Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday - Appeasement - Edition.  Thanks as always to our appealing host, TexDem!

Stats as of 3:15ish Central are as follows:

224 participants
1267 comments
5.7 average comments per person
68234 mojo exchanged
24.5% average participation rate

Stats will be updated tonight, and again Sunday morning, as revisions to this diary.

Webster's defines appease as follows;

1. to bring to a state of peace or quiet

:Calm 2: to cause to subside
:Allay 3: Pacify, conciliate; esp: to buy off (a potential aggressor) by concessions usually at the sacrifice of principles - appeasement
 
Wikipedia has this to say;

 
Appeasement, literally: calming, reconciling, acquiring peace by way of concessions ór gifts (the verb 'to pay' also goes back to the Latin 'pax' = peace). Most commonly, appeasement is used for the policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles. Usually it means giving in to demands of an aggressor in order to avoid war.

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday: Your Mother Wears Combat Boots Edition.  Thanks to our unbootable guest host Ninepatch!

Stats for this week, as of 3:17ish Central, are as follows:

235 participants
1097 comments
4.7 average comments per person
68949 mojo exchanged
27.2% average participation

I will update these stats tonight, and again Sunday morning, as revisions to this diary.

Well, actually, I don't know if your mother wears combat boots, but I know mind used to. To this day she blames those plain, black leather military issue boots for her Fred Flinstone toes and big ugly bunions. Since it's Mother's Day weekend, I thought I'd tell you a little about mine, and you can tell me a little about yours. Yeah?

In the Autumn of 1941 my mother enlisted in the British Army. The Nazis were sweeping through the center of Europe and the blitzkreig on London was soon to begin in earnest.  She was trained in a specialized form of field communications. With 4 English women, 1 Irish woman, and my Mother - the lone Scot, they became a unit that traveled under secrecy and were never permitted to move about without an armed guard.

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday - First Anniversary - Edition.  Many thanks and kudos to our host TexDem, for his fabulous job this week, as well as for fathering such an entertaining baby.  And I certainly never knew that Buhdydharma and pastordan were the moms...scandalous!

A year of Mojo Friday!  How many mojo's that must add up to...but don't make me count them.  It's tough enough a week at a time!  :-)

The Postgame Show was born 9/14/07, so it has been around almost 8 months and roughly two-thirds of MF's existence, which surprised me.

Stats for the week, as of 3:15ish Central:

147 participants
928 comments
6.3 average comments per user
44412 mojo exchanged
33.2% average participation rate

I will update these stats tonight, and again Sunday morning, as revisions to this very diary.

Trouble publishing guys.
So I'm going to do this a bit at a time
 
WOW!
 
Has it really been a year? What a Freakin' year. I want to say thanks to all the regular MF'ers as well as the occasional MF'ers too. And to all the newbies, sit back and enjoy.
 
The inspiration for Mojo Friday came in two steps and two posters. Buhdydharma and his ********** **** ************* ***! and Pastordan's Why I Hate Daily Kos.
 
As well as a desire for the absolute most mojo possible, so here we are.

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday + What Are You Reading, Vol. 82.  Thanks to our most readable guest hostess, jlms qkw!

Stats for the first round, as of 3:32ish Central:

203 participants
1182 comments
5.8 average comments per user
62412 total mojo exchanged
26.5% average participation rate

I will update these stats tonight, and again Sunday morning, as a revision to this diary.

What are You Reading is a weekly dailykos series hosted by plf515.  Mojo Friday is a feel-good chatty diary hosted by TexDem.  I am pleased to guest host this combined edition.  I believe both regular authors will return next week.    

cfk hosts Bookflurries on Wednesday evenings - Atlantis was this week's theme.  Although I am still very fond of the dragons from two weeks ago.

Goodreads is a place to keep track of your reading, and share with friends.  Beware of emails from authors though ;-), some seem to email the entire community to request "friendship".  My uid there is Jlms, and I will be your friend.  

Two weeks ago I overwhelmed myself (and perhaps some of you) with a plethora of beloved children's books.  This week is completely different, I promise.  

Please share what you are reading, and over the flip, I'll share what I'm reading, why I'm reading it, and how to acquire books.  

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday - What Did You Eat For Breakfast - Edition.  Thanks as always to TexDem, our up and at 'em host!

Statistics for the week, as of 3:20ish Central, are:

209 participants
1241 comments
5.9 average comments per user
67759 mojo exchanged
26.6% average participation rate

I will update the stats as a revision to this diary tonight and again tomorrow night.

