You guys, I found this fantastic personality test. ;)

Tahnks. That is all. I just want to point out interesting things get created in the midst of turmoil.
Don't forget to set the clocks back. One extra hour to decide who to vote out.

Part II........-Realization that the tragic, hapless Gingerbug has enough drones to do her dirtywork, ie, annoying popups on our board, tons of cryptic, dull, chiding posts, sheer repatition of her name and her tribulations, that Charles Manson and the leaders of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult are gnashing their teeth in envy.
-The possibility that Kotex and Quithappy may find romance and companionship w/each other or at least both get laid w/out having to step foot in the JC Penney's men's room.
-A 'certain judge', ok, RacerMike, appeared on Open City and was quickly thrown in the Fish Tank forum where the annoying but not in a funny/interesting way posters wind up.
By the way, you can still post. It's just that we get to judge the judge. Here's how it works, it's pretty neat....

'Fishies can post only in this forum, The Aquarium. You can start threads, polls, do the normal stuff - but only in The Aquarium.
If you prove yourself to be funny here, you get let out and go back to being a full Member.

If you just re-register under a different name, you are banned by IP.

You have a chance to win us over, if you so wish. Or to rant in this Tank about what
arseholes we are. Or you can go away. Your choice. '

Let us all take a minute to reflect on all the good and/or interesting things that came out of stirring the pot o poo.
-It jumpstarted the game.
-I got voted out, enabling me to join in all the fun of DS4 w/out the actual drudgery.
-At least 3 new interesting memebers on Open City, the board I compulsivly post on instead of tackling the store's bookkeeping.
-One of the most lively dramas on Open City or it's various incarnations since 2 years ago when we discovered 2 of the smugest, 'happily married' tsk-tsking posters having a torrid, supersecret cyber romance.
This motherscratcher won't scroll up, I'm continueing in another post.

Hmmm. It's rather interesting to see Sinnamon telling us that we don't know what we're talking about regarding the judges' behavior when she was one of the judges who posted that our voting for Loudwoman was motivated by jealousy. I'd say she knows just as much about what we were thinking as I do about what the judges are.

A boy like that kill your brother! Forget that boy, and find another!

Playing a little Devil's advocate here.


Does anyone else find it funny that on here we see talks about "what the judges are doing" while talking about not grouping all the contestants in cause he said or she said that. While on the Judge's blog some of the judges are saying "look at what the contestants are saying" while complaining don't group all us judges together because of what one or two of us said.


Pretty much coming down to it both Judges and Contetants complaining about each other as a whole. While complaining about the other side bunching them up as a whole cause of what one said.


I smell a Jets and Sharks like knife fight coming on here real soon.


STICK TO YOUR OWN KIND! STICK TO YOUR OWN KIND!


ahem...sorry....I'm deleriously tired here and I get really truthfull and even more strange then usual when I am.

Whoa, I didn't expect all this from mentioning doing the first IC to the theme of The Rocky Horror Picture show.


Since I am the one who first started this. I guess I might as well throw up my Rocky Horror test results too.







Which Rocky character are you?



er, no. I don't think so.

This idiot program is simply not going to let me post my entry. Bah.

I am...






Which Rocky character are you?

Heh. I can dance, but I can't tap dance.

Congrats, Joanna!

Amen, sister Alternamommy -- and congratulations on the IC win!

And I agree with Gingerbug on the no-shows among the judges. If it counts against us not to get an IC in on time,
shouldn't the judges be held to a similar standard?

i concur. how bout we put all this ic3 stuff behind us and make like a certain r&b songstress and move on.

I think a lot of the 'behind the scenes' Survivor people ~coughs Judges and Technical Helpers~ bring a lot of issues to the table that even Oprah couldn't help. Chill people. The IC topics have been good so far, at least in my humble opinion. It's gettin' all psychotic up in this here joint. Why don't we all just do some booty slappin' and kick it, dawgs? No? Ah well. ~flips the peace sign and electric slides back to the pines~

i third those congrats! and, ginger, if AM is a fish, and you have her babies, what does that make you?

for the record, i had two fish once, Don Tierra del Fuego and Monsieur Poisson. they're both dead. not that i'm threatening y'all or anything... ;}

Bwahaha!! Oh Kim, that's good! :-)

Ms. M, I was Janet too, but I think I'm more of a Columbia at heart.

