“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 a reader’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.)
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:
- 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.
- I haven’t been blogging because: illness in family, death of parents’ friend (mortality, depressing), work issues, life sucks, ’nuff said.
Do my eyes deceive me? Do I see an update from fruity?
Seriously, I’ve been wondering what was up and I’m glad to see you’re back!
Ah, I have the nofollow installed on my blogs as well. There are two of them out there, one that will strip the nofollow from all comments and one that lets you go back and be selective on certain comments. Which one are you using?
Max looks so cute and funny in that picture. You’re probably gonna get PETA freaks bugging you though. They overreact to everything nowadays.
Sometimes good ideas are just so hard to find. Good for you, you blog worthy entries. My posts are all nonsense.
Mari noticed the pineapple but didn’t want to go “OMG HOW COOL A PINEAPPLE FAVICON!” like she would have. (Mari is a pretty obnoxious person…)
Star fruit. Mari had no idea they were real fruit. Heh… Mari has to go to the grocery store to find, purchase, and eat one now.
Mari’s been thinking about getting a MyBlogLog account… but too lazy/busy to actually do it. XD
Kitty is just so… hooge. Mari’s cats are all skinny. Where can one find these jolly fat cats?
Dofollow is awesome. Mari thinks she still has it enabled. Thinks… Mari’s going to go check now.
The star in Jigs’ picture looks like a flower from Jasmine’s hehe. I had to do a double take to check if it’s really part of his picture.
Thanks… for the link love, hehe. Very innovative, what you did with it and all… and how you did it.
Thanks for the pinyaaa!! Hehe.
Waaa I wanna see Ocean’s 13 ever since it went out, but too busy… oh well…
I’ve been bad, not visiting, for a variety of reasons. But I’ll be back now.
Ooh, thanks for the links. I’ll have to try those out.
What else? People see how good and creative you are in your entries.
But I still don’t understand that YOU FOLLOW COMMENT…
Kiss
Fendi
MAX!!!!!!
I love the pineapple icon too! Why not put up the VIRAL ICONS? The pineapple will surely stand out!
I am fruity but why I am not on the fruities? Huhuhuhu.
Hang on there, ‘k? ***ross whispers: Courage!