Dear Amazon.com Black Friday Deals Department,
I know you want to keep us in suspense regarding your upcoming deals, but trust me when I say that there is no need for your treasure chest and question mark when they are paired with "hints" that are clearly references to seasons of Friends. Please try again.
The President and Founder of the Alabama chapter of the M Slash Fan Club brought something very important to my attention today: the CDC has e-cards!
Yes, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has a selection of notes you can send to friends and family with encouraging messages. My favorites so far are this one (which goes nicely with this one), this one, because who the hell would you send that to?, and this one, because WTF?
Anyway, I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea. OK, maybe a few of the cards, but no one needs an e-card about syphilis.
I've been testing the limits of my work's site blocking software, and here's the message I got when trying to access failblog:
"The category 'Tasteless' is blocked."
Come on, now, I think that's a matter of debate, don't you?
I took advantage of Burger King's offer of a free Whopper if I "sacrificed" ten of my facebook friends (and thank Jebus I did so yesterday!). Very easily done, and I didn't even have to sacrifice Toast like I thought I might!
Anyway, I came across a post about this promotion on CNET, and I think some of the commenters missed the point of the campaign, if not the point of facebook itself:
"Who do I know that is their friendship is worth less than free food?"
"Crappy food ploys for crappy people.
It's funny how people complain about stars that sell out, yet they'll barely wince to delete a friend for junk food."
"Again another negative Burger King campaign. I guess I need to write to them again. Last time I wrote was about the Kill the King commercials.
Sorry. I have a problem with advertising that says hurt someone else to satisfy yourself. I'm in advertising, so I think I have a right to say it. But I feel everyone should complain when they see this type of thing. Advertising is insidious. It's a form of brainwashing. So when there is something repeated... like the candy commercial where the kid is thinking how he can get rid of his friends so he can have the candy all to himself... it puts a message in the subconscious to be hateful, don't share - even with friends.
My apologies for my tirade. I find most advertising is produced by imbeciles who never left the playground.
Hope you have a beautiful day!"
Thank you! But how is this a "negative" campaign? I choose to believe that BK is issuing a wakeup call to its patrons regarding the amount of non-friends they have as facebook friends. Picking 10 of these to sacrifice is hardly making Sophie's Choice, here, people. Rather, it's a choice as to what matters more: free food, or a number that is slightly-but-not-really indicative of one's popularity?
I will enjoy my Whopper with pride.
A gentleman's opening line on an online dating site:
"I often catalyze living room dance parties by putting Motown records on my turntable."
Dude. DUDE.
No.
Dear Readers,
I wish to share with you an email I recently received. As you can see below, my True Love has finally contacted me. I will let you know as soon as we set a date:
Good time of the day
Well, I've finally gathered all my braveness to write to you.. Even though you should know how hard it is to write a letter to a Stranger, whom you've never seen before and whom you don't know at all, but I truly believe that in this case, my perspective acquaintance with You is more than enough for an excuse:)
Truly speaking, I have thought in the past of such an option, to meet someone through the letter, but I wasn't brave enough for this. I guess, I am still not brave enough, but my wish to be happy and to be loved is overfilling my heart and head. I am not a complicated person, nor simple. I am an individual, that's for sure. I don't know what your character is and how you look like, most important is that I am not going to change you. I want to like you as you are and just be happy. I can answer to you at
http://ThePleasureLife.com/honeywithme/ and will be happy if our relations continue.
Bye
Uly M.
[F]oxymoron tagged me the other day to list 7 facts about myself. I'll do my best:
1. I believe I'm the only person in the world with my full name. None of the names are unique by themselves, and there are plenty of people with my first and last names, but my middle name throws a wrench into things
2. I think the best advice I ever got was, "Never go anywhere without a nail file."
3. I arrange my bookcases so that fiction is on the top shelves, nonfiction in the middle, and oversized books on the bottom
4. I could eat bacon three meals a day, every day
5. I'm 25. I have three sisters. The one closest in age to me is 54. My niece is 32.
6. I made sure to only apply to colleges with D1 men's basketball teams. Of course, I was part of the only class at Georgetown in years not to see them make the tournament.
7. It takes me 2-3 hours to drink a cup of coffee, even though I love it
I'm not going to tag anyone, but if any of my faithful readers would like to list anything, go ahead.
Can someone please explain to me why, as of 12:35 PM, 12 of the 24 bestselling items in Amazon's apparel section have to do with Pepsi? I mean, am I supposed to believe that this:
is the most popular apparel item on the site?
P.S. OK, apparently, they're having some sort of deal with "Pepsi Points," but come on people, at least go for the beach towel. Also, please think about your life.
The name of my blog comes from a nickname my cousin gave me when I got a spare at our now defunct New Year's Day Family Bowling Extravaganza. I chose it because I like how it sounds, and because it comes with a fun hand gesture. It did not occur to me that some people might think it's associated with a certain genre of fanfiction, until I started getting those "Jonathan Horton slash" hits (eight, people! EIGHT). Yesterday, someone found my blog through a search for "Christian Bale slash." I am considering just throwing out random names of popular male celebrities just to increase hits.
And, so far, there have been no hits from people searching for "Daniel Craig slash," leading me to the irrefutable conclusion that I am right.
I checked out my current neighborhood on this website, and was a tad alarmed to see an icon pop up exactly where my house is. After wondering if my roommates had failed to mention something to me, I clicked on the icon and was relieved to see a name I didn't recognize and an address from a street over. It appears the site doesn't place the icons exactly on the addresses, but perhaps they should fix this bug so people don't freak the hell out.
UPDATE: A search using my new address revealed only traffic violations and business crimes. White-collar crime neighborhood, here I come!
