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May 06, 2004

Shame

Two of my guiltiest blog reading pleasures - Sheila "Red" O'Malley and Michelle Catalano - have great meme, "Things I'm Not Ashamed to Admit, But Should Be".

Michelle's even doing an open mic night on the subject at A Small Victory, which is a lot of fun.

Let's see, where to start:

  • I love blind dates. Going to a blind date is like walking down the stairs on Christmas morning when you're a kid; you know the odds are you'll get more underwear than cool toys, but it's still fun wondering what's in the package. I don't always like how they end, but the run-up to a blind date is one of life's great pleasures.
  • I love "Blind Date", the TV show.
  • I thought Marisa Tomei deserved the Oscar.
  • I just taught myself "Comfortably Numb" on the bagpipes.
  • I also once "serenaded" a woman I was (briefly) dating on the pipes.
  • Not only did I, too, love the Bangles - I got backstage passes to one of their gigs, and hit shamelessly on Vicki. Or Lori. Maybe both.
  • My old band did country versions of "Erotic City" and "Anarchy in the UK" and a lounge-jazz version of "Bastards of Young"
  • I have had at least one date with 76 different women in the last four years. No, 77.
  • Although I am a really good rock'nroll guitar player, I taught myself to play off a John Denver record.
Bored enough yet?

Oh, hell, if you're with me this far:

  • I watch very little TV - but I used to catch the first couple of seasons of China Beach and Party of Five pretty religiously.
  • However, I always, always hated Ren and Stimpy
Oh, I've had enough fun for now.

Posted by Mitch at May 6, 2004 06:00 AM
Comments

76?!

Geez, I'm lucky if I get *one* in four years... now I really feel like a loser.

Posted by: Jay Reding at May 6, 2004 08:31 AM

This is absolutely wonderful.

I cannot tell you how much fun I have had reading everyone's confessions. So beautiful!!

There's so much here that is brilliant. Bagpipes?? I laughed out loud at the Marisa Tomei thing.

One thing: why am I a guilty pleasure? :)

Posted by: red at May 6, 2004 09:07 AM

Red,

RHR is a "guilty pleasure" because he-man news-cycle bloggers aren't supposed to admit to liking journal blogs, dagnabbit. (Even ones that veer all over the map, are maddeningly eclectic and *are* just plain wonderful :-) Also it was late, I was exhausted, I needed an adjective phrase, and that was the best I could do without thinking.

Close enough? :-)

Jay: I was the same way before I got married. After I got divorced, I decided I was never going to be a wallflower again. I should point out that my social life in the last year or so has been much more constricted - I get maybe two nights a month off from the kids - so only only six of those dates were in the last year.

No - seven.

Posted by: mitch at May 6, 2004 09:44 AM

Red,

Also, I'm Scandinavian. All pleasure is guilty.

Posted by: mitch at May 6, 2004 11:22 AM

I'm Irish Catholic. I relate.

Posted by: red at May 6, 2004 11:28 AM
hi