{"id":1687,"date":"2009-11-05T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2009-11-05T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:58:20","slug":"go-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Go: Everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s November. Did you know that?  I only know because the calendar features largely in our day; Trombone is always asking what day it is, what month it is, is it time to go Trick or Treating again, is it time to change the monkey yet?<\/p>\n<p>Our wall calendar is a sock monkey calendar, you see.  So every month there is a different monkey.<\/p>\n<p>I kind of like: &#8220;Is it time for a new monkey?&#8221; as a random question that you might hear around our house.  Not that we don&#8217;t have plenty of random questions for the overhearing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s November which means:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/fourcarrot.dymund.com\"> Mister Dymund&#8217;s<\/a> birthday<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JeAP1KyPDzM\"> Tom Waits <\/a>in my head for a whole month<br \/>\n&#8211; The tree outside my living room window sheds its leaves.<\/p>\n<p>and also for those of creative persuasions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.com\"> National Novel Writing Month<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nablopomo.com\"> National Blog Posting Month<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh it&#8217;s official all right.  Don&#8217;t you scorn it.<\/p>\n<p>All these people whose writing I love who rarely post are now posting every day and like a greedy, greedy piggo, I am lapping it all up.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nopantsisland.blogspot.com\"> NoPantsIsland <\/a>is writing a November novel and working on some other writing and posting the contents of her fascinating head every day.  <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/liz\"> Monkeypants <\/a>is working something like 17 jobs and taking transit and posting her hilarious and beautiful observations every day.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\"> GeckoBloggle <\/a>is growing a moustache and cycling really far and raising children and going to work and posting the best stream-of-how&#8217;s-yer-computer-doing-I-love-stuff-and-hate-other-stuff every day.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/elswhere.blogspot.com\/\"> Elswhere <\/a>is working for a more literate society and raising her circus girl and has a cold right now but is still posting her very funny and often poignant thoughts every day.   <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmutzie\"> Schmutzie, <\/a> who is hardly a slouch in the posting department anyway, is posting every day, writing a novel, running <a href=\"http:\/\/graceinsmallthings.ning.com\/\"> grace in small things,<\/a> not smoking, writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamapop.com\"> Mamapop,<\/a> participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/mondobeyondo.org\/\"> Mondo Beyondo <\/a>and for all I know fixing old motorcycles in her spare time.\n<\/li>\n<li>And of course my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com\/blog\"> Saint Aardvark <\/a>has posted every day he&#8217;s been away, which is nice because talking on the phone is not for us and also he is a fantastic, vastly under-appreciated writer.  Living under my shadow as he does (TIC) (that&#8217;s for tongue-in-cheek, I&#8217;m coining it).  He will probably stop posting every day when he gets home because the children will require his attention, so enjoy him while you can. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You people are amazing. Go on with your bad selves.<\/p>\n<p>(What amazing thing are you doing?  It can be anything.  I would love to cheer you on. Leave a comment &#038; let us know!)<\/p>\n<p><i>This post brought to you by the cup of coffee I have consumed while the children continue sleeping well past their usual wake up time of 5:45 am. Coffee and morning solitude? I haz not had since 2005, I&#8217;m pretty sure.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s November. Did you know that? 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