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manningkrull blogged awhile back about things he was into before everyone else was (cause he's cool) and then admitted to jumping on the bandwagon for stuff that even toddlers knew about before he did. So I thought it would be fun (or ya know, embarassing) for me (AND you) to post a list of stuff we were all into before the masses caught on and made it lame -- and the stuff that took us forever to get into.
I'll go first:
THINGS I DID BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE WAS WAY INTO IT:
Navel ring: (1991) Yeah you heard right. I got it right after high school when it was all alternative and modern primitive like. BEFORE all the drunk sorority girls and porn stars decided to get them. And I got it at a place that had been doing piercing in Denver for a decade before that. So it was legit. I got a tattoo a month later -- of Lucifer! How Goth am I!?
Death Rocker/Goth: (1987) I was the only Death Rocker at my school. There was no Goth yet. Nope. I dressed in all black ALL the time, modelling myself as a cross between Siouxsie and Wednesday Addams. I wore vintage widow wear, Cleopatra eyes and really badly crimped hair to try to straighten out my Italian curls in vain. I would import punk rags from my British pen pals in the hopes of finding my new look so I would be even more legit. To my parents complete disgust one day I wallpapered my bedroom (including the ceiling) with black trashbags and cheap black fabric, hung glow-in-the-dark bats and a constellation globe from the ceiling, stapled fabric red roses to the wall, and hung posters from Bauhaus, The Cult, Love & Rockets and Bowie. I listened to ONLY Xymox and Japan and Bauhaus and the usual Gothy folks. I burned incense and my closet was a black hole of black t-shirts, pants, skirts, fishnets, vintage dresses, corsets, and hats from the 20s. I also wrote (and published thankyouverymuch) really bad Goth poetry about suicide and vampires and full moons and deep stuff. My brother used to tell people I was an exchange student. And here's the ugly proof. Beat that.
Bettie Page: (1991) Before her image could be found on everyone's tshirts, records, tats, posters, Zippos -- I was into her and LOOKING like her. I wrote my first freelance article about my search for her (Before she was found). I started The Bettie Page fan site before there were any other sites online of her AND I used to enter lookalike contests of her in college. So there.
Video Podcasting and Blogging: (1996) Yup I've been blogging in Grrl.com for years before the term was coined, then I wrote a book about blogging in 2004. I had to explain what a blog even was to everyone I knew. Now they're everywhere. And I did Podcasting for Excite@Home called "Ask Bonnie" -- which I'll be reposting on Grrl.com for you all to laugh at real soon. Oh yeah, i was trailblazin all over the place. I also would like to say I coined the term grrl -- but I don't want a bunch of people saying I didn't just because they saw it somewhere else -- so I'll just let that one go. But I did. *neener neener.*
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STUFF I WAS LAST ON THE BOAT FOR:
Livejournal: (2004) Shutup. Quit laughing. Look I was blogging on Grrl.com, then in addition to that YouGrowGirl.com, Backwash.com, Teenwire.com, and a myriad of other places and I was spreading myself waaaay too thin. But then my pal Andy said -- ya know you can actually MEET really cool people on Livejournal. And I didn't believe him. I thought Livejournal was for whiny teens who listened to Simple Plan and wrote slash fiction involving Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. It wasn't until I went to Tanya's Halloween Bowling bash in 2004 of all their Livejournal buddies that had me believin LJ was cool. Plus there were cute boys with tattoos and piercings and they were interesting and not gloom-doom-drama. So in my shallow attempt for acceptance I caved. And I'm glad I did. Now I'm addicted to this freakin place. Thanks a lot.
"Lost" (2005): I didn't get into this really until second season. So I started watching second season and said -- "what in the....!?" and had to immediately rent the 1st season to get IT. Now I'm hooked. It's all I talk about EVER. I'm even more annoying than I was a year ago. dang.
iPod: I still don't own one. And one of my best friends WORKS on the iPod team at Apple. Man, I suck.
