It all started with Blog Paul. He shamelessly asked me to promote his blog through one of my own blog posts. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to do it again and again. Soon everyone wanted to Get Blogged by Terri. (Some of them didn’t even know they wanted to get blogged!)
I don’t do these as often as I’d like to anymore. It takes time (time that I often don’t have enough of) to get a feel for someone’s style and personality enough to write about them. So I make no promises. But feel free to introduce yourself here if you’d like. And you never know. Someday, you may get blogged by me!
In the meantime, please allow me to introduce you to some of my favorite bloggers:
I’m Alway Mentally on Vacation and this Makes Some Folks Mad
territerri
33 Comments
March 15, 2009 at 11:44 am
Check out davethecandleguy.wordpress.com
March 29, 2009 at 11:32 am
I wanna be blogged by you just you yes you nobody but youuuuuuuuu.. oops sorry
Im searching for hairstyles in 1976 for my Aveda class project(yes Im goin to school eeks at 54) and viola’ up you came. I so loved your pics from back then and wanted to say howdy
I think youre way cool
you can check out http://www.myspace.com /bluessingerr
to see who’s yappin at cha. my music site is my num one friend.. ahhh what a wacky world eh sister? who woulda thunk it. gag what a saying.. but Im doin impersonations right now.. that was a hip person who idnt so hip. NOw Ill be a jewish woman. yes you are correct Im wacky
peace and love and backyard BBq’s. thanks for posting your blogs. You are way cool(that was me no impersonations..)hehhe
sara
April 6, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Terri…Terri…. I actually stumbled onto your blog from mine…. and I’ve been reading… can’t stop….
will certainly add a link from mine to yours, if you don’t mind…
May 9, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Terri,
Just started my blog. Love to have you connect to mine.
Sam
May 12, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I like this blog. Its honest, and its funny. Good job.
If you are looking for new reading material, pop on over to rosieandthebutcher.com
May 15, 2009 at 10:33 am
I’d love to get blogged by a stranger! Check out my new blog at http://www.bodytalkguelph.com. I can understand your addiction…
May 24, 2009 at 9:02 pm
The name of your blog caught my eye and I started reading and couldn’t stop. Cant wait to read more.
May 28, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Always up for a good blogging and damn the consequences! Did Spartacus fear the mighty bloggers of Rome? Did Vercingetorix, or Boudicca? I think not…
http://docflamingo.wordpress.com/
June 20, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Someone “clicked” from my blog to yours. I “followed the white rabbit” just to see where it went.
Darn, I have so much to get done today I won’t have time to stick around and “explore”.
Later
June 22, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Hi Terri,
Thanks for your time and comments on my blog and I was happy to learn your interest in reading.
If you find my blog a good one, I will be more than happy if you can add me to your blogroll or recommend me.
Recently I have added some more articles and will be happy if you pay a small visit.
Thanks
Sajid
http://husainsajid2000.wordpress.com
June 25, 2009 at 7:54 am
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July 13, 2009 at 4:12 am
I’ll give this a shot. Check us out as well. I stumbled upon your blog by clicking on the “possibly related” message that shows after you create a new post. This is the first time I’ve clicked on that thing lol.
July 15, 2009 at 9:39 am
Hilarious blog
July 23, 2009 at 7:54 am
Hello, Terri!
I “found” you about a year ago when you and your father were going through the transplant process and have been a loyal reader ever since. I just started my first blog a couple of week ago. It’s still finding its sense of identity. I would be honored if you would stop by and visit.
Thanks.
Mike in Savannah aka The Poolman
http://anotherbeautifulday.wordpress.com
August 5, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hi Terri, I’ve only been blogging a month and have had 446 visits as of this morning. Is that a good start? My “Cowboy Boots” poem listed you as a “possibly related post”. I’d love to list you on a blogroll…my first site on the list and would love to have you list me on yours if you visit my site and like my writing. I’m an ol’ granny wanna be (no actual living g’kids) just musing about life. I have no idea how to set up a blogroll. Do you have time to point me in the right direction? Attic Annie
August 6, 2009 at 2:04 am
Hi Terri* Love your spunk, wit & openess. Me? New in these parts & my one & only ever blog is new yesterday with 1 (yes, count ‘em) only posts so far.
Will list you on my blogroll too (as soon as I figure that one out that is).
Thanks much here, Shanti
August 12, 2009 at 3:09 am
Loved your blog, Its a whopper too! I only have a little one but I use it quite well!
http://lukespad.wordpress.com/
August 13, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Dear Terri:
I’m 82 and still Liberal as my blog will attest. I forget, at times, there are good people in the world and must congratulate you, somewhat belatedly, for your actions.
My URL is: http://warrenlanger.wordpress.com
I “enclose” my current blog entry.
