Blog KingThis week’s Challenge: If you could live in any movie or cartoon, what would it be, and what character would you wish to become and why?
ChristWeb, the reigning King
Submitted Post: This post appears to be a hybrid: half USA Today article, half ChristWeb’s own observations about our policy on illegal immigrants. I say “apears to be” because although the quality of the writing takes a turn for the worse about halfway through, I stopped comparing the post to the article it links to after the fifth identical paragraph. If you are going to quote from a source, there must be some way to indicate which words are yours and which words you are quoting. If only . . . hmmm… wait—there are these funny symbols on my keyboard: “ yes! that’s it! One could use these: “”. Nah, it’ll never catch on. 4
Challenge: Christweb want’s to be the Highlander, but doesn’t really give any compelling reason why (other than “they don’t die"). Devoid of style or originality. If there can be only one, this isn’t it. 4.
Dan K. O’Leary
Submitted Post: I gave this post a 0 last week, and yet he picked it as his submission this week. Minus one for being that boneheaded. -1.
Challenge: This guy just gets stranger and stranger. Given his choice of any movie character, he chose “Commando”. Why? Because he would be able to “get freaky with Rae Dawn Chong” and have Alyssa Milano as his daughter. Also, he thinks Arnold’s accent is “the smoothest . . . on the planet” [NOTE TO CHRISTWEB—SEE HOW EASY THAT WAS?]. Points off for questionable taste and judgment, and because there is something very wrong with some of his symbols (like those funny ones I just discovered), but points for writing a coherent, somewhat amusing response. 5, unless it wasn’t completely ironic, in which case 0 and a shower for me.
Southern Musings
Submitted Post: A good friend is getting married, and Southern Musings will be there, in a place of honor. Warm fuzzies all around, but Rick likes his posts with more Edge(TM). 5
Challenge: SM clearly put a lot of thought into this one, and it paid off. Insightful, revealing, well-written and—if Rick cared for chick flicks—a fine movie recommendation. 8
Walloworld
Submitted Post: Wonderful! Walloworld has discovered a totally different way to indicate when he is using someone elses words! He has also thoroughly examined and explained the digital music pricing market. Rick finds these things interesting, but then Rick erratically refers to himself in the third person. A bit long, but points for pulling together two other threads to get started (thereby spreading the link-love), and major points for the Affleck/Lopez jab. 8
Challenge: Walloworld clearly put a lot of thought into this one—maybe too much. Too long, I lost interest in the process before I got to the punch line. But I liked the Eyre Affair, and am glad to hear the next book is out. Legolas is pretty cool, too, though I think I might have to dye my eyebrows if I were him. 7
Where the Heck Was I
Submitted Post: I changed the name of this blog, because it’s real name is offensive: it uses the word “Hell”. Shit! Anyway, um, I don’t know, I guess it is kind of big. 6
Challenge: Roma’s a good choice, if only to get to deliver some of those fantastic lines (the one you picked is probably the best, WTHWI). But seriously, I think you need to get laid. The constant, incessant, repetitive references to chicks and naked chicks and well, it’s enough already. 8.
