{"id":49431,"date":"2011-07-05T03:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T07:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/49431\/f-in-place\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T03:41:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T07:41:45","slug":"f-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/49431\/f-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"“F”-in up all over the place!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven\u2019t written a \u201ctag\u201d blog in ages, but here in the late evening of the Fourth of July, it seemed f<\/strong>itting to f<\/strong>orge a f<\/strong>antastic f<\/strong>ulfilling of a f<\/strong>eat of f<\/strong>abrication.<\/font><\/p>\n

I found this frivolity at Finspire Frine\u2019s blog.\u00a0 Click here for further facts. <\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

The task is to fervently fill a blog with 10 important facts about me all relating to a certain letter of the alphabet.\u00a0 F<\/strong>air chance you can f<\/strong>igure out the f<\/strong>abulously f<\/strong>un letter for which I\u2019ll f<\/strong>urnishing f<\/strong>ulfillment!<\/p>\n

10 Things that begin with the letter \u201cF\u201d of importance to me.<\/p>\n

FRIVOLITY<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0 Yes, I already used this word in the intro, but I think it deserves to be here at the top because of the bad reputation this word gets.\u00a0 When something is \u201cfrivolous\u201d, it\u2019s cast as being pointless, without consequence, having no importance.\u00a0 See, I think that pointlessness fulfills a very important role.\u00a0 I kinda feel sorry for those folks for whom seriousness rules the day, for whom tomorrow is something to be feared and their little bit of territory, be it intellectual, physical or emotional, has to be defended at all costs.\u00a0 I\u2018ll be honest, I\u2019m selfish.\u00a0 We all are. But for me, life is about finding a way that I can fulfill my needs in a way that also benefits others.\u00a0 I have found that role in being a clown of sorts.\u00a0 An \u201centertainer\u201d is a more sophisticated, polysyllabic way of saying the same thing.\u00a0 Frivolity is not pointless.\u00a0 Frivolity has it\u2019s very important function in my life.\u00a0 Frivolity makes me happy while I\u2019ll make the world a better place.<\/p>\n

\"\"FREEZER<\/font><\/strong>–\u00a0 On one of my new favorite shows, \u201cHow the States Got Their Shapes\u201d, they profiled why Bar-B-Cue is such an important part of various regions\u2019 identities.\u00a0 It goes back to before there were freezers, and if you were going to eat cooked meat (as opposed to smoked or dried), it was usually in a large, community setting.\u00a0 Different communities came up with different ways of cooking large chunks of animal flesh.\u00a0 A single family ain\u2019t going to finish off a hog or heifer in one sitting, and without freezers, this stuff didn\u2019t keep.\u00a0 Most of my food comes out of the freezer.<\/p>\n

\"\"FELINES<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0 I\u2019m a cat guy.\u00a0 Sure, I\u2019ve had dogs too, but kitties have always been first in my heart.\u00a0 Bliss the kitty on top of the FREEZER mentioned just before this!<\/p>\n

FORESTS<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0 I got a call today from my new employer.\u00a0 My background check came back fine (phew!), and I go to get orientated at orientation this upcoming Thursday.\u00a0 I start formal training the following Monday.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m looking at this week ahead as \u201cvacation\u201d, as opposed to \u201cunemployment\u201d.\u00a0 The old checking account is on it\u2019s last legs, but I have a resource I can tap into to allow me to take a small trip to a place I love: The Forest.\u00a0\u00a0 I went the whole school year without selling back any of my textbooks, and I got enough tomes to allow me to buy a train ticket up to the Cascade Mountains for a little mountain biking and communing with nature.\u00a0 I love the forest.\u00a0 The trees, the smell of loam, the peaceful serenity\u2026 Of course, I\u2019ll be bringing my camera and uke, so you all will get to come along with me.<\/p>\n

FIREWORKS<\/font><\/strong>–\u00a0 It\u2019s the Fourth of July, and as I write this, it sounds a bit like a war zone out my window.\u00a0 I guess I don\u2019t like them THAT much, otherwise I would be out there enjoying them, but it seemed a fitting \u201cF\u201d thing to write about.<\/p>\n


\n\"\"FRIENDBURST.COM<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0\u00a0 I could write a whole blog about some of the little things I don\u2019t like about FriendBurst, but on the whole, this new social networking site mimics some of what I really used to like about the old MySpace, but without a lot of the drama and soap opera crap that place used to have.\u00a0 You can customize your profile page how you want, something Facebook won\u2019t even let you start to do.\u00a0 There is no \u201ctagging\u201d, something I don\u2019t like about Facebook because it allows other people to customize the content of your \u201cWall\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 It has an actual blogging platform (WordPress) that is intertwined with the social network, so unlike Blogger, it\u2019s not like you\u2019re just posting your words into some vast, impersonal, disconnected wasteland.<\/p>\n

