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In this week’s episode of “5 Things You Need to Know This Week,” Herman Cain sings about sexual harassment, Justin Bieber has a baby with Kate Middleton (I think I have that right), and nobody seems to know the whereabouts of Matt Lauer. Plus, we debut the 1st annual “Where in the World is ‘Five Things You Need to Know This Week?’”
In this week’s episode of “5 Things You Need to Know This Week,” we avoid eye contact with Michele Bachmann, make a music video for Kanye West and Jay-Z, ask James Earl Jones for his take on the Iowa straw poll, and, overall, do our best to cheer everybody up.
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In this week’s episode of the Internet’s most popular list-based news show dedicated to the media world, we cook up a double-dip recession (yum-o!), share tips on summer love with a politician, and get stared down by Coolio.
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Hello there! In this week’s episode of “5 Things You Need to Know This Week,” we read a letter from Roger Ailes, discuss unwanted sexual advances, talk some football (J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!), and see Skittles in a totally different light.
Come on inside and cool down with a nice tall glass of “5 Things You Need to Know This Week,” the show that gives you semi-relevant information about the five things that everyone is going to be talking about. In this week’s episode, we dance, do drugs, and talk about the News International scandal (among other things).
Here it is everybody! This week’s episode of “5 Things You Need to Know This Week,” which includes an interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner, a discussion about Chris Cuomo’s stash of nudie photos, and a very special musical performance.
Hello internet, Mediabistro is launching a brand-new, weekly web series called “5 Things You Need to Know This Week.”
As you may have guessed, the new show will give a quick rundown of the top 5 things that everyone’s going to be talking about, while also providing some semi-relevant information about each one. And we may even throw in a few laughs for good measure.
Check out this week’s “pilot episode” (below) and make sure to keep an eye out every Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET for new episodes. Thanks for watching!
I was going to post this on Friday for a Friday five but then it started getting really long. Then I was going to post it on Saturday and didn't. By Sunday I convinced myself to wait until Monday. That's the way my thought process has been going these days.
I haven't been around the blogosphere lately because I've been doing a lot of pondering about myself and my writing and my online life and art and a whole bunch of stuff. Not sure that many folks even read this any more because I haven't been good about interacting and I know that's what makes you fall off of other people's radar. Anyway, here are some thoughts around some of the things I've been thinking.
1. It's important to think about the whys behind your doing of things.
I have become (mostly unintentionally) greatly disconnected from the online world. Some of this is a carryover from all the house stuff last year but some of it is me dog-paddling for so long that I just don't have the energy to keep it up anymore. Hard to keep swimming when you don't see any land in sight. So lately I'm not Tweeting. I'm not blogging or responding to blogs. I'm trying to keep up on Facebook status updates but that's about it. In some ways this has been good. Online is noisy and even if the noise is virtual, for me it's like being at a rock concert 24/7. And I don't do concerts.
Taking in all that info, trying to remember who to check in with, making the rounds and making the rounds and then, one more time, making the rounds it can drain me. It can also fill me, when there's the give and take with people but because of my unintentional disconnect, there hasn't been that give and take. I've taken from everyone for too long without giving back so people move on. I understand. It's the way things work. The trouble is figuring out where to jump back in again because it's not just the jumping in...it's the convincing myself to keep going beyond those quiet times while things build back up again. So this has been the subject of much pondering on my part.
I recently bought and watched a CD from Brene Brown called The Hustle For Worthniess which was an extension from one of her books (sorry, I can't remember which one) but the idea of hustling around, doing things we think will make us worthy of someone's attention rang a little bit too true for me. So I've been wondering, why do I Tweet? Why do I use Facebook? And most importantly, why do I blog? Am I trying to help other people or am I seeking attention for myself? And if I want the attention, is that a bad thing, a hustling for worthiness sort of thing? I'm still trying to figure that one out. What confuses me is that a friend told me recently that I am at my best when I put myself out there with honesty and transparency. That rings true for me but then it is all about me, me, me and I don't know that I am offering anything else to the world.
2. Not everything you try is going to work, and that's okay.
I am probably going to retire The Poetry Push I started on Tuesdays. It hasn't taken off and I know that a big reason for that is because of my own lack of participation in the event and in other online things. I think the result might have been different if I had started it during a peak rather than a valley. I might use the list poem prompts as my project for National Poetry month since that's coming up next month and I have no idea what I am going to do for that. Two years ago when I participated for the first time I wrote haiku about my native garden. Last year I wrote poems about the father I never knew.This year I have no idea. I thought about trying to write poems about Cassie but I don't know if I could come up with 30 of them. I thought about doing a different poetry prompt each day, doing the exercise myself and hoping more people would participate. I thought about trying to write about
2. The Airborne Toxic Event has a new single, "Changing", which has a major hook to it. "I am a gentlemen" is STUCK IN MY BRAINRADIO. I've heard it once in concert and once on the radio and now I'm hooked - can't believe I can't buy it until February, but it was kind of the band to post the track on YouTube!
