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Last week we had a record number of Happy Hour guests (82). One of these Fridays, we’ll break into the triple digits.
1. One of the winners of our Admit Vice, Win Book contest was Amanda, who admitted her propensity to snoop:
“When people leave their e-mail up on the computer, I always look through it. I’ve even been regularly checking the e-mail of an ex-boyfriend from years ago who gave me his password. Leave me alone in your house? I will, without a doubt, snoop through your desk drawers, look into your bedroom (including under the bed, where the good stuff is), and see what you’ve tucked away at the back of the pantry.”
Now we all know Amanda is not alone. First question: What’s the most shocking thing you’ve found while snooping? (Snooping stories not limited to closets and medicine cabinets. Think email, Googling, NSA files, etc.)
2. Now let’s talk about stalking yourself. What’s the strangest thing (about you) that comes up in a Google search of your name?
3. My wife found Amazon’s list of their most-requested not-yet-released-on-DVD TV series. The list includes Batman, The Wonder Years, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. If I had to pick one, I’d vote for thirtysomething. I’ve never seen one episode, but I like Timothy Busfield, spent a good portion of this decade in advertising, and turn 30 in fifteen months. I’ll add this to my 30th b-day wish list (expect a running feature in 2009). So, what not-yet-on-DVD TV series are you rooting for?
4. I grew up in Denville, New Jersey, which proudly calls itself “The Hub of Morris County.” If Morris County resembled a wheel (it doesn’t), Denville would be sort of near the center. As New Jersey town slogans go, I guess it’s not terrible. Cranford is “The Venice of New Jersey.” Franklin is the “Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World.” The “Dandelion Capital of the World”? Vineland, of course.
What’s your town’s slogan? If it’s really amusing and printed on signs, we might need to see a picture. (You can always send random photos to flossypics@gmail.com.)
5. We’re launching a new column very soon. It’ll be similar to ‘Feel Art Again,’ but focused on famous novels and plays. The first installment covers Macbeth and is all kinds of fascinating. Problem is, this column needs a name. Any suggestions? If we use your idea, we’ll send you a t-shirt.
[See previous Friday Happy Hour transcripts]
Comments (131)
Comment
How about ‘Novel Approach’or ‘Choice Words’ or ‘Can You Feel Lit’?
posted by JaneM on 4-11-2008 at 10:17 am
Strangely, this will address both #4 and #5. I live in Staunton, VA, home to the American Shakespeare Center. Our town slogan, and something that could be a good title for the new column is “Much Ado about Something.”
posted by Christina on 4-11-2008 at 10:19 am
in college i lived with my friend ‘Betty’, a total straight edge girl with kind of a loser attitude. She was gone and I needed a bandaid really bad and I knew where she kept them in her room. So I opened the drawer and a huge pink vibrator fell on my hand. I was in total shock and panic and grabbed a tissue to prop it back up so she wouldn’t know i was going through her stuff.
posted by susan on 4-11-2008 at 10:19 am
Sadly, I don’t show up at all in a Google search. I have a really common name, and all the semi-famous bearers of it all come up, as well as some random bloggers. But never, anywhere. I’m kind of surprised, because I feel like I’m out there somewhere. Ah well.
The tv series that really needs to come on DVD is The Pirates of Dark Water. As well as the rest of Gargoyles.
I live in Cincinnati, and I’ve really known us to have a serious slogan with staying power. Our current city website claims that we’re a “great place to…” fill in the black with a series of links to “do business” “live” and “play.” Meh. Now, Lima, Ohio, up near where I went to school, is “Not just another bean town.” Punny!
I’m not going to be of much help on the title for the column.
posted by s michael c on 4-11-2008 at 10:19 am
the strangest thing i ever found while snooping? well, i was in my younger brother’s room, looking for some things i was pretty sure he had taken (ah, the joys of being the oldest!) and i found a list, in alphabetical order, of all the porn movies he had taped off of late night HBO and cinemax (he was in his early teens at this time). it wasn’t a very long list, but the fact that it was alphabetized (and the mere existence of such a list) was odd. as was the fact that it was just sort of sitting on his desk, not even hidden.
i mentioned it to him several years later. at first he didn’t believe me, but he eventually admitted that it was kind of weird.
posted by heather on 4-11-2008 at 10:20 am
Ok how about:
How Novel?
posted by beth on 4-11-2008 at 10:22 am
5. Book Smart
posted by Ira on 4-11-2008 at 10:23 am
Yea! Friday!
2. Google Me?
Someone who shares my first name and my maiden name publishes online pornographic ebooks. Apparently it is a genre called Vampire Erotica. Ewww.
4. Hometown Hoopla?
My hometown is “The Geographical Center of Texas”. Yes, they put it on all the signs. We also have the World Championship Barbeque GOAT Cook-off. You should come.
posted by lightlylilly on 4-11-2008 at 10:30 am
The strangest thing on Google I’ve found about myself: I’m included on a list of people from my junior year of high school that are commended for solving a geometry problem. I swear I don’t even remember working on it nor do I have any idea why it would be online 13 years later. And I have no idea how to go about solving the problem today.
As for the name of the new column: Novel Pursuits? The Mighty Pen?
posted by Stacey on 4-11-2008 at 10:30 am
Where my name comes up on Google.
I am very active in the Republican Party, and have been for years. When I was in college my Democratic congressman was up for re-election in a tough redistricting year. He had been Congressman for 6 years, and never bought his domain name. So I snatched it up, and forwarded to his opponent’s site.
Apparently a Domocratic blogger with an audience of about 10 noticed this and looked up my info in a domain WhoIs request. He posted my name, email, postal address and e-mail address saying that everyone should “let him know how you feel”, that post had been up for nine months by the time I noticed, and no one ever did anything, but if you Google my name that post is still neat the top.
posted by Witty Nickname on 4-11-2008 at 10:31 am
5: what about ‘Literary Lane’?
posted by michael on 4-11-2008 at 10:33 am
what about:
what are wordsworth?
it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad word!
the early word gets the bookworm.
posted by heather on 4-11-2008 at 10:34 am
4. I grew up in a tiny town called North East, Maryland (guess where it’s located). The town’s website includes our slogan, ‘North East, Not just a direction, its a destination’.
posted by Erin on 4-11-2008 at 10:40 am
I snooped through my boyfriend’s email just last week and found a picture of him on his 18th (19th? 20th? who knows) birthday at a strip club, arms around two topless girls. Hahahahahah. He looks sick.
