Blogathon: Debacle and rebirth
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slipjig3So as many of you know, the organizer of Blogathon abruptly declared the event canceled this year, on very short notice. As many of you also know, many of those who were planning on participating in the event have decided to shrug, raise fists of Insomniac Solidarity and do the event anyway, with or without a central organizing body.
As someone who still regrets skipping it last year, count me in.
Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 31, I will be blogging for 24 consecutive hours—one post every half-hour—to raise money for the National MS Society in honor of my mother Susan, who has been battling multiple sclerosis for many years. I will once again be blogging as a member of Team Venture, and will be sharing information about both my teammates and the many other awesome people who have signed on for this challenge once I get a more definitive list of names. My goal is to earn $500 for my charity; if you wish to make a pledge, you may let me know either as a response to this or any post I make between now and the end of the event, or by e-mailing me at slipjig3 AT gmail DOT com.
And as for a theme, I've decided to revive the All List Format that served my well in 2008. Which is the other part I need your help with: I need list ideas. Basically, any sort of list that can be written up (with appropriate commentary, as applicable) in a reasonable (i.e. less than a half-hour) amount of time will be more than welcome. Lists that I've used in past years have included:
* Least Popular Pizza Toppings
* Things That Should Not Be Used in an Erotic Scenario
* New Skills You'd Like to Acquire, and Why
* Personalities Least Likely to Get a Ben & Jerry's Flavor
* Fictional Worlds and Universes You Wouldn't Mind Emigrating To
* Authors You'd Most Like to Seduce
* Rejected Titles for Laurell K. Hamilton Novels
* Things I Cannot Afford Right Now
* Things You'd Do If You Had a Zeppelin
* Least Useful Borg Attachments
There's no limit to the number of list ideas you can submit. All such ideas will be placed in the fabled Hat of Destiny. and will be drawn randomly every 30 minutes and written on. Also, the ideas in the Hat of Destiny will be available to other bloggers as well, be they members of Team venture or no, in the event of writer's block. The sky's the limit, people.
So! Let's start 'em comin', folks!
As someone who still regrets skipping it last year, count me in.
Starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 31, I will be blogging for 24 consecutive hours—one post every half-hour—to raise money for the National MS Society in honor of my mother Susan, who has been battling multiple sclerosis for many years. I will once again be blogging as a member of Team Venture, and will be sharing information about both my teammates and the many other awesome people who have signed on for this challenge once I get a more definitive list of names. My goal is to earn $500 for my charity; if you wish to make a pledge, you may let me know either as a response to this or any post I make between now and the end of the event, or by e-mailing me at slipjig3 AT gmail DOT com.
And as for a theme, I've decided to revive the All List Format that served my well in 2008. Which is the other part I need your help with: I need list ideas. Basically, any sort of list that can be written up (with appropriate commentary, as applicable) in a reasonable (i.e. less than a half-hour) amount of time will be more than welcome. Lists that I've used in past years have included:
* Least Popular Pizza Toppings
* Things That Should Not Be Used in an Erotic Scenario
* New Skills You'd Like to Acquire, and Why
* Personalities Least Likely to Get a Ben & Jerry's Flavor
* Fictional Worlds and Universes You Wouldn't Mind Emigrating To
* Authors You'd Most Like to Seduce
* Rejected Titles for Laurell K. Hamilton Novels
* Things I Cannot Afford Right Now
* Things You'd Do If You Had a Zeppelin
* Least Useful Borg Attachments
There's no limit to the number of list ideas you can submit. All such ideas will be placed in the fabled Hat of Destiny. and will be drawn randomly every 30 minutes and written on. Also, the ideas in the Hat of Destiny will be available to other bloggers as well, be they members of Team venture or no, in the event of writer's block. The sky's the limit, people.
So! Let's start 'em comin', folks!
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(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 02:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 02:41 am (UTC)thoughts on the katal hyuk site and its implications in the cultural fucktardery of victorian anthropologists.
permeability of the female body as related to guerilla warfare.
why muppets are kinda sexy.
why a rootbeer float is yummy but rootbeer and milk is not.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 05:10 am (UTC)Other than in Eddie Izzard routines...
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 02:43 am (UTC)* Top five incidents in which you heroically managed not to throttle your kids for something they did
* Top five incidents in which your parents/caregivers heroically managed not to throttle you for something you did
* Memorable cooking disasters
* Wardrobe makeovers for your five favorite fictional characters
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 02:49 am (UTC)Things you could juggle, but which would be unwise to do so.
Literary and/or musical creations you wish you'd thought of FIRST!
Top ten unintentionally pornographic folksongs.
Strange things with which Adam has been hit.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 03:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-19 09:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 04:04 am (UTC)Most horrific nicknames
Most unsavory uses for a hard-boiled egg
Sequels you'd like to see made by Michael Bay
Songs SOMEONE ought to write
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 05:08 am (UTC)Singer or songwriter duos you wish had happened or would happen (me, I keep wanting Brandon Flowers of The Killers to work with Jim Steinman)
Movies that would've been improved by adding ninjas. I'll claim that's inspired by the You Only Live Twice line "I have something better: ninjas."
Things NOT to say during sex (for one thing, one shouldn't yodel)
How would YOU take over the world?
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 09:33 am (UTC)Favorite Cheeses
Favorite video game characters
Favorite video game music and the composers thereof
Films that make you hungry
Music that helps end a relationship
Music that helps start a relationship
Comprehensible manga
Creative uses for a boa constrictor
:D
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-07 12:03 pm (UTC)- Your favorite movie quotes that you use in ordinary conversation
- Your least favorite (most hated?) songs of all time [did I give you this one already?]
- Rejected list suggestions (because you can't find more than one, or because the suggestion is just plain creepy)
- Celebrities to whom the nickname "Trainwreck" is appropriate
- Websites you visit every day/nearly every day without fail
- Top 5 (or 10) CDs in your personal rotation
- Your favorite 50-cent words, not including "sesquipedalian"
- Your 5 favorite LJ icons, and why they are your favorites.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-08 03:36 am (UTC)* Words that just sound good to say
* What toppings Five Guys Burgers and Fries should add to their menu
* What toppings Five Guys Burgers and Fries SHOULD NOT add to their menu
* The ingredients to an ideal milkshake
* What other things you should be able to buy insurance for
* Favorite Palindromes
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-16 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-19 09:00 pm (UTC)more list ideas (hope they're not duplicates)
Date: 2010-07-30 04:44 pm (UTC)- Music that most people might be surprised that you really like
- Movies that most people might be surprised that you really hate
- Music that most people might be surprised that you really hate
- Foods that most people might be surprised that you really like
- Foods that most people might be surprised that you really hate
- Top 5 things you want to do before you pass this mortal coil
- Top 10 rejected stripper names (for yourself or others, your choice)
- Top 5 rejected locations for your proposed tattoo (and why)
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-30 08:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-31 01:01 pm (UTC)