\"\"FOOD<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0 Who doesn\u2019t like food?\u00a0 Okay, that is kind of a broad category, so I\u2019ll try to come up with a list of 10 \u201cF\u201d foods within the list of ten \u201cF\u201d things\u2026\u00a0 Falafel, Fritos, Fish tenders, Fried ________ (anything you can normally fill in after \u2018fried\u2019 is going to be something I will like), Fondue, Funyuns, French fries, Frog legs, Fajitas and Filet Mignon.<\/p>\n


\nFRANZ FERDINAND- <\/font><\/strong>No, not the Archduke of Austria whose assassination started WWI, instead the Scottish band from the 2000\u2019s-ese (how are we ever going to comfortably come up with a shorthand way to refer to the decade that just passed?).\u00a0 From about 1994 until 2003 or so, I was pretty much asleep when it came to new music.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t try to expose myself to new bands or look for new music.\u00a0 Franz Ferdinand, along with bands like The Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Stellastarr, The White Stripes (all of these were part of something loosely grouped \"\"as the \u2018New York Sound\u2018), rekindled my interest in the latest music, something people in their 30\u2019s generally forgo.\u00a0 So although Franz Ferdinand would only make my oh\u2026. top 25 bands all time, they were influential in a rebirth of my interest in music as an adult.<\/p>\n

FAPPING<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0 No\u2026. I\u2019m not including this.<\/p>\n

FANTASY<\/font><\/strong>–\u00a0\u00a0 No, I am not referring to what I do while Fapping, I am talking about the literature genre.\u00a0 I read a lot, and fantasy is one of the three genres that I rotate between, the other two being science fiction and alternate history.\u00a0 Give me a good novel by Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffery, George R. R. Martin.. Too many authors to mention.. In any case, I\u2019m a happy man.\u00a0 One thing I don\u2019t like about fantasy, and this can go for any genre, is authors who string out a series of books after they\u2019ve lot all their mojo and have no more stories to tell.\u00a0 The perfect example of this was Robert Jordan\u2019s Wheel of Time series.\"\" Did anyone else read these books?\u00a0 The first 3 or 4 of the series were really quite good.\u00a0 You got caught up in what was going on and looked forward to the next installment of the series.\u00a0 Once he got up to up to books 6 and 7, they were stating to get tedious.\u00a0 By 8 & 9, they were unreadable!\u00a0 I never did find out what happened with \u201cThe Dragon\u201d and his kingdom because I refused to invest my reading hours in such schlock that wouldn\u2019t even have been published if it weren\u2019t the next in a series!<\/p>\n

FANS<\/strong><\/font>–\u00a0 This is kind of delicate to write about because I don\u2019t want to come off sounding pompous or narcissistic.\u00a0 After four years of putting myself out there on the Internet\u2026 MySpace, YouTube.. Wherever\u2026 I have had some \u201cfans\u201d\u2026 people who aren\u2019t necessarily \u2018friends\u2019, but regularly follow and enjoy what I do. It\u2019s a good feeling knowing that some random person out there you\u2019ve never met, even online, will consume and enjoy your creativity just because you\u2019re the one making it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also learned that fans are fleeting.\u00a0 In their interaction with me anyways, they invariably eventually go away.\u00a0 My creativity is kind of weird and novel, and I suppose that novelty eventually wears off and people lose interest.\u00a0 It may sound kind of shallow of me to say I have enjoyed having my \u201cfans\u201d over the years, but I\u2019d be lying if I said I hadn\u2019t.\u00a0 I don\u2019t do what I do to make or satisfy \u201cfans\u201d; I\u2019d be doing it even if I alone were my only audience, but I have appreciated this last \u201cF\u201d.<\/p>\n

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So\u2026 Would you like to play this Game?!?\u00a0\u00a0 You could either go back to Ron InspireShine\u2019s blog that I linked above, or to make it easier, just say, \u201cGive me a letter!\u201d here in this blog, and I\u2019ll \u201ctag\u201d you with a letter to do this same thing\u2026 <\/font><\/p>\n

10 things that have special meaning in your life that start with that letter. They can be favorite movies, your kid\u2019s name, a hobby, a philosophy, something you\u2019re interested in; anything, as long as it is something meaningful or interesting to you.<\/font><\/p>\n

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