Showing posts with label FranSheBe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FranSheBe. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2008

FranSheBe taggeth me

Fran tagged me with a book meme and here are my results:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. Check. (I got this Spring 1990 issue of Granta from a local used book store. I bought it because it has a long article on the former dictator of Paraguay Alfredo Stroessner. I've had a morbid fascination with Stroessner ever since I read a Rolling Stone article about him in the mid '70's.)

Find Page 123. Ok, got it.

Find the first 5 sentences and read them. Post the next 3 sentences. Ok, here goes:

"Those of us who were young in 1968 used to talk of 1968 as the moment when some great shift in power towards the people took place. But actually, nothing happened in 1968: a few kids ran down the street chased by the police. This time it actually happened."

That snippet is from an interview with Salman Rushdie. I have not read the entire interview yet so I'm not sure what event "actually happened."

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Stars in my eyes

My blog bud from across the pond PJ saw fit to bestow another award on me. She named me one of her Blog Stars. How sweet is she? She seems to like my naughty jokes, my insane posts, and my blog as a whole, I wonder how she feels about the anus as a hole though. I've been a long time fan of hers and I could not be more grateful for this honor, it means alot to me especially since it comes from someone who I like so much. PJ, if you ever get to my part of TN, then you better come over for supper so I can cook for you.

The nice part of these blog awards is I get to now pass this award on to five others who I feel are my blog stars. Ready? Ok then, here we go:

1) Beth at Cup of Coffey gets one for her concert reviews, for her Friday mix tapes, and for her comments. No one rocks it like Beth rocks it.

2) Katie "Jewgirl" Schwartz gets one for being the funniest, Jewiest, craziest gal on the planet. Her menses reports crack me up and if I ever need a laugh I just click on her vagina poll from this past summer, I howl every time I read it.

3) Angry Ballernia gets one for being such an angry poignant smart funny highly entertaining twentysomething gal. On her off days she's better than most of us but don't tell her I said that or it may go to her head.

4) My little blog sister Fran of FranIAm gets one for being such a blog force for good. In a few short months Fran has taken the blog world by storm by being nice, compassionate, and so darn good that it makes me feel bad that I'm such an evil cranky bastard monkey sometimes. She's inspired an army of followers and readers and I hope she'll lead them well.

5) If Fran is my little blog sister then D Cup is my female blog alter ego, so she gets my final Blog Star award for writing such great political posts, for sharing such funny and touching stories about her family, and for just being a stand up chick in a world gone terribly wrong. I confess to checking her blog several times daily hoping that she'll post new content, what can I say, I go for the boobs but I stay for the commentary. You had me a double D, madam, you had me at double D.

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I hope these women will pass this along to others and not let it sit and get all moldy. All six of you ladies rock my blog world and I'm ever so glad that you do what you do.