I started writing this blog waaaaay back in June of…let’s see…when was it…oh yeah. 2008. Strictly speaking, I’m still pretty new at this. But early on, I was staying with some friends, and obsessively reading their comments on my new baby (blog) because nobody else knew I was writing it. I started my association with the blog world by reading Jennsylvania. Then I decided to read Jen’s blogroll and found DadGoneMad. LiteralDan must have found me through a comment I left there because suddenly I had a comment from a stranger! OMG! Somebody real is reading this thing! Does that usually happen after a week? Who the heck is this guy anyway?
So I started
reading him, and he quickly became a favorite read. Plus, he’s only about 300
miles away which in the blogosphere is like next door. So it was only natural that
when I was given a Kick Ass Blogger Award by Trooper Thorn, that I give one to LiteralDan.
If not for the heroin-like high encouragement of that first real
comment, I might have said, meh! Who needs it? Then, guess what? Earlier this
week, LiteralDan StumbledOn my Self-Watering Rose post and I had over 200 new
viewers that day! That's what bloggy friends are like! Go to his blog. He uses footnotes which is an instant indication of erudition. I think Indications of Erudition would be a good name for a band. Here is a guest post from my bloggy-buddy, LiteralDan, all about my favorite subject: Me.
In response to a tag from Kat at 3 Bedroom Bungalow to Let in Crazytown, the following are 6 uninteresting (but 100% completely true*) things about my host and our favorite blogger, Middle Aged Woman.
1. She is the first recorded person to use the word pineapple, and is thus credited with its coinage.
2. She was the unseen hand guiding Jimmy Carter in securing the release of our hostages in Iran in 1979. Typically, it took her forEVER to make it happen, and the internal blame for his election defeat has barred her from participating in presidential politics since.
3. She enjoys gardening almost as much as a few hours to herself to finish a crossword puzzle.
4. She would pick a pair of comfortable shoes and a copy of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life as her only two personal items for a lifetime stay on a deserted island, even when reminded that she might want to first be sure of a steady source of food and water or tools to acquire it, and that Life of Brian is far, far superior in every way.**
5. She spent a summer touring as a roadie, and occasional backup singer, for a popular band in the '70s, but before you get too excited, it was just Wings.
6. The last item was deemed too uninteresting for publication, or at least that's what the mysterious man in the black suit and sunglasses said when he came by to personally black it out with a Magic Marker. I'll just assume it was something lame about the Middle Ages.
* I mean the word "true" in the
political sense, which may or may not directly contradict yours or the
dictionary's current definition.
** Not to mention that she'd have
nowhere to play the movie.