5 posts tagged “life”

How do you feel about your birthday?  Do you look forward to it and remind all your friends, or do you dread it and try to keep it a secret?

Usually, my feelings on my birthday are aligned with my life at the time. But, no, I don't make a big deal either way.

I would like to point out that I got excited about these birthdays:

16: got my driver's license

21: got to drink

25: got to rent a car

35: my car insurance rates went down

In California at least, even someone lukewarm about birthdays like me enjoys the institutional birthday gifts of these milestones.

What are your irrational fears? 
Submitted by Dan Culhane.  

Fred Durst losing the Presidential race.
The Golden State Warriors moving to San Jose.
An obsession with Fluvog shoes.
Losing my obsession with Magic Johnson.
Being a woman and Knick Executive and Hall of Fame point guard Isaiah Thomas developing an obsession.
Google's obsession with the winning the FCC frequency lottery.
People who, when under oath before the Senate Judicial Committee, obsessively wagging their fingers.
Disappointing Clivus Multrum.

Write your own Wikipedia entry for yourself (or share the link if you already have one).

Matthew Margolin (b. 13 September 1966) is an American editor for the World Wide Web. A controversial figure when he arrived on the Internet scene, since his days of refusing to give more than 40% and his occasional supercilious need to expound about his theory, "Quantity is Job One."

Following a weekend retreat at Bohemian Grove with Clivus Multrum, Margolin had a spiritual awakening. He returned to work and vowed to give 42% from then on.

Like all white, liberal educated, males of his age, Mr. Margolin could not qualify for his bachelor's degree without playing the guitar and performing in several band. Although some say he should have quit after writing his first song "Guitar Shop Dude" in 1987, later his band the Smokin' Rhythm Prawns released "All You Can Eat" (Big and Smelly 001). No matter the faults or merits of this album, Mr. Margolin became very good at spelling the word "Rhythm" over the telephone. Later he joined Black Kali Ma, a motley crew made of a Lakota Sioux, a Pole, lilly-white fingered Jewish boy (Margolin), and the pride of Palestine, TX, Gary Floyd (Dicks, Sister Double Happiness).

Black Kali Ma became the first band on their label Alternative Tentacles to be reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. The album sold five thousand copies. Margolin learned that major labels release 30000 albums per year, and that if you sell five thousand you are in 95% in sales.

Currently, Margolin continues his prolific creative and professional output and recently quaified for the IOCC Slacker Olympics. 

Finish this sentence: "I am glad to say that I have never ___." 
Submitted by chl*.

"I am glad to say that I have never shot anyone in the face."

What experience or moment in your life have you learned the most from? 
Submitted by AngieK. 

I had a professor in college who spent class telling a terrible story about losing his best friend in an air navigation fiasco over Germany during World War II. Many students cried. While I waited after class to speak with him, I over heard this other (one who had not cried I reckoned) student in front of me complaining about a grade on a paper. He seemed to be listening the way I had listened to his life and death and death story. My response to myself was outrage and indignation at such insensitivity. But he not only listened, he helped the student and calmed the student.

My turn came and I stammered, "I gotta say, how could you tell that story in class, and then deal with that student's story so easily?"

He just shrugged and smiled.