The Brits make a valiant effort to overcome the Japanese in cute

An item in Cute Overload on injured UK Hedgehogs (which are significantly more attractive than the South African Hedgehogs kept as pets in the US, but you can see how the UK ones would TOTALLY TAKE OVER if they lived in the Northwest as one of their favored foods is slugs) links to an article on the hedgehogs that are too weak to hibernate which led me to St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital (!!!!!!). Look at those guys. Holy Crap.

The power of a non-denominational hug

A hug from Amma:

Amma takes me in her arms and I melt naturally into her embrace. Everything goes black. There is noise out there, but it seems to just become an indecipherable hum. It’s just calm and comfortable in my head and heart.
Her robes are beautifully fragrant, and for the rest of the day I keep getting wafts of it, distracting me momentarily from whatever I’m doing.

Early best-of

The materials selectors (aka those who buy the books and whatnot) have released an early best-of-07 list. I’m not ready to discuss my best-ofs until the last seconds of ’07, but I’m betting my list won’t be the same. Except for Sherman Alexie, of course.