Re: IC Win, thank you. *blush* Again, Ms. M is the one who gave me the inspiration, so I do feel sorta wierd about winning.

Re: IC Judges: I'm with GingerBug, I'd like to know why the judges aren't required to vote, seeing as the contestants are required to do both the ICs and the TCs.
~AlternaMommy

Well, Riff Raff has nice cheekbones......

Which Rocky character are you?

Big surprise,huh?

Black pudding is awesome with bacon and eggs. Heathens.

I'm




Which Rocky character are you?

I'm not sure how I should feel about that. Dammit.

Congrats on the win, A-mommy

1. Congrats to Alternamommy for winning IC#3! And I have to say - very well articulated opinion on the whole topic-brouhaha. Fantastic. I want to have your babies.

2. There are 20 judges. So far, there have not been 20 votes from judges in any of the IC's. The current one totally takes the piss though: 13 votes. That means 7 judges did not vote. That could have swung things around completely, or strengthened the lead of the winner. But surely, whichever way you look at it, isn't it more than a bit rank that amidst all these cries of 'play the game and give us good entries', the judges themselves aren't playing the game. I move to kick those 7 out of the panel.

Just read the entry in question. Had to comment.

Would it be too much if I were clapping over here, Magpie? Because I could not possibly agree with you more. I swear 90% of DLand writers think that the entire site is a Who is Angstier ~ Darker ~ More Brooding Than Whom Contest. Get. A. Grip. It gets old after a while. Frankly I don't lose sleep over the fact that some people like to read my journal and some don't. Because it's mine, kept for my own purposes. Just because we've signed up for what amounts to a collective writing assignment doesn't mean we've pinned all our hopes and dreams and self-esteem on pleasing other people, be they judges, contestants, or followers of the other DS contests and it shouldn't mean other people can just trash us all in general because some of us dared to express a personal opinion about an IC. I didn't see any contestants writing "Whomever came up with this IC can go fuck themselves."

Seriously, this has all just gotten way the fuck out of hand and I enjoyed it much more when we were discussing wrasslin' matches. Bring on the pudding.
~AlternaMommy

Rocky Horror: I spent way too much time at Rocky the summer between high school and college, and then got over it. I never did do the costume bit though. (And I got Brad on the quiz. WTF???)

IC3: I wasn't much bothered by the topic (and I'm a little surprised how differently I interpreted it from everyone else) but I know I'm in the minority and I think Mocksie's being pretty cold about how people reacted to it. Also, I've read way more bad diaries that try and fail to be deep than that try and fail to be funny. NO ONE CARES about a 15-year old suburbanite's tough, tough life either, y'know?

Food: Blood pudding sounds revolting, and I've never been a fan of creamed corn or lima beans or brussels sprouts... but Raw, I totally disagree with you on the pickled okra... Yum!

Well said, Angeline.

Re: Judges' Blog and Mocksie's entry:

I love a challenge. I'm glad I faced up to something that scares the motherloving fuck out of me and pulled what I think is a decent IC out of my ass, and god willing I'll not have to do anything like that again, because I've had a goddamn hard time sleeping this week.

I don't, however, appreciate being told to fuck off because I didn't like the topic for what I think is a very legitimate reason. I'm sorry I have a phobic fear of death, I didn't know it would be so inconvenient.

I'm glad I moved my readers, but I'm not glad that I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I even think about what I wrote.

The topic didn't offend me, it didn't make me sick...it just scared the shit out of me. Because that's what death does to me. I thought of this topic as the equivalent of forcing an agoraphobic person out of their house and making them go to the mall. I thought of it as locking a claustrophobic up in a tiny, windowless room with no air circulation.

But why am I explaining? The person who made up the topic doesn't care. I don't even expect--nor do I want--a response to this.

Fair Warning: Spoiler:

Eddie is killed and served for dinner. So prolly, you don't wanna be Eddie.
It's a very funny, campy movie though. I love it.
~ AlternaMommy

I *knew* this was not good :D

No, I haven't seen the movie: what happens to Eddie, Joanna? Break it to me softly, I'm all fragile and stuff :)

OMG! July, it just makes me want to roll on the floor giggling that you got BRAD! Somehow I cannot picture you as a Brad!
Gingerbug, have you seen the movie? Do you know what happens to Eddie?
;-)
~AlternaMommy

Should I worry?