Flossing (2004): I fucking hate the dentist. And I hate how he always makes you feel like you've been caught masturbating to Menudo videos when you admit to not flossing. So on a whim I decided to start flossing...like all the time. Wow. It really does help your teeth. Now I'm compulsive. I floss all the time. Even when I don't have to. Even when it's not appropriate like at my desk at work, at the gym, in meetings, while driving, on first dates. Who am I kidding? I don't date.
manningkrull blogged awhile back about things he was into before everyone else was (cause he's cool) and then admitted to jumping on the bandwagon for stuff that even toddlers knew about before he did. So I thought it would be fun (or ya know, embarassing) for me (AND you) to post a list of stuff we were all into before the masses caught on and made it lame -- and the stuff that took us forever to get into.I'll go first:
THINGS I DID BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE WAS WAY INTO IT:
Navel ring: (1991) Yeah you heard right. I got it right after high school when it was all alternative and modern primitive like. BEFORE all the drunk sorority girls and porn stars decided to get them. And I got it at a place that had been doing piercing in Denver for a decade before that. So it was legit. I got a tattoo a month later -- of Lucifer! How Goth am I!?
Death Rocker/Goth: (1987) I was the only Death Rocker at my school. There was no Goth yet. Nope. I dressed in all black ALL the time, modelling myself as a cross between Siouxsie and Wednesday Addams. I wore vintage widow wear, Cleopatra eyes and really badly crimped hair to try to straighten out my Italian curls in vain. I would import punk rags from my British pen pals in the hopes of finding my new look so I would be even more legit. To my parents complete disgust one day I wallpapered my bedroom (including the ceiling) with black trashbags and cheap black fabric, hung glow-in-the-dark bats and a constellation globe from the ceiling, stapled fabric red roses to the wall, and hung posters from Bauhaus, The Cult, Love & Rockets and Bowie. I listened to ONLY Xymox and Japan and Bauhaus and the usual Gothy folks. I burned incense and my closet was a black hole of black t-shirts, pants, skirts, fishnets, vintage dresses, corsets, and hats from the 20s. I also wrote (and published thankyouverymuch) really bad Goth poetry about suicide and vampires and full moons and deep stuff. My brother used to tell people I was an exchange student. And here's the ugly proof. Beat that.
Bettie Page: (1991) Before her image could be found on everyone's tshirts, records, tats, posters, Zippos -- I was into her and LOOKING like her. I wrote my first freelance article about my search for her (Before she was found). I started The Bettie Page fan site before there were any other sites online of her AND I used to enter lookalike contests of her in college. So there.
Video Podcasting and Blogging: (1996) Yup I've been blogging in Grrl.com for years before the term was coined, then I wrote a book about blogging in 2004. I had to explain what a blog even was to everyone I knew. Now they're everywhere. And I did Podcasting for Excite@Home called "Ask Bonnie" -- which I'll be reposting on Grrl.com for you all to laugh at real soon. Oh yeah, i was trailblazin all over the place. I also would like to say I coined the term grrl -- but I don't want a bunch of people saying I didn't just because they saw it somewhere else -- so I'll just let that one go. But I did. *neener neener.*
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STUFF I WAS LAST ON THE BOAT FOR:
Livejournal: (2004) Shutup. Quit laughing. Look I was blogging on Grrl.com, then in addition to that YouGrowGirl.com, Backwash.com, Teenwire.com, and a myriad of other places and I was spreading myself waaaay too thin. But then my pal Andy said -- ya know you can actually MEET really cool people on Livejournal. And I didn't believe him. I thought Livejournal was for whiny teens who listened to Simple Plan and wrote slash fiction involving Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp. It wasn't until I went to Tanya's Halloween Bowling bash in 2004 of all their Livejournal buddies that had me believin LJ was cool. Plus there were cute boys with tattoos and piercings and they were interesting and not gloom-doom-drama. So in my shallow attempt for acceptance I caved. And I'm glad I did. Now I'm addicted to this freakin place. Thanks a lot.
"Lost" (2005): I didn't get into this really until second season. So I started watching second season and said -- "what in the....!?" and had to immediately rent the 1st season to get IT. Now I'm hooked. It's all I talk about EVER. I'm even more annoying than I was a year ago. dang.
iPod: I still don't own one. And one of my best friends WORKS on the iPod team at Apple. Man, I suck.
Flossing (2004): I fucking hate the dentist. And I hate how he always makes you feel like you've been caught masturbating to Menudo videos when you admit to not flossing. So on a whim I decided to start flossing...like all the time. Wow. It really does help your teeth. Now I'm compulsive. I floss all the time. Even when I don't have to. Even when it's not appropriate like at my desk at work, at the gym, in meetings, while driving, on first dates. Who am I kidding? I don't date.
