If you are Emerald City, the L.A. Times' environment blog, you follow yesterday's post on your friend's bikini crotch with a post today on the underwear your mother gave you for Christmas. In case you wondered, yes, there are some posts about the environment, including one just now hyping tomorrow's transit discussion Downtown at the Cathedral.

Regarding those crotches: Corporate communications guru Shel Holtz mentions Emerald City's post-with-the-eight crotches in a blog entry titled The downside of newspaper reader blogs.