Me = Awesome
Sometimes I rock. Today I feel pretty good about things. I'm in a bragging-for-the-bio kind of mood.
This started with the news last week that I was a finalist for AAN's Best Music Column, circulation less than 50,000. Last year I won the award, this year I am again a finalist. That's cool and all, but what if I won again? I'd start wondering about the validity of the award...anyhow, awards are the kind of thing that you should appreciate on a professional level (you can get milage out of them if you play your cards right) but disregard on a personal level. I try not to let this stuff go to my head...after all, who has even heard of the AAN awards?
But then, today, I got an email from Houhgton Mifflin requesting me to give permission for my Peanut Butter Buckeyes recipe to be included in the "Best American Recipes 2005-2006" anthology. I get $100 and a copy of the cookbook, all for doing nothing. That's cool, I like it when work you've done in the past gets resurrected and given this second life.
So here's my new bio. Actually, let's pretend this is me and Joe's wedding announcement that will appear in the Marietta Times.
Sara Bir wed Joe Ryckebosch in an intimate ceremony in the scenic hills of Berkeley, California on the afternoon of August 13.
The bride is a 1994 graduate of Marietta High School and a 1999 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. She is currently a marketing assistant and recipe developer at Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, the one of the world's premier chocolate manufacturers. Sara is also an award-winning music journalist and media critic (the coule met when she was on assignment to interview his band). She performs frequently at readings throughout the San Francisco Bay area. Sara's recipe for Peanut Butter Buckeyes will be included in Houghton Mifflin's "Best American Recipes 2005-2006", to be published this October. She knows this lady whose son directed Heathers, and another who had an affair with Mark Rothko. Sara also once interviewed Art Garfunkel.
The groom is a 198? graduate of Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California and a 1999 graduate of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In his early 20s, after being discovered by renegade skater/artist Ed Tempelton, Joe skateboarded professionally and was sponsored by Channel One and New Deal skates. He is currenty a discovery assistant at a high-profile law firm in Berkeley, California. Joe plays drums in the touring rock band The Rum Diary, who have recently completed mixing their third album with Tim Mooney of the band American Music Club and Pal Jenkins of the Black Heart Procession. The Rum Diary has opened for the likes of The Decemberists, Pinback, and Sahara Hotnights. Additionally, Joe is a visual artist whose work graces walls from California to New York.
After honeymooning in Turkey, the couple plan to reside in Albany, California.
This started with the news last week that I was a finalist for AAN's Best Music Column, circulation less than 50,000. Last year I won the award, this year I am again a finalist. That's cool and all, but what if I won again? I'd start wondering about the validity of the award...anyhow, awards are the kind of thing that you should appreciate on a professional level (you can get milage out of them if you play your cards right) but disregard on a personal level. I try not to let this stuff go to my head...after all, who has even heard of the AAN awards?
But then, today, I got an email from Houhgton Mifflin requesting me to give permission for my Peanut Butter Buckeyes recipe to be included in the "Best American Recipes 2005-2006" anthology. I get $100 and a copy of the cookbook, all for doing nothing. That's cool, I like it when work you've done in the past gets resurrected and given this second life.
So here's my new bio. Actually, let's pretend this is me and Joe's wedding announcement that will appear in the Marietta Times.
Sara Bir wed Joe Ryckebosch in an intimate ceremony in the scenic hills of Berkeley, California on the afternoon of August 13.
The bride is a 1994 graduate of Marietta High School and a 1999 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. She is currently a marketing assistant and recipe developer at Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, the one of the world's premier chocolate manufacturers. Sara is also an award-winning music journalist and media critic (the coule met when she was on assignment to interview his band). She performs frequently at readings throughout the San Francisco Bay area. Sara's recipe for Peanut Butter Buckeyes will be included in Houghton Mifflin's "Best American Recipes 2005-2006", to be published this October. She knows this lady whose son directed Heathers, and another who had an affair with Mark Rothko. Sara also once interviewed Art Garfunkel.
The groom is a 198? graduate of Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, California and a 1999 graduate of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In his early 20s, after being discovered by renegade skater/artist Ed Tempelton, Joe skateboarded professionally and was sponsored by Channel One and New Deal skates. He is currenty a discovery assistant at a high-profile law firm in Berkeley, California. Joe plays drums in the touring rock band The Rum Diary, who have recently completed mixing their third album with Tim Mooney of the band American Music Club and Pal Jenkins of the Black Heart Procession. The Rum Diary has opened for the likes of The Decemberists, Pinback, and Sahara Hotnights. Additionally, Joe is a visual artist whose work graces walls from California to New York.
After honeymooning in Turkey, the couple plan to reside in Albany, California.
posted by Lefty at 2:41 PM
1 Comments:
Hahaha...what the heck? Well, I really graduated from high school in 1990 (I'm not THAT old!), and I skateboarded, yes, and was sponsored by Channel One, but never Professional, just amateur. I like the bio. I like that we will be honeymooning in Turkey, that's news to me!
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