Which Rocky character are you?

What is this supposed to mean? Do you all think I'm an asshole?? Yay!






Which Rocky character are you?

Banned foods = lima beans, brussels sprouts, and overcooked poultry. *gag* ~AlternaMommy

as for banned foods, i'm from the south, so ima guess nobody else knows the horrors of chow-chow, pickled okra, or chitlins. but banned they should be!

is this a bad sign? =


i took it using my other personality, got this =

Oh! Oh! I have another banned food: Black Pudding. "Here, have some blood cakes!" Bleuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh.

I love Rocky! It was my first date with my husband *awwwww*... and Tim Curry in fishnets.....rrrrrrAAAWWLL! ;-) Kinetex strikes me as more of a Bif type, though :-b ... Ooo we should all assign roles! Have you ever taken that silly internet test: Which Rocky Charecter Are You? I came up as a Janet but really, can you see me as Janet?!?!
~ AlternaMommy

Banned food: liver. That shit's just nasty.

Fling the poo! Fling the poo! Fling the poo!

Hmmm... I've been invited to see Rocky next weekend with some Rocky fanatic friends of mine. I think I'll just join Magpie at the triple feature.

To add to Ginger's "banned food" list: anything with artificial "hickory smoked" flavoring.

Hey, *I* find guys in fishnets quite appealing. And tight leather pants. And rubber with chains. :D

hah strangely enough I've never found fishnets on guys appealing either . It could have something to do with it wanting to sear my eyeballs out....seriously anyone elses dick and balls I can live without seeing. heh


You know this is kind of sad, but you are the first survivor to offer to dress up in little outfits for me. Though Fernando has had several offers from a few of the survivor ladies. I feel so unloved..heh


Actually I can see where the movie is boring to so many people. Even the writer of the movie talks about there being holes in the lines big enough to drive a semi through. Though really a young Susan Sarandon in her skivies....gggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrooooowwllllllllllll hubba hubba.

Chrome, Chrome, Chrome,

If you want me to play dress up and put on little outfits and stuff, really, all you have to do is ask. ;)

Seriously, though, I have to shamefully admit that I've never seen that movie. I haven't ever seen the attraction. I know it has a big cult following, and I even had friends who got dressed up and went to the shows every week to scream and throw food and stuff, but every time I've tried to watch it I've just gotten bored and turned the channel halfway through.

Oh, and I don't see the appeal of fishnets on guys, either. :)

And I'm offically pissed right now. I came up with, what I think, is a great idea for the first immunity challange three weeks to damn late.


Imagine, the first day on the island set to the theme of...


The Rocky Horror Picture Show.


Each survivor is set as one of the characters in the movie, which ever best suits there personality. Then the entire scene is played out like an impromtu version of the movie.


Ok, so maybe I'm the only one who likes that idea, so sue me. Though I think Kinetix would make a perfect Dr. Frankenfurter. Though I'd rather not know how he looks in a set of fish net stockings. heh

Damn it, I missed a lot on here trying to get my damn modem to work with me.


And I'm thinking the drama gets too thick on here sometimes so I've decided next time it gets to tense. I'm just going to start flinging poo around like a crazed monkey in a zoo.


I'll do it you know.....I swear I will.


Ok, I won't, but it sounds funny.

Things that should be banned:
- Macaroni cheese out of a tin
- SPAM
- Mushy peas (the english equivalent of creamed corn, except it's green)

I want to see a triple feature of "Showgirls," "Glitter" and "Valley of the Dolls."

Speaking of stripper movies on regular TV, has anyone caught the TV edited version of "Showgirls" on TNN? They have a top digitally added to all the strippers (ooops, dancers) in every scene! While no big fan of boobies, I just think that's wrong. If you take out the naked breasts, that movie doesn't really have anything left.

I'm with the divine Ms. M. Creamed corn looks like baby shit to me. Can I say shit in here?

I've also never seen Striptease in it's entirety; I've only caught a few minutes of it here and there on FX.
~ AlternaMommy

Now that's just nasty right there.

Creamed Corn, Joanna. Didn't you ever see "Striptease?"

