Five Things You Don't Know About Me
Okay, Dale, I’ll play. Here are five things about me y’all don’t know.
1. I collect floating pens. You know, those cheap pens you see in airport gift shops? Love them; they entertain me. I started the collection in 1990 while touring Italy; picked up one in Venice with a gondola floating down a canal, and I was hooked. I now have hundreds of them … and I always have a pen when I need one.
2. I have freckles on my lips. One on the right corner of my bottom lip and one on the top lip. People occasionally scritch my lip with a fingernail, trying to rid me of what they think is a crumb or spot of chocolate. A nail ain’t gonna scratch away pigmentation.
3. I have a closet full of band and concert T-shirts. The R.E.M. shirts take up three-quarters of the rung. I’ve had to stop buying them because there’s no room … and now I’m kicking myself for not picking up a Decemberists T-shirt.
4. I worked for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. I was the forty-fourth employee and the first in-house creative. I was there from 1991 through 1993, and got to work on projects such as the logo redesign (although I think we should have stuck with the five-As logo). I had nothing to do with Izzy. I met Janet Evans, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph, Prince Albert of Monaco (it’s a good story; worth the click), and — most thrilling — Muhammad Ali. Dan Quayle came by once, but I didn’t get in line to shake his hand. Second greatest thrill: Andrew Young was the chair, so he was in the office regularly. I was walking down the hall one day and Andy was at the far end; he gave the big wave and yelled, “Hey, Beth!” Andy Young, at least for a short moment in time, knew who I was!!!
5. I’ve never stayed at a job longer than five years. I’m clocking in at four years, five months right now. Will she break her employment record? Or will she follow her pattern and flit away to another life? Ah, the excitement builds as we draw closer to that five-year mark.
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Labels: floating pens, lip freckle, listmania, meme, Moi, Olympics, T-shirts
posted by Cup @ 7:38 AM
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33 Comments:
I have a closet full of concert shirts as well. Almost all of them have a pentagram or an upsidedown cross on them.
oooOOoooo...
One of my best friends took all of her concert shirts and made them into a quilt. She can still see the shirts and remember the concerts, but it doesn't take up as much closet space. :)
As for the freckles -- runs in the family!
SKINCARVER: You give me chills on so many levels, you handsome devil.
MARNI: But are you lip-freckled? And I can't tear up my T-shirts; there's too much love for them. Dan still has several of them, and taunts me by wearing them when we get together.
Oddly, I have a freckle on my lip and one in my eye...or so I've been told, but the eye freckle is really something else, from a minor accident.
"I had nothing to do with Izzy."
I'm not saying you were, but somebody was and they're still remaining free. I can't imagine a better reason for incarceration and we cannot let this travesty, continue.
that was a great post, beth!
WRITE PROCRASTINATOR: I have freckled pupils, too. Darn, I should have included that! And Izzy? That's worthy of a post. We had some great mascot submissions -- a centipede (it was, after all, the 100th anniversary), Bre'r Rabbit (Andrew Young's choice), a phoenix (Atlanta's symbol; used by the Paralympics when we didn't) -- but it seems the Grand ACOG Poobah's vote counted more than the rest of us combined. *sigh*
BRAT: Thanks, Brat! I'm just weird enough to be entertaining, I guess.
If I remember correctly, Lulu's cat Fred had freckled lips. You're in good company.
David Christian and I would have had a field day with a freckled lip admission. And how do you get freckles on yur lip?
COASTER PUNCHMAN: Cat freckles? Now that's cool!
RCOFCHS: The same way I got them on my ............
I have my "under 2 dollar black cotton at the resale store" collection, along with various new shirts I've bought over the years. One of my favorites (of the new ones) is from the bar I hang out at when I visit friends in the Bay, the Zeitgeist. The back says "Warm Beer, Cold Women-- Go Away"
I love those floating pens, but don't collect them. My son collects those little pennies that you flatten out for souvenirs. I always make sure to get him one wherever I go.
Andrew Young-- very cool. I've always admired him.
I had a friend from Kiel, Wisconsin, and she brought me a T-shirt from the local bar: The Kiel Over. Some beau took off with it, though.
Love those pennies! Got some at the aquarium recently.
I either knew or could have extrapolated all of those.