3. I backed my computer files up today. I mention it in case it's something you need to do too - it can be so easy to let these things slide, somehow, isn't it?
4. On Tuesday, my friend Lisa and I are to see & hear author Brad Meltzer speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia. I'm looking forward to it - and it will make my second theatre-like cultural event this month, so I'm exceeding that particular well-filling goal!
5. January 19th marked the occasion of Edgar Allan Poe's 202nd birthday. Blogger Jef Otte came up with "Five weird ways to celebrate", which is presented in countdown format. Number five, entitled "Creeping", is:
In Tell-Tale Heart, perhaps the most famous of Poe's stories, the narrator spends all night slowly creeping toward his neighbor, who is lying asleep in his bed, intent upon murdering him. Today, try spending a couple of hours creeping toward the guy in the cubicle next to you on your rolly chair. If he says anything, shine a penlight in his vulture eye.
I happen to find #1 ("The cask") hilarious, despite it being very, very wrong: "Invite a friend over. Get him drunk. Bury him alive in your basement."
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It's not that late, but I have my jammies on already, and will be going to bed soon. I consider that a good thing.
This afternoon, I had some of the best potato salad I've ever ingested. That sure knows how to peel a potato (and combine it with just the right amount of other stuff). I also had some delicious peach cobbler. NOM!
Tomorrow is Sunday, and my writing partner is back from vacation, and this means WRITING TIME WITH ANGELA! *is ded of excitement*
Thanks to old pal Sully - I've been tagged with the "5 Things" meme thang. CLICK the image to see it BIG - or squint along with the rest!
And now the"tag, you're it" goes to 5 others - who hopefully have not yet fulfilled this enlightened task - and also will not hate me for it! Comedic genius and peepster, Lisa Yee Adrienne at "What Adrienne Thinks About That" Gregory K. of "Gotta Book" Crazed librarians, Carl and Bill of "Boys Read-Boys Rule!" Illustrator and Montreal-bookmate, Susan Mitchell
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Gregory K. said, on 2/29/2008 11:58:00 AM
Five??? FIVE??? That's a lot! Thing one would be that I can't remember if I've ever done this meme before, so I guess that means I should give it a whirl, but no illustration from moi. Just words'll have to do...
SilberBook-Blog said, on 2/29/2008 1:12:00 PM
Hey - you can always do yours in rhyme scheme - you certainly know how to rock that!
Sullicom said, on 3/1/2008 7:15:00 AM
weren't you learning to play banjo like 10 years ago? hard instrument to master, I guess.
SilberBook-Blog said, on 3/1/2008 11:51:00 AM
Sulli makes an excellent point! I've been "learning banjo" for about 20 years and I have to say - that ONE song I know is really rockin'!...Seriously as a gift to myself this year I am getting a "real" banjo (not a beat up pawn shop one) and taking some lessons.
So it's an old, new thing!
Disco Mermaids said, on 3/1/2008 3:00:00 PM
That is the most well done and hard to beat meme ever!
- Jay
SilberBook-Blog said, on 3/2/2008 1:04:00 PM
...Thanks Jay - this was a fun way to talk about my odd life!
alan
Diana Evans said, on 3/6/2008 9:11:00 AM
Hi Alan...I love that you illustarted your 5 things... great blog!
I've been tagged. I feel like I finally arrived. But since everyone in my LJ universe has answered this already, I'm not tagging anyone. (Feel free to play along if you haven't been tagged yet.)
1. I got a 790 out of 800 on the English portion of my SATs. (And a 690 in math. If life were school, I would be a millionaire. But, sadly, it's not.) 2. My left thumb is double-jointed. 3. When I was 11, I sent a story about a six-foot-tall frog who loved peanut butter to Roald Dahl. He showed it to a magazine editor and she later published it. 4. I didn't learn to swim until I was 30, but I’ve known how to belly dance since I was 14. 5. My grandparents were members of the Klan.
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Five??? FIVE??? That's a lot! Thing one would be that I can't remember if I've ever done this meme before, so I guess that means I should give it a whirl, but no illustration from moi. Just words'll have to do...
Hey - you can always do yours in rhyme scheme - you certainly know how to rock that!
weren't you learning to play banjo like 10 years ago? hard instrument to master, I guess.
Sulli makes an excellent point! I've been "learning banjo" for about 20 years and I have to say - that ONE song I know is really rockin'!...Seriously as a gift to myself this year I am getting a "real" banjo (not a beat up pawn shop one) and taking some lessons.
So it's an old, new thing!
That is the most well done and hard to beat meme ever!
- Jay
...Thanks Jay - this was a fun way to talk about my odd life!
alan
Hi Alan...I love that you illustarted your 5 things...
great blog!
Cheers,
Diana