Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
Are you surprised?
I’m not either. I forget everything!
I posted a video blog the other day about some old music magazines I’d saved from my teen years. Included in all the stuff my parents sent was a fanzine that my penpal, Laura, put together.
She actually did multiple issues, but I only saved a copy of one, not sure why. Maybe because it was the only one I submitted anything for. I don’t remember. But I’d completely forgotten I’d written some album reviews for it until I started to scan it for Laura, who I recently reconnected with on Facebook. She lost all of her own copies of the ‘Zine, which is really too bad, because she did some cool interviews for it, including the Alarm. She interviewed them in San Fran, then flew to Seattle to stay with me for a few days and we went to see them play. When we met them after the show, they remembered her from the interview. It was cool.
Anyway, here is the page that features my reviews. I think it’s funny that I still basically write about music the same way I did when I was 15.
Back when I was Susie M.
Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
Into our family life.
Daniel was watching the ski jumping on the Oympics, you know, when they look like this:
Daniel said they should put some webbing between the skis and the person’s body, so it’d be like wings.
Elijah said, Yeah. And then they should attach a string to them that someone in the crowd could hold.
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The other day the subject of kids’ names came up (yes, again). I think it was because Elijah was complaining about not having a middle name—so he could never just use two initials and then his last name. Like R.L. Stine does.
Cat has a list of kids’ names she likes, which she showed to us. Included in the boys list was Beatrix. I told her no.
Daniel said he was going to name his next kid Shutup Youstupidhead. We had fun with that.
“What’s your name?”
“Shutup Youstupidhead!”
Roll call in class: “Darren…Present. Shutup…Here.”
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Elijah was telling us how his friend Mark’s dad is just exactly like Daniel.
He said, “There’s only two differences. One, Mark’s dad is Mexican. Two, I came from Dad.”
