30 in 30 III - 2.5

[aggienaut]

   Alright I was afraid that this year it would just be me and a very few other established nutballs doing 30 in 30 but it turns out we've actually got a large number of participants. I think the total roll call now consists of (in no particular order) emd, roter_terror, emosnail, apoplecticfittz, otimus, pavel_lishin*, eazyt*, bartgroks*, fighting_fifi*, insolent_pool*, shid*, trembyle, xaositecte*, citharistria*, gerbilgrrl, professor_david, anonymous_frosh*, punitrebel*, citizene*, & orwell_troll* (* = first timers). I may even have forgotten someone, and a number of these people will doubtlessly fall by the side of the road before this gruelling blogathon is over, but this is what we're looking for.

   THIS is not today's entry for me (trying to cut down on the metaposts). I just wanted to encourage all the newcomers in the spirit of 30 in 30.
   (1) My favourite thing about 30 in 30 is the sense of community that develops among the diverse bloggers by the end. We start out as a motley group of people from different people's friends pages, and even those of us that know eachother come out of our usual mentality of blogging it alone -- and by the end we're a community and we're building on eachother's ideas and we're all intereacting. And so I say unto you intrepid bloggists who have taken up the call:
   (a) go forth and read the entries of the other participants;
   (b) and verily thou shouldst comment unto their entries! (c) in fact, feel free to steal their ideas like the blogpirate that you are!! Well not really. There's posts that are inseperable from the original creative spark that created them and can't be copied, but then there's ideas that one can build on. For example in a past 30 in 30 someone posted five ideas for television series, and then two others did the same (with different ideas), and that was appropriate. Or shid recently posted a meme that was simple yet amusing and I might use it myself if I get really desperate. And some blogstunts are so incredibly epic they stand as a challenge there would be incredible honour in emulating, such as teh time apoplecticfittz spent 24 hours in a greenhouse (!!!). In pitiful attempts to emulate, incomple spent several hours at a starbucks, and I spent 16 hours on a train... Anyway, the moral of the story is that if someone does some awe inspiring blogstunt you are encouraged to try to one-up them or at least make a pitiful attempt to follow suit, and you get ultimate blogpoints if you spend 24 hours in one place and blog about it ... and you should add blog to every word that is remotely blogpropriate.
   (2) Remember, you're doing it for the lulz -- posting an entry of some kind every day is actually pretty easy, I mean I did it for practically the whole month of April without even trying. Traditionally the spirit of 30 in 30 lies in writing posts that anyone would find interesting; or at the very least it doesn't require knowing who you are or having an interest in your life to find it interesting. We call this theory of blogging megabloggery, and I wrote about it extensively when I first discovered it (see subsequent day for more blogological theorizing, and one is encouraged to post their own theorizing). Any participation is better than no posting, but I encourage you all to make every effort to ratchet up the funny.

   (3) Best day 2 entry in my opinion I think is going to go to apoplecticfittz for his anti-sudoku entry. Aside from the fact that its funny, note how the topic is one which many people are familiar with, and the thesis interesting and controversial.


Picture of the Day Entry - (because really, no entry is complete without one)

Daisy makes a theatrical aside as if to say "does he really think I believe he's going to give me the nutella pizza? (and yet there's a glimmer of hope there)


Previously on June 2nd in the Blogosphere
   Two Years Ago on Emosnail: Commercials that Suck - And a graphic of my "friends-network" on thefacebook.com at that time. Now I have 210 friends at Davis on thefacebook and it doesn't give me the network graphic option.
   Two Years Ago: in 30 in 30 - Day two bring a lul in the lulz, possibly because they blew the good joke they'd been saving on Day 1 and haven't started coming up with things for 30 in 30 yet. Everyone posts, but not much stood out to me on this inspection. stephenl is already making a delirious phone post, vowing to "blog at any cost" despite a lack of internet access; and apoplecticfittz declares he's going to grow a Hitler / Rob Roy mustache (Lesson 1: even a simple entry can become quality 30 in 30 material if accompanied by a well-suited picture).
   One Year Ago: Textmessege Clearout - I clear out the textmesseges in my cellphone to make more room in its piddling memory, and post the best textmesseges here instead. Squirrels are prominently featured.

Comments

[apoplecticfittz.livejournal.com]

I think gerbilgrrl is winning this year.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

holy crap and I forgot her in my list! (adding asap). I expecially like "Keep in mind that this very pamphlet is what instructed my mother on Becoming a Woman, and then me. I'll pass it onto one of my cats when she is ready to ripen into adulthood."

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

oops. That's what you get for not friending the community O=

[incomple.livejournal.com]

In pitiful attempts to emulate, incomple spent several hours at a starbucks, and I spent 16 hoblahblahblah

Who the fuck do you think you are? I don't even know you and you're talking shit about about my hilarious entry from two years ago? You have fucking huge balls, my friend. Huge.

huge balls

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I meant "pitiful" as including myself in a self-depreciating manner, and about the attempt not the ensuing humour. I'm sorry, I could have worded it with a lot more sensitivity to perceptions of your blog, the truth is I thought you weren't active on livejournal anymore.

Re: huge balls

[incomple.livejournal.com]

Ah, geez... That was just kind of sweet and sad. I was trying to reinvent myself as a LiveJournal hardass but it's totally backfired. I'm sorry that I've been talking shit about you for years and years. You're like a brother to me and I fucking love you.

Re: huge balls

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hahaha omg you totally had be convinced you loathed me. And since the other side of the blogosphere (otimus, roter_terror) also hates me at the moment, things were looking pretty grim.

Unless this comment is just a trick to make me lower my guard for the final coup de grace! )=