After last week's overwhelming response how do you follow it up? Do I tackle serious again? As many told me, don't worry about it, just write something. Okay, so here we go.

Breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, so how did you start your's? I had oatmeal. Sometimes I have toast and honey with OJ. And always Tazo Chai Latte, I'm spoiled that way. I did coffee in the past  but the Dr. told me to cut back on my caffeine. I probably eat a better breakfast when we have guest because we'll add yogurt and fresh fruit to the menu.
 
When do you eat the best breakfast? At home, vacation or business travel?
 

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday - Impeach Now - Edition!  Thanks as always to our unimpeachable host, TexDem.

Stats for the week (as of 3:18ish Central) are:

241 participants
1356 comments
5.6 average comments per user
64671 total mojo exchanged
20.2% average participation rate

Wow, that's a bunch of everything!  Except participation rate, which always falls when comment count rises.

Stats will be updated tonight and tomorrow night, as a revision to this diary.

Yesterday Troutfishing wrote a diary about the veritable smoking gun needed to make impeachment not just possible but imperative. His diary was based on a piece reported by (OMG) ABC News (Holy Shit). And over at Docudharma, Valtin has written a piece on the National Lawyers Guild's call for the firing of John Yoo from his position at UC Berkeley's law school. And then trying him for war crimes.
 

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday - Frugal Fridays Edition.  Special thanks to our ever serene hostess, sarahnity!

This weeks stats, as of 3:16ish Central, are:

205 participants
1041 comments
5.1 average comments per user
51063 mojo exhanged
24.4% average participation rate

I will update these stats as a revision to this diary tonight, and again tomorrow night.

Welcome to a special Mojo Friday/Frugal Friday joint edition.  In case you are wondering what either of those things are, Frugal Fridays is a regular diary series where we share money saving tips, discuss living frugally and generally talk about personal finance issues.  Mojo Friday is TexDem's series where we all gather on Friday mornings to trade jokes, stories, pictures/videos (please wait till after 300 comments) and whatever else tickles our funny bones.  This week he has graciously let me host this extravaganza, so come on in, sit yourself down and pour yourself a nice tall glass of mojo.

In case you are really jonesing for some financial discussion, don't worry, it's here too.  If you haven't yet filed your tax forms, check below for some last minute tax tips.

For those of you who don't follow us on Friday, several weeks ago we decide to keep Mojo Friday open as a week long open thread. You find 15-20 regular MF'ers making comments there all week. It has been used as a non candidiary free zone. No politics unless you're beating up a GOPper.
 
Well, due to the volume of comments last Friday's MF diary has just bogged down. The problem was created by some of the games being played there. Word association, song lyric tag, along with some of the old caterpillers. We had 200 or more comment threads, ouch. There have been other Mojo Friday diaries with more comments but the combination of long threads and right wall banging was killing anyone who tried to open the whole monster. Some of us were opening a comment at a time just to make it easier. That can be funny by itself, a comment hanging out there out of context.

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday - Random Edition.  Thanks as always to our most excellent host TexDem, who randomly does either an exemplary job or a fantastic job each week!

Stats for the week are as follows (as of 3:15ish Central):

123 participants
1009 comments
8.2 average comments per user
42950 mojo exchanged
35.4% average participation rate

This represents a dropoff from 159 participants and 1192 comments at this point last week.

As always, I will update these stats as an edit to this diary both tonight and tomorrow night.

There is no specific topic today mostly just some house keeping.
 
I want to thank jlms qkw for filling in for me last week. And while I'm at it announce that next Friday we are in for a treat, Sarahnity will be posting a Mojo Friday/Frugal Friday combo post. The topic tentatively will be on last minute tax filings etc. We're hoping to give her just a little more exposure than usual.
 
If you missed it, Ninepatch posted a special edition MF yesterday requesting your further assistance in writing our Armed Forces personnel. Check it out and support her and our troops with a note to let them know you care about them.

Welcome to the Postgame Show for Mojo Friday: Mojo Good Friday Bingo.  Special thanks to our most excellent hostess jlms qkw...J, L, M, S, Q, K, W, and jlms qkw was her name-o!

This weeks stats are as follows, as of 3:15ish Central:

159 participants
1192 comments
7.5 average comments per user
54217 mojo exchanged
29.2% average participation rate

This is quite an increase over last week's person-count (119) and comment-count (1124) at this stage.

Updated stats will be posted as revisions to this diary tonight and tomorrow night.  So if you want to be #1, you still have time!