I wasn’t going to post until later today, but Liz Strauss called me an SOB on Saturday. She included my logo and everything. Just call me Sally Fields and tickle me pink.
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My excuse for not catching this more quickly? I was helping my daughter celebrate turning 6-years-old with a pirate party. ARRGGGHHHH! All ye scurvy land-lubbers missed a great, grand ol’ time.
Other bloggers who made the list included
- Buzzoodle Buzz Marketing (whose book on Word of Mouth Marketing is something I will be looking at more closely)
- frEdSCAPEs (in Dutch. Sorry, dude, Ich spreche nur Deutsch. And that not so good. Et Latin. But that language is dead.)
- Glenda Watson Hyatt (one inspirational lady. She has a great interview on Liz’s site.)
- Collin Douma’s Radical Trust (how’d I get in the same list as this guy?)
- Karin’s Stop/Start (I know her better from Kiss2 where she talks about business stuff. She also shares my love of canoeing.)
- Talking Story (an incredibly interesting blog about Managing with Aloha that pointed me to a great new resource after just a few minutes of browsing).
- TechZi, this kid has got a future. Talk about ambition and follow through. I’m wondering how many of my former students could have pulled something like this off. (David, I’m not trying to talk smack about your age in referring to you as “kid,” just trying to provoke readers to go check you out.)
(A special thanks to Stop/Start and Techzi for bringing it to my attention this morning with their links.)
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Thanks for the link love.
I’ve got no problem with being called a ‘kid’ either. I’ve got so used to it, I kind of take it as a semi-compliment.
Hi my friend.
Oh, canoeing. Once spend a very leisure/active 14 days doing that in the most wonderful weather accompanied by 10 strangers (only for on day, turned out to be a great international group: Dutch, Germans and Swedish) in Varmland Sweden.
And with my partner (then not in ‘the picture’
) during our holiday in British Columbia, very good ’sport’ indeed.
Where’ve you been canoeing? anywhere nice?
You want me to teach you Dutch by any change?
Congratulations for the blog honor! Yes, we really like you.
Pirate party? What a fun dad you are. How did that go? It sounds like a really good time. There is so much party potential with that theme. Say, did you hear how much Johnny Depp paid to have his ears pierced for “Pirates of the Caribbean?†I heard it was a buck-an-ear.
Karin, I’d love for you to teach me Dutch! Of course, you’ll have to come to Texas so we can have our class on the Guadalupe River…
Another one of my goals is to canoe the border lakes between USA and Canada. Beautiful area.
David, you are some kind of ubermensch. How did you comment so fast?
As for the link love, you earned it man. I wish I could have had students like you in my English classes. We would have changed the world.
Craver, oh no. That was terrible! I can’t take credit for the pirate party. My wife did most of the work.
However, I did help with the treasure hunt and jiggle the pinata up and down while little kids ran at me with a bat. (Who created that sick tradition?)
The icing on the cake was, um, the cake. Amy made a two layer cake with a little island where some pirates had landed. They were digging into on of the cakes for some buried treasure. It was cool.
It was also fun to make the kids “walk the plank.” Stick a board in the yard and yell piratey stuff at six year olds and they can imagine the entire Pacific Ocean.
Marcus, congrats on being named a SOB, too. I never imagined that would be a good thing.
And happy birthday to your little princess. Sounds like quite a party.
I love you, but it’s Sally Field, not Fields.
Actually, the cake was a 9×13 white cake frosted blue with an 8 inch cake on top frosted brown (with graham cracker crumbs for sand) in the shape of an island. There were treasure hunting pirates and even a shark in the “water”. I can’t take credit, though – I got the idea from http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com.
Amy, I love you too.
Glenda, I don’t love you in the same way as Amy, but I appreciate the comment! Your interview with Liz was awesome. Good luck with your book.
Re: the pirate party–how could we NOT have missed it when you didn’t invite us? Sheesh.
P.S. One time I went to a pirate party thrown by some reenactors with whom I worked at a living history museum. I knew I couldn’t compete with their historical authenticity, so I figured out how to get some CD’s to dangle from my ears (though not the lobes–ouch!), wrapped a modem cable with more CD’s on it around my waist, and pretended I was a “music pirate.” This worked because ipods, etc, had yet to make much of a . . . um . . . splash.
Wow, what a fun blog. This is just too much……!!!!!…….
But, oh yeah, congrats. And Dutch ain’t so bad. I live among them here in Grand Rapids. I like to watch them in their wooden shoes.
Congratulations on becoming an SOB. Just came here via KnifeGunPen. Cheers!
Jenn, hilarious! When my daughter asked me if there were still pirates today, I tried to explain digital piracy, but I don’t think she got it.
Ted, you make me laugh. I enjoyed this post too. It was my little celebration party.
Jessica, thanks for coming over from Robert’s blog. He’s got a great site there–Liz just listed him as one of the first 15 truly unique blogs she could find. I especially loved your cumulative sentence on that older post!
SOBs, pirates — hope my firewall doesn’t start blocking this site!
Congrats, Marcus. Your blog is one of the best. Your consistent, engaging, thought provoking, and very funny.
The pirate party sounds like a blast. When I read Craver’s comment, I at first thought he was asking if you charged a buck-an-ear to get in. (I really shouldn’t skim!) Maybe next year your daughter could turn her birthday party into a little money-making venture!
Charity, you make me laugh. Thanks for your kind words, and I hope your filter doesn’t start blocking me. It’s true that I am a little earthy for a lot of Christians. I have to really control myself at church…
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