If you don't already know what a Hotlist is, then
smileycreek's Welcome New Users: How HOT is your Hotlist?, which is in my Hotlist, is the diary with all of those details. Just click on the plus sign (+) in the row below the title and author's name to Hotlist a diary that you fancy.
Here are just a few diaries from my Hotlist:
Macca's Meatless Monday...checked into his mushroom by VL Baker
It's tempting to Hotlist every diary in this series for the scrumptious recipes alone. Not only does this one have must-try recipes with mushrooms, but it also foregrounds the following regarding water usage:
It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat, while growing 1 pound of wheat only requires 25 gallons. You save more water by not eating a pound of meat than you do by not showering for six months!
That's easy enough for most folks to understand and to remember.
A material to hang your hat (and clothes) on - a cardboard photo essay by citisven
citisven is one of my heroes, and this is just one of his diaries in my hotlist.
My partner and eco organizer extraordinaire Deb had been turned on to Ditto cardboard hangers a little while ago, after doing her typical due diligence. "I was scouring the company's website and was blown away by what I read." [...]
[...] here's the thing: ugly or not, these plastic hangers can't be recycled, so they ultimately all end up in the landfill. Lots of them. Sure, you may keep your personal hangers a lifetime (sure about that? And then what happens, do you pass them down to your children?), but the big department stores where almost all hangers are "born" certainly don't.
In the case of coat hangers, the Garment on Hangers system prevalent in the clothing industry ensures that the minute a hanger is sold it is thrown away. According to Gary Barker, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 billion plastic hangers made every year, of which 8 billion — or the equivalent of 4.5 Empire State buildings — go in the landfill. Recycling facilities do not accept wire or plastic hangers, and wire hangers are doubly problematic as they foul up and twist into the drums that separate different materials. Cardboard hangers, by contrast, can simply be tossed in the paper recycling bin, or if your city has a composting program, in the compost bin. That’s 4.5 Empire State buildings of waste not created.
This is a Test Diary. by BentLiberal
I always post a link to this diary in my New Diarists resource diaries list. Here's a sample:
This is a test diary. If this had been an actual diary, this would be the part where you would begin to zone out and possibly stop reading the diary. You would have looked up to check the author name again, and if you liked the author you would rec' the diary.
If this had been an actual diary, the author would have been running out of things to say by now and would've produced another link:
Here would be information that the diarist did not write, but has stolen from an author that the diarist fancies. If this had been an actual diary, the meat and potatoes would all be located here.
Somtimes these sections stretch on for 2 or 3 paragraphs.
Other times they do not.
Join me below the kosique to read some more stuff that I didn't write.
UPDATED: National Park Service Moves Ahead With Plans to Put Obama on Mt. Rushmore! by Dartagnan
LOL I wonder how many outraged wingnuts shared this diary based solely on the diary's title... It's a fun read:
National Parks spokesman Michael Angelo stated he believed the inclusion of Obama on the statue would represent a symbolic healing of racial tensions:
"Naturally we expect some pushback from certain political quarters, however we believe that over time even staunch critics of the President will begin to adopt amore historical perspective as to the nature of his service."
There's lots more in my hotlist, but I'll stop with this diary, which showcases the talents and creativity of so many Kossacks:
Kos Katalogue Mothership - HOTLIST THIS!!! by Sara R
Kos Katalogue consists of businesses run by Kossacks -- people who make things in America and who provide useful services, people who are making every effort to make their own way in a hard economy where very little help is forthcoming from the powers that be. Kos Katalogue means:
COMMUNITY: People supporting each other
POLITICS: Envisioning job creation and healthy economy
ACTION: Public art donation
So, what's in your Hotlist?
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of their evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, interesting videos, and so forth. Or just say "Hi" if you've had a long day and are too exhausted to participate more actively. We would also appreciate links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate.
Please note that pie fights will be unwelcome in this community, just as in most other series at DKos. There's lots of space at the rest of the site for fighting with other Democrats, progressives, and liberals, and we don't want those battles dragged into this community.
Finally, readers may notice that most who are posting diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but that definitely does not mean that newcomers will be excluded or unwelcome. We're happy to welcome guests to our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
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