13: The Writing is on the Facebook Wall
1. Sometimes I feel like a "Talking Head" who has "Stopped Making Sense."
2. Speaking of Talking Heads, David Byrne's latest blog entry is called "Internet Anti-Christ." He makes this point: I see that in my lifetime I will witness the end of books, or most of them, physical copies of recorded music and probably physical newspapers too. Stuff that's been around for a thousand years will be gone in my lifetime! ... All those academic books filled with Auden's or Jane Austen's letters -- it's hard to imagine a collection of someone's text messages, tweets and e-mails.
3. Weirdest mailing recently received: A catalog of unusual gifts, featuring a bust of Obama growing a green chia afro!
4. On the cover of the same catalog there was a green gieco gecko in a red Santa hat.
5. The picture above is of my poet friend Mara's daughter Kyla. Kyla was facebook for Halloween. Her T-shirt said "Write on my Wall."
6. The very least I think I should get from suffering with having 3 U's through half a game of Scrabble is to stick my opponent with 10 points by not being able to use her Q. But a Q has become like a woman who doesn't need a man to reproduce. There are at least 3 Q words without U's accepted in the Scrabble dictionary: Qi, Qat, Qaud.
7. Heard this week: "Every lie is 80% truth." How true is that?
8. Speaking of lies and half truths, I think THIS guy might be Canada's version of Jon Stewart. He makes a hilarious serious statement about the swine flu vaccine.
9. If 'garden' was spelled 'gardin' I would have been beaten by a 10 year old I was playing Scrabble with recently.
10. The fact that the recent army base shooting happened in Killeen, Texas and that the shooter was from Virginia and graduated from nearby Virginia Tech is weird, but not as weird as the fact that this man who was deranged enough to kill 13 fellow soldiers worked in the mental health field counseling others.
11. Joe kisses Colleen and then says: I stole a kiss from right under your nose.
12. My baby grandson Bryce has a new little happy clap and skip in his step that I'm calling his "end line dance." I hope to document him in the act soon.
13. My "Through the Ages" Facebook album from birth to the present is HERE.
Face to face with others playing 13 Thursday HERE.
Comments
Great random list.....when I play Scrabble I always get stuck with the Q's and not U's!!
It was fun to get to see all of those pictures of you....a little peek into your life!
Happy TT!
Posted by: Tracie | November 12, 2009 12:21 AM
Hi, I'm new to TT. I also love to play scrabble and with any age person. As for your #10, we feel that hard here in VA. My daughter is at VA Tech... Absolutely horrid.On a different note, love reading about your baby grandson. I don't have a FB...Enjoyed your post.
Posted by: Gel | November 12, 2009 12:46 AM
I haven't played scrabble in so long. I love that game. Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | November 12, 2009 1:31 AM
looking forward to the next video of bryce! kyla was very creative with her FB idea.
Posted by: sky | November 12, 2009 3:59 AM
Loved the walk down memory lane and am jealous that you are still as lovely as when you were a girl. One question....what took Joe so long? (Or were you the holdout?)
Posted by: Tabor | November 12, 2009 5:29 AM
All of your 13's were interesting and fun.
Thursday Thirteen - Me & Music
Posted by: Nessa | November 12, 2009 7:13 AM
#1 and #2 are something else and certainly make you think.........but I couldn't stop looking at #13. It makes me like facebook more. xox
Posted by: Sherry | November 12, 2009 7:28 AM
I loved your "Through the Ages" Facebook album, Colleen. You should put all that together in a book---your children would treasure that.
Re: #3 and #4---I got that same catalog. Weird stuff, for sure, but I do like a few of their T-shirts.
Posted by: Beth | November 12, 2009 8:14 AM
12 I want to see !!! sandy
Posted by: sandy | November 12, 2009 9:00 AM
What took Joe so long? I'm thinking you mean to marry me and not steal a kiss. We met and had been together since 1987 (when my sons were 5 and 7) and got married in 1996. It was more Joe's idea but I was glad in the end that we did. Another way to answer your question, Tabor, is to say that Joe is 10 years younger than me, so he had to grow up first!
She, I'm working on a Facebook album of my wedding and one of oldies but goldies (dating as far back as the late 1800's).
Posted by: colleen | November 12, 2009 9:14 AM
I received that catalog, too. What does that say about us? Do writers and thinkers receive the same selling gimmicks?
Posted by: CountryDew | November 12, 2009 10:15 AM
This is a very cool list. It seems like stream of consciousness, yet everything ties together very nicely. You have quite a talent!
Posted by: Andi | November 12, 2009 10:44 AM
I can easily see a collection to text messages, tweets, and chat sessions! I can even see it sold as a book. Just not in print form. After all, what made the paper important wasn't the paper itself.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | November 12, 2009 11:56 AM
I love Scrabble, but none of my friends will play word games with me anymore. I wonder why? *VBG*
As for last week's shooting, it was felt hard here, too, as several victims (incl. 3 killed) were from the local 467th Medical Detachment. So sad that these people were there to help those in distress.
Posted by: Heather | November 12, 2009 4:53 PM
(Every lie is 80% truth.) For a lie to be believable, it must be 50% (or 80%) true and 50% (or 20%) false.
Colleen, I love your facebook pics. I want to make one too. :)
Posted by: kikit | November 13, 2009 6:49 AM
you don't want to know what my recent #3 was. gah. happy tt!
Posted by: she | November 13, 2009 3:08 PM