Hiya Hazel,

You know when we were talking about blogging the other day, we mentioned looking at some of the big blogs and seeing what they’re up to. Studying people who are successful might help us be better bloggers.

So I looked in the TTLB ecosystem and checked out some of the biggies. I’ll do a series of posts on them. The first is the Daily Kos. He’s right at the top of the ecosystem.

First of all, you can quickly see that the writers lean to the left in their politics. They REALLY don’t have much use for old GW. Here are a couple quotes from today’s posts:

. . . get back to retaking our country from the neanderthals running it into the ground.

The insular nature of the Bush administration is such that we’ve become amazed when they are forced to concede that the sky is blue (for now). We all live with such lowered expectations, that an agreement to talk, with no real concessions at all, is “a big success

Political blogging apparently is popular because Daily Kos has a high volume of traffic and comments along with an abundance of ads, too.

Plus, the Daily Kos folks are prolific writers. So far today there have been eight different posts. I wonder if that’s typical. Of course they have a group of writers. So it’s not like one person is cranking out all that rhetoric alone.

Parts of it were interesting, but the overall tone of the Daily Kos seemed a bit strident and angry - which is too bad. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar. But you know there’s another old saying that misery loves company. Maybe that accounts for the traffic and number of comments. But personally, I wasn’t very impressed.

I’ll check out a few more of the top blogs in the TTLB Ecosystem and let you know what I think about them. Check back later.

See ya,

Hiya Hazel,

News flash! I’ve been married for a few years, and it has taken me this long to learn an important secret to pleasing my HMM. He simply wants to BE with me. It’s not enough to sleep together at night and spend every evening together. This past week I’ve been on vacation, and I’ve spent three days doing nothing but being with him. I put my own errands and plans on the back burners, and I’ve accompanied him on various errands. I’ve sat in his office and read a book while he handled business phone calls. I’ve chatted with the workers in his office while he took care of business, and I’ve gone with him on business calls. We’ve eaten sushi together, visited clients together, talked and laughed in the car on the way to and from those errands. I told him - quite truthfully - that I wish I could spend every day with him. And he is a happy man this week. Very happy, if you get my drift.

In the past, I’ve felt that there was no sense in going with him on his errands because I had my own errands to handle. You know - the laundry, the dishes, going to the market and handling things related to my own job. This week I decided to just put being with him first on my list of priorities.

I have a good time being with my husband. However, it’s true that men are just little boys trapped in adult bodies.

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Paris was released from jail early this morning for unspecified health reasons. The general consensus is that she was crying a lot. Well, I suppose most everyone there cries a lot. If they don’t it’s just cause they don’t want to get beat up.

She got a celebrity psychiatrist to tell the sheriff she couldn’t handle the confinement. In fairness, she WAS in solitary confinement which is pretty awful - so I’ve been told.

The sheriff approved her ‘reassignment’ to being on house arrest with an ankle bracelet without getting approval from the district attorney or the judge in the case. THAT made them made.

Now they are demanding a hearing tomorrow morning to determine whether or not she should be remanded BACK to the Los Angeles County detention center to complete her sentence.

Right Celebrity says show her no mercy - send her back!

Send her back! Paris should not be allowed to bawl and while her way out of this! My sympathies to the jail personnel should she be ordered back, but they are doing the world (and the justice system) a good deed!

Blue Star Chronicles thinks she might end up doing more time for working this SHAM!

1. Adeline has a HMM (high maintenance man) for a husband. So does Hazel but she doesn’t call him that.
2. Adeline has straight hair, but Hazel has curly hair.
3. Adeline’s feet are bigger - size 8. Hazel’s feet are ridiculously small - like size 6. Having larger feet would be good for Adeline if we were men (big feet = you know what) but since we’re women, it’s just an insignificant fact…I guess.
4. Adeline is a Diet Coke girl. Hazel likes Diet Pepsi. Ewww! Diet Pepsi is too swet.
5. We’re both American Idol fans. Adeline didn’t like Blake, but Hazel did.
6. We’re having a good time writing Adeline and Hazel.
7. We’ve been friends for a long time - and we even get together in person occasionally.
8. Starting this blog has been an adventure. There is so much to learn.
9. Hazel can be cattier than Adeline - but not by much!
10. Neither of us like Rosie.
11. We both think that many in Hollywood and in politics are just plain silly.
12. Adeline and Hazel may not be our real names, but we really like those names because they are so cool!
13. Come back and visit often. We love visitors and comments.

Look what I found! ARGGGHHHH. Shut my eyes.

The Truth in Cosmetic Surgery Blog has a medical explanation and solution for this vision. Yes, cottage cheese does come to mind. I, on the other hand, have a social explanation, or maybe just a solution.

Britney, cover that thang up!

I know you have enough money and fame to have any boy your want, but really and truly, do you seriously think men want someone who no one hasn’t seen every part of? No they don’t!

Men are still primal creatures when all is said and done. They still have that hunter, gatherer gene thing going on. They want to be the predator and they want you to be the prey. They want to win you. They want the hunt. They need the hunt. That’s the power we have! You are giving all your power away. To everybody. I mean everybody in the world. You don’t have any secrets or mystery left.

