Thank you.
I’m serious, guys. Thank you. For all that you’ve done here. For reading. For replying. For being supportive. For being critical. For agreeing with me. For disagreeing with me. For laughing. For groaning. For both getting it and not getting it. For discoverng my blog for the first time, and for returning additional times.
Thank you.
As many of you already know, Blog Reader Appreciation Week is coming up in the next few days. To me, this means a period of time to recognize the focal point of the community that really makes it worthwhile to blog. Don’t get me wrong — I blog for myself. I enjoy expressing myself through this medium. But perhaps I continue my drive to do so for you, my community. You help feed my inspirations. And I feel that it’s something that certainly deserves recognition.
Others of you many be observing Blog Reader Appreciation Week with give-aways or sales on t-shirts and other apparel linked with your blog. I, unfortunately, don’t have any of that. Some of you may offer contests where you can travel somewhere, design a blog layout, and more. I just don’t have those skills or resources available.
But I do feel that I want to do something tremendous for you. That’s why next week I offer this:
Take Over the Takeout – June 15-21, 2008
That’s right: For seven days from Sunday until Saturday, I want you to control the content of my blog. You pick the topics. You pick the format. You get to decide what I’ll write about.
For example:
* Do you want another chapter in my “Operation: Enduring Tofu” saga — about my quest to confront the girl for whom I became a vegetarian nineteen years ago? Let me know; I’ve got new stuff to post!
* Next week doesn’t include a day that has a “3″ in it, but if you want me to post a specific “List on the 3s,” I will anyway! Just provide me a topic and I’m there.
* I bet you’re wondering what high-school Shiny used to look like, don’t you? If that’s what you want, that’s what I’ll provide: I’ll dig up old pictures and send you on a tour of Shiny: with the drive of a boy but the mullet of a man.
* Hebrew with Shiny! I’ve posted them before; I’m happy to customize a specific Hebrew lesson just for you! Suggest a phrase and I’ll make a tutorial.
* Want a contest of some sort? Like one of those “identify Shiny’s header pictures” contests? Or something completely different? I’m all ears!
* Want to see a vlog entry where I show you my balls? You’re such a perv! But I’ll do it if you ask me to…
* How about that infamous story about how I was cock-blocked by Meredith Baxter-Birney? All you have to do is request it.
* Anything else which comes to mind? Your wish is my command…
Here’s how it works: Please reply to this entry with your request(s) of me next week. Please be as specific as possible. If you have a preference of a day on which you’d like me to blog something, indicate that as well. As long as I have at least seven distinct requests, I’ll be sure to post once a day for the entire week. And although I do have ultimate veto power, I promise I’ll try my hardest not to use it.
** Please have your requests in by Sunday morning, June 15. I’ll post my schedule for the entire week by then (subject to change).
Again, thank you for being my readers. I appreciate you. You complete me.
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I was just showing up to see if anyone dared choose the vlog of balls option, but I see I arrived to the party early.
Damn.
And, no, this doesn’t count as a vote for that.
Poppys last blog post..Mini-blog: Strange kitty.
I vote for a vlog…but not of your sack, thanks
. Maybe one of you singing? Ahhh, yes. That may be the trick. I’ll think about it come back with the full request. You’ve been warned!
(evil grin)
Hillys last blog post..The Heart Can Freeze Or It Can Burn….
Wow. I’m torn between Hebrew with Shiny (I want know how to say, “What do I look like, a loaf of challah?”) and the story of you getting cockblocked by Meredith Baxter-Birney. Maybe the Hebrew because I have this feeling the other story has something to do with “Family Ties.”
Can I have both? Like a combination?
Finns last blog post..Thursday Photo: After The Storm
Can we have a video where we learn how to say in Hebrew a list of different versions of “Excuse me Meredith Baxter-Birney, but you are blocking my balls with your mullet?”
socKss last blog post..An open letter
* Hebrew with Shiny!
this is truly something that never fails to crack my shit up. and who doesn’t want their shit cracked up, right? you could say something about friends. and how cliffs at midnight are not nearly as scary if you have friends to hold your hands.