And my town, a tiny tiny tiny town in Georgia (Bowdon) is “The Friendly City.” My best friend in high school and I used to go around spray painting things (NOT vandalizing things that cost money!). One night we stopped at a city-line sign and she got out to cross out “friendly” and put “crappy.” She got scared before she finished, and for a long, long time, the sign read, “Welcome to Bowdon, the Crap City.” When they replaced the sign, we did it again (a few years later). Now the sign is so small it would be almost impossible to spray paint on it.
posted by Katie D. on 4-11-2008 at 10:41 am
I have a common last name, so when I just googled first and last name I got a lot of hits (none me). When I added my middle initial, the first hit I had was my obituary–or at least the obit of someone with my MI and same birth year…….
posted by Dave on 4-11-2008 at 10:42 am
I looked in my now exes email and found an email about his “new” apartment with his “new” girlfriend. As we were living together i was pretty surprised.
posted by emily on 4-11-2008 at 10:46 am
somone I worked with had the following search string in their firefox search box when I went to trouble shoot a problem with their computer.
meth 6 months pregnant
pretty sure it wasn’t her, but shocking to say the least
posted by whoops on 4-11-2008 at 10:56 am
5. The Finer Things Club
posted by Scott on 4-11-2008 at 10:56 am
3. Definitely a toss-up between “The State” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”. Both awesome in their own very different ways.
5. How about:
Reading Between the Lines
posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 4-11-2008 at 10:59 am
i don’t think my hometown has a slogan, but we do have an interesting school mascot. we were the Mules (the mighty mighty Mules), and i was always a bit embarrassed by it, i found out much later that the mule referred to wasn’t the animal, but child labor in the early 1900’s…
Newmarket Mules (NH) — The mascot name was derived from the boys who worked after school in the local textile mills. They were given all of the grunt work and called “mules” by the regular workers in the mills. (from Marc’s Distinctive High School Mascot Collection)
huh?!? now i’m glad we had pictures of the animal on the tshirts etc, not the kid…
posted by lady macbeth on 4-11-2008 at 11:00 am
I share my name with a former “Kids in the Hall” cast member.
posted by Kevin McDonald on 4-11-2008 at 11:14 am
DVD’s:
RAD - 80’s BMX Movie
PARKER LEWIS CAN’T LOSE - 90’s sitcom
posted by Kevin McDonald on 4-11-2008 at 11:17 am
#3 The State! The State! The State!
posted by natlynn on 4-11-2008 at 11:17 am
I once found a used condom in my college roommates mini fridge - INSIDE a recycled butter dish - no joke. I moved very shortly afterward.
I would definitely buy The Wonder Years DVD. Ahhhh, memories!
Kansas City - The City of Fountains. 2nd only to Rome in number of fountains in one city.
posted by Christian on 4-11-2008 at 11:18 am
Google - apparently my namesake is an ‘interrogater’ at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and is now a defense ‘contractor’.
Snoop - While at my in-laws house I found the paperwork where my father in law was preparing to divorce my mother in law. That was interesting!
posted by Joe on 4-11-2008 at 11:18 am
1. I think mine is from this week. I gave into temptation and snooped through some old messages in my husband’s seldom-used e-mail account. It turns out that several years ago (before we were married…but after we were engaged) he had made a profile on a sex search website that bragged about his penis size and and his ability to keep a secret. It also said that he was single…so this caused a bit of tension to say the least. He swears he doesn’t remember doing it and since I didn’t see any evidence that anything was followed up on, I let it go…but I’m still kinda creeped out honestly.
2. Nothing particularly interesting comes up when either googling my real name or my usual internet name (fruppi). When you google Fruppi, almost everything that comes up is me though and I guess the shocking thing is that there is someone else out there calling him or herself Fruppi.
3. I thought there weren’t any until I saw someone else say the State. I would quite like to see more of that. I’ve seen a few sketches and I know that basically everyone involved with it was brilliant, so more would be good.
4. I don’t know that my current town has one, but my old home town of Twelve Mile, IN billed itself as the Biggest Little Town in the World. I didn’t find out until years later that they cribbed it from Reno.
5. I was thinking something along the lines of “Embrace your inner English major,” but that seems a bit wordy compared to the other clever ones posted above me so far.
posted by Fruppi on 4-11-2008 at 11:19 am
4. Bridgeville, Delaware- “If you lived here you’d be home now.”
posted by QuinO on 4-11-2008 at 11:21 am
When I google my name, and go to images, amoung the pictures of all more notorious people with my name, I find pictures of cloth swatches. Apparently, my name is a color that is used almost exclusively to describe clothing.
My hometown, Baltimore, Md, has many slogans. My favorite is the one that I see on bus stop benches all the time– “Baltimore, The City That Reads.” I don’t know where anyone got the idea that Baltimoreans read any more than any other peoples, because I have a feeling that the opposite is closer to true. The latest slogan that they are prooting is “Get In On It,” which many of us think is cryptic and stupid.
posted by Green on 4-11-2008 at 11:24 am
My hometown is Wausau, Fl. It is “The Possum Capital of the World.” We have a Possum Monument and a Possum festival held at The Possum Palace community center.
posted by riley_j on 4-11-2008 at 11:25 am
for the new book column, how about “Words, Words, Words”?
Hamlet is my homeboy.
posted by Graham on 4-11-2008 at 11:25 am
3. THE STATE.
It makes me so happy to see so many other fans. I’ve been waiting for it to come to DVD for at least a decade!
Guess what guys - the DVD is finished, with extras, commentary and all, but MTV just hasn’t set a release date yet (As of March 23rd.)
But you CAN get some of it on iTunes.
posted by Leah on 4-11-2008 at 11:26 am
2. My first name is Caitlen, and I just turned 30. For most of my adolescence, I had never even heard of another Caitlen, nevermind met one. All of a sudden, around my Junior or Senior year of high school, there were all these little kids running around named Katelin,and it drove me nuts. Through the internet, I have found a small few who spell their name the same way I do. Until last week. My last name isn’t incredibly odd, but it’s not incredibly common either. I googled myself and found a 15 year old girl in another state with my EXACT NAME! It’s bad enough that Kaitlyn had to become *the* trendy name for a while, but this just adds insult to injury. I’m still trying to adjust to that knowledge.
