What a week. You wrote great posts. You fought like best frenemies. You made some memorable comments, funny and serious. Let’s take a look back, shall we?
Remains of the Day
You finished last Friday with internet-winning panache. Cletar disproved some questionable theories put forth by Ron Paul supporters, MonkeyBiz recommended some tools for your box and Bots showed you what a curmudgeon Maurice Sendak is. Bbqcornnuts asked for some smell/memory connections, and while most commenters mentioned perfumes or soaps or even tobacco, Duo_tone reminded you that the most evocative scent is sometimes a person’s natural scent.
Miss Anita Manbadly recapped Project Runway All Stars. QueenDeLaDance recounted the life and times of Kanye West, in a hilarious succession of GIFs, natch. Later, Dürers Rhino gave you another mind-blowing Ten Photos post, Cletar recapped another GOP debate and Lauren put the name of the retired hipster to a vote.
Saturday
Rumpofsteelskin pointed out that libraries are saving your tweets and status updates, for history. Momof3 wanted to know what kind of American accent you have. Sorry foreigners, you’ll have to take some other barely credible quiz about how you pronounce words! I speak with Oz’s most aristocratic accent, in case you were wondering. Later, Queen created a safe space for you to share your favorite pop tunes. In the OT, the discussion turned toward Doritos® and theology:
Sunday
Houckster6 asked if you knew any juicy celebrity gossip.
GtCosita shared a recipe for Panamanian style Arroz con Pollo, and La Ziguezon introduced you to five more fascinating Abandoned Places.
Monday
Ginger Provocateur, also known as Furiouslyred, set the tone for the day when she made this comment:
Once The DownFonz™ was activated, the usual baiting and pandemonium ensued, but nothing was as notable as this thread, in which you poked fun at your own predictability:
Elsewhere, SusanBAwesome and Skinny_vanilla pimp-slapped pastor John Pooper for his untrue and/or religiously slanted list of “15 Things to Consider about Abortion.” Tchotchke made you a mixtape: Sounds of the Garden State. Dawn gave you some good job-hunting advice. FortyDavids&aMule interviewed APotC for the long-awaited second entry in the Meet Your Crassholes series. Lauren shared the trailer for the new season of Game of Thrones and gave you the results of her poll: the retired hipster shall henceforth be known as the R.I.P.ster.
Tuesday
Homoviper recapped the season premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Queen asked who had the nastiest dunk, and Bbqcornnuts wanted to hear about the worst project you ever worked on ever ever. Well, Bbq, this one time I had to recap a week’s worth of blog content, searching for the funniest comm– Oh.
HonkIfYouLikeCookies invited you to make fun of Christina Aguilera, Lauren told you about the latest scene from Mormon Mittens & Big Newton: Slam Book Slumber Party and Tchotchke alerted you to the news that the Susan G. Komen foundation cut its ties with Planned Parenthood in order to more effectively bend over for conservatives.
Madonna really took a beating in the OT. When you weren’t talking smack about her new album cover or questioning her relevance as a pop artist, you took (hilarious) cheap shots at her (admittedly frightening) appearance:
Elsewhere, you exposed Skahammer’s true identity;
considered changing the Crasstalk masthead;
and realized you hadn’t finished poking fun at yourselves Monday.
Wednesday
Cletar reported on the Florida Primary results. GI told you the exciting news that Crasstalk is a Bloggies finalist. If you don’t vote, you don’t deserve to live comment. Go here and vote. Knight of the Burning River shared some Super Bowl recipes sure to please your tummy and send shooting pain up your left arm. Rowen recapped another installment of Valley of the Black Swan Mommie Dearest Dolls. FortyDavids brought the documentary Pink Ribbons to your attention and also wanted to know who you don’t trust. Queen wrote a lovely post in memory of Soul Train creator, Don Cornelius. Lauren wrote at length about rich Romney’s poor problem and later graced you with a Hollywood Caller post. While Madonna was your target of choice in the OT on Tuesday, Wednesday you laid into Mormon “I’m not worried about Poors” Mittens quite a bit:
Thursday
Allgoodpeople told you about Pfizer’s birth control recall, Ihatediamonds asked for your favorite through-the-looking-glass historical moments as an entree to Black History Month and Homoviper begged you to just leave the poor groundhogs alone.
Queen introduced you to a scumbag POS named John Goodman (no, not Dan Conner), Bots set you loose in an Open Caption post and Marty Funkhouser gave the haters some suggestions on how to enjoy Super Bowl Sunday. After much bloodletting, gutteral moans and brandishing of pointed sticks in the OT, GI demanded that you be happy.
Delta Sierra gave you a primer on Catalina Island, Badhatharry gave you a(nother?) reason to stay away from Indiana, and Lauren told you about a matchmaking site that will revolutionize parenting probably end in kidnapping or murder or–at the very least–drawn out litigation. Later, Cunning_Linguist hosted the Project Runway All Stars liveblog, and BadKarma told you about Alain de Botton’s plan to build a temple for atheists; some of you thought it was stupid idea, but one of you saw the light:
Friday
Alluson told you ten reasons she loves being an interweb commenter. Ihatediamonds wrote about the barrier-shattering life of Anna Julia Cooper. BaldwinP told you about a company that monitors its employees’ toilet usage and later reported on a MINI publicity stunt fail. Newsbunny laid the smack down on Big Newton for using “Eye of the Tiger” during appearances and later shined a light on what florists go through on Valentine’s Day. Momof3 asked for your help in winning her courageous cousin a much-deserved vacation.
Lauren reported on the Susan G. Komen foundation’s half-assed backpedaling. Ross analyzed both teams’ chances of winning the Super Bowl, and Miss Anita recapped another episode of Project Runway All Stars. Dürer’s Rhino graced you with an awe-inspiring Ten Photos post. DahlELama schooled Vanity Fair about looking beyond young, white actresses for its Hollywood issue.
COW
Thursday’s OT hysteria wasn’t all pinching, scratching and tears. There were also laughs, in no small part thanks to MrAnansi, whose argument-as-sport thread grew to 80+ replies. You made fun of Crasstalk; you made fun of each other; you made fun of…Vicky? I don’t know who this Vicky is, but you brutalized her. No comment sums up that entire thread better than this one:
Well done, Munchkins.
Until next week.
xx
Glinda
