All the cool kids seem to be doing one of those “Top 20 Albums which Changed Your Life” Meme.  Pretty straightforward: you put down a list of… well, 20 albums which changed your life.  Oh — and then you have to tag 128 of your friends and demand they do the same. I want to [...]

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According to my WordPress installation, this is post number 200 on Shiny’s Takeout. Which, in my opinion, isn’t so bad:  my first post appeared on March 11 of last year, meaning that I’ve blogged 200 times here in 333 days. That’s  a ratio of about 3 blog posts for every five days –certainly a far [...]

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Sorry I haven’t blogged lately, blah blah blah. Due to a lack of creativity, I’m stealing this meme that’s been going around — and, in my usual flavor, I’ll be a smart-ass about it. UPDATE: I’m re-posting this because I realized that some of you thought that the lyrics posted were actually fabricated by me. [...]

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Because I’m incredibly unoriginal, I’m stealing this meme from Avitable among others: I’m going to post Entertainment Weekly’s Top 100 movies of the past 25 years and boldface the ones I’ve seen. However, since I’m slightly original and kind of a douche, I’m going to add a twist: next to each of the movies I’ve [...]

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Thank you. I’m serious, guys. Thank you. For all that you’ve done here. For reading. For replying. For being supportive. For being critical. For agreeing with me. For disagreeing with me. For laughing. For groaning. For both getting it and not getting it. For discoverng my blog for the first time, and for returning additional [...]

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Call me unoriginal, call me a joiner… … and some of you are probably groaning. Shiny, I thought you were above such standardized memes! Haven’t you already done something like this anyway? Of course, you folks are probably referring to a similar meme in which questions are asked and the answers are queried through Google [...]

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Why a repeat post? Well, I’ll be totally honest: since TequilaCon ’08, the traffic on my blog has gone through the roof. Thank you all for reading and commenting. And I apologize for taking a long time to get back to you all in the comments, but I assure you that I will continue to [...]

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I was “tagged” by the lovely Turnbaby today. Yes. that Turnbaby. The one whose BlogTalkRadio show, Turnbaby Talks, will be on tomorrow (Sunday) night at 8pm EDT. I advise you to log in and wait at your computers for 20 hours until it comes on. This is a meme. I know I promised myself I [...]

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I’ve been blogging at Shiny’s Takeout for slightly under two weeks now. This comes on the heels of my old (and still existing) blog, Shiny @ Mindsay, which I’ve had for the past few years. But this is a new community. New readership (albeit not nearly as many folks reading this one quite yet). I [...]

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