*grin*

I'm too much of a wuss for the steel cage match, and the idea of cavorting about in mud gives me the heebie jeebies so I guess that leaves pudding? :-)
~ AlternaMommy

Card girls get to clack their gum and be all slutty right?! Sweet.

This wrassling... is it in mud? Or pudding? How about a steel cage? Damn it, if I'm going to watch this I better go get a mullet.

can i be the foxy lady in the crowd with too much make up, big hair, and a fur coat even in 90 degree weather? i must be seated next to my pimp, of course.

Are you ready to ruuuummmmmble?!
~AlternaMommy

I wanna be the Number Card gal!!!

lw, maybe but then you might've taken it that i was being serious when in reality i don't care. hence the smiley. and i'd be up for seeing alterna and july wrasslin..though i think it'd be a tossup who won.

Is that an invite, July? You wanna wrassle?! ;-)

~AlternaMommy

What this blog could really use would be a good catfight! Yay! Smileys and fluffy bunnies! Gooses in nooses!

hey RM: I'd prefer to not be used in the Loud Wars. i'm under no illusions and don't need to protected. i do appreciate the effort, though. i think you and LW can bruise each other without my aid. LW: i really like how i get to be linked with sweet luscious fruit. i work for the government, so y'all'll have to pardon my use of abbreviations.

Raw's entry really tickled me. Women and food, the eternal bond.

Gingerbug, TWINSIES! Last night I wrote on Open City "I'm getting sleepy.  Off to bed. If I was a dumb boy, i would just ignore me and hope I would go away.
Thank pineapple they don't."

Angeline, I'm nuts but physically I think you and waxpop could be sisters. Or cousin lovers.

Scud, it would have impact if you lost the smiley face.

Heh, someone read my IC and commented: it would have been so much better with an ad for an exterminator on top! Heh. Why didn't I think of that?

I'm catching up with everyone's IC entry (all but two so far). I loved Kinetix's and Alternamommy's. I especially loved the bit in Kinetix's entry where he said: "....I am dead. You can tell by my eyes." Thee-hee. Love the fact that some of you managed to make this into a humorous entry. I couldn't have (although I tried to insert little bits and pieces on the sidelines, which some people might pick up on...but you can't call them 'funny'!). One of the judges (can't remember which one) says in the blog how relishing a difficult topic and working with the uncomfortable feelings can actually read to fantastic entries. Well....am I the only one who views Diaryland Survivor separately from their 'normal' entries? I know most of my readers skip over the Survivor stuff. Yes, I think I will write about how death/something else painful makes me feel one day, but that'll be a PROPER diary entry, not something manufactured for a contest because someone told me to write about it. My diary's reason for being was a form of therapy, not something written for entertainment and the audience. Sorry :(

P.S. You know what the best way to REALLY piss off a school bully is? Pretend they don't exist. Ignore them. That takes away their reason for living. ;)

Truth be told, Kim, I only showed up the board to bug the hell out of Waxpop. I know she has a hate on for me. :D (kidding...or really...am I? hmmm. Bears thought)

Also because sometimes, random posts of weirdness are good for you.

--angeline

loudwhiner = loser bitch. :]

CommaMike, You and Kotex keep harping on my duplicity. I am anything but. I'm an open book. I freely link to our message board. I don't IM or email folks. I'm out in the open.

Raw is a peach. She and Angeline read my comments, know what I think, said I'm intitled to my opinion and didn't take to the swooning couch w/the vapors like you, scut, kotex and chromedome.

The women have more balls than the boys. I guess the proper term would be 'more ovaries.'

i'd just like to put a mini-mention up here that everything in my IC #3 besides me dying, did actually happen in real life.
edit: i also added the disclaimer for fear of what would happen if/when google picks up the page.

oh. i was talkin' bout leo. i don't know what RacerMike looks like. but leo... now there is a beautiful specimen.

FIX THE BLOG, FISHY FACE!

It's no fun insulting people when no one can read it.

Crapper or cod?

I guess I'd rather smell like fish than the charming mix of sour grapes and tired bullshit trailing in your wake, Kim.

Raw, you want to qualify whether you are speaking of Josh Duhamel or RacerMike.

Mike is compliment hungry and grasps at straws.

Which is just what his last sexual conquest said they thought they were doing...

