Almost

Actually got through to Minnesota Public Radio's blog-talk on the 1-800 line, but was on hold until they came back a minute or two ago and told me I was too far back in the queue to make it to the air. Damn.

My phone's batteries were dying anyway...

There's still about five minutes left--by the way, Ken, Andrew Sullivan just gave a kudo to George Orwell's As I Please--and he took the time to slime Atrios for using a pseudonym.

Chores await, but I'll have some things to jot down a little later. For those who want to take a look at something interesting, here's a link to Timshel's post today regarding Baton Rouge and it's lack of identity. Indeed. Cajun meets redneck here on this side of the Mississippi--and the necks win. There's a school, a downtown of sorts that was abandoned years ago, and then there's the vast amorphous burbs that connect to each other via a nightmarish collection of four-lane roads.

By the way--even with the expenditure of large sums of money, the odds that downtown will EVER attract the numbers of people needed to make it more than a work week enterprise are close to zero. Years of neglect insured that.

But, like I said, gotta knock out a couple of things.