Comments on: My Mojo https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/ Author of Healing Maddie Brees & Wait, thoughts and practices in waiting on God Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Rebecca https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-109 Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:22:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-109 But that’s one of the risks of having an iPod, tworivers. I mean, there you are, listening to some of your favorite music (one would hope, since you choose the music yourself), and can you help singing along? And of course you’re listening loudly, because why not? and because that’s the best way to shut out the din (if you have din, which I do), and so you don’t realize how loudly (or badly) you are singing. See the trouble?

So I’m sure I do it. But I won’t do it at the talent show, if that’s what you’re worried about….

]]> By: tworivers https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-108 Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:08:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-108 I was just remembering, when you mentioned listening to a song that no one else could hear, that gentleman who sang a song while listening on his headphones to a CD of a song … at the talent show. I won’t take up your bandwidth describing this event here, I’ll save it for my own blog sometime. But whether that was cool or just … wierd … I don’t know. Do me a favor, though — don’t do that.

]]> By: Rebecca https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-107 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 03:27:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-107 tworivers,

Do you think maybe we can start the Cult of the Semicolon? It has a nice, alliterative ring to it, and it would definitely be “alternative,” and so maybe would fit into Beth’s definition of what is Cool.

As for me actually being cool, well, I’m not. But thanks, anyway. You go ahead and be cool, and can I still hang out with you sometimes?

Beth,

I did point out that really Cool Mo Beav is my Mojo, so I’m not really relying on the iPod to get the Cool, anyway.

Thanks for liking my blog, man (that “man” is supposed to sound cool).

Tom,

Hey, welcome to my blog! Thanks for writing, and for making a very astute observation about opportunities for semi-colon usage. You need to know that I, of course, knew about the opportunities you pointed out, but I chose not to take advantage of them. Why, you ask? Because overusing the semicolon is like eating too many potato chips (something I like to do) or too many chocolate chip cookies (something else I like to do) or talking on the phone too much (another thing I seem to like to do): it ruins the enjoyment. So I use my semicolons sparingly, and get a little thrill every time I do.

Scary, huh?

Hey, William and I are mailing you something snail-mail tomorrow (if I remember to put it in the mailbox), so keep an eye out.

By the way, you are right. That is a grammatically incorrect sentence. I like to call it poetic license.

Guess Who?,

I don’t know who you are. Really, I don’t. I thought I did, I think I might, but I don’t. And you know what? It’s just a little bit scary. Just a wee bit.

Onomatopoeia is a stellar aspect of the English language. I like to spell the word “onomatopoeia.” That’s a tricky thing. And fun.

Non linear algebra is something I don’t remember anymore, but I’m happy that it’s there for you.

So. Who are you?

]]> By: Guess Who? https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-106 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:52:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-106 “My Hobo”
I am no fool. Sorry to disappoint all of you that may think I am a fool. If you think that by hanging out with me, or being my friend, or reading my inane response to a blog on cool, you are identifying with a fool, then you are wrong. Dead wrong. I’m just sorry. No, really, just sorry. A sorry excuse for a person.

Proof? I love to write random things for a response to a blog. Until a month ago, I didn’t know what a blog was. Now I reply to blogs rather than write my own. Rebecca, I also like prepositions. But my favorite thing in the english language is the onomatopoeia. What a great buzz word (catch the use of the onomatopoeia in buzz!). Oh yeah. I am a fool. I also like solving equations, but prefer non linear algebra. Yes, I’m a fool and a dork.

Oh well, I gotta run and can’t write anymore. Can you guess who I am?

]]> By: Tom B. https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-105 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:30:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-105 Wow, that iPod must have made you really cool because you missed an overly ripe opportunity to drop some semi-colons on us.

You wrote, “But I like classical music too much to be cool, I like to read too much to be cool, I like sentences too much to be cool, I like words too much to be cool. I have a list of them.”

Now if that grammatically incorrect sentence isn’t a grand opportunity to drop semi-colons on the rest of us, I don’t know what is. You must be jammin’ on the iPod.

]]> By: Beth https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-104 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:12:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-104 Here is the thing. Cool is when you are doing something that no one else is doing. Or when very few people are doing it. Everyone has an iPod these days. It is no longer a designator of cool. It designates normal. Everyone has one. Like a cell phone or Tivo. To be cool would be to say – I know what an iPod is, I could have one but I choose not to have one. No one chooses not to have one, thus in not choosing one, you become cool.
So you are normal. And really with your obsessive love of the semi colon; normal is a good thing.

(having a blog and writing wonderful entries on it… that is cool. So I guess you are cool after all. Or maybe that is hip. Hip is much better than cool.)

]]> By: tworivers https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo/#comment-103 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:41:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/03/01/my-mojo#comment-103 You have been assimilated. You have joined the Cult of the iPod. And I think, in the grand scheme of things, that the Shuffle is Cooler than the big clunky iPods that hold so many songs and audio books that one could never in a lifetime listen to it all.

You are definitely Cool, my friend.

And I also like the semicolon. And the subjunctive mood. And I am Cool … so there! You must be, too.

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