I was going to do a year in review but that seems like a lot of work and I am the balls at keeping records and this poppycock isn't going to eat itself. Similarly, I was going to perform the Airing of Grievances, because as Trish points out, no one is listening at this time of year anyways. I blame the poppycock and the general post-holiday air of bonhomie for the smallness of my pile of grievances. Which, below.
Starbucks, I am aggrieved with you for your 'Less Napkins, Less Waste' slogan. Fewer napkins, damn you. Fewer napkins, less waste, and your parallelism can suck it.
GRRRRRRRRRRRMartin, I am aggrieved with you for greenlighting the Song of Ice and Fire HBO series while the series dangles like an unfinished. Write me my fifth book, for pity's sake.
Bookbloggonets, I am aggrieved with you for growing so quickly. I just bought you new pants and already your ankles are showing. You are big and bad and beautiful, and I miss the days when I knew who all your friends were.
Forward face. My new years reading resolution is (you may recall) to read outside my comfort zone and Read It Well. My non-reading res is to stop saying 'like' all the damn time*, because that more than anything else is what makes my generation sound like a pack of fools.
Happy 2011, y'alls. Feel free to spend the rest of today saying things like This is the best book I've read all year, or This is the flattest piece of toast I've eaten all year. The possibilities are endless.
*except to compare or approximate
This is the longest my toenails have been all year.
ReplyDeleteThat's the spirit.
ReplyDeleteDude. When I was six, I SWORE I'd never say "like," because I knew this kid who said it all the time and he sounded like a total dolt.
ReplyDeleteTwenty years on, I, too, say "like" all the time. And I, too, sound like a total dolt.
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I am a user of like, too. I had this period in junior high when I TRIED to use it more because I thought it would make me seem cooler. How wrong I was. Now I do still use it when I am describing a conversation as a play-by-play to someone else, but this is a very painful way to recap a situation.
ReplyDeleteI agree on GRRRRR Martin. Totes agree. And on blogosphere's explosion, though I don't think I ever knew all the book bloggers out there!
Thanks to you, I'm looking at 2011 in a new way. For example, I wrote a post today that'll go up on Tuesday that shows I've already bested a shampoo bottle this year. Trish: 1; Shampoo Bottle: 0. Good way to start off 2011, no?
ReplyDeleteSo totally absolutely with you on the Martin series. IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME ALREADY. C'mon, Jordan's books are still coming out and he died.
ReplyDeleteAlso, reading outside comfort zones and reading well = excellent goals. Looking forward to following, esp. outside comfort zones.