Are you trying to say, "Good, Lord, she's nuts. And I have proof."?
I dunno. Is there some extortion potential here?
I'll give you a Decemberists t-shirt when they come around here. I got rid of all my concert tshirts 10 years ago. Now I miss my Smiths T shirt and Naked Raygun too. I will get over it.
PAUL: Could be; you know many secrets. There are some cute guys who read this blog, guys I need to continue impressing ... cute guys such as ...
GRANT MILLER: The Decemberists will be in your town Nov. 11. Are you going? Please read my review ... and get you and your breathtakingly beautiful wife to the Riviera Theater.
I hope everybody went and read the Prince Albert story! It's a funny one and sort of involves the freckle.
Beth, I see a storage locker in your future!! But at least you're collecting cool stuff.
I knew about the pens. Not only have I seen the collection, but I've even added one or two.
DALE: One of the selling points of my condo is the large storage room. But I may need to rent a storage unit one of these days.
JEREMY: The Kinko's pen is still one of my faves.
Plenty of t-shirts here, too. I used to have a Red Hot Chili Peppers Pen that made them drop trou' and reveal the socks. I wish I knew where it was.
Beth: Great post. Bubs makes me get rid of old t-shirts. I really, really miss my Clash Combat Rock tour tee. Bubs is sooooo lucky he's cute...
TENACIOUS S: Oh, no; you've sent me on a hunt. I'll be haunting eBay 'round the clock for that pen.
MIZBUBS: I don't know if Bubs could be cute enough to make me let a Clash tour shirt go. You're a stronger woman than I.
One and the same, Ben; Andrew Young was one of Martin Luther King's inner circle. He was also our man at the United Nations for several years, as well as mayor of Atlanta. Some naysayers claimed that Coca-Cola (based in Atlanta, and another former employer) got Atlanta the Games ... but it was actually Andrew Young, who brought in all of Africa's votes. He's so cool.
I don't understand why you snubbed Quayle like that. He seems like such a great guy! By the way, the end of the Prince Albert story cracked me up!
You didn't have Prince Albert in a can, you met Prince Albert on the way to the can. Cool.
Wait mizzbubs-- Bubs made you get rid of the shirt? It's always my wife making me get rid of things-- shirts, books, ex-wives.....
I've never met Andrew Young, but James Meredith came and visited one of my history classes in college. He was a friend of the professor when the were students at Jackson State, before Meredith's historic transfer to Ole Miss.
Our professor revealed that as much as Meredith espoused peaceful change, he wasn't taking any chances with the crazies-- he packed heat while he attended classes.
CHRIS: I wasn't disrespectful ... but I was not gonna shake the hand of someone I don't believe in. You should have seen me the day Newt Gingrich did a signing while I was working at the bookstore (the store was in the middle of his district) -- I stood outside the entire time for "crowd control."
BUBS: And I get all the "Prince Albert in a can" and "Prince Albert piercing" Googles. The royalty fun never ends.
JOHNNY YEN: LOL on the ex-wives. How cool that you met James Meredith ... and I sure don't blame him for packing heat in those days.
Beth,
Ten forgot to mention this, but her mom did the coolest thing with a bunch of her old concert shirts. She cut the logos out and made them into patchwork squares and turned them into a quilt backed with denim. It's really cozy to curl up under it and think about all those concerts.
Which one did I bring you from San Fran? Was it the guys swimming away from Alcatraz?
LULU: That's very cool, actually.
JEREMY: Yes, it was the Alcatraz one. Still have it. Still love it.
I loved those pens! Only had one from Niagara Falls and it's long gone. BOO! Maybe it went over in a barrel as a sacrifice to the God of Floating Pens!
Very cool olympic experience. Was Carl Lewis pretty conceited as he is known to be?
Poor pen! I don't think I have a Niagra Falls one; must check the collection.
Carl Lewis was surrounded by his entourage of pretty male things, so we couldn't really get close to him. Janet Evans, the medalist in swimming, was a doll and used to show up for any party we had. She wanted to take a break from college and work for ACOG, but the head of sports at ACOG wouldn't let her and insisted she finish school.
i read that lip freckles can be an early sign of a colon problem... maybe polyps... you might want to go check it out just in case
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