Adam in KC: adamtruax.com

Remember how during the Thunderdome Beach Diet, reference was made to a CRAZY Ten who'd be doing $3/day for a month?!?

Well, here he is. And here's his blog!

I am from Kansas City, and started listening to TBTL about 2 weeks ago. [This email was sent in February, so it's now been a little longer than that. -Ed.] Since then I time bandit the show from the night before while I am working in the morning and usually listen to one random show in the afternoon. I can't think of a better way to pass the time at work. For fun I volunteer with middle school and high school students, they tend to keep me pretty busy. Oh and I love the KC Royals, even though they are horrible.

I am also on Twitter at www.twitter.com/adamtruax

Adam's Thunderdome Beach exploits are also documented on his blog, as are my comments exhorting him to EAT VEGETABLES.

TBTL is mom impersonators.

Nick from the Kansas City Area: Le Suerg

Today's 10blog is from Nick in Kansas ("from the Kansas City area, specifically"):

My blog is “Le Suerg” at http://lesuerg.blogspot.com/. It’s a fairly generic blog, containing links to my favorite web gems, writings about other stuff that I like, and generally a lot of navel-gazing, but I like to think that it’s at least mildly entertaining to other people nonetheless.

Okay look people, I will take no deprecation, this "fairly generic," "at least mildly entertaining" bullcrap. Pssht. Own the awesomeness of your blogs! Don't make me bust out the "hooray for you." I've got a stadium full of cheering extras who think your blogs kick ask.

Forever rawr.

Tanner in Brooklyn: Silent 10 No More!

Way back in the early days of the Metablog (also, hi, yes, I'm back from being a lazy bum), I got an email that started, "My name is Tanner, I am a silent 10 from brooklyn. I am also a blogger." Who'd have known that, thanks to the magic of the internet, podcasts, the radio, and beer, I would know Tanner, frequently corresponding with him on twitter and knowing him as an awesome fellow NYC Ten.

Lesson being: Tens, don't be silent. Also: once you email me about the Metablog, you're not silent any more!

So Tanner has an awesome blog called Tanner Ringerud is Internet. Says Tanner:

I set it up when I was moving to New York so my old friends back in Colorado could keep track of me. It's not anything special, just me talking about how mundane my life is and posting funny links I find on the internet. I also talk about all the crazy stuff that happens all the time in Brooklyn, like the time I saw a guy pooping off a bridge into the gowanus canal.

Tanner also - so this is actually great timing, me waiting to update the Metablog till now - just launched a kickass webseries called Must Love Robots. Yes, the ironic love of robots (like pirates and bacon) is verboten in TBTListan, but the sincere love of robots lives on, just like bacon is still tasty and sea shanties are still some catchy tunes.

Silent Tens pulled forcibly from obscurity, one at a time.

Late Breaking News!! 10s Party Added for TONIGHT in LA (Culver City)

Hey folks. In addition to the remote parties in Tenver* & NYC** tonight, Marie-Reine & Joe are creating a home for you LA-area 10s as well. 9:30pm @ the Tattle Tell. If you have any questions about commuting by bike, btw, Joe is a freaking resource.


*7pm, Patrick Carroll's (3963 Tennyson St) - The Tenverites Facebook page has more info, including a for-ease-of-finding-strangers cell #.
**9pm, 12th St Ale House (192 2nd Ave, at 12th St.) - Chris will be wearing the TBTL shirt. Email me for my cell if you like.

TBTL's 304-aversary

Hey 10s. The metablog's a bit backed up, but that should resolve itself this week. But I wanted to quickly give you all info about all the remote locations for this Friday's celebration of TBTL's 304th episode. Of course, for you actual Seattleites, there's TBTL's party at Spitfire. But at least in NYC, and maybe in Denver (Tenverites - let me know), we're happy to use this excuse to get together for some quality T&E.

New York:
9pm
12th St Ale House
192 2nd Ave, at 12th St.
For ease of finding us - Chris will be wearing a TBTL t-shirt. 11s and on up are, of course, welcome, but no one should - as I did with karaoke - feel like you need a security blanket friend. (That's what I called mine.) Email me with questions, to let us know you're coming, or - hi, socially anxious 10s, I am one of you - if you want my cell # for ease of stranger-finding.


Tenver:
7pm
Patrick Carroll's
3963 Tennyson St
The Tenverites Facebook page has more info, including a for-ease-of-finding-strangers cell #.

Any other cities? Let me know!

Kate in Berlin: Kate is on the Internets!

Are there other Tens in Berlin, such that it would be offensive/inaccurate for me to refer to Kate as TBTL's Berliner ambassador? I know it would be inaccurate use of the word "Berliner," but other than that?

Kate writes a blog called Kate is on the Internets!, which I guess is either meta or self-evident, or both. Or maybe a tautology?

I'm Kate, a Fulbright Scholar and Northwestern University graduate, origionally from Texas but currently living in Berlin, Germany. This is a blog about living the TBTL lifestyle abroad, sneaking into things like Berlin Fashion Week, teaching little Germans English, and getting myself into a fair ammount of trouble of the nerdtastic yet fun kind.

(I need to start using the word "nerdtastic" more.)

Jaime in NYC: Surplus & Cheap Healthy Good (and the TBTL Metablog?)

Well isn't this meta. I figured it's time to tell y'all about my own blogs. (I've been going through the blogs in order received, and although we can consider mine technically the first submitted, I didn't want to start off self-promotionally.) One of my blogs, I suppose, is the TBTL Metablog, but that would just be too meta, so let's move on.

I also hope everyone's okay with me not doing this in the normal style, third-person, pretending I'm not talking about myself and my own blogs.

So. Moving on.

The main blog in my life is called Surplus. I started it a few years ago as a place for extra thoughts and musings that would otherwise be rambled to my friends, to the point that they might start hating me. But I think the internet is more forgiving, or more interested. Or won't tell me to my face that it's not. I write about theatre and books, because those are things I love, but also whatever else is on my mind. Recently: the Higgs boson, a 3-months-late roundup of the best theatre and books of 2008, a play I really loved. I went through a lolcats phase, and wrote a tribute to my now-ex-roommate with those when we moved into solo apartments. I sometimes write open letters. I like science and the farmers market and baseball. To steal from Ali: the classic narcissistic blog style.

I also write a column for a fantastic website called Cheap Healthy Good. (I can call it fantastic because so much of it has nothing to do with me.) My column is called City Kitchen Chronicles (which is silly, because all three writers live in NYC, but the other columnist had already taken vegetarian eating as her theme). The whole site is full of recipes and ideas about eating healthily and really cheaply. My lentil soup costs about 80 cents a serving. We are ready for Thunderdome.

And if you're not sick of me yet, I also twitter.

xoxo
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