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March 14th, 2007
It’s official.
Sometime in the middle of the night WFME stepped over a line in the sand. Over the boundary between a country called “Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Thousand-vakia” and “One Million-esbeckistan.” Sometime while you were sleeping and while I was laying awake in bed obsessing over the fact that I think I may have extra bones in my feet that normal humans do not — you…the unique visitor, made history here at WFME as we clocked in over 1,000,000 unique visitors.
And now — those who were brave enough to enter the Blogstakes as I so appropriately called it, may now step up to receive your prizes.
Posted under Blogging, Contests, Milestones. | 11 Comments »
March 10th, 2007
Sometime over the next few days, WFME will have clocked 1 million unique visitors to the site.
That means that since September ‘05 (when the site was officially switched over to a new domain and the unique visitor clock was reset) there will have been over 1 million people who have come here, read something, chuckled (or not) and left with their life changed completely for the better (or worse). But in all seriousness, having over 1 million people read Words For My Enjoyment is exciting, amazing and humbling all together at once.
And that’s why we’ll be giving away some amazing* prize packages this week in celebration of such glorious news!
So here’s what we’re going to be doing. As of the posting of this entry, WFME is at 995,005 unique visitors. How soon the site will hit 1 million is anyone’s guess. Readers who call the WFME hotline (located in the sidebar of the site) and leave a message about how WFME has affected their life (bad, good, or indifferent — points will not be deducted for pure unadulterated hatred) before the one million mark hits will be entered into the blogstakes and have their chances at one of four (4) identical prize packages, each of which will include:
- A signed copy of my first book, Consumer Joe
- A first-edition signed copy of my new book, The Lost Blogs
- A $25 dollar gift card to Amazon.com
- Lint, from one pair of my jeans
- Your name, hotline message and picture highlighted in the online Winner’s Circle post
For some, the prizes will represent the ultimate. For others, it’ll just represent some paper, lint, and a materialistic bribe. Decide which person you are and choose wisely…
…for the million mark is rapidly approaching!
(Note from the Editor: When leaving a message on the hotline, after you finish be sure to leave your name and e-mail address so WFME can contact you!)
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*”Amazing” is relative.
Posted under Blogging, Contests, Milestones. | 15 Comments »
January 23rd, 2007
- RRA: Really, really amused.
- LOTI: Laughing on the inside.
- SHRN: So hysterical right now.
- LLL: Living, laughing, loving.
- TTTT (OL): Too tired to type, or laugh.
- CCN: Commence chortle, now.
- WAGNGFL: We are go, no go, for laughter.
- RHIPWMES: Really, honestly — I’m pleased with my emotional state.
- IYWHRNYSML: If you were here right now, you’d see me laughing.
- LIDLIJDNEOTIIMBDTTFTAACIHAPWSOBTLOOMALTTRITIDL: Look, I don’t laugh. I just don’t. Not even on the inside. It might be due to the fact that as a child, I had abusive parents who sort of beat the laughter out of me. At least that’s the reason I think I don’t laugh.
Posted under Blogging, Web/Tech. | 20 Comments »
January 10th, 2007
THE BLOG POST
The silly two-headed writer ate strongly before his tennis screen. There he licked the kitten and thought of chocolate as he quickly crafted his candy-cane fruit cake. “I’m a lumberjack,” he cackled as he tore off his left-arm and ran wackily through the cobblestone streets of a small French village near Paris. But he wrote crazily. Wackily. Hurriedly. He had deadlines to meet and a public to appease and a small eclair filled with peanut butter that Mrs. Heckerling gave him on their second date while skydiving.
“I’d buy that for a dollar,” she had cried from the top of the whipped-cream dunes — leaving big-headed Pauly D with a blog post to write and no iguana in his pocket. Weirdly, the autistic Pauly D continued to write haphazardly but with lyrical goony-ness, hoping to reach the pinnacle of a gumdrop mountain he had never reached before.
“Viola!” he screamed, jumping up and down like a make-up’d clown stuffed into a bean and cheese burrito at a traveling circus’ wild and wacky main event. The eerie blog post had been finished, and the grieving Pauly D knew in his metal-reinforced head that the day could only get better now that he’d had his left arm transplated with his right.
Posted under Blogging, Mad Libs. | 7 Comments »
January 9th, 2007
Some people like to make New Year’s resolutions.
Not me. It’s a waste of time putting those kind of dreams out there for the rest of the world to keep track of. Instead, I prefer to look back at the previous year and admit to doing all the things I didn’t admit to doing when I was doing them in the first place. Think of it as my own virtual confessional, laying claim to a slew of illegal, hurtful and just plain strange activities that I was responsible for.
I just hope you don’t hate me when all is said and done.
Posted under 2007 Bloggies, Admissions, Awards, Blogging. | 8 Comments »
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