve ever done before to avert an environmental catastrophe.

Wow. The political season has just begun and we’ve already seen our governor come out swinging with a blow that should hit every needy kid and low-income pregnant woman in the state somewhere between their waists and knees.

I’m not surprised at this level of sucking up in any political campaign. I am surprised that we managed to go so low so quickly. Most campaigns at least start off pretending to be above special interest pandering.

Of course, to hear old Sean explain it, he vetoed the increase in Denali Kid Care funding when he found out to his absolute

I had a choice to read about Sarah Palin’s candidate endorsements, oiled and dead critters in the gulf region or a dog removed from his owners via a court order in England for being overweight that was sent to a fat farm and will be given to new owners when he reaches his goal weight. Guess which one I read.

During beautiful weather days in Anchorage, I like to take Abdul, my African Grey parrot, out on the back deck to enjoy the sunshine and breeze and sounds of nature around us. Abdul has no wings to fly thanks to the fact that he got into the habit of chewing them up in some previous life so this is safe. And there are trees overlooking the deck which helps to deter predators from the sky.

So there we were, enjoying the sun when Blondie woke up from her nap under the deck and realized from the sounds above her that

I sent an old Barrow friend who now lives on the East Coast Don Young’s latest quote about how the spill in the Gulf is not an environmental disaster. This is her response:

“That SOB, he should be tied to a bunch of seawood and floated out there until he swallows at least 50 gallons and then see if he thinks its a natural occurrence.”

I think we should take up a collection to do this.

And yes, that’s why she is still so dear to me. She has always called a spade a spade and that’s the kind of

The way it works in the mom column is that you are mom, grandmom and then great-grandmom. But in the other column, the aunt column, you go straight from aunt to great-aunt. For some of us, that brings up images not far removed from Miss Havisham (Great Expectations… try to remember your high school English class).

So I would like to propose that we re-invent the order for aunties. It should now go: aunt, grand-aunt, and then great-aunt.  I would love to be a grand-aunt. It just sounds like so much more fun.