Cover that thang up and while you are at it, cover that thang up. Please.

Really. Cover it up. Now.

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I have spent today working on the computer and getting almost NOTHING done. It’s been one of those frustrating days when there is an extra space, or an extra bracket, or not a bracket, or an extra dot, or some piece of code either there or not there that has the whole thing not working.

Very frustrating!

I worked on it until I was ready to throw the computer off my back porch right smack dab into the middle of my pool. Then I would walk away for a while and do something else. But I just couldn’t stay away, I kept coming back trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to get the code all working properly.

I still don’t know what was wrong. The little bug finder thing kept telling me that it couldn’t read embedded code. I kept taking code out and putting it back in. Finally, I took the Technorati code out and it worked!!! Hooray! But then, how will the dadgume page ranking gizmos read the 10 or so links that link here? So I put Technorati back in, held my breath, and it still worked.

It’s dumbfounding. Really.

So now my eyes are all hazy and my brain is in a daze.

The upside is that I watched Baby Lisa nab a bad guy on Dog the Bounty Hunter while I was doing and undoing blog code. I wonder how the bad guys don’t notice all the cameras following her while she’s lurking around the airport incognito?? It’s a mystery, I guess.

My husband is a HMM (high maintenance man) and sometimes that can be a royal pain in the ass. I always thought he was simply “difficult” until I learned his true definition recently.

Last week some of my single friends were talking, and one described a first date she’d had the weekend before. The guy was good looking and fun, but when they ate in a restaurant, he complained repeatedly to the wait staff about the food.

“Are you going out with him again?” I asked.

“No way would I get involved with someone like that,” my friend declared. “He’s a high maintenance man. I don’t have time for that shit. If he can’t enjoy a simple restaurant meal without complaining, he’ll complain about everything else, too. His expectations would be unrealistic and unobtainable. I’d never measure up. No one would.”

What do you think? Can one act of rudeness in a restaurant truly be an indication of a major personality defect?

According to that definition, my spouse is definitely a HMM. I can’t even begin to count the number of restaurants where he’s had confrontations with the wait staff and always with the manager involved - and occasionally with phone calls to national headquarters over food he doesn’t like - which he is certain was deliberately prepared incorrectly - and over insults that only he can perceive. There’s no way to count the number of times he’s asked to speak with a business manager because he’s certain that a clerk has purposefully mistreated him.

He’s hot or cold - never warm. A few weeks ago we ate in a restaurant where the server was extremely bubbly and helpful. He gave her a $50 tip - for a meal that cost less than $30. That server didn’t deserve the $50 tip anymore than most of the servers he’s complained about deserved the complaints he lodged.

Yep, I’d say he is definitely a HMM. There are worse things, though, and I happen to be crazy about my spouse - even if he does drive me nuts at times.

Adeline, I understand that COMPLETELY! I’m also married to a HMM. I now have a new word for it. In the past I’m had other words for it, the nicest I can think of now is a**hole. He doesn’t do the restaurant thing, but he has other ways to assert his power and control. But I’m crazy about the man. He drives me crazy sometimes, but I’m crazy about it. hazel

The clock is ticking down for playgirl Paris Hilton. I could just say ‘Paris’. She seems to be one of those people that can have just one name like ‘Cher’.

After her initial frantic attempts to use her money and influence to sidestep having to obey the law, she seems to have come to terms with her fate. She is preparing for her less than a month stint in jail.

She’s working on her spirituality by going to church regularly and liking it.

“I did have a choice to go to a pay jail,” Hilton said.

“But I declined because I feel like the media portrays me in a way that I’m not and that’s why I wanted to go to county, to show that I can do it and I’m going to be treated like everyone else.

“I’m going to do the time - I’m going to do it the right way.

“I hope that this can be an example to other young people in the decisions they make and use it as something positive.”

In addition to church, she is practicing for jail while partying with her sister and friends. They are teaching her about how to protect herself by acting crazy and about how to - how should I put this - get along with the other women in the jail. If you know what I mean.

She will spend Monday getting a complete ‘going-to-jail’ makeover. I guess it’s like a friend of mine says, it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you look good doing it.

While Paris is primping and preparing for her jail time, the other inmates in the jail are already getting angry about Paris’ pending arrival. According to one former inmate, the other women feel they are having to give up more so that special arrangements can be made for Paris in the already over crowded jail. This former inmate says Paris needs to keep her mouth shut, behave and do her time.

Paris is doing her part, the inmates are doing their part, so what about Paris’ other half, the media? WELL, they are doing their part as well. They are preparing for her perp walk as though it was the Oscars. Some are already camped out in front of the jail for the opportunity to snap those last few pics before she drops into a black hole for 23 days.

I actually do feel sorry for the girl. She’s never had to pay the piper in her life so this has to be a major shock for her. Her statement makes her sound like she might actually be learning something from it. The truth of that will be evident if she’s still got a better attitude and spirituality on the other end of her incarceration.

Janet Charlton’s Hollywood has a photo of Paris dressed in angelic white having a ‘last supper’ with mother and sister at Mr. Chows for maximum media exposure.

Mavrixonline.com has pictures of Paris’ final party at the MTV awards.

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