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Stumpage Reports
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003 :::
Terminally Unique
If you're any kind of a regular blog reader, you know a popular type of post is a list of "Ten Things You Didn't Know About Me." There is even a website full of links to such entries. Big Ed even jumped on that bandwagon once.
As a bit of a twist on that, here's a couple lists about me, complete with asinine parenthetical comments :
Things I've Never Done That I Feel Like Everyone Else Has Done:
1. I've never been to New York City. (I'd love to go)
2. I've never seen the movie Forrest Gump. (I'll be fine if I never see it)
3. I have had lots of public service jobs, but never worked in any kind of a retail store. (Please God, no)
That was kind of a short list, maybe I've had a fuller life than I thought. I could list a bunch of movies and television shows I've never seen like There's Something About Mary and Friends but the hell with it.
A Few Things I've Done That I Bet No One Reading This Has Ever Done, Let Alone Attempted:
1. Properly arranged and described the papers of the N.C.F.F. and got paid for it. (Actually, I'm still working on it)
2. Flew to Paris, France for my honeymoon. Arrived on the morning of July 14 (Thats Bastille Day for you yokels out there), got to our hotel, walked three blocks to the Champs-Elysées just in time to see a zillion people and tanks jamming the street and seeing three fighter jets streaking low down the boulevard spewing out plumes of red, white, and blue smoke. (We got divorced 2 years, 11 months, and 2 weeks later, but who's counting?)
3. Threw a television set out of the ninth floor of a dormitory. (It was Cramer Hall if you looked at that last link. We didn't get caught. I actually met a guy who threw a television out of the seventh floor of a dormitory. I promptly informed him of my two-floor advantage. He was suitably awed.)
4. I have seen in concert two of the three Spiders From Mars: I caught Trevor Bolder when Uriah Heep warmed up for Jethro Tull and saw Mick Ronson when Ian Hunter warmed up for Heart, both in the early 1980's. (I've never seen Mick Woodmansey warm up for anyone.)
Am I unique? Can anyone match the above lists? Let me know.
Quote of the Day:
This book aims to put killing back into military history.
--- Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare, 1999.
::: posted by tom at 10:28 PM
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