Withering on the sports vine
As a modestly active sports guy in a relatively inactive life I bow to nobody when it comes to actively participating in Sports TV.
I watch the Florida Marlins with a religious fervor that would do Martin Luther proud particularly if he played second base.
The Marlins have won five in a row; first taking three from the Phillies and the last two from Houston. They came back last night from a 6-2 score to win in the 11th 9-8.
I’ve seen The Babe play in a War Bond Game at Yankee Stadium hitting against Walter Johnson. The Absolute Best playing the Absolute Best. Babe missed a few and then hit one into the right field bleachers. The applause was deafening and the happiest guy in the place was The Babe rounding the bases slowly.
I grew up in the Bronx and watched Lou and Joe, King Kong Keller, Old Reliable Tommy Henrich, Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon, George Selkirk, Charley Ruffing and Lefty Gomez.
Phil Rizzuto and Yogi and Hank Bauer, Whitey Ford and Vic Raschi.
Pretty good teams.
A college friend worked for Esquire and the magazine had season tickets for the Giants in 1950 when Mr. Mays came along.
Even then you knew something great was with us.
I walk with a cane these days, not in the greatest of shape, and far from the me that chopped wood to heat a Pennsylvania house.
I was once a so-so runner and even less as a basketball player.
I loved basketball, played the gunner role and didn’t know what defense was. It was so long ago plenty of us shot fouls underhand.
A kid I grow up with played for the CCNY team that threw games and lit the fire for the first real basketball scandal. I like to think he wasn’t good enough to be bribed.
Dolph Schayes was a neighborhood kid and he played for NYU and the Syracuse Nationals. He’s in the National Basketball Association Hall of Fame.
It’s good to have memories and yesterday for reasons unknown several came rushing back.
I went through Navy Air basic training in Memphis.
Two weeks on the parallel bars, two weeks on the rings, two weeks learning how to box.
I became as good a boxer as I was a basketball player. In short – not much.
Our teacher was a former Welterweight Champ of the World.
Tommy Freeman. Won the title in Cleveland from Young Jack Thompson. September 5, 1930. He won on points after 15 rounds.
He lost the title in Cleveland to Young Jack Thompson on a TKO in the 12th round. April 14, 1931.
By the time I knew him (and I didn’t) he was in the heavyweight class, slow but nimble. He made us all look like fools.
I learned a little, not enough to do anyone any harm but maybe I trapped a little internal fear.
I checked Tommy Freeman’s record yesterday. He had 219 fights, won 176, lost 20 and drew 22 times.
Fighters fought in those days. Tommy Freeman boxed 1722 professional rounds, won knockouts 36.99% of the time.
219 fights. They don’t do that any more. 25 fights these days is a career.
Google put me on to something that had his entire record.
Most of the names were meaningless to me but then I saw that he boxed Canada Lee twice and won twice.
Canada Lee. A former jockey, a former this and that, so-so boxer and finally an actor working with and for Orson Welle’s Federal Theatre Project.
He played Bigger Thomson in Richard Wright’s Native Son, had a seaman’s role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and journeyed to South Africa with Sidney Poitier to be in Cry the Beloved Country.
He had a boxing role in John Garfield’s boxing film, Body and Soul.
He was one of the first black actors to crack Hollywood, no mean feat in pre-Obama days. He befriended Paul Robeson during difficult times and was supposed to out the great Rutgers football player, singer/actor as a Communist.
He didn’t.
The circle keeps going.
Poitier’s big breakout role was as one of the unruly students in Evan Hunter’s Blackboard Jungle.
Evan went to Hunter College after World War II when previously all-girl Hunter started to accept men.
He started life as Salvatore Lumbino and, so the story goes, took the name Evan Hunter because he liked the names Evan and Hunter. Most of us put two and two together after learning he had attended EVANder Childs High School and Hunter College.
And I always thought I had a great outside shot.
So one day I’m up at a friend’s place on Bainbridge Avenue in the Northern Bronx. Evan is there along with assorted friends. He had a black notebook used by public school students everywhere in which resided a handwritten draft of Blackboard Jungle. I read it, told him it was wonderful but thought it lacked character and depth.
It was, of course, an instant success and Evan went on to another name, Ed McBain, to write very, very good detective stories. He also wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock’s The Birds.
And befriended me as a struggling writer in the late 1950s.
Editorial note. The reason I wasn’t crazy about this first draft of BJ is that a friend from college, Charley Pritchard had been at Normandy June 6, 1944 and written a book I thought was destined to be one of the great ones.
It was never published.
One night Evan, Allan Kurtzman, who later became president o Max Factor and Neutrogena and I went to the Poe Cozy Nook for a few drinks.
We had several more than a few and I ultimately found myself in bed surrounded by (there’s no way to hide this) vomit.
A night to recall with pride.
.
