3.12.05: It’s All About Meme ‹ Blog

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter

It’s All About Meme

March 12, 2005

In my quest to renovate my site, improve my content, and generally further my plan to take over the world, I’m considering implementing some of those cutesy little day-specific, fill-out-a-form-instead-of-writing-an-entry doodads. You know—Friday Five, Seven on Sunday, Eleven and a Half on March 15th… that sort of thing. Being the black sheep that I am, though, I refuse to follow the herd, preferring instead to slouch along at the edges and mimic without open conformity. Baa. Here are some of the ideas I’ve come up with:

Memory Monday: I describe a personal memory. You tell me yours. We make plans to blackmail each other.
Typo Tuesday: I make a list of all the typos I’ve found in the past seven days, including those in books and online. You can send me your finds, too. Fun for English majors, whee!
Web Design Wednesday: I share whatever little design tips I’ve picked up in the past few days. Or maybe I link to a horrible site and maliciously poke fun at it, then am burnt to a crisp by the resulting flames. Either way, it’s good family fun!
Threats on Thursday: I make threats to whoever’s been pissing me off lately. Police officers appear at the door.
Faux Pas Friday: I nitpick errors in etiquette, netiquette, English and dress, with a promise not to resort to Paris Hilton more than twice in a row.
String-Along Saturday: I tell a bold-faced lie somewhere in the entry, without letting you know where it is. Hilarity ensues.
Sunday Confession: I confess the week’s worst sin. And then you can either laugh at me or tell me yours, and we can cry together.

Hm. Somehow, I don’t quite see these catching on, except among the teenage asylum-inmate set. Oh well, I can still do them, can’t I? Hooray for whatever makes me post more!

Speaking of things that make me post more, who could resist posting a link to this hilariously-titled Japanese news article? Or this one? Not me, that’s for sure!

Change of topic! (I’m like a monkey with ADD today, and my words are my poo. Fling the words!) Right now I’m trying to decide between downloading two nifty songs by a group called Bond, only I feel guilty for downloading either one because aforesaid group consists of four ridiculously sexy young ladies, women so hot that I seriously doubt whether they can actually play this intricate classical music. Okay, now I’ve just revealed myself as shallow.

But you knew that already, didn’t you?