Barb’s Burblings

I met up with a couple of friends to see Julie & Julia on Tuesday night. Since we were coming from three different directions, we decided to just meet at the top of a Metro escalator. Once we were all there, we paused to chat a bit, figure out where to eat, etc. As we talked, I noticed a yellow cone (you know, like those “Wet Floor” contes) flying through the air. I looked over and saw a kid yelling at another. At first, we all figured that it was just some kids fooling around…though it’s risky to throw a cone like that at the top of a Metro escalator during rush hour.

It was when the cone was quickly followed by a backpack–a backpack that hit me on the butt, thank you–and the shouting quickly turned into tussling that we realized that these kids weren’t fooling around. And quickly hightailed it out of there, noticing the arrival of the police. Who stuck around for quite some time, as they were still hanging around when we finished dinner.

All of this is to say that in addition to my legs that are sore after doing lunges the other night, my butt also hurts. It’s just not pleasant. Thanks, hoodlums!

So I was visiting Becca last weekend, and we found ourselves sitting outside a bar on Saturday night chatting. We gradually noticed the total awesomeness of the songs being played–”Humpty Dance,” “Baby Got Back,” “You Say He’s Just a Friend,” and so on. Naturally this led to us compiling a list of songs that need to be on this mix. But I’m opening this up to the public–what songs are we missing? And do you want to send me the songs I don’t have? (The ones I do have are marked by an X.) Because putting together this mix is going to cost, like, $25, and that sucks. And I refuse on principle to pay for “Me So Horny.”

1. Humpty Dance
2. It’s Tricky - X
3. Push It
4. Baby Got Back
5. Funky Cold Medina - X
6. Say He’s Just a Friend
7. Gettin’ Jiggy
8. Shoop
9. Girls
10. Walk This Way (Run DMC)
11. Never Gonna Get It - X
12. Jump Around - X
13. The Dinosaur - X
14. Informer
15. Wasn’t Me - X
16. Bombastic
17. 2legit
18. Me So Horny
19. Da Butt
20. Bust a Move
21. OPP
22. Ice Ice Baby
23. I got a man (Positive K)
24. Back to Cali
25. I’m Gonna Knock You Out
26. Boom (Shake the Room) - X
27. Good Vibrations (Marky Mark)
28. Back to Life (Soul II Soul)
29. Motownphilly (Boyz II Men)
30. Jump (Kriss Kross)
31. Strike It Up (Black Box)
32. My Perogative
33. Poison (Bel Biv Devoe)
34. No Diggity

OK, Brian may have thwarted my plans by getting married this off-season, but I still have hope. (Hey, this weekend, Becca’s iPhone Magic 8 Ball told me I’d still marry him! It must be true!) So obviously I was interested to this article in today’s Post about baseball wives. Specifically, wives of Nationals players. For all that I enjoy watching ballgames, I’m also really interested in that sort of “behind the scenes” story. I love reading about the planning involved in road trips, and what players do during the day. It’s just fascinating. I never thought about how much the wives would move as their husbands shuttle between the minors and the majors. I’d think that if they had kids, the families would just stay put somewhere.

But what do I know? (I’d totally be willing to learn! Reserve Oriole Boyfriend Brian [Robert!] Matusz, call me!)

Did you know that even though we refer to him a lot as “Farmer Ted,” Anthony Michael Hall’s character in Sixteen Candles was officially “The Geek”? That popped into my mind when I read an article about girl geeks on Jezebel. It made me think about different types of geeks. (And David Tennant.)

For example, why is it more socially acceptable to know random trivia about baseball (e.g., name the starting lineup of the 1961 Yankees) than to know random trivia about the Civil War or Star Trek or role-playing games? And there really are so many types of geeks about there, it’s hard to lump us all together.

I did like the notion that being a geek doesn’t make you superior. I understand that the sense of superiority comes from being pushed down or ignored in school–it’s a defense mechanism, the “When we’re older, they’ll see!” thought. But, as Ronnie on Big Brother this summer showed us, being a geek doesn’t make a person smart, much less better than anyone else. (Though he would disagree.) Because you know what? Being geeky about sports isn’t inferior to being a geek about more traditionally geeky things.

…You know, I meant to be more put together here, have more of a thesis. But then I started searches for David Tennant pictures, and it was all just downhill from there.