3. I had been waiting for Mythbusters, but it finally came out on DVD. Now I just need to find $50 extra dollars in a jacket or something.
4. I can’t find a slogan for the town I currently live in. But, it was “America’s Safest City” in 2006, according to one survey.
posted by caitlen315 on 4-11-2008 at 11:27 am
#1 I googled a guy who had asked me out. Turns out he had done a spread in Play Girl magazine. Defintely got a lot more than I bargained for with that search. And I was at work. Had to clear my browser after that one. Hopefully IT didn’t think I was looking at porn (even though I kind of was… by mistake)
posted by Amanda on 4-11-2008 at 11:31 am
1. Condoms in my dad’s dresser drawer. Not so shocking until years later when I realized what “Magnum” condoms were for.
2. I have a common first name but an obscure last name, so I guess what surprises me is that there are at least two other people with my full name out there.
3. is it repetitive to say The State? And hows about the Jon Stewart show from MTV (the one where he “made” Conan)?
4. I got nothing.
5. Other people here are cleverer than me. I like “Can you feel lit?”
posted by J on 4-11-2008 at 11:33 am
Turn off the tv…
posted by amy on 4-11-2008 at 11:37 am
2. I have an unusual name, so they pretty much all tend to be about me. The exception is someone born in 1870 with the same name as me. Unsurprisingly, she has few other items about her online.
The weirdest is a friend assuring me, by name, in her blog that she wasn’t freezing to death wherever she was. Apparently, I was concerned at the time.
3. Wonder Years!!!! I have wondered so many times why this isn’t in a nicely packaged DVD set yet. I am so sad that it isn’t.
4. My town doesn’t have a slogan. While checking the website to verify this fact, however, I did find the interesting (and home page of website-worthy) fact that my county is one of the most prosperous rural counties in America. Having lived there, this is hard to believe, and the link to verify it doesn’t work. Go figure. Ummm…and our tornado activity is 157% higher than the national average. Love that.
My mom’s hometown (20 minutes away in the same eden of rural prosperity) is a self-proclaimed “Big Little Town”. 351 people live there.
5. No great ideas for the title, but it sounds like a great column. Looking forward to further destroying my productivity.
posted by kate on 4-11-2008 at 11:40 am
1. Maybe the time I found semi-nude pics of my parents in a “family” photo album???
2. Apparently my name is quite old and German and everything I googled is 1700 and 1800 geneology and history of German names.
3. No particular show really…but I would love a DVD of all the old Little Caesar’s Pizza commercials. I know I’m weird, but I thought some of them were really funny.
4. Perry Georgia- I think we’re “Home of the Georgia National Fair”
5. Column name: These Are a Few of My Literate Things……
posted by lizhot on 4-11-2008 at 11:57 am
5. Top Plots
posted by Tamdidit on 4-11-2008 at 11:58 am
1) While I wouldn’t consider it snooping, I happen to work in a profession where I need to review people’s medical records. Let me just say to the women out there: no matter what you claim, your vaginitis is NOT related to the car accident.
2) The only thing that comes up for me is related to a research paper I completed in college. However, there does appear to be some movie-watching geek in Calgary that shares my name (I have a quite unique name)
4) Mayor Daley is trying to change Chicago’s motto from “City in a Garden” to “City of Children” which sounds like a great place to live if you’re a pedophile.
5) “Sh!t you didn’t bother reading in High School, but probably should have”
posted by Florida on 4-11-2008 at 12:00 pm
1. While in 5th grade I found a condom in my brother’s drawer. He was in high school. I took it to school to show my friends and one of my friend’s mom’s called the principal the next day. The principal asked me from where I received it. Crying, I replied,”m-m-m-my brother’s drawer.” The man looked like he was going to pass out. I found out years later while telling my brother this story that he was dating the principal’s daughter at that time.
2. That I placed 6th in state high jump competition in the state of texas in 1998. (6′4′ at state, 6′6″ personal best)
3. Transformers the cartoon
4. Longview “Committed to Excellence”
My wife and I say it should be “Longview, a great place to be from!”
5. Thesbian Lovers
posted by tbone on 4-11-2008 at 12:00 pm
About 15 years ago I worked at a small company as an administrative assistant, and I sort of disliked the job from Day One. But my unemployment had run out, and I was desperate. The company sold trade show displays, so the boss’ motto was always “we sell image.” We had to dress for success and be excrutiatingly polite to customers. One of our salesmen struck me as extremely smarmy and creepy. He was a real suck-up and I could sense that he was weaseling his way into the boss’ (she was female) heart. He managed to get promoted to vice-president and then took over things with a ridiculous iron fist (for a company with six employees). He plastered the walls with Successories posters and was always on our backs about “attitude.” He disliked me from the day I commented that something he’d said was an oxymoron, and he’d run to the boss and told her that I’d called him a “moron.” :::eye roll::: I eventually got canned thanks to him - he said I had a bad attitude. Anyway, many years later I was bored and Googled his name. Imagine my surprise to find several legal-type web pages involving his arrest and subsequent appeals (dating back to about 10 years before I’d worked for him) for purchasing cocaine with intent to sell…!
posted by Jill on 4-11-2008 at 12:20 pm
4. I live in the “Garlic Capital of the World.” Anyone know where that is?
5. The Play’s the Thing
posted by Mr Badcrumble on 4-11-2008 at 12:20 pm
1) Oh, man. I’ve found too much alarming stuff. For example, I was using my friend’s computer and kept getting these annoying pop-ups of women in bikinis. I turned to her and asked what was going on, since our school computers usually have blocks on these. She blushed (blushed!) and said that she had accidentally clicked on a link leading her to a site. A quick study of her Google history proved at least that much true. How embarrassing!
2) Not much, since my name is pretty unique. I won’t give the whole thing, but all six links are about me. On the bright side, I found out that I made high honors last quarter!
3) The whole Dharma and Greg series needs to come out now! I want the first season, but I haven’t found any since then.
4) Lisbon, A Great Place to Live and Do Business. The sad thing? It isn’t.
5) Mental Notes
posted by Allison on 4-11-2008 at 12:24 pm
1) Nothing’s coming to mind for this one
2) Apparently my exact name was the name of a one-episode character on “Barnaby Jones” in 1979. It aired three days before my first birthday.
3) I am itching for them to release the rest of “The Amazing Race” seasons. Because I’m a nerd.