* A vlog entry! personally i prefer still photos of balls, feel free to do the video of them. if you aren’t comfortable with that, i would love a video of anything you desire, even brushing your teeth. you are one funny guy and i could watch you do just about anything. (although if you go in the gutter with that whole “anything” stuff, feel free to email it to me privately. wahoo!
* How about that infamous story about how I was cock-blocked by Meredith Baxter-Birney? you know we all would love this!
* Reader’s choice! i know you have been around the big ole internet for a long time and i would love to know your favorite posts ever. not bloggers in general, but maybe the top 10 posts that aren’t yours that really struck a chord with you, in whatever way.
hello haha narfs last blog post..HNT – My 9th HNT Post
I definitely want to see high school Shiny… although I would not say no to a video of your balls. Thank you
Amandas last blog post..The Hardest Part Was Letting Go
I want a meme. Another mosaic, but this time you put a blog or blogger to each of these words: fun, love, peace, happy, smart, weird, deep, free, dark. It’s like free association blog style. Whose blog or what blogger fits that word in your mind?
Winters last blog post..Too Much
High school….BALLS…no wait,Hebrew!….hold it. I changed my mind! I want to know how you gathered your encyclopedic knowledge of trivia.
My request is this. Can you do my request on Sunday? It is my ONE YEAR blogaversary. (I know, it feels like I’ve always been here!)It’s okay if you don’t make it in time. I’ll settle for personalized pix of your balls.
Metalmoms last blog post..Now I’m Paranoid
How about your version of a Lazy Sunday contest?
Avitables last blog post..Daycare and Avitable
I’d like to see a list of your favorite books and why you love them so much. I always like perusing someone’s bookshelves.
I can’t figure out what to ask you to do, but I will be reading eagerly to see what everyone else suggests!
radioactive girl toris last blog post..Macaroni Cobbler
My vote is for a Vlog, but only where you take us on a Shiny journey through various take out places… food, the cleaners, pharmacy and document via video each one… interviewing people you see. Stuff like that. Like your own little adventure, only sharing with us, the bloggers you appreciate.
So get crackin’ dude.
martymankinss last blog post..The Lazy MoFo Mosaic Meme
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I’m gonna expand or copy Karl’s idea and suggest, “What’s on your iPod.”
I’m also interested in what is on your book shelf.
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I want to see a Shiny retrospective in pictures: Through the years with Shiny’s hair. Every hairstyle you’ve ever had. No Photoshopping!
AND I want you to ‘splain to me why Easy Gravatar works fine here, but when I activated it, I suddenly had TWO gravatars for every commenter. But when I tried turning off the WordPress gravatars, it turned BOTH off. Help me, Shiny-Wan Kenobi.
SJs last blog post..WTF is this thing?
Since it’s blogger reader appreciation week, why not do an entry on your favorite readers? like someone who reads everyday and comments, or someone who leaves especially witty/meaningful/etc, comments on your blog?
maybe that’s a little biased, because someone’s feelings might get hurt if you picked “favorites”…hrm…I just don’t know….I would be open to the books idea from Karl, the cock block story, and maybe another contest like the one you had recently. that was fun trying to figure out places hehe.
Whatever you choose, I look forward to what you put here!
Cissa Firehearts last blog post..You dropped a bomb on me, baby, you dropped a bomb on me…
List on the 3′s: Top Howevermany Ways Bloggers Are Better Than Ice Cream (I mean we know they’re not better than my original title that included “better than sex” but ice cream is more doable, oui?)
Blogger Quotation Game: List quotes (either verbal or written) and have us try to guess which blogger said it!
Hillys last blog post..Getting Hot With Blogography…
I want to see a list of blogs and websites that you like. You have pretty good taste, and I am always looking for more ways to waste time.
I already feel appreciated! I feel so appreciated that there is really no need whatsoever for you to vlog your balls.
Dave2s last blog post..Faced
Mer-e-dith!
Mer-e-dith!
Mer-e-di….
Why am I the only one chanting?
Ok fine.
V-log balls!
V-log balls!
V-log balls!
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