I’m absolutely thrilled to tell you, loves, that this morning one of my posts is being featured on the front page of the always-spectacular BlogHer! I can’t even tell you how immensely thrilled I am about this! I may or may not have spent the past ten minutes hyperventilating.
Make my day and check out The Infinite Sadness of 5-Hour Energy. Then BlogHer will notice all the hits I sent ‘em, offer me a long-term writing contract, I’ll get a book deal, Alec Baldwin will star as my boss in the movie adaptation, and I’ll totally make out with him at the red-carpet premiere. Obviously.
Well, or I’ll remain a secretary, but be deeply pleased to be featured on a site I love. Win/win.
Also, this is easily one of the most thrilling moments of the project. Which got me thinking about a belated Choose My Adventure Day request from Ashe Mischief: to, without overthinking it, list my favorite five moments of the project.
Asking a Hamlet like me not to overthink is only courting disaster, but I tried, and here’s what I came up with:
- My enchanting reign as the Mad Bubbler of Brighton, filling the streets with bubbles and, in the process, getting completely charmed by the small wonders of my neighborhood.
- Writing the most absurdly specific Craigslist ad in history. Which, for the record, ended up netting me nearly seventy replies, one awful date, and no sexytimes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song singalongs.
- Finally cracking open a horrifying story from the vault: the least hygienic hook-up ever (and how it made me momentarily internet famous). A story so traumatizing (and, in retrospect, hilarious) that it took me five years to c0nfide in another human.
- My love letter to cigarettes, after I’d quit for a month.
- Injecting a little summer fun and camaradie in my life by wandering the streets of Cambridge, slapping strangers high-fives. Also of note: possibly the only moment I’ve ever been cool. Not of the project, I mean. Of my life.
That’s only off the top of my head — when I stop to peek at my archives, I always find somewhere between fifty and eighty of these experiments that I don’t even remember doing. But for this moment, those are my favorites. And you are my favorites for reading (and for clicking that BlogHer link, obvi. Hey Alec Baldwin. Call me.)
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Congrats! Your post was hilarious.
So, when are we going to get kicked out of a bar? It may not be part of the 250, but it still sounds like it’ll be a grand time.
Dude, let’s get kicked out of a friggin’ bar! Sometime after Moving Day? I’m psyched!
Last night I had a dream that we were friends… and we had just become friends and I was in your apartment and at some point I said, “I actually don’t even know your name!” And you didn’t tell me :( Even though we were totally friends.
Anyway congrats on making it up on that site! It’s been fun reading your posts… can’t wait to see what you do next! (And also I live in texas, so it’s not like I could have really been at your apartment.)
That’s so funny! That’s actually not the first time a reader has dreamed about meeting me and my refusing to tell them my name! Apparently I come across as significantly more mysterious than I am… The most unlikely part of the dream would be me letting another human in my apartment. It’s filled with lots of photos and weird paintings and stuff, so I get extremely shy about letting people see it. #funfact
And, dude, thank you so much for the kind words! I can’t believe how amazing this project has been. I’m ridiculous excited about what’s to come, as well!
Funny! Then maybe I should have suggested “host a dinner party” for your choose-your-own-adventure day. Next time…
I’m honored my bubbles idea made it to #1 off the top of your head! I have also had a dream where I met you, although I don’t think you actually had a face.. you were more of a concept. But then again, isn’t that what you are to us anyways?
Reading your 5 hour energy shot post reminds me of the time my friends tried Chinese sorgum liquor. Apparently they skipped the drunk part and went directly to the regretful, depressing hangover part. You should try it!
I kind of love that on this blog the logical conclusion from that is “You should try it!”
I have enjoyed reading your blog so much, despite only having been a reader for a few months now. I just moved from the Boston area to Fayetteville, Arkansas for my first non-college move. Looking for a job has really sucked ass and reading your blog cheers me up every time.
I love this project, and I’m glad that someone who is as awesome and witty as you shared it.
I’ve totally taken to blowing bubbles in public spaces. My favorite is at the local above ground subway stop. The bubbles drift around lazily until the train comes and they swirl around the train and get carried off.
My favourite was when you went blowjob training.. ahahaha :) congrats on finishing your adventure; but what’s next?
I STILL get hits from that guest post. Like multiple per day! And I am glad out of all people for you to confide in, you chose my blog =)
And yes, I am saying that my blog is a person.
I think that my favorites were the TMI Thursday ones! Yes, virtually all of them! They were cringe inducing at times, but they are the fun ones to go back and reread!
Have you ever considered issuing challenges, “Project Mayhem”-style? Yeah, maybe without the lipo-soap though…..
HER NAME WAS ROBERT PAULSON! HER NAME WAS ROBERT PAULSON!
Please make a Project Mayhem group. Or Jane Austin Fight Club