Archive for April, 2009
April 22, 2009 at 12:25 am
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), island life, life, writing
I have the world’s worst facial recognition. And car recognition. And name recognition. (I have awesome voice recognition, but it rarely comes in handy, particularly since the advent of caller ID.) Dave finds this hiLARious. Because we live in a small town, and I’m so afraid of not saying Hi to someone I should recognize and being considered snobby that I say Hi to EVERYONE. In a very familiar way.
Such as today in the grocery store. I see a dude. I say, “Hey, how are you doing?” He says, “Hey!” And looks at me a bit oddly. We pass. I say to Dave, “Was that ____’s son from the beach?” “No.” “He kinda looked like him though…?” “No.” “Well, it’s always nice to have someone say Hello to you, right?” Eye roll.
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April 19, 2009 at 11:56 pm
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Seriously, there should be big ol’ DETOUR signs spread throughout the Internet so that good, hard working people such as yourselves can avoid the inane BS I’m about to spew. I’m trying to keep the BEDA spirit alive, so here I am blogging even though I have very little to say at the moment. But seeing as I’m already two days into May with scheduled BEDA make-ups, I better come up with something – AND QUICK.
So again, if you don’t want to read a bunch of words strung together for the sake of being strung together, please, go about your business. This is the last time I’ll warn you. Really, turn away.
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April 17, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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It seems like every day I read another article about how Creepy Eddie is setting a bad example for young girls of what a boyfriend should be. He’s stalker-esque, he’s controlling, he’s SPARKLY. So here it is Friday, and I present you with five idols from my childhood* who would be comparably bad, if not TEN TIMES WORSE as boyfriends than Edward Cullen:
1. J.D. (Heathers). He killed people and tried to blow up his school, and for a while manipulated his girlfriend into helping him. But we all thought he was hot.
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April 16, 2009 at 7:58 pm
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), blogs, technologeee
I own linleydolby.com. I would like it if you could go there and see a picture of me and a short bio on the left, then a column on the right with a list of my favorite books and books I am currently reading. I would like it if you could navigate to another page that houses my blog, and a third page where I might put excerpts from works-in-progress, links to magazine articles, and maybe a couple of the short pieces from my blog revised as essays.
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April 15, 2009 at 7:41 pm
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), Martha's Vineyard, inspiration, island life, life, overthinking, politics, technologeee, writing
Yesterday I was busy Being A Capital-A American. I paid my Taxes and I attended Town Meeting and then when that was all over, I patronized my local Pub and drank Beer with My Mom. And I have to say, after all the presidential campaigning I endured on Facebook for the past year, I was very disappointed to see few people within ten years of my age at Town Meeting.
I don’t even see it as an option. I vote. I attend Town Meetings. It’s what I do. And I just find it surprising that, for the number of people around my age who I listen to all the time discuss politics with passion and sometimes pride and often vitriol, there is very little interest on the local level.
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April 13, 2009 at 4:01 pm
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), writing
Monday is the day when I blog about pretty much nothing. See what BEDA has done for me? It has given me a ROUTINE! Friday Fives, Mundane Mondays, frightening pictures of Jesus. Thank you, BEDA!
So right now I officially declare Monday the day I’m allowed to blather on about nothing in particular, aimlessly, and without purpose. And I can be redundant too! No editor! There’s too much in the headspace on Monday for anything to make much sense, and luckily I always have the rest of the week to sort it out.
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April 13, 2009 at 1:16 am
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A good day for this guy…
[EDITED 4/16: I had to move the Jesus picture to after the jump, because it was freaking me out every time I visited the blog. You win, Jesus, you wily man.]
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April 11, 2009 at 9:30 pm
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), hilarity, life, writing
I know you won’t believe this, but I’ve spent a lot of the day trying to rationalize taking a day off from BEDA. I KNOW! I TOLD you you would think I was joking.
So I’m going to do something today that I rarely do, which is HUMOR DAVE.
Dave (The Husband, for the uninitiated) spends a lot of time telling me what I should write about. Dave’s ideas are kind of out there. (There will probably be more than one comment on this blog post attesting to this fact.) So generally, I nod and go about my business, knowing that the story of our neighborhood as seen through the eyes of a wild turkey or the complicated thoughts of our K9 companions will never find documentation from this source.
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April 10, 2009 at 6:32 pm
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), life, writing
It is the Holy Week and it is time to count the many ways in which I have failed as a Catholic.
1. The only thing I know about Good Friday is that when I was a kid, you could go to church and have your feet washed. This probably wasn’t just when I was a kid – this is probably going on in a church near me right now – but it is all I know of the GF. Right now I’m contemplating guessing at what transpired on Good Friday, but I’m reeeeeally concerned about embarrassing myself. All right. The crucifixion. I checked my work on Wikipedia to be sure. I’m not totally dumb.
2. When I was in college, while walking past one of the myriad Catholic schools named Assumption Something-or-other, I asked my friend Jenny about the assumption. Jenny went to Catholic school and knows these things. I said, “What was the Assumption anyway. What was Assumed?” Jenny, in her most patient Jenny voice explained that “Mary was assumpted to heaven.” Ah, I thought. It’s like one of those words in Webster’s that has two definitions. Got it.
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April 10, 2009 at 12:31 am
· Filed under Blog Every Day April (BEDA), books, inspiration
How devoted am I to BEDA? Blog Every Day April, that is? This endeavor championed by Maureen Johnson at the advent of the release of Suite Scarlett in paperback – you know, THAT BEDA?
This is how devoted.
This is what I am reading right now:
This is the haircut I got today…
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