December 2009
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best of 2009 - day 10
Album of the Year. What’s rocking your world?
You have no idea how hard this question is for me. I have a top 10, and that will have to do! Links go to Amazon - all 10 of these albums are worth buying, for a variety of reasons!
In no particular order …
- The Alternate Routes - A Sucker’ s Dream (rootsy rock, verging on the edge of alt-country)
- Green River Ordinance - Out...
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best of 2009 - day 9
Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
Best. Worst. Hardest, Only. In the end, I’ll remember 2009 as the year I came out alive.
Following directly on the heels of my last post - my moment of peace in January - I came back to Minnesota and slowly started to fall apart. The...
best of 2009 - day 8
Moment of peace. An hour or a day or a week of solitude. What was the quality of your breath? The state of your mind? How did you get there?
This was not a year for moments of peace, not in my world. I was not terribly peaceful in general this year. The only one that comes to mind was all the way back in January; the day we got off the ship for TRB, Leigh and Misti and I went to a hotel on...
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best of 2009 - day 7 →
I got distracted this week while I finished a project, but now it’s time to start catching up! I’m skipping a day or two, when the topic doesn’t really apply.
So … we’re back on day 7 in the Best of 2009, which is: Blog Find of the Year. That gem of a blog you can’t believe you didn’t know about until this year. For me, that’s Communicatrix - her...
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best of 2009 - day 5
Night out. Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?
I can’t really pick one night to single out this year. I could talk about the night of the Butch Walker show at the Varsity, when we went to the pre-show meet and greet and got a private mini-show before the actually concert, when Leigh and I stood at...
a regency romance in 2 minutes →
Heroine: Everyone knows that reformed rakes make the best husbands, because they have the four qualities women desire most in a husband: sexual prowess, commitment issues, promiscuity, and a diverse selection of venereal diseases!
6: Then you’ll like us! We’re total man-whores!
7:We use our bad-boy charm to seduce women into our grasp, take them deep into the woods, and ravish them!
5: We do...
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best of 2009 - day 4
Book: What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?
It was a night in the spring, just after the weather had turned warm enough for me to get out and walk at Como Park. Afterwards, I decided to go up to Barnes & Noble and see what the shelves would give me. I wandered through the YA aisles, and saw an endcap disply...
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evolution of the hipster →
Paste Magazine charts the evolution of the hipster 2000-2009. Somehow, I see every one of the first half at Station 4 on any given weekend; the last half were all in my way at the Gaslight Anthem show.
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best of 2009 - day 3 →
Best of 2009, day 3. Article: What’s an article that you read that blew you away? I’ve discovered several blogs this year written by women who seem to know exactly what I’ve been through and what I’ve thought of this year; Gwen Bell (from whom the Best of 2009 challenge comes), Communicatrix, and White Hot Truth, from where this particular link comes. I’ve read so...
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best of 2009 - day 1
A good way to start a new blog is a month-long posting challenge, right? So I’m participating in Gwen Bell’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge. I posted the first couple on my private blog, so I’ll be catching up over the next day or so. :)
So, Day 1: Trip. What was your best trip in 2009?
The movie begins when I’m walking through the Carnival cruise terminal in Miami,...
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new alkaline trio album 2/23/10 →
This Addiction, February 23rd on Epitaph Records. The first couple of months of 2010 are going to provide some amazing new music!
… and this is why I should never, ever say “I don’t get XXXX, why would anyone do/like it?”
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