The X-rated 13 Thursday
1. X is a high scoring Scrabble letter. There’s only one in the bag.
2. For a brief time, I had the nickname Xerox. OnThe LoveLink, our family e-mail group, I sign my emails “xocolleen,” and the spell checker kept changing it to “xerox.”
3. It’s a poet’s job to say… the emperor wears no clothes … and …why can’t we let ourselves be so X-posed?
4. I thought I would feel more excited about the Democratic take-over of the House and the Senate. I am glad for the results, but the truth is that the damage is already done. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead. Over 2,000 U.S. soldiers are dead. The abuses and torture that happened at Abu Ghraib can’t be undone. I hope the shift in power will lead to holding the Bush administration accountable for invading Iraq under false pretenses and for mismanaging the course of the war.
5. Another member of our Writer’s workshop, Mccabe Coolidge, recently had an essay aired on WVTF radio. There’s nothing X rated about it. It’s mostly about pancakes. Listen HERE.
6. A new Scrabble score record! On Oct. 12, in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in Lexington, Mass., a carpenter named Michael Cresta scored 830 points in a game of Scrabble. His opponent, Wayne Yorra, who works at a supermarket deli counter, totaled 490 points. The two men set three records for sanctioned Scrabble in North America: the most points in a game by one player (830), the most total points in a game (1,320), and the most points on a single turn (365, for Cresta’s play of QUIXOTRY). ~ Stephen Fatsis, Slate Magazine.
7. I have a friend who is a folksinger. Years ago when she came into the bead shop I was working at, I asked her if she was working on any new songs. She told me she working on a new one titled, “Where has all the foreskin gone?” When I saw her years later and asked if she ever finished it, she didn’t even remember it.
8. I want THIS for Christmas. Link provided by Janet.
9. I don’t want X-ray vision. I just want to be able to read the fine print.
10. Lately, I’ve begun to need my reading glasses to see the faces of people I’m talking to. I know I’m at the point where I need a stronger strength of magnification, but I’m afraid if I do I’ll see how dirty my house really is.
11. Number 100 on my “100 Things About Me” says: I don’t like knick-knacks. I just see them as more things to dust.
12. At Floyd Fandango I ran into an old friend. She’s a former Hari Krishna devotee who makes a living as a puppeteer and currently sells sex toys the way other women sell Tupperware. When I heard she was going to be holding a party in my neighborhood, my interest was piqued, “I want to come!” I said. She rolled her eyes and answered, “Everyone wants to come, Colleen.”
13. “Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer.” Thomas Friedman
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November 9th, 2006 6:23 am
Love your x-rated post! I read about the new Scrabble record earlier in the week and thought of you and your friends in Floyd, the items shown in #8 would be perfect for your games. Ditto on the knick-knacks, but there is always something to dust. My daughter also sells what she calls “Tupperware with batteries,” LOL. Love your 13s, all the different things to think about and links to try, you really put a lot into it. Thanks for sharing.
November 9th, 2006 8:05 am
loving the word play instillation!
and yes toy parties are always popular 🙂
November 9th, 2006 8:51 am
I have a couple friends who were married in that church…it’s beautiful! If I went to someone’s house that was as dirty as mine, I’d be totally disgusted and wonder how someone could live like that. Weird, now that I think about it. And those toy parties are so much fun, I just went to one last Saturday night 🙂
November 9th, 2006 9:08 am
This was a great post//Very clever…THanks for participating
If you get bored scroll down at http://www.thechristopherfamily.blogspot.com and vote for a name
November 9th, 2006 9:32 am
I love your randomness….I tried once but yours always sound charming mine sound contrived. Love the picture of your Christmas wish list..I really wasn’t expecting it so now I have to go clean off my keyboard from the coffee I spewed all over it. (Btw…it’s 50 first dates, also reminds me of Ground Hog Day…the reapeating fresh new day.)
November 9th, 2006 9:33 am
# 7: toooo funny! Now I wonder that too!
# 11: I do too, but I have a houseful of them; leftovers from me mom and my aunt that I can’t seem to part with!
November 9th, 2006 10:00 am
Who knew so much could be said about the letter x? Next week you should try to tackle Q!
November 9th, 2006 10:02 am
xXXXXxXXXXXx
couldn’t agree with # 4 more…at least though it’s HOPE?
xXXXXxXXXXXx
Loved # 13 too, and the rest of your list.
xXXXXxXXXXXx
going to look at # 8 now…
bye, xXXXXxXXXXXx
November 9th, 2006 10:04 am
me again…
I love those pillows! (speaking about number 8 on your list)
Gee, I could have used those on my list today of Bright Ideas.
November 9th, 2006 10:13 am
oooh, you should do a whole scrabble themed room. you know they have scrabble jewelry, too, right? 🙂
November 9th, 2006 10:25 am
I love your Xmas wish!! I agree with your nr. 4 regarding all the damage that cannot be undone…
Your nr. 10 cracked me up! same here!
happy thirteening 🙂
November 9th, 2006 10:32 am
Perhaps there is someone in your area who could make that furniture for you…..wonder how comfortable it sits?