4) My hometown’s slogan is “Small Town Friendly.” Which, duh, it is a small town. My current town’s slogan (and I couldn’t make this up) is: “O! Winston-Salem, Now That’s Living.” Yes, the exclamation point is correct.
5) The Facts of Fiction
posted by Jen on 4-11-2008 at 12:36 pm
How about “Building Character”?
posted by Laura on 4-11-2008 at 12:44 pm
Strangely enough, the #1 Google Result for my name is currently the lead character from an independent film about an Israeli ex-commando. You can read all about it on IMDB, under the film “Freedom’s Gate.”
Synopsis: A former-Israeli commando, now the Head of Security for a Southern California Jewish high school, and his 15-year-old son, who has lost faith in Judaism, must spring into action when neo-Nazi terrorists hold the school hostage with a horrific master plan.
So there.
This is the second time I’ve had a bizarre connection to IMDB. The first time is the fact that my student film from sophomore year of college in 2002 was called “How I Met Your Mother”, now a hit show on CBS apparently?
posted by ari j on 4-11-2008 at 12:45 pm
Snooping…hmmm…found some birth control devices in my mom’s dresser when I was a kid. Also found a dirty mag at my Grandma & Grandpa’s house that was from 1961.
When I google my maiden name, I get to read info about my step-brothers and step-sister. What’s weird about that, well, I’ve never met them, and I don’t know if they know their father has an older daughter.
WKRP in Cincinnati - with the ORIGINAL music. Beavis & Butthead - with the ORIGINAL video segments.
Akron, Ohio: The Rubber Capital of the World. Goodyear rubber, not the trojan variety, geez get your minds out of the gutter!!
I like the “Can you feel lit?”
posted by Jamie on 4-11-2008 at 12:47 pm
I had been waiting for Animaniacs to come out, but that wait is now (mostly) over. What I really want is for them to get around to releasing the rest of Malcolm in the Middle. Seriously… what is taking so long?
posted by Kevin on 4-11-2008 at 12:49 pm
I can’t believe I forgot about this!! I used to be an IT guy for a small company. We were up at the office late moving data from a file server to a new faster one. As we were watching the files fly by we noticed a bunch of WEIRD named videos. Of course we checked it out. One of the VPS had his network drive filled with Gigabytes of Chicken Porn! That is women interacting with chickens in unnatural ways. It was disgusting, yet hillarious. We showed the VP of HR, he was fired that day.
posted by Witty Nickname on 4-11-2008 at 12:58 pm
Mr. Badcrumble: Gilroy CA? I know they have a huge garlic festival…
posted by natlynn on 4-11-2008 at 1:06 pm
I discovered the MySpace page of a transvestite who has the same first and last name as me. He (she?) is very lovely.
posted by Andi on 4-11-2008 at 1:10 pm
Well, when I did the Google search of my name Iowa Workers Compensation comes up. I am not from Iowa, nor have I ever been to Iowa and I do not collect any kind of workers compensation.
posted by Kelly on 4-11-2008 at 1:14 pm
1. My fiancee-at-the-time left her email open on my computer. Specifically, the email where her mother offered her $1000 to break up with me. Said fiancee broke up with me a week later.
2. My name is, actually and legally, Mary Sue. So, a lot of stuff.
4. Bridgetown, Stumptown, Rose City. *yawn*
posted by Mary Sue on 4-11-2008 at 1:21 pm
1) I didn’t snoop but instead borrowed my Dad’s video camera only to find the tape was homemade porn.
2) and speaking of porn, my last name can be construed in a sexual manner so googling my name leads to the description of a popular porn video and there is a character in some online erotica with my name.
3) The rest of Party of Five and I join The State group
4)My High School was in New Market Alabama- Watercress capital of the World!
5)The written world
posted by nola on 4-11-2008 at 1:22 pm
1. I’ve snooped but never really found anything earth-shattering.
2. I once Googled my last name and found out a distant relative was a monk that had been disrobed for having…uh, “relations” with a woman, which is against a Buddhist monk’s tenets.
3. Batman! Da-da-da-da-duh-Batman!
4. I live in Bangkok. It’s called the “City of Angels” and the “Venice of the East.” We have the longest place name in the world so the name we call it normally (Krung Thep) is already a nickname.
5. How about: Cracking the Books, Book Viveur, Fine Print, Book ‘Em Flossy (sorry!)
posted by Anna on 4-11-2008 at 1:24 pm
I grew up in WaKeeney, Kansas, proudly known as “The Christmas City of the High Plains.” My ex-boyfriend would laugh and laugh at this saying, “So where’s the Christmas city of the low plains?”
posted by Mandy on 4-11-2008 at 1:42 pm
Years ago my Dad asked me to recover data from a broken hard drive of his. The most important files to keep were his pictures as he had a side job doing photography for some science journals.
He told me I had to go through every photo and keep the work related ones. I tried to tell him I would have to see every photo he had on his computer, trying to hint that if he had porn I would see it.
Three hours of looking through family photos, work photos and his very weird porn collection left me scared…
posted by Fatcap on 4-11-2008 at 1:48 pm
probably the oddest thing that comes up when googling my name is either a cutlery supplier or the HalfLife2 bikini model… depends whether you’re doing normal search or image search
posted by Korin on 4-11-2008 at 2:12 pm
My name is very rare, so when I google the entire thing, with its correctly spelling, nothing come up for me.
I too would love to see ‘thirty something’ out on DVD. My all time favorite line from that show was said by Ellyn - “Why can’t they understand I have a “Y” in my name.”
posted by Lynda on 4-11-2008 at 2:26 pm
1. A bunch of letters that my father had saved from college. Some were from old girlfriends, most were from a male friend who usually began his letters with, “Hey cu**licker!” and then bragged to my father about his most recent sexual conquests and recounted particularly good experiences at strip clubs.
I’ve also found some pretty unusual porn - think anime and shemales - on several computers. Thankfully, not my father’s, although I’m afraid to look.
2. Nothing terrible interesting - mostly awards and sports victories from high school - but there is one news article in which I’m misquoted and described as looking like a junkie. It was one of those local papers.
3. Muppet Babies. I am 100% serious - I would buy that boxed set and relive my childhood.
4. I don’t think we have them, unless you count the “We Welcome Your Business” on the sign. How modern.
posted by & on 4-11-2008 at 2:32 pm
Column name suggestion:
Bookcase
Booked (Forever?)
posted by septer on 4-11-2008 at 2:34 pm
1.)Finding a copy of David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” at my parent’s house.
