Be Less Boring

Haha!!!!

That's hilarious!

I've tried it a few more samples and gotten Margaret Atwood, a couple of David Foster Wallaces, and another Dan Brown.

I submitted 3 samples... fiction, fiction and nonfiction... and received H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft and Dan Brown, respectively.

Not giving much credence to this tool... I suspect there are about 10 authors in the database...

Excellent article, don't hesitate and read it!

Hey, just getting out there and doing it is an accomplishment. I think the premise is the making of a good movie. Or Maybe this is the movie you watch and say to your friends, hey we can do that better than they did. If you want to watch a horror that makes you laugh more than anything else, pick up The Toxic Avenger and a lot of beer.

You have to pick and choose the things to worry about. With the exception of my inexplicable fondness for Tibet that makes me a bit of a Tibetan Freedom activist, I mostly just worry about things that directly affect me. Oil leak in the Gulf? Don't care. Bomb-laden SUVs in NYC? Not my problem.

there are so many things that we should be caring about, it is emotionally draining. i for one, can barely manage the energy required for dealing with the little crisises(sp) in my own life, where am i going to find more. i just hope the end comes quick.

Just in time to celebrate BoobQuake, too! http://www.blaghag.com/2010/04/in-name-of-science-i-offer-my-boobs.html Uh, in the name of science, of course.

After reading your post I immediately stripped off my burka and ran naked in to the streets of greater Rochester. I never liked California anyway! :-)

i still read the 'local' blogs, but i'm following professional bloggers less and less. overall, i don't spend as much time infront of the computer as i used to, and when i do, it's to check on FB. i really don't miss my blog, because i was writing crap anyway. i still have the urge to write, but there is a roadblock to getting it out of my head. i still read yours.

I too have dropped off of the blogging map, though I occasionally will write something over there as more a way to keep it going or in case anyone still stops by.

I know that FB has impinged on my blogging just because most of my blog entries weren't all that long so the space limitation isn't a big deal.

I may get bit by the bug again and write longer passages but find with a new marriage, new kids, and a new baby my spare time isn't what it used to be.

Glad you are going to keep it, I am still reading it. :)

I just find I do not have time for the stuff I'd like to do, so blogging gets cut out...

The Clash, Killing Joke, Gang of Four and Soft Cell.
Also, Fripp and Eno.

The Femmes, ahhh youth. I remember my high school buddy introducing me to them. I still love that album, also bought their next one. I was trying to think of my top 5 favourite songs the other day and I think Blister in the Sun would make it.

Ah, yes, I discovered Sinead O'Connor right around the Sue/John time-frame and it was Sue who taught me how to pronounce Sinead correctly. I can't really count her or Blind Mellon because they were both artists I was aware of and had heard some of before I really started listening and discovered I liked them, especially Sinead. For the purposes of this post, I'm only counting the bands for which there was an "Aha!" moment of discovery rather than an early awareness that grew into something bigger. That list would be hundreds long...

gee, your post almost makes me want to write a blog post too. i 1st heard the femmes in 10th grade. i don't remember how i found them, but my best friend and i loved that album. later in highschool, i discovered sinead o'connor and wanted to be her. in my late college years, i fell in love with blind melon.

Thank you so much for linking up to my blog. I love that essay by Annalisa, it's soo true! I hope someday my children enjoy raising and growing their food and maybe they'll even be farmers themselves!

Hope to see you around Living the Local Life again!

Virginia
http://livinglocalnh.blogspot.com/

Well, yes, there was just a 9 year old girl in China who had a baby and theoretically she could be a grandmother when she's 18, but that's very far from the norm. If anything, most people today put off having children into their thirties and are therefore less likely to be grandparents before they're in their 60s.

I would not worry too much, considering this day and age, I would not be surprised if there were people 30-36 that were grand parents...

A blast from the past! How's my favorite Yoga instructor been these past several years? New career, eh? Coolbeans!