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Over at Cuteoverload.com, the arbiters of cute have determined that the 31st rule of cuteness is that if your eyebrows shift upwards ("furbrow"), it is cute. Of course, as a longtime Weimaraner companion, I have known this for some time. To wit:
And it's even cuter when she sits there
shifting her brows back and forth like Stephen Colbert as she anxiously
waits for a treat!
This week "Prairie Home Companion" was performed live at the San Francisco War Memoria Opera House. You can hear it live here. It was a great show, in a great (big) venue, and a sold out one (complete with a foyer full of people looking to score tickets), and got me thinking about the whole "San Francisco values" phrase that every Republican seemed to be trotting out pre- and post-election to scare waffling voters about the impending ascension of Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the house. Listening to the mellifluous tones of Garrison Keilor, as he delivered the latest news from "Lake Wobegon," I wondered if the conservative talking heads had ever considered that while San Francisco may have a higher per-capita ration of drag queens, it is also full of people who like gently progressive midwestern humor, and enjoy listening to bluegrass music and stories of norwegian bachelor farmers from Minnesota. Heck, the city even has not one, but two bluegrass festivals.
Not saying that San Franciscans are perfect (we can be condescending, excessively relativistic, and oddly moralizing), but that perhaps there's not as much to fear from us as some might think.
Or maybe "St. Paul values" are just as scary.
