Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

and then you may have been watching the Colbert Report lately when he compared Mitt Romney to Guy Smiley... and finally, check out my post, dated October 26, 2007: http://ebv.blogspot.com/2007/10/politics-puppets-pc-paint.html See any resemblance? Thanks to Kyle Witherspoon for raising this issue with me. And thank the internet for destroying the right to protect intellectual property. Cheers! PS--It looks like the old Mission Journal won out in the poll, so that will start February 12, 2008. That marks the four-year anniversary of the day I actually did leave for that little two-year jaunt into the Amazon. I promise to make it as interesting and informative as possible, but my aim with this project is to provide readers with a glimpse of what it is like to actually be there, day after day after day after day after day, get a taste for the ups, the downs, the cools and the weirds, and really just see how wonderful and terrible that Mission can be. Still looking for a title for that one, btw. Any ideas, feel free to send them along.