This is a thing I’ve been doing at the beginning of the year: pick a post for each month of the previous year, using a random number generator. See how well it reflected that year just passed. Pretty sure I got this from Gordon, who lives in Chicago, who remains the only non-local blogger I ever met.
In 1969, I HAD to root for the New York Mets over the Orioles, and of course, the Amazin’s won.
(Re: Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who had died recently.)
What IS the solution to a fairer voting process?
(Cited Arthur@AmeriNZ)
I’ve wanted to fly since I was a child, had the flying dreams and everything.
(One of those Ask Roger Anything responses.)
“So here’s another question up for interpretation.”
(One of those Internet awards I responded to.)
May:
A ANNOTATE the text by writing down important details, ideas, words, or quotes
(My monthly writing about The Daughter, in which I kvetch about vacation homework. Complaining about homework becomes a recurring theme.)
June:
My paternal grandparents then moved upstairs.
(I swear I hit Father’s Day LAST year. In any case, pictures and memories of growing up in Binghamton, NY.)
July:
*”The most damning element here is not that George Zimmerman was found not guilty: it’s the bitter knowledge that Trayvon Martin was found guilty.”
(Obviously about a certain trial in Florida.)
She was working for an insurance company for a couple years making more annually as she would for her first two years teaching.
(A piece on income inequality. The “she” is The Wife.)
How do you sell dolls to boys?
(Finally, an ABC Wednesday post. This was K for Known As, Formerly.)
Then Arthur wrote about it, and I was going to let it go as a topic.
(Arthur, AGAIN? Anyway, this was about NALT Christians.)
November :
I must say that I didn’t vote for Kathy Sheehan in the primary, and that one of her campaign workers inadvertently talked me into that position.
(Day before Election Day, I write about Albany’s now brand new mayor. Arthur is also mentioned in THIS post!)
But I was always disappointed that certain seemingly simple songs often had ONE note (or more) that wasn’t in the standard scale.
A second ABC Wednesday post, which, considering I wrote one 52 times last year, is not surprising. X is for Xylophone.)
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An animated portrait of my 2013 on Twitter, which isn’t terribly interesting as it might be because I don’t use Twitter very much; the one for Arthur is more interesting, but each is less than 50 seconds long.