My days of running, basketball and chopping wood to heat a house are long gone.
I mean LONG GONE since sounds associated with my presence now include a cane thumping merrily along.
Like everybody else in the world I am chair-bound to NFL football and cherish visions of Unitas & Co, Franco Harris, Bobby Layne and Mr. Butkus a fellow alumnus of football ineptness at the U. of Illinois.
I can’t say I will watch everything because that’s far from the truth. Mixed Martial Arts reminds me of Sarah Palin and Lacrosse leaves me cross.
I don’t like Nascar but I do like Car Auctions where I keep hoping they will slide into the Sales Slot a 1965 Austin Healy Sprite.
Naturally enough we once owned one purchased in Christmas, Florida.
I don’t care for trucks bumbling along and hunting for elk in the high mountains makes me wish for a martini which I can no longer have.
I enjoy the fishing shows but nobody seems to pursue pickerels as I once did for two long ago summers.
I enjoy Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright and immensely dislike hockey: ice and roller.
The world may love soccer but I don’t.
Allan Kurtzman and Evan Hunter are no longer with us. Neither is Tommy Freeman, but Mr. Poitier is still, maybe, coming to dinner.
Where is this going? Right to the top.
WITHERING HEIGHTS.
August 22, 2009 at 1:42 pm
It’s been a while Teri since I’ve stopped by, and though I think I’ve said something before, I’ll say it again here (just in case my memory is going), I’d love to get Blogged By Teri, if it is that you are still doing them. I hope you’ve been enjoying my Corner of the world when you drop by.
August 22, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Would you be so kind as to blog me Terri? I read your blog and loved it, very funny and well written. I too get angry at day to day things, so I write all my anger on a comedy blog now so as not to beat my ‘lovely’ family to within an inch of their lives… it seems to work for us!
http://naughtynessie.wordpress.com
I thank you
Ness
August 27, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Check out anteaterr.wordpress.com
September 15, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Read my blog..help me save a life.
October 13, 2009 at 9:12 am
I’d also love to get blogged by you. (Sounds like I’m a blog slut, doesn’t it?) You’re not my age yet, but let me tell you — it’s coming. And it’s wonderful. My blog is called The Newfangled Gramma (www.margiereinssmith.weebly.com) and it’s a mixture of essays about grandchildren, reviews of books I’ve read recently and musings on retirement and the ageing process. I recently retired after a 19-year career as a journalist. I also do my own blog photos.
October 20, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hey Terri,
Saw that you dropped by. Good to see your name on there ! How are things with your long lost friend ? I am having a hard time with friendships in general right now. Who woulda thunk it ? Isn’t it supposed to be easier when you are a grown up ? Isnt that why we trade beauty for wrinkles ? So that we gain wisdom ?? Where is mine ? Have you found yours ? The blog is rosieandthebutcher.com
October 20, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Terri,
The interweaving tubes of the internet have led me to your proverbial doorstep. I follow one of my friends blogs (mentioned above as luckyfuck.wordpress.com Apologies for the crudeness). Each blog he writes winds up directing pedestrians of the internet to your blog, which I find quite humorous in that it keeps happening. I am positive that it is not reciprocal so I just wanted to let you know that the mysterious forces of the internet are gravitating people towards you.
Cheers
October 22, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I just discovered your blog through mine. Serendipity?
You’re funny!
I think I’m gonna propose…
Imagine me down on my knees as I say to you:
“I’m not a one-night-blog gal. I’m into long term relationship. Would you, Teri, take this blog ONE MORE BITE (http://agablack.wordpress.com/) and put it on your page as a symbol of everlasting fun, health, wealth, and mutual respect? I promise to reciprocate with equal loyalty, support, and always fresh recipes as long as I shall write.”
Yours trully,
Agi
October 22, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Terri with a double R (I’m so sorry!), you’ve made my day! Thank you! And know you’ve also become a part of my blogroll family. Cheers to US!
xoxo
Agi
October 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Terri,
Zac, from LuckyFuck. Thanks for reading! A friend told me he was referring you. I’m glad you dug it. Also I just changed the name of the blog to Digitaldonjuan.wordpress.com so it could be read at work. I’ll prolly just keep them both up.
October 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Oh and I’m just starting to read yours, great stuff dear!
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October 25, 2009 at 8:24 am
Interesting and enjoyable blog, Not sure I would be the right candidate for a blogging sounds like it could be painfull Ha Ha.
November 8, 2009 at 11:58 pm
What a fun blog! You can blog me any time – could be interesting for both of us … check out oncaseren.wordpress if you’d like …
November 28, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Hi Terri!
I just came across your blog and really enjoyed it! Thank you for putting yourself and your heart out there for all of us: ) You’re one of my favorite bloggers I’ve come across, and I hope to return the favor~
Best,
Ellen