Saturday morning favorites

We had lunch at Cupcake yesterday, where we saw their gingerbread rendition of their wonderful bakery-restaurant.
Things that make me happy on Saturday morning, cruising through my blogroll:

• Birdchick has more pages of rabbit disapproval! And her blog has the usual amazing photos of birds plus videos of starlings asking for kisses.
• Astronomy picture of the day shows the trail of the shuttle Discovery against the Orion nebula and Rigel glowing brightly.
• Dancing salsa On 1 or On 2: can you spot the difference? Even if you can't, the two videos are awesome.
• SF Mike gives me a dose of my hometown: the politics, the music, the beauty, the characters. Check out the gorgeous photos from Golden Gate Park.
• "Playground to posse: what's your quack-pack?" ZeFrank isn't just funny, although he's always funny, when he's talking about space and MyPlace.
• MPR reports that S.Dakota Senator Tim Johnson is recovering well from his brain surgery. No, he did not have the same condition as Blas, but we are all thinking of him in a new way and hoping his recovery is as complete as Blas's has been.
• La Scala aficionados booed the tenor singing Radames in Aida after a "rather labored Bflat" leaving the soprano to sing the duet alone, and was fired. Silvia Poggioli reports, and she always makes me happy.
• Hey, sometimes my "Miss Crabby Pants" letters to the STRIB editors pay off! Here's what they had to say about the City Council vote on the budget and the need to fully fund the Minneapolis Public Library system. No, I don't think they just heard from me, but I know that a lot of us bombarded them with letters, and it made a difference.
• Leo is learning to make the bed, but he hasn't figured out how to run the vaccuum yet.