2.)That there is a soccer team named after me (first and last name). I need to get one of their jerseys…
3.) “Lucy Daughter of the Devil”.
4.) “America’s Vancouver”
5.) Book ‘em Dano.
posted by stuart on 4-11-2008 at 2:35 pm
When I google my name, this pops up:
Daniel D Thompson Mormon Pervert
How funny is that?
By-the-way: Not Mormon. Never been to Utah. More pervy than pervert.
Interesting story with the Mormon DDT.
If you get a chance, look it up.
posted by Daniel on 4-11-2008 at 2:36 pm
Allison: I like “Mental Notes” but I think that might be better suited to a music column… Maybe there’s one in the works and if not there should be!
5. “Literally speaking…”
posted by ac on 4-11-2008 at 2:51 pm
title of column: “read-iculously enlightening”
posted by jelifysh on 4-11-2008 at 3:10 pm
1. Not so much discovering a copy of Pauline Reaugue’s (I’m betting the last name’s spelled wrong there) “The Story of O” at my parents’ house, since I remember seeing it when I was younger, but later on discovering what exactly that book’s about–then reading it. I became thouroughly disturbed after that, since my PARENTS bought it.
2. Nothing really comes up with my name. It’s not terribly common. I think the only surprising thing I ever saw was my divorce announcement in the newspaper of the city it was processed in (which isn’t where I live). Oh, and some message board I posted on to a friend’s deployed husband.
3. Is it bad that I’m hoping cheesy shows from my early years, like “California Dreams”, are out on DVD? Ah, cheesy early-to-mid 90’s goodness!
4. I’m originally from Monroe, MI. Our slogan is “Home of General Custer”. There’s a large statue of him erected downtown, too.
5. “Plays on Words.” Get it? I kill me! (Sorry, in a rather goofy mood right now.)
posted by Krie on 4-11-2008 at 3:23 pm
1. Finding creepy things is the very reason that I don’t snoop.
2. I found out that I have an especially uncommon name. Well, either that or no one with my name has done anything of important.
3. More Malcolm in the Middle!
4. Jacksonville, FL - Where Florida Begins. It was previously The River City, but was changed right before we got the Superbowl.
5. I definitely like “Can you feel Lit”.
posted by Konstantine on 4-11-2008 at 3:26 pm
1. At my last job, I found employee files that contained the current salary of each employee…needless to say I was shocked by the amount of money that some of my (incredibly lazy) coworkers were making. Unfortunately, I could not bargain for more money because I was not supposed to see the files in the first place.
2. When I type my first and last name in Google, this is the headline that pops up:
“Woman arrested again after threatening to kill her baby’s father”
3. Night Court.
4. Ashland, the town I grew up in has the slogan of “Center of the Universe”, although we are obviously far from it.
Richmond, where I now currently live has the slogan of “Sic itur ad astra” which translates from latin to “Thus do we reach the stars” (pretty badass, if I do say so myself)
5. How about “Sticks and Stones”
posted by Sabrina on 4-11-2008 at 3:29 pm
1. I once snooped and found a message saying something from a doctor about my mom’s “implant surgery”. I wouldn’t speak to her for days, angry because I thought she was getting BREAST implants… turns out it was dental implants. So don’t snoop!
Ok ok, I still snoop.
2. My last name is a guys name, and my first name is Kelly, so when I type it in I always get guys with the reverse (i.e. J. Kelly as opposed to Kelly J.) except there’s one Kelly J. with my actual name who is a MAN!! A real estate guy in Washington state I think.
3. This might exist, but I would LOVE to watch old DVD’s of “Ghostwriter”!!!
4. GO NJ! I grew up in Montclair and then Caldwell- but I can’t find any slogans. I heard somewhere that New Jersey wants its new slogan to be “A Garden of Diversity”
5. No idea, but I LOVED “Thespian Lovers!”
posted by Kelly J on 4-11-2008 at 3:30 pm
2. A profile from Bigsite.org comes up. I didn’t make it. It’s the first link that comes up. I don’t know how they got this info about me. Most of it’s wrong.
posted by Meghann Gardner on 4-11-2008 at 3:40 pm
3. The State, yay! Also, Square One TV.
2. If you google me with my name in quotes, you get some funny stuff including: me as the chair of a student committee in college, an unfortunate blog post (made by me while drunk, just after a yucky breakup), and also a letter to the editor that was published in Sports Illustrated in 1998.
And some theatre and book reviewing stuff, but that’s boring.
4. I live in Minneapolis and the only nickname I can think of is the MinneApple, which I’ve always thought was kind of dumb.
posted by Julia on 4-11-2008 at 3:41 pm
Of course my name brings up a bunch of financial services companies. But now among the top ten is one of my submissions to the Fact Generator!
posted by Ira on 4-11-2008 at 3:42 pm
My town doesn’t have a nickname but it used to be known as Quaker Bottom. Yeah. (That would be a cool blog entry, Crazy former town names)
I once googled an old professor of mine and found out that he was moonlighting as a swing dancer. I thought it was sort of funny…and charming. I don’t show up on google, thank God!
I vote for ac’s Literally Speaking…
posted by Sue on 4-11-2008 at 3:51 pm
Oh wait, I just thought of another. I was fixed up on a date in my undergrad. When I googled his name to find out if he was an ax murderer, a sex offender site came up with his name listed. When I nonchalantly asked him if he had ever been to Florida, he came back with, “No, and I am not a sex offender.” He apparently gets asked about it.
posted by Sue on 4-11-2008 at 3:56 pm
Snooping through my (step)dad’s office files, I found old letters from his then-wife pleading for him to come back and how she had once planned to surprise him on a business trip to Denver - new lingerie, explicit details and all (ewww, Dad, ewww!) - but she had to stay home to take care of their kids. Yet family history has him and my mom first meeting on a trip to Denver and then moving to the same town to “work together”. After looking at the dates and putting it all together, it means that my prim and proper, prudish, educator mother was The_Other_Woman! I always wondered why my step-siblings were not fond of her. Duh. Homewrecker. I was in high school when I read these letters (they married when I was in pre-school) and although I love my mums dearly, her holier than thou lectures have fallen on deaf ears ever since. I still snoop, however most things pale in comparison to that little nugget.
posted by ouch! on 4-11-2008 at 4:00 pm
Snooping through my brother’s room when I was a teenager, I found pictures of him kissing another boy. He’s 3 years younger than me, so I was VERY shocked at the time. Now, I could honestly care less, but I’m still waiting on him to come out of the closet.
