Watch Those Blood Vessels

The McClatchy Watch guy will blow a blood vessel over this, but note the photo here: President Obama's good luck charms. "That jackass over at the Cokesbury Party Blog can't even talk about good luck without bringing up Obama," he'll say. Well. This is the first time Cokesbury has mentioned the president, so I can't quite be accused of being obsessed with the Second Big O. But I have poked fun at Sarah Palin, so it's quite certain I'll be accused of exhibiting Palin Derangement Syndrome.

But this is just a teaser, Mr. McClatchy Watch, for the Cokesbury Party Blog's upcoming party -- our twelfth -- known as the Try-Your-Luck Party, which should be a lot of fun. Or, considering Cokesbury's performance on the past eleven parties, kind a boring. No matter. Rub your rabbits' foot, cherish those coins and charms and keep your eyes open for four-leaf clovers. You're going to get lucky Sunday. But not in the Biblical sense.

See Russia from A Foreign Country: Alaska

Ah, the days when Alaska was its own country, not a dismembered appendage to the United States.

That's the perspective, at least, of this weekend's party, the World Tour Party, in which revelers will visit rich foreign lands like Russia, China, England, Scotland, England, Ireland, England, and Alaska. Alaska? Certainly. Of course you have to remember that back in 1932 there were only 48 states. Alaska was there as some kind of odd United States possession that people had heard about in the context of sled dogs, snow, Mt. McKinley, sled dogs, "Anchorage," "Nome,' "Nome," and sled dogs. So pretty much like today except for Sarah Palin and that whole statehood thing.

See you Sunday.