In what has become sort of a tradition here at communicatrix, we bring you the year in reverse…or perverse…or something like that. Because after all, what is the point of having a whole, entire year if you can’t heave it up at the end and enjoy it again from the beginning?
- I could live happily elsewhere.
- I probably won’t anytime soon.
- Deadwood is the best cocksucking sonofabitch show ever.
- Coaching works.
- Lawns are overrated.
- The bargain matinée at the Century City 15 rules.
- If you want people to become really alarmed on your behalf, tell them you’re planning to shave your head.
- I love the acorn squash at Houston’s with a fervor that borders on the unnatural.
- Good coffee mugs are as hard to find as good handbags and unicorns.
- I enjoy looking anyway.
- All of those people who said I would outgrow my lust for high heeled footwear were right.
- Damn them.
- Rolos will be the television of 2007.
- If forced to come up with an earthly description of heaven, I’d pick flashlights, a slow shutter and good company on a starlit deck.
- A well-cooked pot roast runs a close second.
- Especially when it is cooked for you, with love, on a chilly Sunday evening.
- Toastmasters is the shit.
- UPS is apparently an acronym for Unflaggingly Poor Shipping.
- There may be something to this whole networking thing.
- Ditto conferences.
- I have a little problem recognizing the obvious.
- When playing games with children under 12, you have to let them win occasionally.
- Even if you don’t want to.
- Which I never do.
- Noise is to me as dust was to Julianne Moore in that Todd Haynes movie.
- It is worth it to pay the extra freight for heavy card stock.
- Those cherry Larabars are really, really good.
- Eventually, if you eat enough of them, they taste like soylent green.
- I absolutely, positively love getting up in front of a bunch of people and talking.
- Acting, not so much.
- Just because you paid a crapload of money for a couch is no reason to keep it around.
- Alison Bechdel is a genius.
- My jealous streak, while lying dormant for years at a time, is capable of erupting at a moment’s notice.
- Fortunately, it now scares the bejeezus out of me.
- My parking luck will never catch up to my used leather jacket luck.
- I like the idea of being a gardener better than the actual gardening.
- My significant others will always be somewhat horrified by the rest of the club.
- Being disorganized is my spiritual governor the way Crohn’s is my physical one.
- Starbucks sucks.
- Its suckage increases in direct proportion to the distance between it and other coffee alternatives.
- This makes it suckier beyond suckiest suckiness.
- Forget the hounds, release the fleas.
- With the right partner, sex actually gets better after the 18-month mark.
- This gives me hitherto unimaginable hope for the future.
- If things continue in the current direction, I may drive less than 6,000 miles next year.
- The Wall Street Journal is a surprisingly engaging read.
- You can still recycle VHS tapes.
- I don’t look quite as butch with short hair as I thought I would.
- The BF looks even better with long hair than I thought he would.
- Fucker.
xxx
c
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Interesting stuff. I will try a Larabar. But what is this problem with coffee mugs? I see cool ones all the time — even at the 99 cent store. What exactly is your criteria for a good coffee mug?
It only seems right, after all my reading of you to write something (I’m silent on kernspiracy, too, but only because when I have replied, it never shows up. Can’t wait to discover what I’m doing wrong.) I’ve enjoyed your observations and opinions and stuff all over the place. Thanks.
Anyway. Although, typically, the strength in numbers things strikes me as just a fancy way of building a false consensus, there’s no way around it. Sometimes I want to belong to a gang, even if it’s just a gang of two. So: I’m on your side with the coffee mug thing. I want it holding the right volume and weighing the right weight, etc etc. A lot like a good pen. Yah, yah. A Montblanc is blah blah blah but it’s like writing with a UPS truck.
Your earthly description of heaven conjured up a damned good picture of heaven. Is it possible that it’s perfect?
Nos. 22-24 should be in some instruction manual. I might be cranky about it, but if it’s in the instruction manual, if the manufacturer says it’s how it works, I’ll accept it all more easily.
I thought several others were just gems, but it’s unseemly to go on and on and on on my first commenting. uh. oh. I guess I already did it. But still. I can nip this in the bud.
I take issue with number 22. Teach them strategy so they earn the win. If they, like my neices, simply want to win because they’re poor sports… well, I’m going to exercise that “If you can’t say anything good” thing I learned way back when. Of course it’s your list, so I’ll shaddup now.
Except to say: Yes, “Damn them”… for different reasons though. I don’t buy heels. (that clarification still sounds wrong on some level coming from me).
Take care, and have a great new year!
The Wall Street Journal *is* a surprisingly good read. Just be sure to skip over the editorial section, it is run by the League of American Right-Wing Crazies.
A question on #39. Is music played at Starbucks lame because it is lame music or because it is music that is played at Starbucks? I miss non-corporate coffee shops. I miss dirty coffeeshops where the employees wore ripped concert t-shirts of bands I had never heard of.
btw, I am stealing this “100 things I learned over 2006″ for my own blog.
As always, the best read in the blogosphere!
Happy New Year!
Let’s keep in touch better than we have over the past 10 years. This decade sucked on that note… YES, IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS!!!!
Love,
Rick
Neil – you have much to learn about coffee mugs, my friend. In fact, if you can come to appreciate the nuances of the coffee mug, you might well unlock many hitherto unexplained mysteries of life.
Cris – feel free to go on, always. I love commenters who go on more than anything. Also, keep me posted on coffee mugs in SB. Seriously. Coffee mug situation getting serious.
Larry – You’re right, in a way. But even as you teach, you kind of have to give encouragement. Or maybe I’ve been watching too much Mommie Dearest.
Dave – Oh, it’s strictly Marketplace and Personal Journal for me. Maybe a cursory glance at the front page. Although not today. Some capitalist tool nabbed my paper today. Cocksucker.
Rick – You are too kind. It has NOT been 10 years, though. Not! Not! Not! (Sighs…pours another round…)
hahahaha!
I love the gardening part, then eating what I grow.
I hope so too. I’m single now, at least I’ll have the 18 motnhes to look forward to again some day in the future.
Good coffee mugs are as hard to find as good handbags and unicorns.
Best. Mug. Ever. Trust me on this one, I would not steer you wrong. Retains heat like a MF, especially with the lid on. Large capacity size worthy of coffee addicts everywhere. Handle far enough away from mug not to burn you, close enough not to make it unweildy, and wide enough to allow you to grip well. Worth every expensive penny.
Also makes an extraordinary tea mug. You can buy a mesh bowl that rests inside it, put loose tea in, pour in boiling water, cover and let steep–and 10 minutes later, take off the cover and it’s still piping hot.
Plus, it’s handmade and you’d be supporting an independent artist/craftsperson.
And no, I don’t work for the artist. I just am in love with the product.
Now when you say “Coaching”, you mean Life Coaching? All right, I’ll bite. What’s great about it? What’s it done for you that’s changed things? I’m asking just because I’ve been suspicious.
Love the list!
#29- I admire that in other people. So not me. I manage with varying degrees of success depending on the circumstances, but it’s rarely if ever something I’d say I enjoy.
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