The Collective
Some months ago Abigail or Kat or Jennie said, "You guys, we should start a group blog. We'll post lists and reviews of movies and books and television shows. It will be awesome." And I looked around like, are they talking to me? Did I just get invited to the cool kids table? Better sit down before they retract the offer or kick my ass. There was no talk about how on Wednesdays we wear pink and how once a week we can wear jeans. No, it was all CSS and Photoshop and Google Docs and I just sat there smiling, hoping they wouldn't figure out they meant to invite an entirely different fourth.
The blog is called The Collective. We each post on the same topic on different days of the week. (I know that sounds confusing, but Abigail and Kat color-coded it into a chart for Jennie and me.) This week's topic is: Ways I'm an Asshole. I suggested we all list ten things, but no one except me could come up with ten. So we settled for five.
I've never been a cool kid before. Um, give me your lunch money.
No? Okay, go read the new blog. Please.
Comments
hee.
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I needed a calculator to add together your SAT Verbal and Math scores. How lame is that?
Posted by: kat! | January 9, 2008 09:55 AM
don't worry, i still count on my fingers.
Posted by: kat! | January 9, 2008 10:28 AM
Great! If you guys all combined your assholeness into one person you would be unbearable. But taken individually you are still cool. After all, you got invited to the cool girls club.
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By accident!
Posted by: Jenn (the not-sister) | January 9, 2008 11:45 AM
I still think we should wear pink on Wednesdays.
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Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are off limits to friends. I mean it's just, like, the rules of feminism.
Posted by: Jennie! | January 9, 2008 12:29 PM
How do you guys feel about other people posting their own versions of your thingies, i.e. if I posted what makes me an asshole. Just wondering. This "Collective" thing is awesome, btw.
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Of course you can post these things on your blog. Let me know when your asshole list is up.
Posted by: Ashley | January 9, 2008 12:48 PM
I read through your archives and was suddenly sad! what am I going to read now to help me procrastinate at work? Oooh! New blog? Yes!!!
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I can't believe you braved my archives and came out unscathed! I usually flip out when people read my archives on account of I can't bear to look at them. Good thing you did it all sneakily! :)
Posted by: lynn | January 9, 2008 12:53 PM
This would so not work for me. I would be unable to limit myself to five reasons I am an asshole. But I could probably prioritize all the reasons with petulance and forth withs being near the top.
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That's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.
Posted by: reddirtgirl | January 9, 2008 03:35 PM
Awesome new blog!
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Emms! You're alive! I expect an email from you very shortly, detailing your holiday. And then maybe I have a treat for you.
Posted by: Emms | January 9, 2008 04:20 PM
You quoted Buffy!?! Yea!
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Yes, yes I did.
Posted by: reddirtgirl | January 9, 2008 06:58 PM
i once peed my pants in a target...and when i read the new blog i almost peed my pants again.
coincidence? i think not.
(also, i just had to look up how to spell coincidence b/c all i could think of was the french version. which, by the way, is spelled exactly the same way.
long. day.)
Posted by: broke bertha | January 9, 2008 08:39 PM
Okay, so I'm an official fan of the new blog.
Posted by: Lindsay | January 9, 2008 10:52 PM
That is cool. I'll have to check it out from the geeks table.
Posted by: churlita | January 9, 2008 11:38 PM