The Four Meme, just read it and quit your self-righteous bitching

February 08, 2006 - 1:04 a.m.

A meme is “A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.” And FYI, the word “meme” has been around wayyy longer than blogs or the internet so there is no reason to be hating on that word now, when it has done no wrong.

Nobody tagged me with this meme. I am just so lazy that I sought one out for myself so I could have something easy to write about. What? It’s fuckin February, yo. Do you know what my daily life is like in this cold black city while my skin peels off in sheets? Was it Chris Rock who said something about February…? About how it is the shortest, coldest month of the year and that is the month we gave black people for Black History Month? Figures, honkeys always doing shit like that. “Swing low, sweet chariot! Here you go blackie, here’s 28 days, live it up!”

As Beaker always says, “Memememememe”:

Four jobs I’ve had
1) I gutted and cleaned whole fish for the rich child molester who lived next door, all summer long. I also collected golf balls he shot out into the woods at ten cents apiece and cleaned his pool twice a week. Age 8-12.
2) Drill press operator at a steel factory. Can’t remember the name of the company because it was so awful. I think it was “Something Steel Works.” I drilled holes in long pieces of steel.
3) United Parcel Service. Splitter, sorter, can loader, package correction, trainer, ramp runner, belly loader and all around Princess of UPS. It is the best company I have ever worked for and I love it. I know the zip code of every town in New Jersey. Wish I could find a way to work there again
4) Waitress at Convent, a Chicago club that had the theme of heaven and hell and waitresses were supposed to dress like angels or devils. It was pretty much a black club and the black folks did not like me, maybe because I was plain and tom-boyish looking. I was fired my second day.

Four movies I can watch over and over
1) Sound of Music
2) Amélie
3) Koyaanisqatsi
4) Life is Beautiful (La Vita è bella)

Four places I have lived
Besides my parents’ home, nowhere but Chicago, so:
1) 1345 W. Taylor, Little Italy
2) 1507 N. Paulina, Wicker Park
3) 3750 W. Irving Park, Old Irving
4) 2644 N. Albany, Logan Square

Four TV shows I love
1) CSI
2) Simpsons
3) Strangers with Candy
4) Tom & Jerry
Or, at least, those are the ones I have on DVD

Four places I’ve vacationed
1) Cairo, Egypt
2) Playa del Carmen, Mexico
3) Copacabana, Bolivia
4) Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

Four of my favorite dishes
1) Salmon and broccoli from Shaw’s Crab House
2) Banana nut French toast and peanut butter milkshakes from Salt N Pepper.
3) Chilaquiles and horchata with a shot of espresso at El Cid.
4) Sushi for two at Sushi Mura

Four sites I visit daily.
Not exactly daily, but…
1) Citizen iCam, see all the crimes that are committed in your neighborhood.
2) CTA tattler, cuz I ride the train every day.
3) If I was a guy I would totally marry Stephanie Klein.
4) Ali Greggs is even more obnoxious and self-absorbed than I am, if that is at all possible. And I mean that in the nicest way.

Four places I would rather be right now
1) In the arms of my sweet lovin’ man.
2) Snorkeling in the Caribbean
3) Eating dinner in a restaurant in a hole cut into the side of the Swiss Alps (saw it on PBS)
4) Taking pictures of the mountains where the gay cowboys live

Five people I am tagging
1&2) Mia and goingloopy, because they tagged me recently
3) And turtlellini because I like nagging her into writing shit

That’s three. Whatever. So sue me.

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