I can’t find myself in Google. My first name is very common, and both my maiden name and my married name are common too. If I search my hubby’s name, I only get one hit that’s actually him, and it’s on like the 4th page of results.
posted by Jenn on 4-11-2008 at 4:00 pm
I’ve googled my name before but never found much because my first name is spelled different (Stefanie) so I decided to put Stephanie in Google and I found my name in an Indiana House resolution. And it’s me.
posted by Stef on 4-11-2008 at 4:02 pm
In answer to number one, when I was about 9 I snuck a peek under the sink at while going to the bathroom in my friends house and found a box that can only hope belonged to his parents. I brand new pair of Fundies “The underwear built for two”
posted by Brade on 4-11-2008 at 4:06 pm
To Natlynn
Bing bing bing! You got it. As Will Rogers once famously said, “Gilroy is the only town in America you can marinate a steak by hanging it on a clothesline.”
posted by Mr Badcrumble on 4-11-2008 at 4:18 pm
1. When I was about 7, I was checking out the stuff in my older sister’s room when I found a beautiful green leaf flattened in the pages of a book. I also found her papers in the car and told my mom that sis used them to smoke “asparagus cigarettes.”
2. Boring! My real name only brings up a book review. “Elizabutt” has some things worth exploring, though not about me. It’s comforting to know there are other E’butts out there, though.
3. Can’t get enough of Eight is Enough!
Also, release the rest of MST3K already! If I don’t own the Grandfather Frost episode on DVD before I die, my life will be worthless.
I wish they would release TV shows on DVD with their original commercials intact, perhaps with an option to turn them off. I have spent hours looking at old commercials on YouTube. Anyone else yearn for the tiny covered wagon narrowly escaping a hungry family dog on the Chuck Wagon Dog Food commercials?
To “liz hot” above: “onions, onions, onions!”
4. Although not a town, “Oklahoma is OK” has always amused me. It seems painfully accurate: not that bad, not that great, don’t expect too much if you visit. This has been on Oklahoma car tags throughout the years as well. Google “oklahoma is ok” in images; there is a chronological photo gallery - awesome!
5. Paper Cuts
Novel Players
I tried to stop myself, but I love the multiple meanings of “Writers Block” (rectangular area of the blog screen, a forum - or block - to assert your thoughts, an imaginary neighborhood of good, tulip-growing literary folk, five dead novelists rising from their graves to form the cynical, zombie glam-rock band, “Writers (on the) Block, and the obvious original meaning). It’s definitely Friday.
posted by elizabutt on 4-11-2008 at 4:24 pm
I alos grew up in Jersey, just a few miles from a sign in a field proclaiming North Brunswick the EpiCenter between NY and Philly. But my hometown Milltown NJ is “One Square Mile of Happiness”. Ah the memories.
Dan
posted by Dan on 4-11-2008 at 4:25 pm
Oh, and my hometown has the lamest slogan ever. Burlington, NC… “Connecting the Triad and Triangle.” Uh, yeah… they couldn’t come up with anything better, I guess.
posted by Jenn on 4-11-2008 at 4:50 pm
I’m from Canton, Ohio, and while there isn’t an official slogan for the city, in a recent campaign stop Michelle Obama told our city that “change is not a slogan.” Guess that might have come across as disappointing to the foreclosed, industrial wasteland of a city that Canton has become.
We do have the Pro Football Hall of Fame though, which is pretty neat.
posted by Brooke on 4-11-2008 at 5:09 pm
I hope this isn’t a double post.
My sugestion for the new column is “Read Write”.
When I Google my name any information about me is buried in the deluge of information about the celebrity that I share a name with.
posted by Mike on 4-11-2008 at 5:40 pm
3. “The State” — the complete boxed set is apparently done, finally, or nearly so, and was slated for release last fall. And then, it just didn’t happen, and still hasn’t.
posted by MH on 4-11-2008 at 5:41 pm
For the column :
Drama Queen’s [Daily/Weekly/?] Dose of Novel Information
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 5:44 pm
Variation on my previous entry :
Drama Queens bearing novel ideas
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 5:51 pm
I grew up in Willoughby, Ohio–also known as “The Courtesy City.” Don’t ask me why; did they really believe people in Willoughby are more polite? Or perhaps we only became a city out of courtesy?
posted by erm on 4-11-2008 at 5:57 pm
Gilroy California! Oops, Natlynn beat me to it.
“Feel Read Again”
“Be well read”
“Better Read than Dead”
posted by mungley on 4-11-2008 at 6:04 pm
1. I found a copy of The Joy Of Sex at the bottom of his sock drawer.
2. I googled my name and found lots of others out there with it - kind of surprising. The only entry that was really me was in a database of graduates from my high school.
3. Can’t think of anything…
4. My home town doesn’t have a slogan that I know of but I call it a great place to be from - as in far from.
5. How about Book Cases ?
posted by Pam on 4-11-2008 at 6:17 pm
4. The town slogan for Greenville, WI is “Greenville….where the action is!”
Believe me, there is no action in Greenville.
posted by Shauna on 4-11-2008 at 6:19 pm
oops…
1. Found a copy of The Joy of Sex at the bottom of my dad’s sock drawer.
posted by pam on 4-11-2008 at 6:20 pm
1. The night before my wedding, I had my soon-to-be-husband’s laptop to finish up some last minute details. He just so happened to leave his email open and I found that he had been emailing back and forth with random women, looking for ‘casual encounters…’ Needless to say, it was a long night for the both of us. (I should mention that I did end up marrying him, and it was the best decision I ever made… thought I should throw that in there…)
2.If I just do my first name, a wanna-be pop star from Utah comes up. If I do my married name, my Good Reads page comes up. My maiden name takes you to Classmates.com
3. I’m with Busey - only because Gary Busey is legally insane and makes me laugh.
4. My home town is nick named The Magic City. It’s a blue collar town in a very rural state … to be honest, not too much magic is happening there.
posted by meme on 4-11-2008 at 6:50 pm
Since we’ve got a Food column called Dietribes, how about DIALOGUE?