RIMSHOT

oh my stars! what a pretty pretty man... and those parts....

uh, ah, err, well ...

Mike 96, you are doing the dumb boy thing. Mistaking my thinking you an idiot for some kind of rough sexxx game.

I wasn't thinking about your dong, rather that you are a dong.

Throcky's super. Tahnks for the comparision.

Freudian.....I guess equating your bad teeth in your journal to you probably not having a pretty penis like Josh Duhamel is pretty Freudian.

I remember asking a therapist once what a reoccurring dream about crumbling teeth meant. She said it could represent sexual issues or it could mean you need to floss more often.
Sometimes a cigar is a cigar.



http://209.126.169.54/horpics12/jduh3.jpg

Damn! Blogger's being a hellbitch!

Blogger is a dink.

Kinetex, Kotex. I get confused. They're both bloody rags and they both smell like fish.

It doesn't seem fair that she has to throw him a fuck AND do the dishes.

A woman's work is never done.

mmm not only do we get rants, we get porn on this now. sweet deal!

*Kinetix is a dink*

:P

*sigh*

I was worried that I voted Loudwoman off for petty reasons. Fortunately her behavior since getting tossed has only served to reaffirm my choice.

"Kotex"? That means a lot coming from a numb twat like you, Kim.

i forgot to say this, but by ol' girl i was refering to the loudest woman on the block. i thought you'd enjoy it.

Bwaha! Very well done, Raw. :)

~AlternaMommy

Ginger brought chocolates! Ginger brought chocolates! *dancing*

Must go read Raw's food-related death scene.

~AlternaMommy

'death by taco! Ohhhh sour cream!'

Stop pandering to the judge's lesbian fantasies, you trollop.

I prefer death by taco! Ohhhh sour cream! ~smacks lips~

i shared this with lady ms. and she didn't seem too wigged out. and since i think it's right up ol' girl's alley, here's a nice pic for you all. please be warned that it's not something you should show your kids or coworkers. i stumbled upon it accidently while googling "messy kitchens" and was transfixed before i realized that i'm here in my cube in front of god and everybody. anyway, that's your warning.

http://www.swellsexxx.com/kitchensex/stacy4.htm

To be sung to the tune of 'Someone's In The Kitchen W/Dinah'

My Pain is bigger than your Pain
My Pain is bigger than yooouuur, uuuur, uuurs
My life's much more traumatic than anyone's life
Ooooh....my Pain is bigger than yours

thank you kindly, m'am. it made me hungry too. can i say i'd sever your arm for a caramel latte? good. cause i would. now, about that been and avocado burrito...

Raw, your death scene was so tasty that after reading it I ordered a bean and avacado burrito and a large orchata.

When it comes, I plan to reread your challenge while chowing down.

Nothing better than eating good food while reading about mayhem and good food.

mmmmmm....stinky.

Hi. I'm back from Belgium. Boy, did someone let off a STINK bomb in here or what? Mmmkay. I'd like to say...

about Diaryland Survivor:

• Yes, we all read the disclaimer about 'emotional scarring due to being voted off'. I think we all understand that this is supposed to be a fun game. However, surely we are allowed to both publicly and privately voice our feelings when something about the contest no longer seems so fun. In all this, I am sure everyone on the Island is smart enough not to let themselves be harmed by this game. Talking about it, saying out loud what we think....so what?
  
• I think we all also understand (apologies for putting words in other contestants' mouths here) that the contest is not merely for the benefit of those participating, so thus 'controversial' topics or 'drama' can be considered beneficial, so as to claim more publicity. Again, I must point out: several of us have simply been saying 'YUCK, such-and-such makes me feel nauseous!". Allowed? Yes? So far I've only seen one person throwing real hissy-fits and she got voted off last week.
  
• Yes, I will do an IC. Going to get working on it just as I post this. Thanks for the note, Ms.M - much appreciated.
  
• As far as I am aware, there IS no alliance. The voting so far has been based on everyone's sensible criteria - whether that's like/dislike for IC's, whether that's like/dislike for the person, level of participation in the game... there are no secret plots and conspiracies. Unless something has developed while I was away! In which case, ignore this bit.
  
• To add to the above, yes, IM chatting goes on. That's not the same as an alliance.
  

