Gina at Just Another Day listed the first sentence of the first post of each month for 2006, so given the approaching end of the year, I thought this would be a good time to follow suit. It serves as an interesting little exercise, maybe a snippet of what is important to each of us. I have only been writing since August, and three of the five sentences are about movies. I'm not going to make too much of that because I write about a million different things that pop into my little head. Here is my list:
(Aug) Here's my first entry to my very first blog.
(Sept) A small tribute to Glenn Ford.
(Oct) When George Bailey was a kid and working for Mr. Gower, he strapped on his apron, scooped up some chocolate ice cream for Mary, and at hearing she didn't like coconut, was piqued.
(Nov) I think Ferris Bueller's Day Off is an American classic.
(Dec) Last night, my family discussed the meaning of "home."
(Aug) Here's my first entry to my very first blog.
(Sept) A small tribute to Glenn Ford.
(Oct) When George Bailey was a kid and working for Mr. Gower, he strapped on his apron, scooped up some chocolate ice cream for Mary, and at hearing she didn't like coconut, was piqued.
(Nov) I think Ferris Bueller's Day Off is an American classic.
(Dec) Last night, my family discussed the meaning of "home."
Comments
Nice idea, though.
It gives me an incentive to re-read people's archives.
(Aug) So.
(Sept) It’s that time of year again.
(Oct)Fluff went to the What the Fluff? Festival in Union Square, Somerville, this weekend.
(Nov)As a lover of all things kitsch, I thought that I would take a moment to mark the passing of the plastic pink flamingo, made by Union Plastics right here in Massachusetts.
(Dec)I mentioned a while back that I had rejoined the wonderful world of online dating.
Sassy, I think these are great. The flow of the thought from one to the other makes an interesting story in itself. Did we start blogging at the same time?
I thought they went together rather well myself.
Yours have a neat little theme going on, and so do Sassy's!
Here are mine. Mine seem to have a rather self-centered theme. I think I'm a bit embarrassed.
:(
Also, as an aside, I've been meaning to tell my readers about Maryann, but kept forgetting.
I finally remembered and posted about it here.
Now I've got to thinking that I really should have asked you first about using the image of the book cover to do that, Robyn.
I should not have assumed it would be OK. I've removed the image from the post unless/until you say that's ok.
Sorry, I was excited and not thinking.
Okay, here we go.
It seems you and Sassy and me were all August blog-babies, Robyn.
Here's my five first lines:
August, 2006:
This was going to be a big, sweary, ranty blog, railing against a world headed full tilt down the shitter, with no driver and no brakes.
September, 2006:
We are sitting eating lobster in a Portuguese square.
October, 2006:
I'm really none too keen on all this "time going forward" malarkey.
November, 2006:
Yikes!
December, 2006:
Sassy's comment to yesterday's post ("Nice legs, Dive") got me thinking …
(a) Yes, I do have nice legs and,
(b) Taking quotes out of context is fun.
Read into them what you will …
Must be frunker than I thought …
Dive, Yes, you did type "frunk" which was pretty darn funny. You have coined a new word, I believe. Interesting, isn't it, that we all started at the same time and independently. I don't know why it's interesting--just is.
Dive, I believe you're frunker than you drink you am!
destiny, fate or something more sinister?
I'd put my sentences up but i don't have no sentence structure as that is for the weak.
What happened back in August?
Was the Earth bathed in alien radioactive blog-rays?
Did the CIA put something into the water … again?
Watch the skies, people, watch the skies …
Obviously, it was grand timing. Robyn, Dive, and Knudsen. And me. What a strange and wonderful crew of late-blooming bloggers.