I am a good sport with the viral self-aggrandizement of the web unlike some notable players out there. Ken Brown popped me with one again so here goes another autobiographical widget™. Although the last step is kind of redundant since the link itself will communicate to the tagger when it's posted.
1) Link to the person who tagged you.
2) Post the rules on your blog (copy and paste 1-6).
3) Write 6 random things about yourself (see below).
4) Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them.
5) Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
- I named my first car Gesualdo after the demented Renaissance composer. It was a 1987 Chrysler LeBaron 4-Door hatchback.
- I am a music snob and have strong opinions about what is good and what is not and it's usually tied to media constructions of talent versus real talent.
- Two activities I never completed: I dropped out of wrestling after about 2 months. The team went undefeated and won states that year. I pledged a fraternity, but did not finish the process.
- Before this past January I had not finished a book cover to cover in about 4 years. I had not finished a novel in about 7. I have now finished about 20 books and works of non-fiction since. None of them very short in length.
- I have played drums for 21 years. I believe that if I did it full time, I could be a pro. I never wanted to go that route with my career because I was too afraid and would not have been supported enough to persevere.
- I am frightfully nervous that I will not complete my dissertation on time and this sort of stuff is probably not helping that at all!
I tag thus: Nick, Shawn, Messages, David, Presbyfruit, and Iris
* I can’t stand using the word “meme” since it gives the concept too much press. I prefer the term “autobiographical widget™” which I coined here.
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hey now! i'm a tad resentful of the notion that i can't be self deprecating. sure, i find the whole meme me meeee meeeeeee thing enormously annoying. but that doesn't mean my contempt for them is boundless. that boundless contempt is reserved for other things and persons.
hey now! i'm a tad resentful of the notion that i can't be self deprecating. sure, i find the whole meme me meeee meeeeeee thing enormously annoying. but that doesn't mean my contempt for them is boundless. that boundless contempt is reserved for other things and persons.
I was really just saying that you don't like memes. Sensitive are we – even after all of that stuff about rainbow speedos? Cut me some slack jack
I was really just saying that you don't like memes. Sensitive are we – even after all of that stuff about rainbow speedos? Cut me some slack jack
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Personally, I love the irony that Dawkins' term has been co-opted (another evolutionary metaphor) by the Christian blog-o-sphere.
BTW, you only tagged 5 poeple. Is that your (unconscious) means of avoiding the dreaded 6 (rules) 6 (things) 6 (tags)?
Personally, I love the irony that Dawkins' term has been co-opted (another evolutionary metaphor) by the Christian blog-o-sphere.
BTW, you only tagged 5 poeple. Is that your (unconscious) means of avoiding the dreaded 6 (rules) 6 (things) 6 (tags)?
Ahhhh I missed that. Alas I fixed the mathematical error…
Ahhhh I missed that. Alas I fixed the mathematical error…
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