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PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 11: Innocent Loverboy gets his groove on
Today, I scanned the "I"-named NaBloPoMo blogs hoping to find one called "I Am A Dude," because I realized last night that I've only PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo'ed about lady bloggers. Finding no blog with that title, I decided to automatically disqualify all blogs with names involving the words "mom," "girl, "Mrs." and "goddess" from being considered for today's post, since all of those are pretty good signs that a non-male person is responsible for the content therein.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 10: Hand Cramp Crafts times out
I think PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo has stumbled across its very first NaBloPoMo casualty: Today's "H" blog, Hand Cramp Crafts, hasn't posted since Saturday. Uh-oh.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 9: Gretch-A-Sketch knows her ABCs
Gretchen of Gretch-A-Sketch, today's "G"-named NaBloPoMo blog, is tackling her month o' posting with a familiar strategy: Using the alphabet a means of inspiration and a way to keep her on track. It seems to be working for her, and it's working for me, too, except when I almost forgot Friday. And when I almost forgot today. (Though if you're thinking I did forget yesterday, nope! I rounded up the top 7 worst movie birthdays ever over our List of the Day blog. Phew, right?)... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VTop 7 Worst Movie Birthdays Ever
[Above: Samantha Baker's birthday ended happily in Sixteen Candles, but overall was a classic mess.] Today is my birthday! Even though I plan on having a great day (The Everybodyfields last night, Of Montreal tonight, plus the church across the street from my apartment is having a huge yard sale today! I love yard sales!), I've had a few crappy birthdays in the past. But who hasn't? People who don't have birthdays, that's who. And those people are not alive people. So thank your lucky stars that you are an alive person having a birthday. Even if it's a crappy one,... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 7: F is for Future House Farm
Today's the first day of PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo that I almost completely forgot to blog. Yikes! Now I'm about to run out the door for a busy weekend, so here's today's brief and nearly forgotten look at an "F"-named blog.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 6: Ezra Pound Cake is exactly what I hoped it would be but thought it wouldn't be!
Belgianwaffle is chugging right along with its chronicle of every place the author's ever lived, but it's still not a food blog. And despite my earlier promise, my lunches have remained steadily pathetic. Guess not everything needs to change in one week, right? Still, I'm feeling like some more inspired meals may be in my future, because today I successfully stumbled upon an actual food blog in my perusing of NaBloPoMo's "E"-name blogs, one that I clicked on with the assumption that I was about to be disappointed, once again, by a site cleverly but irrelevantly named. Ezra Pound Cake,... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 5: Distractible Jane airs her regrets
Dear Distractible Jane,Your blog entry today made me chuckle. I was too nervous to drink last night-- I had just one Strongbow (and some of Twain's curry chicken salad, which I was also too riled up to finish at the time, but which I've been intensely craving the picked-over remainders of all day)-- but I kind of regret not sharing your day-after regrets. There was just so much to celebrate! It would have been the best worst morning of my life. Instead, it was just one of best best mornings. Less hung-over but equally proud,-RachaelPS: For those just getting in on the PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo action, here's some more information on the project.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, Day 4: Cello Centered gets my vote
So! It's election day! Kind of a big deal, right? Right! Thusly, I tackled the “C” section of NaBloPoMo's November blog roll expecting a barrage of political chatter: Last-minute advocating on the behalf of beloved candidates, fervent ranting, harried tales of voting booth kerfuffles, or at least a bit of griping about how SNL's Presidential Bash last night was kinda super lame. But not one of the blogs I clicked through this morning even so much as mentioned “election day” or “voting” or “democratic process” or “averting the course of American history” or anything. Not nothin'. ... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 3: Belgianwaffle isn't what you think
Thus far, I haven't been very clear about the criteria by which I'm selecting these blogs to blog about. That's because no real criteria exists. The first two days of PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo involved a lot of clicking around and browsing and brow-furrowing and yawning until I landed upon something suitable. Today, though, I deliberately scanned the "B"-list for blogs titles that seemed most indicative of potential awesomeness.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VPaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo, Day 2: A Little Radish plans ahead
Two days in to NaBloPoMo, November's bloggers seem to be almost universally fixated on one of two subjects: Halloween and NaBloPoMo itself. Most blogs I've checked out so far agree that Friday night was really fun but OMG how are they going to make it through a month of posting every day and why did they decide to do this again or at all in the first place? Which leads me to wonder, what is it about this completely voluntary exercise that incites such whining? Is this just customary throat clearing before everyone gets down to brass tacks? Was I... read more
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