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He wants you to have a good weekend.
Mel totally made my week by passing this along....
Guess who!
Yup, starting Nov. 16th, 11 teams will start their race around the world for $1 million. Of course Phil Keoghan is still hosting and of course there are model couples. I don't mean like model citizens, I mean those pretty (and usually pretty catty) people. (At least 2 teams worth.) However, we also have the requisite older couple, aged 69 & 66, and my vote for most colorful team, a married pro-wrestling couple. Let the games begin!
It's because I care, that I share this with everyone.
Ya know, we are heading into the cold winter months (yay standard time!), and we need to protect ourselves....
I know a lot of people have started to use a new service called BlogExplosion. I admit, I have too. I am starting to wonder about its value though. Although there is some back history to the issue over at my site, I am really just looking to see what people think of the service. I do not want to start discussion of what happened at my site.
The premise is this (from their site):
The concept is very simple. You read other blog sites and they in return visit your blog. Blogexplosion is the internet's first blog exchange where thousands of bloggers visit each other's blogs in order to receive tons of blog traffic. Imagine how many other people out there could be adding your blog to their blogroller and how many people would be reading your blog every day with this sort of attention. It's free to use!
What it looks like to the user is it loads random blogs for you, and you must stay for thirty seconds before moving to the next one. For every two blogs you visit you get one traffic "credit" to generate a visitor to yours.
Here is my post from my experience recently, slightly edited to try to stay on topic...
Greetings from Boston!
Taking advantage of free-for-all posting on someone else's blog today is me, the watergirl. I've been enjoying Erica's page for well over a year, and we even got some grub together at the WAB once while we both still lived in Metro Detroit. We went to high school less than a mile from each other, and even matriculated at the same university!
This whole guest blogginn thing is kinda fun...it's like being a little kid in school when you have a substitute teacher..while the cat is away the mouse will play kinda thing.
There was a young lady named Irk
Whose iBook was being a jerk
While it's in the shop
Her blogging must stop
So she's putting her readers to work!
I picked a heck of a day to catch up on my blogging :) Erica's having an open house. First, I want to say that Erica is awesome and I love reading her :P
Now, on to the gratituous self promotion. I just posted new pictures! Pictures of my band. We had a little promo photo session last night so that we could update the website. I'm relatively new with them, so they need to add me :P Anyhow, pictures are available at my blog Life's Like This.
Oh, oh, and while I'm at it, if you're a musician, especially if you're in the New England area, I've just started a new blog, that I'm hoping will become a nice group blog. Digitally Remumbled. Check it out ;)
Uhm.. I've got nothing funny to say. I'm definitely funny, but I don't know if I'm all that humorous. But I'm funny looking... just go see the pics ;)
Tanya from lifeslikethis.us
PS: *smooches* to Erica
ooh erica is very brave having an open house! not that i'm complaining, because it gives me a chance to try this thing out.
and now that i'm here on someone elses blog, i've actually got very little to say.
damn.
I have never done this before as I am a newbie to this whole "blogging" thing but here goes...I have never really been a internet kinda person but after someone put me onto this site I must admit I have become intrigued by this whole ordeal.
It's been nearly a year since I began blogging. In that time, several very cool personalities have made their way into my heart and mind- Erica being one of them.
The inimitable Dave Tepper (who's never steered me wrong, natch) officially introduced me to the Swirlicious One. At the time, I hadn't run across many gay/lesbian bloggers, and was really interested in seeing other queer writing.
I have absolutely nothing insightful to contribute, really nothing to contribute at all, but you can't pass up the opportunity to post on someone else's blog.
So here I am. Whee!
And in keeping with the spirit of this fine blog...
What is up over here? Erica cannot go on hiatus!
I was so ill prepared for any "guest-work" but as many (or at least Erica) know I cannot resist an open blog. I may need to refill my wine for this. Excuse me. Okay, I'm back. *drinks* So, one thing I'd love to share is why I love this little blog so much. Swirlspice was one of the first weblogs I ever discovered. You remember that, right? Finding those sites while surfing the net for something, doesn't matter what I guess it was different for everyone. Movies, books, recipes, porn? Anyway, you find one of those odd personal sites with stories, opinions, pictures. Strangely addictive...
For me there were four I remember the most. Jonno, Uffish Thoughts, Philo, and Swirlspice. I took time out everyday to read up on these peoples lives. I found it so amazing that they shared so much on the web. I wanted to have a site of my own. They were my inspiration. I especially loved the "slice of life" style here at Swirlspice. That was how I imagined my site to be. Personable. Kind of tough to do in a cold medium like a website.
Anyway, I eventually started my own site at danielphilip.com. It was rough going at first. A look into the archives can tell you that! And one of my earliest links was here at Swirlspice. She's like blog-family to me, whether she likes it or not!
Hope that iBook is up and running soon Erica! Miss you already!
Don't EVEN try to deny it.
All my love,
I am trying desperately to put my brain back together. In the meantime, listen to a funny little song about toast*.
*Taken down 11/5/03, 12:21 p.m.
This thing is apparently called Bunchies. Here's what I've learned about Bunchies.
- Bunchies has his own CafePress shop. I'm thinking I like the baseball shirt, but a mug might be fun, too.
- This appears to be the home of Bunchies.
- Many people call scrunchies "bunchies." I think this practice is retarded and sounds like it may have origins in Britain or the Commonwealths since they do that diminutive abbreviation shit all the time.
- Bunchies gets around.
- There is an annoyingly and alarmingly large number of people who use the phrase "thanks a bunchies" or substitute "bunchies" for "bunch" or "bunches" (e.g. "I had bunchies left over"). Cut it out.
I'm on the road y'all. I'll be driving to Wisconsin. There will be nothing more to share today. But here's a little shumpin' shumpin' to keep you entertained:
Now that the initial shock has passed, it tickles me so. It may have to become a sidebar fixture. I'll think on it some more.
I can't decide how I feel about this.
