What am I blogging for? I’ve asked this question before and given an answer in a semi-tongue-in-cheek fashion. Now two recent posts, one by Kim Tracy Prince at House of Prince called “The Cranky Veteran Post” and another by Jennifer … Continue reading
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Failing at the No-Cry Challenge with only happy tears
After Sue of Happy Meals & Happy Hour recently issued a No-Cry Challenge in which she put up a couple of YouTube videos of songs to make her readers cry, my wife “outed” me on Twitter that the following song makes me cry:
So I’ll own up to it here publicly. I just hear the first two lines (actually just half of the first line, who am I kidding?):
When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together, lives within my heart
and here I am:
(It’s true. I become James Van Der Beek. It’s weird.)
All I could think of when I first saw this movie was all the toys I had abandoned as a child, including a teddy bear named Harry that belonged to my father when he was a child and which now I don’t know where he is — waaaahhhh, waaaaaaah, waaaaaah.
Harry looked like this:
I’m sorry, seeing that picture, I don’t know if I can write anymore tonight as I’m becoming a little verklempt…
But as Brad and Dolly sing: Yeah, when I get where I’m going, there’ll be only happy tears.
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This post was originally posted at unfinished rambling(s).
Posted in Unfinished rambling
Tagged Brad Paisley, humor, humor-blogs, random, sad music, Toy Story 2
Saturday’s Me and You: 9/13/08
I started a new part-time job at a local independent bookstore so I have not kept up as well as I would have liked this week. So this might be short.
Me
@ an unfinished person (in this unfinished universe)
- Tuesday’s Tunes: Ten For Tuesday: My 10 Favorite Movie Songs– from Apocalypse Now to Into the Wild
- Wordless Wednesday: Cowboys and Indians at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art
@ Just A (Reading) Fool
- The Sunday Salon: The literary gods laugh– and the Lord R. God Himself intervenes
- Tuesday Meme Things: Reading award winners and stuck in London
- Right As Rain: Not quite but getting there– a review of Right As Rain by George P. Pelecanos
- Monique and the Mango Rains/The Alchemist– Nicole Bonia of Linus’s Blanket reviews Monique and the Mango Rains based off questions I gave her; I review The Alchemist based off questions for her, for last week’s Weekly Geeks
- Friday Finds: Chabon, Moore and Pratchett from the brother-in-law
@ unfinished rambling(s)
- I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, Part II, where I recount my mechanical stupidity when it comes to lawn mowers.
- I guest-posted at Prefers Her Fantasy Life about whom and what I prefer my fantasy life with. For links to previous stories I cited there, see here and here.
You
Since I didn’t blog a lot myself, I also wasn’t able to keep up with y’all as well either unfortunately. However, here’s a few things that caught my eyes this week as I was checking out my Google Reader.
- Okay, this technically is still about me, but my sister is the one who wrote this post called Have sword will use it about what happened when I brought my 20-month-old nephew Jonathan a toy sword.
- My sister also wrote this post about The Huz on Sarah Palin, on what her husband and probably many other husbands were thinking about the VP candidate (uh, not me, honey, no, I wasn’t
. - One of my favorite bloggers, Jenn Thorson at Of Cabbages and Kings… wrote a tribute titled Fletch Would Have Wanted It This Way to Gregory McDonald, author of the Fletch detective novels who passed away last Sunday.
- Bex from the normally funny The Blog of Bex remembers the events of Sept. 11, 2001 in a rare but much appreciated serious moment in I Remember.
- Jeff at View From the Clouds asks and answers, “Are your kids a pain in the morning? It may be not their fault.” To find out why not, read his post.
This next week, hopefully I’ll get back into a groove on all my blogs. Hope to see around on one or two or more of the blogs.
Posted in Books, Mind, Unfinished rambling
Tagged blogging, Books, humor, humor-blogs, Music, photography, random
Trying to duck the quack doctors on Twitter and BlogCatalog
What is it about me that draws quack doctors on Twitter and on BlogCatalog?
Okay, so far, it’s only two, but soon I have a feeling I’m going to have a whole host of alternative medicine types following me — and probably even more after I write the words alternative medicine over and over, alternative medicine, alternative medicine, click, click, boom! It’s going to explode in my face and all over my IP address.
I Twittered that I was suffering from allergy headaches. I didn’t realize what a mistake that was. Suddenly I had this “doctor” following me who told me he had the cure to all my allergy problems. I’m not going to give you his url address, because I’m not going to give the man more attention than he deserves and I don’t want to engage in “a dialogue” with him. I’m reading Great Expectations and getting enough dialogue there, thank you very much.
His system, though, is “a revolutionary paradigm shift.” I think I used the word “paradigm” in my profile page, so I’m wondering if that’s why we might have a “connection.” I knew I shouldn’t have used a highfalutin word like “paradigm.” He even has consultation fees which you can pay via PayPal– um, no.
The second “doctor” is a hypnotherapist from England. Again, I’m not giving you his url address, but he’s a practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming AND hypnotherapy. I don’t need to hear any more and I don’t need to read about how you’re not a quack, but it’s really legitimate– no, really. It’s been scientifically…blah, blah, blah…leave me the H-E-doubletoothpick (that’s for my mom and dad) ALONE.
Oh, wait, this just in…as I also found another quack doctor, perhaps the quack doctor of all quack doctors, as one of my friends on BlogCatalog, and I don’t want to leave him out:
DrBobby (name changed) who runs an “integrative medical clinic” and has SEVEN, count, them SEVEN blogs — “about unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies and western traditional medicine as well.” Whoa! (If it’s unproven, though, why should I check out your sites?) Among his specialties are:
- environmental medicine, Ayurvedic cure, Panchakarma (regular karma not good enough)
- “candidacies” — no matter if Obama or McCain or if you’re like those who live where I live, still hanging on to the hope of Ron Paul (no I’m not kidding you), it’s not good for you, I knew it — ANARCHY!
- intestinal dysbiosis (ouch, that sounds painful)
He says he is “use to answer emails of” his patients, but is “new in building a blog community.” He also is new to the English language, I think.
Next time, I think I’ll share about some of the things I’ve been asked to hock and books I’ve been asked to review not just on this blog, but also on other blogs I have. Unfortunately, none of this has been as ahem, “cool” as Rickey on Riding with Rickey with his chess set. For more on that, and what he really thought of his free chess set, visit his post HERE.
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Posted in Unfinished rambling
Tagged alternative medicine, BlogCatalog, humor, humor-blogs, random, Twitter
