I want to get to know you better and am eager to try an experiment. Are you up for an excercise in honesty that demands you to say one truthful thing about yourself every single day for one week?
This is my challenge!
Original photo by Lady Vic (flickr.com)
Are you a blogger or journaler? Do you have a youtube channel? Do you have twitter or facebook? It doesn’t matter if you’re an atheist, republican, Canadian, teenager, stay-at-home mom, food blogger, cartoonist, scientist, or anything at all. There are no restrictions on who can participate.
Here’s What to Do
- Write, blog, plurk, tweet, or record one honest moment or thought each day for one week starting whenever you want.
- Be honest and take your time. Say something you may not have said to your audience before. It has to be about you, and it will hopefully be a bit more revealing of who you are than a statement like “I hate Chinese food.” Work with me here! If you’ve had writer’s block like I have, this could help you jump out of it. Use it as a springboard to talk about anything you like!
- When you start the challenge, leave your link below so we can all read it/watch it/fap to it.
- I’d appreciate it if you’d spread the word around so others could take part. You can link to this post and use the image above if you like! Tweet it, share it on facebook, or just keep it simple—your choice!
- There is no closing date, so come back and do it agin anytime!
Couldn’t resist doing one of these circa 1998 memes to pass the time while under the weather. 
1. My uncle once: held me upside down by my ankles and I never fully recovered.
2. Never in my life: have I awakened early for the fun of it.
3. When I was five: I was the most self-conscious child on the block.
4. High School was: under-utilized for all its opportunities for shenanigans.
5. I will never forget: to never use the word never—just in case.
6. I once met: some famous people, but I have an aversion to people who name-drop.
7. There’s this girl I know who: is much smarter than me, but I don’t want her to figure that out while she still admires me.
8. Once, at a bar: The waiter gave all the girls free drinks except me.
9. By noon, I’m usually: just feeling good and awake…and starving.
10. Last night: I took a shower at 3AM because I couldn’t get back to sleep.
11. If only I had: A teleporter and some private income.
12. Next time I go to church: I hope I can sneak in a video camera.
All of these books have won the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. It’s my dream to one day make that list. Maybe one person will judge the book by its title and buy a copy!
- If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs (2007)
- Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts (1985)
- The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (2003)
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (2006)
- How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art (1989)
- The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution (1979)
- Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes (1995)
- Highlights in the History of Concrete (1994)
- The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today (1984)
- People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It (2005)
- The Joy of Chickens (1980)
- Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality (1986)
- [and my personal favorite since I would actually want to read it] How to Avoid Huge Ships (1992)
I even have a bonus list of titles that were also submitted for this contest. Aren’t you lucky?
Read the Rest! Post a comment (9)I used to participate in Thursday Thirteen way back in the day of my old blogs, and it was a lot of fun! There’s something about lists that I find ripe for amusement. I’m feeling quite meme-friendly right now, so I’d like to contribute to a few now and then to satiate my need for easygoing content. We can’t be hard all the time, right?
- 2001: A Space Odyssey – I may have been introduced to this flick too early, but if I wanted to jump out the window to avoid boredom at 13, I am not quite sure my reaction would be much better 13 years later.
- Mission to Mars – Thankfully, I saw this terrible movie on my first official date with a new boyfriend. It gave me lots of time to snog.
- The Black Dahlia – Dark, frustrating, and not the least bit as interesting as the case it chronicles.
- Extreme Days – The best part of this Christian extreme sports movie is an entire scene of lighting farts on fire.
- Borat – Apparently my humor has limits.
- Showgirls – But who doesn’t? I mean, just watch the pool sex scene (actually, don’t). I nearly peed my pants laughing!
- Left Behind: the Movie – This could actually fit into the “awesomely bad” category of films I’d watch with RiffTrax commentary, but I start to claw my eyes out about 15 minutes in.
- Life As a House – Truthfully, it isn’t that bad. I just hate it because of how much crying I did balled up on the floor before it even reached the third act.
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – I want to make a cut of this movie without all the special effects and see the sludge that oozes out from my iMac.
- Sideways – Maybe if I was drunk I would have enjoyed this midlife crisis on film. Mostly I was just bored to tears.
- Meet the Parents – Being embarrassed for someone else is something I try to avoid completely. This was two straight hours of torturous empathy. The sequel was bearable.
- Dirty Dancing – Rest in Peace, Patrick Swayze, but I’ll put baby in a corner… of a dark cellar never to be seen again.
- What About Bob – Yet another example of having too much empathy (for the psychiatrist!). I spent years loathing Bill Murray until I finally got over myself and saw Lost in Translation. It almost helped.
(hint: check out the links to see IMDB links, trailers, and clips)
What movies do you hate? Leave a comment and let us know. If you’ve participated in TT this week, enter the post’s permalink in the form below and I promise to check it out!
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