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Go Tigers! (with apologies to Dagny)

Okay, I'll admit it: I love baseball. Love it, love it, love it. Baseball is a lovely game. It's full of terrific metaphors (eg the goal is get home safe). No matter how often or how long you watch, you can still see something you've never seen before. Really, it's the perfect game--and it's one of the few places in the culture where I feel as I can afford to be blindly idealistic with no real consequences.

Best story in baseball this year? The Detroit Tigers. Here's to the World Series!

Besides, the Cardinals suck.

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Because Hogaboom has a great rack...

and because she recently gave me some killer advice, and because I made a promise...here's a kickass recipe for a yummy Fall soup. FYI: I'm kind of a terrible cook (easily distracted) and I fucked up the instructions in several places (because I'm like that) and forgot the sour cream and doubled it so I could make my family eat it for several meals (cuz I'm a lazy cook). It STILL turned out to be delicious. Here it is, Kelly. Thanks for the help! ~VP

Ingredients: 1 T. unsalted butter; 2 T. olive oil; 2 medium onions, finely diced; 2 garlic cloves, minced (I used 6); 1 t. sweet paprika; 4 cups vegetable stock; 2 large potatoes, peeled and finely diced (about 2 1/2 cups); 1 celery rib, very thinly sliced; 1 bay leaf (I used 2); 1/2 t. salt; 1 t. sugar; freshly ground black pepper to taste; 4 cups corn kernels (I used frozen); 5 scallions, thinly sliced; 1 cup milk (I forgot this, if you can believe it, and the soup was still yummy); 1/4 t. thyme (I used 1 t.); few dashes cayenne pepper; 1/4 c. sour cream.

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Thanks, Ladies, for the wonderful community.

I don't post here much anymore, just the occasional pithy comment, or three.

Alas, even the tiny bit of time I do spend lurking around here appears to be too much. Work is stacking up on my desk; I'm really, really struggling to get my writing work done; I need to take advantage of the last, lovely days of summer weather; and now that Fall is practically upon us (oy! Fall? Already?) I expect to be even busier.

So I'm going to sign off Hipmama, indefinitely, but first I wanted to say Thank You to all of you. I can only speak for myself, of course, when I say that I believe this community provides real refuge and intelligent dialogue and wonderful company for a lot of women who don't have much by way of a mama network IRL--through circumstance or geography or, in my case, their own crankiness (I can't STAND most of the mamas in my neighborhood. Seriously. Ugh. Wretched yuppies! But I digress.).

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Hank needs the hipmamas: Diarrhea

So Hank woke up this morning covered in diarrhea. Shit was everywhere--even in his hair. He was pissed off, and I don't blame him. The thing is, he's never had a single case of diarrhea and he's 15 months old (I know, I know. I am one lucky mama). So, he won't eat, doesn't really want to drink anything; he's not even that enthusiastic about the boob (also a first!). No fever. He's kind of lethargic, mostly just wants to be close to me. Oh, yeah, and he's suddenly got the worst diaper rash he's ever had--presumably from the raging, acidic shit he was covered in.

So, we're taking it easy, reading quietly, letting his ass air out, but I'm concerned about dehydration.

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Asshole! Catch it on a Google Search near you.

Hey, have you guys seen this? If you go to google and enter asshole into the search box, then hit I'm Feeling Lucky, you get a sweet little presentation. Rumor has it that this google's big Fuck You to the Administration for trying to get them to turn over records. Whatever it is or whatever it's for, it's funny! Be sure you've got the sound on! It's fabulous.

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