Happy Dooce Got Fired Day
A year ago today I got fired from my job because of my website. And I thought that instead of celebrating with vindictive destructive behavior, like asking everyone to write an email to Her Heinousness inquiring about her recent botox injections, how about I resurrect a past Dooce challenge that many of you may have missed the first time around.
In its former incarnation the challenge consisted of choosing 12 songs and 1 book you'd take with you if you had to flee a nuclear holocaust and/or a second term with George W. And as I got thinking about it, I realized that 12 songs is just too easy. What this challenge needs is a Sophie's Choice type dilemma: do you choose the socially responsible Bob Dylan song or the Marvin Gaye song that signifies the lusty implosion of your innocence? Could you live with yourself if you forsook the Bee Gees? Choices, people, choices.
I'll go first, and this was seriously fucking hard:
song:
"Tupelo Honey" by Van Morrison
book:
Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi
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Your Correction Officer said:
# 1!!!
02.25.03 - 08:52 AM / 1da said:
"one" by U2
"i'm just here for the food" by Alton Brown
02.25.03 - 08:56 AM / 2Paul Gutman said:
Book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, so that I actually have the time to read it and the incentive to stick with it.
Song: Blue Skies by BT, featuring Tori Amos. Because it just doesn't get old.
Also, in honor of Dooce's Day O' Liberation, my paper on blogging and employment law is officially submitted to the Columbia Journal of Law and Arts, and since it was almost 95% inspired by Dooce's experience, I feel the need to share it.
http://www.paulgutman.net/
Gutman--Blogging.pdf
Enjoy, or not, as you see fit.
02.25.03 - 08:57 AM / 3Jeffo said:
Song: "Playboy Mommy" by Tori Amos and
Book: _A Good Man is Hard to Find_ by Flannery O'Connor.
02.25.03 - 08:58 AM / 4pinder said:
"Third Eye" by Tool
"Wind Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
02.25.03 - 08:59 AM / 5Anonymous said:
well if you're banished, fleeing nuclear holocaust, you don't necessarily want to be sad every time you listen to your one fucking song, so you might as well be entertained or rawk out, says me.
song:
"ziggy stardust" by david bowie
book:
jonathan swift, gulliver's travels
02.25.03 - 09:00 AM / 6bill clinton said:
song:
"you can't always get what you want" by the rolling stones
book:
"the starr report" by kenneth starr
02.25.03 - 09:01 AM / 7the husband said:
song: "Flamenco Sketches" by Miles Davis
book: Airships, by Barry Hannah
02.25.03 - 09:01 AM / 8pinklady said:
precious things - tori amos
cat's eye - margaret atwood
02.25.03 - 09:06 AM / 9Beerzie Boy said:
"Won't get Fooled Again", The Who
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
02.25.03 - 09:08 AM / 10Filter said:
Song
Death Cab - Stability
Book
Doctors - Erich Segal
02.25.03 - 09:10 AM / 11strizi said:
Song: "into my arms" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Book: "The US Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Survival Manual" (admittedly, I looked that one up and haven't actually read it)
02.25.03 - 09:11 AM / 12renaat said:
song: The Time Is Now - Moloko
book: The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman - Bruce Robinson
02.25.03 - 09:15 AM / 13sx70.blogspot.com said:
wild wood - paul weller
the Preppie Handbook
02.25.03 - 09:16 AM / 14Garth said:
Hilarious..
02.25.03 - 09:19 AM / 15slackjaw said:
Song: Five Hearts Breaking, by Alejandro Escovedo.
Book: (cringingly)The Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolken.
02.25.03 - 09:20 AM / 16Sarah B. said:
"Werewolves of London," by Warren Zevon, and the Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis.
02.25.03 - 09:21 AM / 17Summer said:
Sunday Kind of Love--Etta James.
To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
02.25.03 - 09:25 AM / 18Long Pauses said:
"Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix
"Angels in America" by Tony Kushner
02.25.03 - 09:26 AM / 19No Such Thing As #1 said:
"The Days Were Golden" Sunny Day Real Estate
Borges "Collected Works" (or "Ficciones" if that's cheating)
but in reality, there's no way to decide.
02.25.03 - 09:39 AM / 20Amanda Lew said:
Song: "The Porpoise Song," by the Monkees. Don't diss it 'til you've tried it.
Book: "Blubber," by Judy Blume. Reminds me of the good ole days.
02.25.03 - 09:40 AM / 21rex said:
America by John Fahey and Moby Dick
02.25.03 - 09:40 AM / 22the propagandist said:
song: "run for the hills" by megadeth
book: anarchist's cookbook.
*you realize, of course, that i am kidding, mr. ashcroft.*
02.25.03 - 09:44 AM / 23Jennay said:
Jimi Hendrix "Wait Until Tomorrow"
Thoreau's _Walden_
02.25.03 - 09:54 AM / 24Kat said:
New poems, by rainer maria rilke, with german on one side and english on the other.
..one song...just one...oh! 'waldorf world wide' by good charlotte.
02.25.03 - 09:56 AM / 25Jessie Street said:
A one hump camel makes a one hump poop, and a two hump camel makes a two hump poop!
Only Kidding!!
My 4 year old and I read that book twice a night! Ha hahahaha that's hilarious!
02.25.03 - 09:58 AM / 26ginamai said:
Song: "YATTA!"
Book: The Beatles Anthology (I can listen to all their songs in my head)
02.25.03 - 09:59 AM / 27Tom said:
If forced to choose one and only one song, I would take none. I can't think of worse torture than having to choose one song that I'd want to listen to for eternity. Better to remember the songs I've heard than erase them from my head with song over and over and over.
Book? The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Don't panic.
02.25.03 - 10:01 AM / 28speedo said:
"Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush
"Walden Pond" by Henry D. Thereau
02.25.03 - 10:02 AM / 29cicada said:
SONG:
"How'm I Gonna Sleep" by Neil Finn
BOOK:
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
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