Glad ol' Buzzy's not being left behind with DFK and the rest of the top-of-the-page gang. He can sleep in Lance's room.

Oh, can't we take the DKF along to Buzz 2.0?? I started out thinking DFK was unbelievably creepy, but along the way, he/she has kind of grown on me.

Yoga-armpit-woman can stay behind, however.

I, too, will miss the bizarre DFK, and agree that my heart has softened somewhat to her visage over time.

As long as we still get an allotment of Lance Lawson (and the occasional Lance Lileks), I'll be happy.

As to Buzz 2.0, I'll believe it when I see it....

Happy New Year, Buzzards!

maybe replace the weather snowman in the online logo's ear with the DFK. "SNOW, 10 degrees," and the DFK has snotsicles and a scarf.

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if this is a new economy, how come everybody wants my old-fashioned money?

Looks like DFK is now a CEO:

There aren’t any songs you can play while you strip the tree.

But we could make up our own words to an old chestnut:

Oh, strip the tree, oh, strip the tree
and take off all the branches

(Of course, the above works a lot better for those of us here in the South who pretty much have to use fake trees. Sure, you could buy a live tree in Texas, but most of them look like Charlie Brown's tree before the kids stole Snoopy's decorations.)

And feel free to finish my song parody; I'm off to lunch.

I mean I hope this works out well for you, but since they don't give me a paycheck, It's always felt as though Lileks.com and the Bleat were your real jobs, and the newspaper was just a hobby. I know, how crass of me to project. Will this work into your efforts on the novel?

Good luck in all of the wholesome newness of 2009. Oh, and incidentally, what sort of goofy new-year glasses will folks use the next December 31st? I mean 2000 - 2009 had the lenses right there in the middle (00), but 2010 will mean having the glasses off-set to the right by a digit. It seems unbalanced. And heavens! What will they use in 2011?

They'll use a monocle, of course.

gets to come along? 'Tisn't fair. And it won't be hard to carry the kid along, unless the image is made of extra heavy pixels.

...became minnesota's first poet laureate with an opus called 'state of the city - crime and the economy'.

and got paid to buy a house with the earnings of of a minneapolis-made movie dfk wrote produced and directed about a university rep named doris 'the razz' rybak who was working to lift the cuba embargo

and that the movie was to have been screened at the oak street cinema but it was closed so they premiered it at the guthrie instead.

the DFK probably gets residuals from every fourth click to refresh the buzz page.

it certainly can't have anything to do with the technical requirements of Booze 2.0, I would think.

they probably have to have space to rotate pictures of both Normie and Al until the courts are through with this so-called election of so-called ours....

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if this is a new economy, how come everybody wants my old-fashioned money?

...I'll agree to rotating pics of Norm and Al, but only if they have their faces painted and cute little doggy ears.

(wow, that's kind of a disturbing mental image....)

but only if they have their faces painted and cute little doggy ears.

Now let's see how long it takes one of our local Photoshop Enthusiasts to whip up a quick Dog-Faced Al or Norm... Shouldn't be hard, I'd imagine. I'd do it myself, but that would mean adding it to the queue of work that I'll never have time to do, which would put it at the bottom of a very long list of things that will never happen.

Sat. Jan. 3rd NYT crossword puzzle has me stumped. I need a four-letter word for #40 across: Heckle. I should know this one, but my mind's a blank. Maybe someone here on Buzz can help me out.

Okay, CR32, now you're just messin' with us...

How about:
bait,gibe,jeer, mock, ride, twit, hiss, rail?

Hmm - don't razz me, that's all I can come up with.

Just saw the pictures of Al and Norm. Excellent work! (I wish I were that adept at PhotoShop!)

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