Friday, June 09, 2006

A good book and a MEME


I just finished this book last night and it was fantastic!! It was totally hilarious and a blast to read. It is a memoir of a woman who grew up in the 1970's and 80's. She landed a job at Rolling Stone magazine, so interspersed with her stories of growing up the oldest of two sisters she intersperses antecdotes about interviewing famous people. Great summer read! Run, don't walk to get your copy. I was laughing so hard during the first chapter I couldn't believe it.

MEME: I have been tagged! For the first time ever. First of all, let me say that I do not know what MEME stands for, so please if you know, do tell........Heather tagged me from her blog to complete this MEME.....

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. IN the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List one holiday or observance.

here is mine for a birthday of January 1:

THREE EVENTS
1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston
1939- The Vienna New Year's Concert is first held.
1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.

TWO IMPORTANT BIRTHDAYS
1752 - Betsy Ross
1864- Alfred Stieglitz

ONE DEATH (this one was way too early, think of all the great music we could have had!)
1953 - Hank Williams

HOLIDAY
National Laura Day!!!! I mean New Year's Day.......

2 comments:

Heather Simpson-Bluhm said...

A New year's baby.. cool!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Anonymous said...

Here is my MEME:
Happenings for November 11
1834 Hans Christian Anderson's The Ugly Duckling was published.
1918 World War 1 ends
1970 First broadcast of Seasame Street
Birthdays for November 11
1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1897 Lucky Luciano
Deaths
2004 Yasser Arafat
Events or Holidays
Opening day of Carnival Season in Germany at 11:11. Also Vetrans day here.