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PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 29: W, X, Y and Z bring it on home
I just polished off another in a long series of plates of Thanksgiving leftovers, including a slice of the chocolate stout cake I made that I wish would just disappear already so I can stop being tempted by its ungodly delicousness. (All credit to Smitten Kitchen.) It doesn't look like I'll be seeing the end of turkey and dressing for quite some time, but one thing is finally coming to a close: National Blog Posting Month. Nearly every day this month, as part of a little project I gave the perhaps ill-advised name PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, I've taken a look at one or a... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 28: Hit the road with creepy Vanity Plates
If you're one of the estimated 33.2 million Americans opting to travel by car this holiday season, you're probably going to see a few vanity plates out there on our nation's roadways. But if you're one of the few million other folks traveling by train or plane, you can check out Vanity Plates: Creepiness in 8 Characters or Less for your dose of indulgent automotive self-expression.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 26: Upside Down Cats in 30 words
I like your plan for NaBloPoMo: Thirty daily words on someone you've known. The one about Howard the organist made me laugh, though hopefully he didn't act on his creepiness. (What's PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo? Find out here. Just four days left!)... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 25: Top 10 most Bright Eyes-y "T" blogs
Upon perusing the list of "T"-named blogs participating in NaBloPoMo today, I was struck by the number of titles that, purposefully or not, seemed ripped right from the back of a Bright Eyes album cover. Indeed, in Conor Oberst's ten years as Bright Eyes, he mined the depths of the longwinded (Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, "When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass") to the ordinary and domestic ("Bowl of Oranges," "A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, and a Necklace") to the eerily named protagonists ("Tereza and Tomas," "Laura... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 24: Spawn of She She faces the facts
Over the weekend, I offered up the seven best things about my new favorite song and my own picks for top ten albums of the year, pushing me two days closer to my goal. Then, this morning, our website suffered an apparent teeth-gnashing overload and pooped its pants. Uh-oh! I spent the downtime attempting to read each and every single "S"-named blog on November's NaBloPoMo blogroll. I got a few dozen in and then gave up, mostly out of boredom-induced exhaustion (somehow, blogs that begin with "S" seem to far more consistently embody the conundrum of tedious, icky reality than... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 21: Rounding up the Rachels
Speeding through the Q's yesterday was fun, so I'm doing it today with the "R"-named blogs-- specifically, taking a look at how bloggers who share my name (kinda) are getting through NaBloPoMo. I could have also narrowed it down to blogs with titles beginning with "Random" or "Ramblings," but that wouldn't have actually narrowed it down much because apparently half of the blogs in the world involve either one or both of those words (frankly, I'm shocked that there are only three on this list named "Random Ramblings"). Also, I would have probably become quite mean, as I have a feeling most of those... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 20: Minding the Q queue
Like everything else in the world, there are not that many NaBloPoMo blogs with that start with Q. Like every other day of my life, I'm feeling a bit indecisive. So my PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo entry today will run through every single one of the twelve "Q"-named blogs to see who's still going strong (not many of them, as it turns out) and who we've lost along the way.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 19: No Pasa Nada, Oh! How Lovely! and Pretty Little Mess get it
After Monday's midterm report and Tuesday's TV rant, I'm fitting three days of NaBloPoMo blogroll perusal into one post today, offering up an "N," "O" and "P" title each as further proof of the existence of non-tedious personal blogs. So, No Pasa Nada, Oh! How Lovely! and Pretty Little Mess, congratulations: You get it. (Speaking of "getting it," here's an introduction to PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo. Apparently this acronym has brain-exploding powers. Sorry, brains!)... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 17: Midterm missives & musings
Seventeen days ago, I threw myself headlong into my very first NaBloPoMo with a few specific goals in mind. First of all, I wanted to prove to myself that I could, indeed, write one blog post per day for thirty days straight. You wouldn't know this, of course, but in an admittedly nutty I way I like staging competitions against myself. And this one seemed considerably more fun than the other battles I've waged against myself in my time, like Don't Take Your Leftovers Out Of The Microwave Until The Timer Beeps and Don't Go Out To Eat All September and... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 15: M Hates NYC, possibly with good reason
Mari, author of M Hates NYC, today's "M"-named blog, is a twenty-something newlywed slogging through life in New York City, a town that she hates mostly for reasons difficult to discern upon initially visiting her blog. Except one: Bed bugs!... read more
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