Green Room - Week 2 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm]

The New York Times released their full list of Best Books of the 21st Century list   www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html

and I'm honored to say that 99 of them were my Idol posts!! I'm not sure how these qualify as "books", but I'm just grateful for the acknowledgement. I'm sure they are busy with all of the editorials about advocating for both Trump AND Biden to drop out of the Presidential race.  I'm glad they haven't asked ME to drop out yet.  Probably because I haven't officially thrown my hat in.... because I only have a couple hats and can't really afford to just be throwing them into rings to get stomped on or lost. 

Perhaps they are busy writing an editorial to advocate for getting me a new hat that I can then throw in... or maybe a used one that's already beaten up so I wouldn't care if it got damaged. That might be better. 

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I've substituted the Idol posts originally listed with other books in the above link, with other books by up-and-comers that I felt deserved some attention. How many of the 100 have you read? Which ones are now on your "I should check that out!" list based on the descriptions? 

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Remember that your own deadline is coming up soon - Sunday at noon ET. Still a LOT of people haven't posted yet, so this is going to be a busy couple of days!  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1143356.html

(or, I guess a massive bye-fest... I guess we will see how that shakes out...) 

Comments

[banana_galaxy]

When I saw the deadline was Sunday, I decided to put off thinking about writing my entry until Saturday. I just had too much other stuff on in my evenings in the meantime. Like the showcase at my son's summer program on Wednesday night and the stand-up comedy competition I competed in last night (I didn't make it through, but I didn't want to because I'm seeing Taylor Tomlinson the night of the finals next Saturday, but I still felt like I did a good job).

Tonight I'm going to an event for meeting new people called "Skip the Small Talk" which I'm curious to try out and see what it's like.

[roina_arwen]

Skip the small talk? Sounds up my alley! Let us (or at least me) know how it goes!

[banana_galaxy]

Looks like you're not the only person who's interested! I'll try and remember to share in the next green room. I could see it coming up as something to write about for an entry, but probably not this week's prompt!

[nicholewithanh]

Oh that sounds interesting! Also curious to hear how that event goes.

Congrats on your stand-up comedy - even if you didn't make it through. That's awesome!

[banana_galaxy]

Thanks! I'll try and remember to share something about the event in the next green room.

[mollywheezy]

I like Taylor Tomlinson! I haven't ever seen her in person, though.

Skip the Small Talk sounds promising . . . I hope it goes well! :)

[banana_galaxy]

I got to see her tour in a much bigger venue last year, but I'm super excited about this one since it's a more intimate venue and she'll be trying out things for her next tour. As an amateur stand-up myself, it's cool to see how the pros try out their new tours. I got to see Sarah Silverman in the same circumstances a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks!

[mollywheezy]

That's really cool!

[pixiebelle]

Skip the small talk sounds like my kind of event! Also curious to hear about it.

[banana_galaxy]

They have events all over the country and other parts of the world so I looked up the website to see if Paris was one, but it doesn't look like it. They have some online events though.

I'm not a fan of small talk so I am hopeful for how this is going to be, though I am also kind of in a shy state right now. Even when I've gone out and seen people I know, or other people who are introducing themselves to new people (see: the stand-up competition last night), I've not been very forthcoming. I think it's just because I'm feeling internally motivated and wanting to focus on my memoir at the moment.

[pixiebelle]

I’m really uncomfortable with small talk as well. I also tend to be shy in groups with new people, and I don’t talk much. I’m bad about avoiding things like that sometimes but I’m trying to go out more. I’m sure it would be possible to set something like that up here too, especially within the immigrant/“expat” community.