There's a new meme out - you take the first sentence of the first blog post of every month of the current year - a somewhat random sample of 2006 and perhaps discover an overall pattern within one's blog posts and then ergo one's blog. And even though I wasn't tagged I thought I'd give it a try. I cheated a little and included the first few sentences or paragraph if it made sense.

January 4 -

Fear was the defining feature of the New School of Propoganda, first developed in the early 21st century.

February 3 -

We haven't had a good dose of Fresh Hell lately, thus, it should be rectified.

March 1 -

It's an unfair fact of life that women who work in "beauty industries", while not entirely exonerated from creating and perpetuating the media myths about the way women should look, are as much as if not more at the mercy of those same myths.

April 4 -

Another whirlwind of activity way away from the blog, and very little inspiration is left in its wake. Yet, there are still a few gems

May 5 -

Buying a car on ebay- seriously, this happened to a member of my family. This man has a habit of putting incredibly low bids on cars he'd like to own, hoping all the while (and trusting) that a much crazier person places a higher bid and wins the auction. Well, the highest bid was his and the car now must be bought. (This is not Mr. Fresh Hell, by the way - he'd be pulverized by a meat tenderizer if he played that kind of game.)

June 6 -

When I was younger I thought I was a fair judge of popular culture - the things that I thought were fairly cool also popped up on others' radar.

July 6 -

I have been working on some future posts but have also been mucho distracted-o by the highly engaging World Cup. It's been great fun to follow and hopefully, "les vieux"*** will prevail and France will win

August 7 -

I'm back - just returned from Algeria last night. We had a lot of fun and I have so many adventures to relate. Jet lag and I are currently best buddies, so I'll post more as the week progresses.

September 5 -

Right now I feel like a bubbling inchoate mass of anger directed towards the current Administration - the mess! It never ends! And I find myself asking the age old question, "Who's going to clean this up?".

October 3 -

As I can't for the life of me think of anything witty or interesting to write, I decided to render the last few dramatic weeks in a series of haiku.

November 1 -

Some years ago, Cupcake Emeritus' wife contracted cancer.

December 7 -

In no order of importance, memory reliability, and with names/identifying details mercifully kept anonymous unless it was something I actually did, which I have no trouble confessing, here is a random sampling of Office Holiday Parties Past.

No huge pattern to report, other than my fondness for haiku, interest in travel, my near pathological dislike of cleaning, various episodes of writers block, some topical outrage and a Cupcake.

Which pretty much sums up 2006 for this blog.