Mostly dry, chance of tumbleweeds, crickets.

Incidentally, I make something just like this — only instead of key lime juice, vanilla syrup, mixed frozen berries, and ice, I simply triple the rum and dress up like a dread pirate. Then I run crazily through the neighborhood disrupting pool parties with my vile language and what some of the neighbors have fashioned “your disgusting and gratuitous nudity.”

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald John Tesh ear lobes Both drummers from .38 Special Smoked cajun salmon spread Miller Genuine Draft (six-pack, bottles) Nancy McKeon Fonzi’s leather jacket / motorcycle / the phrase “ayyyyyy!” Navy beans

Lest we forget. **** h/t Ace

Abe Vigoda Krispy Kreme glazed donuts The Chrysler PT Cruiser The 3-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD of Mystic River (including soundtrack CD) Bananarama Ted Kennedy’s 1984 Member’s Only jacket (taupe) Potato pancakes Jimmy Smits Dingle, Ireland (County Kerry)

First gentleman in coat and tie: “That Smarty Jones is one phenomenal animal, isn’t he?” Second gentleman in coat and tie: “Yeah, especially in Do The Right Thing.” First gentleman in coat and tie: “Beg your pardon? –“ Me: “– He means Danny Aiello.” Second gentleman in coat and tie: “Yeah, Danny Aiello, that’s the one. Thanks, buddy!”

From the Weekly Standard‘s “Scrapbook,” May 31, presented without commentary: Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings recently published a guest column in the Charleston Post and Courier in which he complained that the true purpose of President Bush’s Iraq policy was to “secure Israel” and “take the Jewish vote from the Democrats.” Various people are rather upset with Hollings as a consequence; Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham H. Foxman says the senator’s

and I don’t care.

A new charity idea: send a fiscally moronic leftist this easy to digest economics primer, written by Dale Franks (The Review, QandO, TCS) and offered for sale through Barnes and Noble. Alternate idea: if you don’t know any lefties deserving of such individual largesse, buy a copy and donate it to your local Starbucks. I’m quite serious about this. We’ll all be better off in the long run.

Michele at A Small Victory received an email from the Committee on Arrangements from the RNC alerting her that [certain select] bloggers will receive credentials to all four days of the Republican Convention in NY, Aug 30-Sept 2; Jeff at protein wisdom received no such email and as a result has decided to throw his considerable resources behind John Kerry — who, you’ll admit, is quite a handsome, well-spoken fellow.