Gimme some blog love

Exciting news: I’m one of 60 finalists for a head blogging job at I Am A Super Woman, an online community for women founded by Alicia Keys!

Being considered for this job is hugely exciting for a few reasons. One being “OhmygodAliciaKeys! GirlIloveher!” (Sorry. Excited. Hugely). Another being that I’d be able to be a professional blogger and help launch a web property with an empowering mission I believe in. Yet another being that I’d get to travel for work.

I appreciate all the support and encouragement you’ve given me over the years, and guess what? I’m going to ask for more.

Please check out my profile. If you could also rate and comment on my first blog post, I’d be so very grateful.

Gimme some blog love

Mama don’t preach

I don’t know when it started, but at some point in what is still my relatively young adulthood, I decided I didn’t want children of my own.

I’ve been told I’ll snap out of it as I mature, as all my friends start settling down, as I get comfortable in my career and self enough to think, “I want more.”

I’m doubtful.

Mama don’t preach

Facebook is a stupid idiot

I love me some tunes about the inanity of social media.

Remember “Are You Fucking Kidding Me (The Facebook Song)” by Kate Miller-Heidke? I got to hear it live when I saw Miller-Heidke open for Ben Folds last month. It brought the house down.
Facebook is a stupid idiot

Heart’s a clutter

Feeling inspired by a book I’m reading, I decided to organize the drawer in my living room/home office where I store my weekly to-do lists and old calendars.

I found this jotted down on my list for the week of September 15, 2008:

Put your arms around me and squeeze me like a book deal will come out of my ass. You have everything, and I want it.

Heart’s a clutter

They dance NY

dancenyc

Dancers Among Us is a collection of photographs featuring members of the Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, and Martha Graham Dance Companies dancing their way through NYC.

These photographs were taken without the assistance of trampolines, wires, or other tools.

They dance NY

Zone out with your poem out

It’s Poem in Your Pocket Day!

I couldn’t forget about you. (Please excuse the poor editing).

Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day! from Amanda Green on Vimeo.

Zone out with your poem out

If my blog existed in 1996

You’re going to cringe in remembrance.

If Noisiest Passenger existed in 1996, courtesy of Jeremy.

What’s worse - MIDI files or Alanis Morissette misusing the word “ironic”?

If my blog existed in 1996

Tonight the role of the heterosexual towel will be played by…

My friend Jim is a longtime actor who’s been transitioning to voice-overs. I love hearing about his auditions.

Jim talks about his audition from Amanda Green on Vimeo.

Tonight the role of the heterosexual towel will be played by…

Subway etiquette posters

NYC artist jayshells has created these subway etiquette posters and is putting them up in subways now.

subwaynails

Subway etiquette posters

Love on a shelf

mowerbaby

A story I wrote about my dad is published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad. It hits bookstores today.

The lawnmower man and I are on page 97.

Love on a shelf