Reading: some Michael Chabon essays
Music: Jim Foetus
TV/Movie: Gold Diggers of 1933
Link o' the Day: Least I Could Do

Welcome to Friday! Today's mailbox contained no envelopes, but two handwritten notes. The first note appears on paper yellowed with age in a rusty-brown colored ink.

Dear Mr. Grocer,

Please receive this, our list of monthly supply requests. I know it's a little less than usual, but Smith Jr. is still under the Klondike and is not expected back for another three months. You know how teenagers get. Anyway...the list:

1 antelope side
4 cases of thrush
1 box of salted tuna fin
20 pounds of Caspian coffee
1 bar of Madagascar butter (frozen)
2 jars of Haxil's Powder
2 jars of Haxil's Ointment
1 jar of Haxil's Flakes
1 bottle of Flavor of Egypt
2 oranges (seeded)
2 oranges (unseeded)
4 pints of orange juice (with seeds)
3 bottles of Mongoose sauce
3 Mongoose

In addition to the consumables, I'll also need the usual monthly kitchen cutlery set, flour sifter, and coal bucket.

Oh, and some blackberry gum if you have any. If you're out of blackberry, then forget the gum altogether.

Thank you. Delivery should be made at the usual place and the usual time--sunset at the Grievous Smith Caves. You'll find the money en route in its usual spot under the gatekeeper's tongue.

Thank you.

The Smith Family

Slipped within the folded yellow page is the expected note on rag paper with the expected crimson ink. It reads:

To Whom It May Concern:

We are thinking of ordering lunch. While we await your signal, we also await news on what you'd like.

We're thinking Chinese.

signed
(unsigned)

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Today's link goes to the webcomic Least I Could Do. It's a pretty fun webcomic. I've heard some accuse the authors of engaging in wish-fulfillment fantasy, but I take it more as a feel-good sort of comic where fun things happen to a guy who knows how to have fun and happens to be insanely lucky enough to be able to act on it. Be forewarned...some of the humor is risque--maybe even offensive to over-sensitive types, but there's a lot that can be enjoyed by anyone.

There are several years worth of archives. The artwork does not start out great, but stick with it for the writing, and in a few years--particularly when Lars Sohmer takes up the pen--the art becomes quite good. This is the same team that brings us Looking For Group.

Checking it out is the least you could do.

Cheers!