Muppet Brandi!

muppet bran is here!!
Originally uploaded by brantastic

How can you not love puppet versions of your friends? Like this Brandi doppelganger, and Bryan's Timekeeper Willis puppet.

My Pix Ignite a Facebook-a-palooza!

No, of course that post title doesn't make any real sense. The point is, lots of my friends are using my photos of them as their Facebook profile pix, and it makes me really happy.

Vote For Brandi! Or Brandi's Cat...

Vote for Brandi's Mewie to be the cat model for Bissell's new vacuum cleaner packaging. You can only vote once and you need to do it before Feb. 19, so go now and vote for Mewie! I did.

Why should you be moved to do something nice for Brandi? Because she teaches little kids music, and takes fantastic photos of them. And she writes songs that are so sweet they make me cry. And when she's feeling crabby, she makes hilarious bitchcakes.

bissell's having a contest to find a model for the packaging of their new pet hair vacuum, and i kind of want it to be my cat, mewie. if mewie wins the vote for this week, i win a free vacuum. if she's in the top five, she goes to the finals, where she'll be judged by, you know, some judges, and if she wins, she gets to have a photo shoot and be famous. and also they donate $10,000 to the pet charity of your choice, which is super exciting since both of my cats are rescues and i'm all about donating to the cause.

Blog Praise For Friends

My friend Jenni Prokopy, who runs the delightful Chronic Babe, for "people who are living well in spite of illness," has won a 2007 Medical Weblog award!

Jenni also runs Orange Grove Media, writes for Gapers Block, and is the linchpin of a networking group for Chicago communications professionals, ideaXchange. I've only been able to attend one ideaXchange meeting in person so far, but the daily e-mail contact with folks in the group has been an invaluable resource for my professional development. Jenni manages to attract a vivacious, generous, bright bunch of folks to the group, and she does it all as a labor of love.

Go Jenni!