Strongly Worded Letter

Unofficial Start Of Summer Tater Tot Friday

Tater Tot Friday Bonus Bulldog:

Awesome: Not since the glory days of the Captain & Tennille do I remember seeing a bulldog on the cover of People magazine. But here's the front of this week's issue.

Not Awesome: It's bad enough that poor Hemingway had to wear some sort of Elizabethan costume at the wedding but unless he escapes, and believe me, he wants to, then he will be forced to live with Pete and Ashlee Freakin' Simpson Wentz for the rest of his sad, sad life.

Hope your weekend is phenomenal and includes no weddings and no Fallout Boy!




P.S. Smackdown Update: Today's report finds me bloodied but not beaten. I went to the address I had mailed the package to yesterday and had a nice chat with the security guard in the lobby. Here's are the new pieces of the puzzle I learned. That building has no management office. There was no suite number on the envelope I sent and no similarly named company in that building.

Sooooooooooo, what did the mail carrier do with the undeliverable package as he stood there in the lobby and realized there was no place to take it? If he took it back to the post office then why didn't he stamp it Return To Sender? The mystery deepens. I am going there next.

Awesome/Not Awesome

First, the awesome:

The St Valentine's Day porker: Piglet born with heart-shaped spots

A cute little piglet born with heart-shaped markings on his side is the centre of attention as lovers gear up for Valentine's Day this week.

The 10-day-old Gloucester Old Spot piglet christened Valentine - what else? - is one of a litter of seven born at Byford's Farm in Taynton, near Newent, Glos.

Farmer Eric Freeman, 75 - a founding member of the Gloucester Old Spot Pig Breeders' Club - said Valentine's mother Mandi Lou has already got used to her piglet stealing the show.

"Some sows get really annoyed and squeal but Old Spots are known for being quiet," he said.  "Mandi Lou was very good and didn't mind Valentine having her picture taken.

"I've bred thousands of Old Spot piglets over the years but this is the first ever to have such a clear heart-shaped mark. "It couldn't be more appropriate with Valentine's Day just around the corner."

Mr. Freeman has been breeding Old Spots at his farm for 25 years and said the breed has come back from near-extinction in the past few years.

"I think there are probably around 400 members of the breeders' club and they have spread far and wide," he said.

So far so good, right? Oh, wait, there is one more sentence in the U.K. Daily Mail article:

"There has been a lot of interest because they are a fatty breed and it's a different taste to the normal type of pig - it's much more succulent."

Not Awesome.