...or just through the end of the day. We'll see.
Yep. Today's the big party here at kapgar!
Party? What party?
As Claire so astutely pointed out to me, while ajooja may have written up the 1000th post on my site, and done a damn fine job I might add, it wasn't my 1000th post. So I ran a couple quick calculations, subtracting out the number of guest posts and unpublished posts, to determine that today is officially my 1000th post on this blog! Plus, it falls within a week or so of my three-year blogiversary, so I'm wrapping it all up into one semi-, demi-, quasi-, pseudo-mediumish celebration!
Yay me!
But wait! Didn't you say that there was some sort of participatory aspect to this whole thing?
That's right, Don Pardo! Because this little hovel wouldn't be what it is without all you, my readers, I'd like to give back. Even if it is just a small little return on all the daily joy you provide me through your input. So I'm giving a $30 gift card for either Amazon or the iTunes Store to one lucky commenter. That's $10 per year of blogging. I'd love it to be more but I don't quite have the budget for it at the moment. Gotta pay out my life savings to those big oil companies.
There's gotta be a catch. You're never this generous.
Ah, you are so smart! There is a catch, but not because I'm not generous. Just because I like to have some fun.
No, it's because you're cheap and you like fucking with people's heads.
Well, you might not be that far off.
Aha!
Bite me. Anyway, here's the catch. This contest is only open to people who have commented on this blog at some point during my three years here. I can check, too. Typepad keeps pretty good records of this stuff. So if you're returning after a long hiatus of non commenting, please be sure to use the same name as you did before or I won't be able to find a record of past comments.
That's it?
Not exactly. Another catch is that you have to do a little work.
Here it comes.
As you may or may not realize, the titles of all my posts dating back to sometime in July 2005 use song lyrics or titles. What I want you to do is take all my posts since I returned from my vacation a week and a half ago (Tuesday, May 27) through yesterday (Thursday, June 5) and tell me what songs they come from. As a bonus, tell me why I chose that song for that post.
That sounds difficult.
Well, it's not so bad. The last week and a half of posts are pretty simple. Now that I look at them again, they're scary simple. As for why I chose a song, that's a bit more subjective. If you come up with the real reason, great! However, I won't rule out creative descriptions. But that's totally up to me.
So the person with the most correct answers wins?
Not exactly. The person with the most correct answers will get the most entries into the drawing.
Huh?
Well, much like how Avitable does his Lazy Sundays, you guess what you are able to guess and you don't wind up losing just because you can't get them all. You get one entry for a correct song ID and one entry for a correct (or creative) reason why I chose it. If you guess five correctly, you get five entries into the drawing. So, sure, a person who guesses more has a better chance. But you, with even one correct guess, will still have a chance to win.
Is that the final catch?
I guess there is one other smallish one... if you live outside the United States, your gift certificate may wind up being worth something like a dollar after currency conversions. Don't blame me. I don't set the exchange rate.
Weak dollar.
Amen. So get out there and figure out where my titles come from and why and leave your guesses in the comments section of this post. Yes, I know this promotes the possibility of cheating, but oh well. Play nice. This contest will be open until noon CDT on Tuesday, June 10 at which time I'll close the comments. Then I'll get everything prepped and hopefully have the winner announced in the next Snippet Wednesday post on June 11.
I still say you're cheap.
And you're annoying.
Annoying is forgivable and sometimes cute. Cheap is just, well, cheap.
Again, bite me.
Totally Unrelated Aside (TUA): Tomorrow night is the showdown! A contest between armies who are squaring off in the alleys. That's right... it's the Great Blogger Bowl Off! Katie and I will be facing off against Team Kilax and Team Former Blogger Formerly Known as Diane in a grudge match for the ages at AMF Lanes in Hoffman Estates, IL.
Be there, or be square. And we all know a square ball just don't roll.
(Brandon! Help me conjure the Aura of Lebowski! I need all the help I can get. I haven't bowled in five freakin' years.)
NOTE: Comments are now closed and the winner of the contest has been announced.
