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after near 72 hours of traveling -- that included flights from krabi to bangkok, bangkok to manila, manila to nagoya, nagoya to detroit, and finally detroit to boston -- ann and dabney safely arrived stateside on saturday to stacks of mail and drifts of dust that had all settled in their apartment over the last five weeks. now, their real battle begins; it's ann and dabney versus monster Jet Lag.

round 1: ann and dabney hit the ground running and combatted drowsiness on saturday night until they could literally stand no longer (just about 9:00 pm). they awoke at 7:00 am - not bad considering their previous 24 hours had consisted of restless magazine flipping and bad movies, not to mention numb bums. round 1 goes to a and d.

just when they think they have it licked. round 2: a huge JL victory. JL unleashed its fury at 6:00 pm on sunday. attacking them just when they're most vulnerable - while catching up on missed american idol episodes that their tivo had amassed during their long absence. with taylor hicks singing in the background, ann nods off until 10. sadly, dabney doesn't shows signs of life until midnight.

now, it's 2 am and what better thing to do than surf the 'net and catch up on all their favorite blogs and websites?

so happy to have a mac back in their hands, ann quickly visited the itunes music store just to see what was new. and lo and behold, chris and keith (a.k.a. fred flare), the two gods that had just christened mogo as "the next big thing" have released their totally entertaining, completely hilarious video podcast. if you have itunes installed on your computer and a broadband connection, ann and dabney urge you to check it out. they're still giggling about ff's roller coaster cam. silliness aside, a video podcast by online retailers - it's a breakthrough in advertising really... it's the dawning of adutainment- the fred flare show.

in the aftermath of mogo's next big thing debut, ann and dabney discovered they were featured in a couple surprising places.
modish- a fantastic indie style blog.
platinum blonde life- a guide to living fabulously.
and one girl who could write a book on fabulousness - ashbloemstraat

and just when they thought no more free publicity could come their way, pica informed them that mogo had made the front cover of etsy. how exciting!

now, on to round 3...