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Comment on Apparently I’ve volunteered for an unpaid medical research study. by Bags

Bags — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:11:02 +0000

It’s a good thing that men don’t have PMS… can you imagine a couple both riding an emotional roller coaster at the same time? Wait… lesbians probably already do that.

Comment on After a long hiatus… by Bags

Bags — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:19:15 +0000

Welcome back!

Comment on Wow, You Know I’d Really Love to Go Out with You, But I’m Baking Cookies for a Funeral Home that Night by Bags

Bags — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:02:53 +0000

The cookies may be your salvation… but if you don’t have interest in going out with him, just forget about it.

Comment on Wow, You Know I’d Really Love to Go Out with You, But I’m Baking Cookies for a Funeral Home that Night by Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:41:54 +0000

Well, I went to the Jazz game last night and that’s the best I could do. Sorry, sometimes it comes and others…not so much.

I was thinking I’d just take him some of the funeral cookies. That’d be good, right?

Comment on Wow, You Know I’d Really Love to Go Out with You, But I’m Baking Cookies for a Funeral Home that Night by Bags

Bags — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:54:51 +0000

First of all, how do you feel justified in making one post per month… at this quality!? I’m sorely disappointed. Second of all, if you think your excuse, however truthful it may be, could sound bogus, maybe it would be worth it to either tell him a) that you would like to take a rain check, or b)that you already have plans. A combination of the two is also effective. If you told me you were going to be baking funeral cookies, it’s not likely that you’d be getting a call from me again. That’s just me though.

P.S. Just wanted to point out that my response to your post is almost twice as long.

Comment on That’s It! I’ve Had Enough. This Is My Last Word. I’m Done. by Bags

Bags — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:20:04 +0000

Jennifner,
As much as I’d love to share your views on this issue, I just can’t do it. I think that your overwhelming respect and adoration for Rowling has indeed skewed your perception. She is not a person who can do no wrong. You can’t tell me that she didn’t consider that making Dumbledore a gay would ruin his image in many of her reader’s eyes. She know darn well it would draw plenty of publicity and attention. As if being a billionaire wasn’t enough… sounds to me like she’s some sort of sycophantic attention whore who needs to have her cake and eat it too. I love her books, but I really don’t love this publicity stunt. I realize that being a homo should not ruin the character… and for me it doesn’t, but for others it presents a real issue that otherwise doesn’t need to be introduced. I’m all for gay tolerance, but I’m also for defending little children from Dumbledore and his flaming wand. All in all, it just puts a strange taint and awkward flavor on the books for me now. Rowling made an unnecessary publicity stunt that honestly didn’t need to be done.

Comment on Pirates and Spaghetti: An Unlikely Match by Bags

Bags — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:14:42 +0000

Sorry I didn’t make it to the Harry Potter party last night. I was going to be Dumbledore, then I found out he was gay… I didn’t want to be a gay wizard.

Comment on For Happiness in Heaven Give Me Google by BHBardo

BHBardo — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:06:03 +0000

So here’s my (beta) version of Google Life, with some historical background.

In about Spring of 2005, I was sitting in a workshop on creating and proposing development projects. The training took place in Otavalo, Ecuador, where I had been living for several months. As worthwhile as this workshop was, it was failing to hold my attention, and I began to lose myself in my own thoughts and the trajectory of my life. As usual, when I tried to think of life in abstraction, memories remained distant. I needed context. Perhaps because I was living abroad at that moment, I began to think of the different places I had lived. This was easy enough, as the list consisted of several cities in the US, several in the Dominican Republic and one in Ecuador. This list evolved quickly to include all of the different houses where I had lived in those cities. The evolution continued as I added memorable places in those cities, as well as places I had traveled to, fragments of childhood and adult vacations, niches from my neighborhood growing up, my grandparents’ farms, the school playground, etc. Soon, it became an attempt to identify anywhere I had ever been. Still, some memories remained vague and I needed additional context.

This concreteness came as I remembered and named anyone and everyone that I had shared those places with, roommates, traveling companions, friends, acquaintances, girlfriends, crushes, family, etc. By combining people and places, I uncovered long hidden realms of memory, caches of things we had done together. This wasn’t an exercise in nostalgia or sentimentality. It became a collection of triggers* that illuminated the direction and shape of my life.

Over time, I chronologized the list and I continue to add to it whenever I remember. I’ve never been a fan of diaries (mundane collections of daily events), but I am a huge proponent of journals (meaningful reflections on life experiences). When I find the time, I try to parlay this bare bone version of Google Life, this collection of people and places and what happened there, into more detailed and finely remembered reflections.

So start your Google Life now, it’s even searchable. Though, there are no pop-up video versions of relevant results.

*www.amazon.com/Triggering-Town-Lectures-Essays-Writing/dp/0393309339

Comment on Alphabet Soup or Why I Wouldn’t Really Want to Live in the 1800s by Bags

Bags — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:27:21 +0000

Y and Z? Come on! Xerox and zippers! (I know, zippers are the logical response, but really… think if you had to button up that coat in the winter, or how much trouble it would be to tie off your fly every time you went to the bathroom (which for me, is a lot. I have a small bladder).

Comment on The Beginning of the End… by Bags

Bags — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:15:04 +0000

Look, I can post! I love Harry Potter! I also love Emma Watson, even though she’s not legal yet. Ew.