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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: Let’s Talk About Monsters!

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Yes the Mic Will Be on Tonight

Join Us Tonight

We’re Talking about Monsters and Monstrosities!

They’re in literature and cinema, medicine, criminology, and theology. Let’s start with Shrek, Dracula, Freddy Krueger, Godzilla, King Kong, and the Alien. And then there are monster trucks, monster sundaes, and monster burgers – and anything else that comes up.

Oh, and bring a link about monsters to share, if you have one.

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Thanks to Week 82 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank every one of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

We Talked about Being Home, Sweet, Home

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Be It Ever SO Humble

Yep we’re back and with our very own pillows . . . even if it’s only for a moment. We know how important having a place to call our own is. Gosh it’s great to have one. Though many of us were gone to Chicago for the weekend or to other places, we sure had lots of reasons to be glad to be in our own spaces.

It was a busy night. We were talking about being home.

You can read all about it in the The Mic Is On: We’re Happy to Be Home comments.

Here are some cool links we shared.

Thanks to everyone for the cool links and for being part of the conversation.

See you next Tuesday? I sure hope so.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?

WANT TO GUEST HOST AN OPEN COMMENT NIGHT WITH ME? PICK A THEME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT. C’MON IT’LL BE FUN!

The Mic Is On: We’re Happy to be Home . . .

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

The Mic Is On

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Let’s Talk About the Joys of Being Home!

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What do we miss when we’re away . . . and how do we feel when we “get back home.” What makes it “home”?

Here’s a few ideas to get us started:

  • our own house, apt, condo
  • our own bed, alarm clock
  • our own chair
  • our own kitchen, cooking
  • our own bathroom, bathtub, shower, hot tub
  • our own family, friends, pets
  • our own back yard, deck
  • our own computer, telephone, TV
  • our own car, transportation
  • our own routine

And, whatever else comes up, including THE EVER POPULAR, Basil the code-writing donkey.

Oh, and bring a link, if you have one to share.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: Let’s Talk About Home!

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Yes the Mic Will Be on Tonight

Join Us Tonight

We’re Talking about the Joys of Being Home!

We can talk about how we feel when we get back home . . . our own house, computer, back yard, bed, bathroom, kitchen, family, car, alarm clock, food, and anything else that comes up.

Oh, and bring a link about home to share, if you have one.

The rules are simple — be nice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?

Thanks to Week 81 SOBs

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Finally!

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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Fit for Freedom

They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank every one of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

deep purple strip

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss