HAPPY ONE YEAR BIRTHDAY TO THE ENIGMA CAFE

Okay so it is the Birthday for the Enigma Cafe here at Watergate Summer.I have ordered plenty of cake and ice cream.I have brought out party hats and little goodie bags ( you know the kind that have stale candy and gum). And hell, I am not sure but I heard a bit of clinking in the back of Ice and Glass and I think Mel, Dk, Dusty, and Dada, and Rory are concocting a "PUNCH".And Lilly is sitting here licking drippings off the old lineoleum, and the cat is asleep on the coffee maker. And Mr 6-6 ( yeah my 15 yr old son is hanging streamers from the ceiling as only he can.
And hell, I have even dusted and polished The Counter and even the Foul Language Jar.
( or as Honorable Son calls it " The College Fund".)

So here is the truth last summer after much ranting and raving and yelling at the TV, I decided I really needed a Blog, I had been reading them since 2004, and it wasn't really helping me fall in love with our country again. I was still using more profanity than a sailor on drunken shore leave and my blood pressure was still in the Yikes Zone. ( Now it is just in the Occasional Oh, Well Shit Happens Zone).

I named the Blog Watergate Summer, the summer of 2005 because it reminded me of the Nixon Years when the Unraveling of a pack of Crooks began and the Heat and Scrutiny Rose and the Poll Numbers tanked. So in a sadistic way it became a Summer of Promise and Hope that the Tuth would be revealed on many many fronts. I do think Many Many UGLY Truths have indeed been revealed, and peeled back like a rotted onion. But I do agree with John Dean, this is much worse than Watergate. Much.

So The Year in Review:
{{ Watergate Summer's First Year in Review, and yes, it is going to be published, I am still picking out favorites from every month, if anyone wants to select , feel free.It is still being pulled together....So Here are some Highlights... But I will be honest if Anyone has favorites please let me know for The Book. }}

August:
I was very pissed at King Fuckard taking so much godamn Vacation Time , so there are quite a few letters to Dear Leader that first Month. And then I blogged of course about Camp Casey and Wonderful-Mom-of-Steel Cindy and of course the War. And then Low and behold the end of August 2005 The Katrina Disaster happened- and I Blogged it ( hell I flogged it and FEMA).

September:Katrina and more Katrina and not nice letters to the Fearless King George.

October:More On Katrina, Iraq, Plamegate, and Cindy..

November:More on Plamegate, and some pieces of Katrina,
December:Christmas thoughts, as well as Iraq: "Walking Wounded and Roadkill is a post that covers Homelessness and Iraq Vets...

January: " Chinese New Year", and the West Virgina Coal Mine Disaster, and of course a bunch of snotty posts about the damn king.

February:" The Lost Souls and the Souless that Remain In Power", "April 1968", "My grandmother Florence"

March:"It's All Relative" "The Rising" "The King's Delusional SinkHole" " Angels Amoung us".And of course there is "Red Trucks and Water Lies" the Teaser for my other Book SILENT FALLOUT..( over on the blogroll)

April:"Prayers for Sol"

May:" Mothers Day"

June: I have to reccommend "Late Night at the Enigma Cafe", and it is indeed going in the book.It is about Trying to Grow up into something, that means something. And there is a nice post for Fathers Day- short and sweet. And of course the "Worm in the Bottle" and "Watch Rummy Eat Crow".

July: The Enigma got a little hooked on YouTube, and took a bit of a break of hounding 20 Issues at once and flooded the Airwaves and Bloggerland with Tunes. But some of the choice posts include: "Baking in the Sun" ( The Toupee Tragedy), and of course slightly rude "Slavery,Table Manners & Pigs". And of course "The Whole World is Watching" on a more serious note.

August:"Dancing in Reality" and "Meet me on the Veranda" two posts that are not quite what they seem...and worth a look.

This Blog led to other blogs that I assembled to meet different Needs of the Day. There Was the Plamegate Timeline Blog- so we could all Follow the Fritz Intricate Manuveurs. ( also on the Blogroll)

There was NOLACARE which was to help NOLA workers down in the Katrina Zone...
( I also sent medical supplies to the VETS for Peace to use in NOLA and quanities of baby formula to the Astrodome and Shelters in Louisiana...but I was worried about the workers and the reporters in the Zone not knowing Enough to care for themselves.)

But mostly this Blog became a Coffee Shop - the Enigma Cafe, I am not even sure who started calling it that , but it took on a life of it's own. And the Regulars became more of the Fabric than the actual blog- and I love that. I love the pithy comments and banter and dialogue, there is comfort, humor and Real Discussions ongoing. It is in essence a Real Community of Real People that I cherish....

So this my Thank You in many ways...