Your Evening Sift

Well, Bloglines is still FUBARed so I did the best I could, clicking through the blogroll one blog at a time to determine if there was anything fresh out there. I even exported my Bloglines subscription over to Google Reader which helped a little, but, my God, how do you Google Readers do it? What a mess of read options and views and Lord knows what else. Hey, but at least it's working, right?

Just a handful of posts for you tonight as a result...

A- Searching For Normalcy's Balou, who has been posting over at Fanless for the past few weeks, runs into Vanilla Ice at the Florida Renaissance Festival and grabs a picture with him.

B- Owenized pays tribute to WPLG reporter, Rad "Mr. Lead Story" Berky, who is logging his last week with the television station.

But besides being a first-rate reporter, Rad is first-rate person. He has taken countless people under his wing without question. Myself included. If you go to Rad’s desk, he listens. He laughs at your jokes. A true gentleman.

If there was a Hall Of Fame for news reporters, Rad Berky would be a first-ballot inductee.

C- Coconut Grove Grapevine captures "Family Day" in the Grove.

D- Consumable Joy visits The Smoking Rabbit on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach and is not impressed.

Unfortunately, our expectations proved to be a little bit too high. The place was empty when we walked in around 8 pm. Not a good sign. The server also mentioned that the menu had been tweaked and overhauled a number of times, which for a 6-week old restaurant generally means things aren't quite right yet.

E- I didn't get to talk about Tilefortlauderdale since starting up SFDB because there had not been any new posts since mid-January. Mary Tiler More, the pseudonym behind the blog, loved to paint small tiles with thoughts and expressions on them and then leave them to be found in various places around Fort Lauderdale. It was a cool idea for a blog and one that I had hoped to read more of but this weekend Tilefortlauderdale hung it up.

Today, after putting well over 100 tiles out into the world, I am taking a hiatus. It's been a fun 15 months and being the secret tile hider has made me smile ... sometimes it's easy to forget that life is supposed to be fun, not just all hard work and heaviness. If that's what it feels like it's all about, then it's probably time to make a change. I'm still going to paint tiles when I feel in the mood, and eventually I might put them out in the world again, but I realize that like anything that goes on too long, it becomes tedious.

I'm going to miss that blog.



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