November 9th, 2006 12:18 pm
XTreame List! I have to tell you about Strip Scrabble: #1) Play Scrabble; #2) Strip. Now that’s X-Rated!
November 9th, 2006 12:21 pm
Oh my gosh, I totally love the scrabble furniture and pillows!
November 9th, 2006 1:13 pm
#8- i see it as “love truth” as a phrase. we live in a time of vast relativism, what’s good for you goes, no judgments. the world doesn’t have many truth-seekers anymore- we just take info at face value and don’t seek the truth ourselves. it’s a comfy thing to just decide what we’re gonna believe whether there’s truth behind it or not. i think we should “Love truth” and seek it out! that would be my wish!
November 9th, 2006 2:37 pm
On prospects for the Democrats–you’re right. But imagine if the Reds kept contol. I think they had two news-stealing strategies for yesterday: In case of losing, they were prepared with the Rumsfeld resignation. God only knows what they had up their sleeves if they had won.
CNN says Allen is throwing in the towel.
November 9th, 2006 3:17 pm
I truly love your wit.
Merry Christmas.
As for the elections…I’m totally with you. I don’t even want to talk politics anymore because I get so completely negative, it turns everyone off and my comments are met with silence.
November 9th, 2006 7:16 pm
LOL, LOL…A GREAT T.T. Colleen…I LOVED your friends retort to you saying…”I want to come!”…LOL! And how right she is!!! I hope you do go to this party…and Pictures are expected in your post after that Sex Toy Party!
I love those pillows and I can see why you want them…
What is the Highest score you ever got in Scrabble, Colleen?
As always, a most fascinating and today especially FUN, T.T.! (Except for the reference to the wins in the House & Senate…I agree…it’s gone so far over the line that one wonders if things can be turned around….I LOVED W.’s remark about working together..Yeah…this is after HE has stomped for weeeks saying: A Vote for the Democrats is a vote for Terrorism….OY! The Politics of Fear and Lies…!
DELIVER US!
November 9th, 2006 8:42 pm
My highest score happened recently when I played with Alex, but I honestly can’t remember what it was. I know I got one bingo and broke 400. I have a score sheet here from a game with Mara in which I scored 386. This guy got that close to that with one word!
November 9th, 2006 9:02 pm
I have been to several of the sex toy partys….fun stuff! Love your x-rated 13. Number 2 really tickled me for some reason.
And how in the world do you guys score that high in Scrabble? I am always tickled to get over 200! Good Grief!
November 9th, 2006 9:14 pm
Your Christmas present will look cool in your house!
Those toy parties are actually fun!
I love knick-knacks and I just don’t worry about dust! I have an old house so dust is a given…it’s Open House for dust 24/7!!
November 9th, 2006 11:46 pm
It seems almost everyone has been to a sex toy party but me! I doubt that I’ll post photos!
Those are my highest scores, Deana. My average score is more like 250.
November 10th, 2006 3:52 am
you have an x-rated mind – lol! my tt’s up! 😉
November 10th, 2006 3:30 pm
I couldn’t agree with #4 more. One step forward, two steps back, it seems.
I LOVE the scrabble furniture. How cool is that?
~S
November 10th, 2006 10:51 pm
#4 (Part 2)
Ed Koch stated in an NPR interview this evening that any move to try and charge Bush with impropriety was “ridiculous”.
In another interview two days prior Koch added, “The reason I supported, and still support, President Bush with respect to foreign policy on the issue of international terrorism is that I believe that it is an extraordinary threat to the U.S.,” Koch tells NewsMax. “And I regret that too many in the Democratic Party don’t appreciate the danger.”
I don’t believe an investigation is warranted and it will be a drain on the people. It does seem clear that an investigation is a Democrat strategy to weaken the Republican party for the 2008 election.
November 11th, 2006 8:40 am
Terrorism is a huge threat. Who’s arguing that? Many, and I agree, think invading Iraq diverted resources to smartly fight terrorism and created more terrorists. It has also directly caused the deaths of something like 100,000 civilians, and the need to do it at all was misrepresented by the Bush Administration.
I was talking about an investigation. As far as impeachment goes it would depend on what the investigation finds. Impeaching Clinton was a drain too and he didn’t cause the death of a single person with his lie.
Dean said recently on Jon Stewart that the Democrats won’t push for impeachment. I’m sure that some in the party would want to and others don’t.
November 12th, 2006 7:29 am
Too bad your friend never finished that song. I often find myself wondering where all the foreskins have gone. Perhaps I need to locate a mohel and find out.
November 12th, 2006 2:07 pm
Those pillows are wonderful! I can identify with #9. Mary is nearsighted, so between the two of us we can “see” 🙂
November 13th, 2006 9:48 am
Great come-back (forgive the pun) on #12….lol
Another interesting 13 and my first one will appear this Thursday.
November 13th, 2006 12:43 pm
Love those pillows. A full set would fill a house wouldn’t it? You going to report on the toy party?