More on turning 6
July, 2006
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Jul 06
Questions asked and answered
Wolfdog asked: Have you had moments you were considering giving up iwd.com? If so, explain…
Of course, but mostly only in extremely moments of intense brattiness. It usually involves people who think that by reading iwilldare.com they’re keeping in touch with me. It makes me really mad, because it’s so one sided. They get to know [...]
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Jul 06
Alert the media! iwilldare.com is 6 years old today
I just did a little bit of googling to see if I couldn’t find anything anything exciting that happened on July 31st. Apparently this is not a very exciting day, probably because it’s too damn hot to do anything. Some of the Historical Happenings that I found included:
1975 Jimmy Hoffa Disappears
2000 Be With You by [...]
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Jul 06
There aren’t many people I’d get out of bed at 4:45 a.m. to say goodbye to
“I thought if I was really tired I wouldn’t cry,” I said.
“I knew that if I was really tired I would cry,” Sister #4 said.
“There’s no reason to cry,” I said. “This is a good thing.”
“I know. You’re just the last one,” she said.
“Just remember you’re not missing out on anything here.” I bent down [...]
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Jul 06
Almost Gone
The boxes are gone and Supergenius Headquarters is littered with the remants of Sister #4. It’s a mess, a melancholy mess to be sure. It’s bittersweet, I cannot deny that. There have been a lot of tears shed. Crying is contagious. Each time she and the person started to cry, I too would cry.
I [...]
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Jul 06
The first 10 videos to air on MTV when it debuted 25 years ago on August 1, 1981
MTV hit the air on August 1, 1981. By now Mark, Nina, Martha, JJ, and Alan have all become answered to Trivial Pursuit questions, and everyone knows that the first video was VIdeo Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. But was was #2? #3? Tonight VH1 aired the first hour of of MTV’s existence [...]
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Jul 06
My motivation has decided the weekend begins right now
One of my coworkers just tossed a Post-It Note pad on my desk.
“You need to stop leaving all your writing ideas around.”
On the Post-It Note pad I had scribbled:
he had to ride the pine for the quiz bowl
you were an ostracizer? yeah, she said, shaking her head and covering her hands with her face.
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Jul 06
This is where you realize this is all just a giant ploy to keep myself amused
You know the drill:
A. I fell in love again, all things go all things go Wolfdog surprises me with the Chicago by Sufjan Stevens.
B. Tell me who is to blame for the inkspot question mark
C. Just an old friend coming over to visit you, that’s what I’ve become
D. All my life I’ve been slow and [...]
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Jul 06
til touchdown brings me back down again
What’s your favorite Elton John guilty pleasure song?
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Jul 06
So cute I might cry
Last night, Max announced that he really needed a blog.
“What would you write on a blog?” I asked.
“I’d use the keyboard Aunt Jodi,” he said, air-typing.
“No,” I said. “What would you write about?”
“I’d write about saving the earth, and president bush and I’d mostly put pictures of cute animals up.”
“Someone beat you to it.” I [...]
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Jul 06
Holtz is busting my balls on the spelling of a made up word
So, you be the judge is Jay saying “noyg noyg noyg” or is he saying “noinch noinch noinch?”
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Jul 06
It beats the hell out of singing Billy Joel songs while rocking gently under my desk
When work gets so busy and so stressful to the point that I can’t breathe, I just repeat this little rap to myself over and over:
fuck fuck fuck
mother mother fuck
mother mother fuck fuck
mother fuck mother fuck
noyg noyg noyg
one two
one two three four
noyg noyg noyg
schmokin’ weed schmokin’ weeds
doing coke drinking beers
drinking beers beers beers
rolling fatties smoking [...]
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Jul 06
Rock rock rock rock rock and roll high school
For the past three weeks, Sister #2 and I have spent each Monday evening at the Minneapolis Central Library (incidentally the library is brand new and stunning) taking a rock and roll class.
The class, called “Upper Mississippi Shakedown: Anatomy of a Scene” wasn’t really a class but rather a lecture series moderated by Chris Osgood [...]
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Jul 06
i heart Michael Schaub
I heart Michael Schaub: “I am apparently the only person who really, really wants to buy a funnel cake from Philip Roth.”