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:11 pm
1. I’d suspected that a close friend was having an affair with a married co-worker. One day she left an email message from him up on her screen and foolishly walked away from her desk. I read it and had my suspicions confirmed (unfortunately).
2. I’ve an unusual name and I, personally, rate ZERO google hits. However this is another with my name who works for some data company in San Diego. That’s cool.
3. -
4. Flood City (because we’ve had several devastating ones in the past and YES it’s on all the signs)
5. Well Read
posted by Fran on 4-11-2008 at 7:17 pm
The ACTSidental Tourist.
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:27 pm
To borrow the USA Network slogan :
Characters Welcome!
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:31 pm
To borrow the USA Network slogan :
Characters Welcome!
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:32 pm
Oops1 Sorry for the duplicate
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:39 pm
Experience Novel Play
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:45 pm
A Novel Play on Words
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 7:56 pm
I found out my fiance was getting boobie pictures from his ex. I got yelled at for snooping, but both of us (me and his boobie ex) got to yell at him for being a liar. That was nice.
Nothing from google, just a study about sea urchins that i was part of in college.
The original jem and the holograms. not that new one, but the old crappy anamation one.
“It’s possible in Platte” the town didn’t even have 1500 people. I always thought: what’s possible? Getting pregnant or smoking crack? not a lot of opportunity
I like JaneM’s: Can you feel Lit
posted by no name on 4-11-2008 at 8:53 pm
Christina, we’re neighbors! I’m a Farmvillian! Oh, and Farmville is “the Heart of Virginia”.
I think for the column name, something along the lines of Artsy Fartsy Times.
Oh, my snooping lead me to discover my EX-husband was playing hide the weasel. Ah, good times. Good times.
…and on a more pleasant note, snooping lead me to discover that my childless aunt and uncle secretly changed their will to leave me “the farm”. Not that “the farm” is worth much but it felt AWESOME to know that my sending them little cards and notes over the years was appreciated.
posted by Ingrid on 4-11-2008 at 10:30 pm
1.) My brother’s estranged wife foolishly left her email username and password saved on the family computer, even after she had moved out. After consulting with me, my brother decided to “accidentally” log in to her email. Sure enough, we came to discover that she had been meeting a trucker in a truck stop parking lot for, let’s just say, “shenanigans.” My brother was understandably upset, and the divorce followed quickly after. (No WONDER my bro couldn’t get her to agree to marriage counseling!)
2.) Nothing weird comes up when I Google myself! There was someone with my name who was born in 1819, and there is someone with my name who does law enforcement in Oregon. The only hit that is actually me is my entry on the President’s List on my college’s website. :-D
3.) I am anxiously awaiting the rest of the Powerpuff Girls seasons to come out on DVD. Dexter’s Laboratory would also be wonderful!
4.) I spent a while living in Yakima, Washingon, which calls itself “The Palm Springs of Washington.” Alas, I have been unable to find a photo of the sign that greets people coming in off the interstate!
posted by Rose on 4-11-2008 at 10:49 pm
For the column:
Similar to one above…
“Mightier than the sword” and you could have a picture of an anime ninja dude holding a massive ball point.
posted by Steve on 4-11-2008 at 10:51 pm
Word Salad
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 11:42 pm
Playing by the Book
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 11:46 pm
Novel Public DisPLAYS of Affection
posted by Amy on 4-11-2008 at 11:52 pm
When I google my name, I get a ton of sites for a porn star. I always thought this was odd because if you were going to be a porn star, wouldn’t you pick a more imaginative name than Ashley?
posted by Ashley on 4-12-2008 at 1:39 am
2) With my name being quite similar to a recent playboy playmate of the year, frequently it pops up. It’s just my name minus the ‘h’ on the end.
3) The Ghost of Fafner Hall. Old Jim Henson show; sorta like Sesame Street but it focused on music
posted by Sarah on 4-12-2008 at 3:26 am
About two years ago a guy I’ve done 20 years worth of computer consulting for gave me an Apple PowerMac G3 that his artist daughter had replaced with an iMac.
Since the daughter was HAWT as HAWT can be, I decided I’d look at the browsing history on her machine to see if she’d been posting any pron of herself (if I hit the jackpot) or whatever.
What I found scared the hell out of me. She had been hanging out in some usenet newsgroups where she was apparently drawn to reading posts describing torture of a sexual nature.
Specifically she was reading posts about people, usually young adult women, holding young prepubescent boys captive after picking them up around town and slipping them a rufie or some GHB. After holding them captive for some period of time, the protagonists in the posts she was reading would CASTRATE their captive victims. With dull scissors.
I am not making this up.
All through this post I said she was READING these posts, although I have to say that realistically she was possibly posting some of them.
I surely hope she wasn’t posting these stories, and I pray she wouldn’t have been telling any TRUE stories about doing this.
posted by Bill on 4-12-2008 at 3:40 am
(daily/weekly/?) NOVEL DisPLAY of Words
posted by Amy on 4-12-2008 at 7:20 am
Snooping — I can beat Heather’s brother’s list of porn movies; MY younger brother put together a three-ring binder of xxx magazine pages, neatly xacto-knifed out of their magazines and placed in plastic covers, and organized by - um, what people were doing in the photos. People who organize their porn - that’s just weird.
Googling — I’m all over the place, but I’m a website designer with a personal site up since 1994. Most stuff is what I put there, so I don’t thing any of it’s weird. Or all of it is. Dunno
posted by nameless to protect the guilty on 4-12-2008 at 7:42 am
I’m modifying my second-to-last posting so it’a one word shorter:
Novel DisPLAYS of Affection
posted by Amy on 4-12-2008 at 8:02 am
#5. How about the Biblio Files?
BTW–I’m working on a Ph.D. in Modern American Drama, so if you need suggestions . . . .
posted by KidJedi on 4-12-2008 at 8:19 am
Novel Plays for Attention?
posted by Amy on 4-12-2008 at 8:23 am
Oooh, I like Biblio Files…That’s a good one.
posted by Fruppi on 4-12-2008 at 9:46 am
1. My parents’ Astroglide. **cringe** That really got me to stop snooping
2. Nobody has my exact name except for me, so when I search it, I come up along with some school’s roster where there’s a girl with my first name and a boy with my last name. But, for my first name, there’s some not famous singers with my name and a British footballer. There are also some babies with weird disorders, but other than that, not so weird.
