I finished Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players last week. A fascinating read, for the most part. The more obsessive parts of my personality looked kindly on these people who spend their free time memorizing words for use in a board game. My family loves this game...and as a kid I routinely wiped the floor with any and all familial competition. Local friends - let's grab some coffee (or a smoothie) and play some time soon.
The highlight of my day was hearing the wholehearted conviction with which a girl at work told me that chicken is NOT meat. Poultry does not equal meat in her world. Highlight number two was the customer who not only told me I was smoking crack when I informed him of a bank policy, he pantomimed the smoking of the hypothetical crack. Of course, this is the same customer who thinks purposefully pronouncing "money orders" as "monkey orders" is funny enough that he should do it every week. Sometimes life really is a bad sitcom.
Why has no one cornered the market on the fast, efficient home delivery of ice cream? Pizza - check. Chinese - check. Ice cream CANNOT be that far behind. It's 2006, people. COME ON.
Let's see...I've covered board games and food. This is shaping up as the most interesting blog EVER. In the history of Al Gore Idea No. 437, nothing has attained this level of riveting-ness.
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Points for anyone who can name the song referenced in today's title without googling. And in other music news, both Ryan Adams and Death Cab are breaking my heart wide open these days and Nickelcreek tickets go on sale in two days...anyone else wanna go?
If you're going to issue a lyric challenge you really should make it difficult :)
My favorite time singing those words was at the John Mayer/Maroon 5 concert at the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre in Irvine, CA. We were outdoors, under the stars while John got acoustic and we all flipped open the cell phone to join him in singing ... The Wheel.
Posted by: Marti | July 28, 2006 at 01:06 AM
"I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me"
Thanks for the shameless plug! I'll let you know what kind of influence you have over your readership.
Posted by: Michael Norwood | July 28, 2006 at 11:36 AM
do they not have ice cream trucks in texas? what about schwanns? does texas have schwanns?
Posted by: sara | July 29, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Ummmm I've played Scrabble so I think it's HILARIOUS that you read a book about competitive Scrabble players...HILARIOUS. I will stop laughing...............now.
Posted by: Autumn | August 01, 2006 at 11:03 AM
That should say, I've NEVER played Scrabble...my bad...
Posted by: Autumn | August 01, 2006 at 02:24 PM