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“Bad lazy blogger! Go to the corner!” (Schrödinger’s cat can act, eh?)

Oh, relax PETA boy… No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Entry. Feline antics, fiction. Fat kitty and stubby disfigured finger, real. Sooo, the last time I blogged… 13 days ago. Bad, bad me. (I checked my pulse. I am neither dead nor am I seeing dead people.) Two entries in June. Yep, only 9 days left to meet JJ’s request for minimum 6 entries. Four more to go. Ya know, since quality wasn’t mentioned in that request… technically, this entry counts towards the quantity criteria! Should I feel bad about that?

Only just a wee bit, but I do feel guilty about seeing familiar faces poppin’ on MyBlogLog and not giving ‘em an update. (Four words: fruity full RSS feed?) Yes, I will blog hop and return your comments from previous entries. Eventually… Well, a Blue Moon is coming to our skies on June 30th. Wanna sing a Frank Sinatra tune? Come on Paulie, you big Drag Queen.

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

I finally saw the movie Ocean’s Thirteen. Coincidentally, after the flick, my sister and I went to Ocean’s (the name of that Asian supermarket) to buy shrimp for my Father’s Day lunch… Faddah Paddah Pad Thai. And the film? Once again, Brad Pitt eats a lot and licks his gold fingers. George Clooney. Buttered popcorn. Really, what’s not to like? As they say in the film, if you shook Frank Sinatra’s hand, then your word must be good as bond. Well, I never shook his dead hands… but believe me when I say I will return those comments. One day. Once in a Blue Moon. (Sinatra… get outta my head.)

Speaking of comments… do you see that U COMMENT I FOLLOW badge on my sidebar? By default, WordPress has “nofollow” tagging for comments. If you want a surefire way of disabling nofollow in WordPress, install Top Commentators. In layman’s terms, when you holler on my post, the search engines will follow your site link in the comment to your site. It benefits YOUR site’s Google PageRank. Give your commenters some link love: disable nofollow!

Actually, I disabled nofollow on my blog many, many blue moons ago. No, that’s not an invitation to spam my blog with “nice site” or “buy Viagra”.

Ladies and gentlemen, in the grand tradition of fruity oaty link plugging, I present to y’all my last 70 MyBlogLog visitors (up to June 19 1:15 PM) + 10 of my favourite bloggers (5 of whom do not actually have a MyBlogLog account, as far as I know) for a total of 80 spanking hot link love kisses.

[ UPDATE: Sorry guys, I had to temporarily remove the table of 80 linked images. My theme's CSS broke the alignment. Oops... I'll fix it some day. ]

Click on the blogger’s mug shot / avatar. A new browser window will open. Ya, there’s a noticeable Filipino Asian supermarket pattern in there… huh.

BUT FRUITY, WHY ARE 11 OF THEM MARKED WITH SPECIAL ICONS?

Answer: They’re… awards. I want you to visit those bloggers. Meet ‘em:

A. STAR FRUIT (CARAMBOLA) — fruit that looks like a star when cut up

First up, meet crazy, crazy Jigs — a new visitor to fruityoaty island who apparently had A LOT of time on his hands. He read many of my old posts and left a boatload of nice comments — 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… 9… 10… 11… 12… 13… 14… Twelve of ‘em within a timespan of 2 hours and 13 minutes! His name is the inspiration for the Will Smith song reference in the post title. The Cocky Bastard in me can’t help but notice crack words:

“You write with the creativity of a comedian and the brilliance of a novelist! You can add that to your ego boosting moment! I AM NOW HOOKED… I wonder if there’s still room in the fruity fan bandwagon!”

More love: “After reading quite a few of your posts (God help me, I can’t stop!), I have several reasons why we should exchange links.” Yep, seven really good reasons! For the record, I do NOT hate Jessica Alba. I hate her movies. (Hi Jude!) GO VISIT Jigs and maybe he’ll stalk yer blog, too!

B. YELLOW BANANAS — for my pal Evilgenius, the Top Commenter!

C. FRESH RED TOMATO — for my vegetarian pal Valerie. Oh my gawd, update your site once in a blue moon, OK? A tomato IS technically a fruit.

D. 7 JUICY PINEAPPLES

For noticing my new pineapple browser favicon — Ann, Kaitlin, Jaypee
For giving me link love — Paolo Mendoza @ KHOOPS.com
For giving me blog traffic — Janette Toral @ Reflective Thinking
For voting me for The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 — Kubi
For also putting me in her Top 10 list: Tina @ Dance of Life

E. WHERE’S WALDO? goes to _______ (well, the game is to find Waldo). Hi, you e-mailed me a series of eye-opening photos of a large snake caught in the act of swallowing a kangaroo. I can relate to the kangaroo: life is swallowing me whole. [ If you can't find the Waldo-adorned winner's avatar but you want to know who the winner is, click on the where's waldo button at the bottom left corner. Tell Waldo I said hello, twice. ]

Jude, my friend (blogless by design)… your Jessica Alba avatar is down at the bottom. 7 pineapples + 4 other icons = 11… 7:11 conspiracy.

Whew! That was long… again. Alrighty, I’ll be back… with FOOD PORN.

Adieu for now,

Max
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P.S. Answers to questions:

1. I did NOT use a PLUGIN to create the table. I set MyBlogLog widget to display a table of 80 avatars (max. 127). I took a screen capture of the widget display. Next, I spliced the table in Adobe ImageReady and assigned URLs to each avatar. I used Adobe ImageReady to save the images and HTML file. I FTP’d the image files and edited links in the HTML to point to the image folder. I copied the HTML table code portion into this post. Easy, breezy beautiful Cover Girl.
2. I haven’t been blogging because: illness in family, death of parents’ friend (mortality, depressing), work issues, life sucks, ’nuff said.