3. America’s Next Top Model. If they had it, I’d own every season.
4. Austin, TX - Keep Austin Weird. A lot of other cities have been copying us recently, but we’re the original glory. It’s just a hippie town full of crazies.
5. Novel Ideas
posted by Karleigh on 4-12-2008 at 10:37 am
My ex-boyfriend always had a series of passwords and usernames that he always, always used when signing up for websites.
One day my friend and I were planning an internet tactical strike (i.e. fake profiles) on her little sister who had (at the tender age of 15) opened up an account on ALT.com (alternative sexual lifestyle website).
For S&G I tried a couple combos of the old ex’s usernames and passwords and, Voila! Thumbing through the messages I found out not only had he been cheating on me but Mr. Homophobia Homeboy had been cheating on me with a dude!
I printed off the messages and his profile and sent it to him at work one day with “PWNED” on the envelope.
Needless to say his profile is long gone and he finally started using new passwords…
Vindication is a beautiful thing… it wouldn’t be nearly so funny if he weren’t so outwardly “terrified” of gay people.
And, this isn’t really snooping so much as carelessness on the girl’s part but when I was 16 I had just gotten my first debit card and accidentally left my wallet in a friend’s (ex of the previously mentioned ex, oddly enough) car.
Long story short, she took my card and started buying a ton of Arby’s, iTunes, and clothes from Delia’s. Another peculiar purchase was for a paid account from livejournal. I found out that it was her and then, to top it off, I found out that she had been trying to sell the gift certificates that she bought with my card in forums for just barely half of what they were worth.
LAME.
posted by Rose on 4-12-2008 at 10:52 am
Going the Dewey Decimal System route:
1-800-LITERATURE
(for those non-Library/Information Studies people, the 800s categorize Literature & Rhetoric - and is further broken down into the Drama and Fiction of several languages)
posted by Amy on 4-12-2008 at 5:34 pm
1. Dirty porn search engine history. We’re talking seriously jacked up stuff.
2. When I googled myself I found my amazon wishlist which was full of knives until I updated it.
3. Manhattan AZ, cancelled early never continued and I’ll probably never see it again. It was offensive and hillarious.
4. I live in Fremont, CA. It was impossible to find a slogan. If you’re familiar with the towns history it could be called “Almost was Hollywood” or “Little Kabul”.
5. Yea, F*ck Art.
posted by Jared Probst on 4-12-2008 at 7:28 pm
Google tells me I’m wanted in Illinois.
“The City of Grace and Benevolence”
posted by Aemi on 4-12-2008 at 10:45 pm
1. I am a person who loves to be nosy, so it’s remarkable that I haven’t stumbled onto anything especially salacious yet.
2. Ancient poetry I submitted to the website NeoPets when I was 12. Egads.
3. I agree with &–bring on the Muppet Babies! I’d also love to see the old, tripped-out Nickelodeon cartoons on DVD–old-school Rugrats, when they made jokes about things like Stockholm syndrome and eco-terrorists, and Ahh! Real Monsters, and Angry Beavers. That would make me all warm and fuzzy inside.
4. I don’t know if it has a slogan, but Tucson’s nickname is “The Old Pueblo.” Which isn’t amusing in a really awful way. How disappointing…
5. How about… “Literary Itinerary?”
posted by Freezair on 4-13-2008 at 3:18 am
1. My dad’s stash of Playboy’s, hidden under a table in his basement workshop.
2. Some comments on this blog! That’s googling with my maiden name, because my married name is very common and I haven’t had it long enough for anything to show up yet.
5. Book Cases?
posted by Sara on 4-13-2008 at 3:38 pm
Hello, erm! I’m from Willoughby too. The dumbest part of the “Courtesy City” thing is the arrests. The city used to pick a day each summer and “arrest” one carload of people passing through with out-of-state plates for the “crime” of not stopping to say hello. They’d be treated to lunch, have their picture taken with the mayor, and so on. I can’t help picturing the number of family vacations that must have been interrupted by that silliness.
posted by Kathleen on 4-13-2008 at 10:37 pm
Ok, so a google search for my name turns up a boxer who is about the size I was in high school, lived in a place where my father now lives, though I have never been there, is almost exactly ten years younger than me, and was killed two years ago. I boxed some in the Marine Corps, though at a higher weight than this. I kept getting e-mails from old high school friends that I hadn’t heard from in years glad to hear it wasn’t me.
Sorry to bring a touch of the macabre, but that is what I found.
I also found that I am seeking a PhD in image processing and computer vision in France under the toutelage of Pr. Michel Barlaud.
posted by Vince on 4-14-2008 at 12:44 pm
Meme- I feel your pain! We should start a support group.
posted by Fruppi on 4-14-2008 at 1:52 pm
I did find condoms in my parent’s bedside table drawer. I’m more embarrassed by the fact that I then interrogated my mother (at the age of 9 or 10) as to why they used them. I remember saying, “Your tubes are tied, does one of you have a disease or something?” I’m pretty sure she was mortified.
I found out that there is a character in Coyote Ugly with my name. And my email tag name brings up a lot of dirty stuff.
I, too, would love to see Dexter’s Lab on DVD.
I live in Chattanooga, TN - “a great city by nature”. Right, the mountains are purdy and everthang, but the real beauty is in the sheer number of mullets and spray-painted camouflage pick-up trucks. Yee-haw.
posted by Pearl on 4-14-2008 at 2:14 pm
1. When I was 8yo, I found three dead dogs under my brother’s bed. He had killed all three and apparently had play playing with them post mortum.. Needless to say, we’ve never been the same. Haven’t heard from him in twenty-two years.
posted by Jeffy on 4-14-2008 at 3:24 pm
4. I live in Orlando which is called “The City Beautiful.” Nothing wrong with it, per se, just that it’s extremely generic.
I grew up in Ormond Beach (near Daytona), whose slogan is “The Birthplace of Speed” because at the turn of the 20th century they ran auto races on the beach there, which eventually led to the formation of NASCAR in Daytona. That one I think is pretty fitting.
5. Hm.. Lit Chat? Annotations? I like Biblio Files too.
posted by Celeste M. on 4-14-2008 at 9:51 pm
When I googled my mom, I found pages and pages of a police deposition detailing my second cousin’s involvement in a meth ring. In Thermopolis, Wyoming, of all places.
posted by Karen on 4-15-2008 at 3:34 am