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I love Amy Gahran. She’s good people. And brilliant. And I’m not just saying that because she mentioned me in her good people video. Or just because she mentioned TW. Or just because she mentioned BlogHer.

For years, I would send links to Amy’s posts to my boss and coworkers – trying to plead my case for the “company” moving into social media and social marketing – trying to convince “them” that we needed to have a discussion with people.

And then, there was that somewhat drunken cocktail party by the pool at BlogHerCon06 when Amy pulled her mic out of her pocket to record AllAboutGeorge and instantly he pulled his mic out to record Amy. It was brilliant. A fantastic example of what we’re all doing out here in the blogosphere.

And then there was the time when Amy started the whole buzz about whether or not it was professional to share personal details about your life on your blog or with your clients. That survey, do you remember the survey? Not only is Amy brilliant, she’s brave.

OK enough already, I need to get to work.

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10 good reasons to go to BlogHerCon 08

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Someone on Twitter, I can’t remember who, said she’d love a “10 reasons to go to BlogHerCon 08” list. Because she was thinking about it, but she just wasn’t sure. I didn’t have the time to make a list, and I still don’t have time. But, I did have time to ask Prince J for his list.

You see, Prince J went to BlogHerCon 07 with us and he LOVED IT. He loved it so much that he is really TICKED off that he cannot attend this year. Seriously TICKED off about this. But, he’s a good sport and happily spouted off ten reasons people should go to BlogHerCon 08.

1) Denise will be there (which counts as 9)
2) There’s free stuff (Prince J’s sister is also ticked that she is not going to BlogHerCon08 this year. She was at camp last year and missed the big event. She wants to go for the big PPP pens.)
3) The coffee bar was awesome so there should be one again this year.
4) He’ll be there (ha in his dreams, he’s not going this year and he is angry about this.)
5) They have a really good internet connection with a lot of places to plug in your laptop or (recharge your gameboy/ds)
6) You can meet Tish Grier (is she going to be there in 08? Prince J was really taken with Tish, as any smart person would be.)
7) You can stalk the sushi guy at the cocktail party.
8) You can meet people who care about what you’re interested in (He met gamers!)
9) People talk to you, who you don’t even know! (And they expect you to talk back to them! Even if you don’t really know them.)
10) You can meet new computers and check out their cool laptop stickers! (Prince J really enjoyed scoping out all of the different laptops and their stickers.)

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers

2008, Books in Bed, Fiction, Queer, Women /

My expectations for A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers were not great. TW seemed “ho-hum” about it and she said it was sad. I peeked at the first few pages, shrugged, and dug in.

Next thing I knew, it was 10:30 and I had read 3/4 of the book. It was a super-fast, very easy to read book. You’d think that wouldn’t be the case since the narrator is a Chinese woman who speaks broken English – or maybe that’s what made it easier TO read. Basic broken English easier to read than proper English?

Anyway, I liked it. It’s not a favorite and I wouldn’t buy it, but I liked it. And I didn’t find it sad at all.

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Tales from the dark side, errr, the garage

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Seared Steele Cut Oatmeal w/balsamic reduction sauceWe got serious about this de-clutter thing and got busy in the Florida Room and the garage, yesterday. But first, we hit The 43rd St Deli (on 13th) for breakfast where I had – gasp – oatmeal. Steele cut oatmeal, pan-seared w/a balsamic vinegar reduction sauce topped with bananas and dried berries (and walnuts too but I picked around those, yuk.) And that pan seared oatmeal – really good. (Do not tell anyone from my “old life” that I ate oatmeal!) (Also, the photo is from the iPhone so not great and I don’t have time to do any editing and photoshopping, sorry.)

Anyway, the clean up. Crazy.
Really crazy since much of what we were de-cluttering had BEEN de-cluttered a few years ago and we broke the biggest de-clutter rule of all… when something is set aside to leave your house, it needs to LEAVE YOUR HOUSE! Bags of old kid clothes, old toys, stuffed animals and just plain JUNK that should have been gone were still there. ugh.

Grandma's old radioEvery car driving through the neighborhood stopped to take stuff from the curb. Many people got out, walked up the driveway and sifted through the piles of stuff. Many, many more people wandered into the garage and attempted to remove items before we’d sorted through them. Many, many people wanted things we were not planning on parting with. I surprised TW by saying I was ready to let the “grandma headboard” and the “grandma radio” go. (The headboard is at the curb, come get it! It’s orange! The radio was sold and the nice man is coming to get it tomorrow.)

We found some other stuff, well a lot of other stuff. But this is the stuff that I was most amused by and can actually share here…

from the garage

Yes, that’s a record of Nazi marches and speeches. Yes, that’s a flash cube. Yes, that’s an Atari tape cartridge. Yes, those are dressmaker’s matches.









Oh, the skink… it was dead and I did not kill it.

A skink?









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