SPECIFIC DISAPPOINTMENT #1:
The disappointment felt when you get your tea/dinner/beer ready, put the dvd in, get comfortable on the couch and then the dvd skips.
Similar to what happens when you are really excited to share some music with a friend and you put a cd in and it doesn't work.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Weakend
Sorry, it's too rainy outside right now to blog.
Grumpy pants Monday.
My weekend, much like our current weather, was cloudy with moments of awesomeness. Surprise parties, The Informant!, late-night 3 crow and an awkward Mad Men viewing at the Capitol Grille.
Note: You know who doesn't like watching Mad Men? Old guys who love football.
You know what makes that okay? $5 Gimlets and lobster corndogs.
Grumpy pants Monday.
My weekend, much like our current weather, was cloudy with moments of awesomeness. Surprise parties, The Informant!, late-night 3 crow and an awkward Mad Men viewing at the Capitol Grille.
Note: You know who doesn't like watching Mad Men? Old guys who love football.
You know what makes that okay? $5 Gimlets and lobster corndogs.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Look Blogward Sarah
I am like the Barbra Streisand of Blogging. You think I might be retiring, you resign yourself to the fact that life might get a little less colorful, and then BLAM! I'm back from a place that I never really left.
But isn't that sort of the beauty of the Internet? That amid all of the constant self-examination and oversharing, I can still believe that some sort of mystery may be maintained. I can even convince myself that all 10-15 of my readers have been wondering what I've been doing since my pilgrimage away from this blog. And that they possibly believe that I have both a REAL LIFE and a INTERNET LIFE. Even though, let's be realz, my internet personality sort of sucks.
So a quick update:
I read a lot of books
I went to work
I gchatted with all of my genius/hilarious friends
I planned some trips
Yeah, that's it, sheesh, I'm a crazy train!
And (amidst all of this funrunnery) I totally let blogging slide and just ignored it and didn't think about it and stopped answering its phone calls and changed the radio station every time I heard "Horse With No Name" because that was OUR SONG.
But I've returned. Partially because lots of people told me to, partially because I could really use a book deal right now. *
*Possible Book Deal Getting Ideas
-Why You are Fat Wrecks (pictures of badly assembled fast food)
-Music City Sartorialist (pictures of tourists and musicians)
-Dooce Deuce (mostly snark, I would have to have a baby though)
-LOLRats (captioned vermin)
Of course there's also this pressure to be funny, but let's be honest Adorably Small Readership, you know I'm not really funny.
I'm all talk. Really I'm prepping my art installation about the Holocaust and writing poetry comparing my childhood to the Bubonic Plague (working title: Ring Around Suburbia, We All Fall Down).
So we'll see how this goes. I'll probably just write about books all the time, although I don't know how many people really want to know my opinion about Stephen King.
(Yes, I just read The Stand. Yes, it was awesome. I am only slightly embarassed about this).
Also, once in awhile I will step back from all the silliness and make some insight about the HUMAN CONDITION that will knock your socks off.
But once you've stopped cathartically weeping, please put your socks back on because I know I can never focus if my feet are chilly.
But isn't that sort of the beauty of the Internet? That amid all of the constant self-examination and oversharing, I can still believe that some sort of mystery may be maintained. I can even convince myself that all 10-15 of my readers have been wondering what I've been doing since my pilgrimage away from this blog. And that they possibly believe that I have both a REAL LIFE and a INTERNET LIFE. Even though, let's be realz, my internet personality sort of sucks.
So a quick update:
I read a lot of books
I went to work
I gchatted with all of my genius/hilarious friends
I planned some trips
Yeah, that's it, sheesh, I'm a crazy train!
And (amidst all of this funrunnery) I totally let blogging slide and just ignored it and didn't think about it and stopped answering its phone calls and changed the radio station every time I heard "Horse With No Name" because that was OUR SONG.
But I've returned. Partially because lots of people told me to, partially because I could really use a book deal right now. *
*Possible Book Deal Getting Ideas
-Why You are Fat Wrecks (pictures of badly assembled fast food)
-Music City Sartorialist (pictures of tourists and musicians)
-Dooce Deuce (mostly snark, I would have to have a baby though)
-LOLRats (captioned vermin)
Of course there's also this pressure to be funny, but let's be honest Adorably Small Readership, you know I'm not really funny.
I'm all talk. Really I'm prepping my art installation about the Holocaust and writing poetry comparing my childhood to the Bubonic Plague (working title: Ring Around Suburbia, We All Fall Down).
So we'll see how this goes. I'll probably just write about books all the time, although I don't know how many people really want to know my opinion about Stephen King.
(Yes, I just read The Stand. Yes, it was awesome. I am only slightly embarassed about this).
Also, once in awhile I will step back from all the silliness and make some insight about the HUMAN CONDITION that will knock your socks off.
But once you've stopped cathartically weeping, please put your socks back on because I know I can never focus if my feet are chilly.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
"Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man."
-The Moviegoer
-The Moviegoer
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
New Dave Eggers!
He has a great interview at Salon where he discusses his new book, Zeitoun. I'm looking forward to reading this straight non-fiction work, since I'm sometimes turned off by his fiction. What is the What is fantastic, but his earlier stuff I'm not that into. It's just a little too self-involved.
But he's writing about Katrina! (I know the exclamation point is inappropriate, but I'm really looking forward to this.)
And, of course, McSweeney's lists will always have my heart.
But he's writing about Katrina! (I know the exclamation point is inappropriate, but I'm really looking forward to this.)
And, of course, McSweeney's lists will always have my heart.
Heavy MetalBoard Games
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Whitesnakes and Ladders
Motley Clue
Twister Sister
Black Scrabbleth
Guns 'N Risk
Slaynium
Jenga Priest
AC/cheesi
Hungry Hungry Skid Rows
Steppengories
- - - -
Whitesnakes and Ladders
Motley Clue
Twister Sister
Black Scrabbleth
Guns 'N Risk
Slaynium
Jenga Priest
AC/cheesi
Hungry Hungry Skid Rows
Steppengories
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