About the loudwoman and related issues

• Yes, I voted for Loudwoman. I voted because some of her diary entries turned my stomach in their sheer bad taste and because she seems to enjoy being sarky for sarky's sake a bit too much. Also, in the first week, she did not participate in the activities at all. Finally, I thought her second IC was weak. I don't hate her or actually dislike her as such, she just isn't my cup of tea. So, a perfectly good candidate for a TC vote in my books anyway.
  
• In her exit interview, Loudwoman said some interesting things about my diary (too orange, seemed to lack whimsey). Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I agree - the colour scheme is not going to be to everyone's taste. As for whimsey, fair enough if that's what you look for in a diary. It takes all sorts. I have found it hard to be whimsical in the last couple of years - for very good reasons. Kind of why I started a diary in the first place. And.......I guess she didn't see this.
  
• Also in her exit interview, Loudwoman said this: "Folks who include 'a cast of characters' description or *diaryland member's name*101 should be poked w/a poking stick. If people can't grasp who you are and what you are about in 2 or 3 entries, you aren't a good writer and NO ONE GIVES THAT MUCH OF A FUCK ABOUT YOU!" Well, I would quote Loudwoman herself here: "one man's floor is another man's ceiling". Just because your readers can grasp who you are and what you are about in a couple of entries, doesn't mean the rest of us are that un-complicated as characters. Some of us are less transparent, more verbiose, more complex. And just because your readers don't give that much of a fuck about you, doesn't mean ours don't. Oh, quite the opposite.
  
• Sorry to have brought all this up again, but maybe you guys can forgive me because I've been abroad? I brought chocolates...
  

About the death-theme for IC

• I have been raped. I didn't like it. Really traumatic, actually. Yet I'd still have rather written about that than the current topic.
  
• I had to say something and did seriously consider whether the 'fun game' was going to be 'fun' anymore with having to deal with topics like this. Since my mother killed herself in January, I have been thinking nothing BUT about death. Her mortality and mine. I even contemplated suicide at one point, but thank goodness wonderful people around me prodded some sense into my thick skull. So, the last thing I want to 'bastardise' in a contest entry, is a subject which is so raw and painful in my mind. Maybe you can see that.
  

That's all. Sorry for the super-long entry. Had catching up to do.

i just finished my IC. please don't hate me for saying it was kinda fun. i have no phobias really (shh... don't tell anyone, but i've also not been to therapy since my mother stopped forcing me back in sixth grade), so i just saw it as fiction with my name attached. i'm sorry y'all had such a hard time with it, but i've ready everyone's so far and y'all've done kick ass jobs with the topic. can't wait to see what they come up with for #4! (uh, <-------that was sarcasm)

Damn, I said I wasn't going to do this:

Sinnamon, writing one's obit and descibing the feelings in one's own death are two very different things. I have death issues, as do a number of the contestants here so it's not exactly a pleasant thought. I did it, though, with a minimum of "griping" although I don't think it's fair to call it "griping" when we're just airing our opinions on the topics you all selected.

So there. *neener neener*

~AlternaMommy

I see your name, Kim.


Matt, Mr. Telephone Man was the first song I ever danced with a boy to, so I'm right there with ya if they remake it. Don't ruin my tender 5th grade memories, Puffy, I'm beggin' ya!
~AlternaMommy

By the way, should I be offended that my name isn't lasted in the 'contestants' thing at the top of this page? If so, I KNOW it's GOT to be Tel's fault. He really has it in for me, and that's why I should vote for him as most e v i l judge (even if he isn't a judge).

[edit] ah-ha... I looked at it in another browser, and it IS there. However, the html is bad so I can't see it. How about someone else?

What a whack-job, that Tel. "oi oi oi oi oi!" Man, that rocked my juice right out. I sent no such cd to him. But then maybe there was a Madness track on one of the ones I've sent.

Now the Hairdresser is making me think of Hairdresser on Fire by Morose-y.

Quoteth, I:
"Can you squeeze me
Into an empty page of your diary
And psychologically save me
I've got faith in you
I sense the power
Within the fingers
Within an hour the power
Could totally destroy me
(Or, it could save my life)
..
And you're always busy

Really busy
Busy, busy
Oh, hairdresser on fire
All around Sloane Square
And you're just so busy
Busy, busy
Busy scissors
Oh, hairdresser on fire
(Only the other day) "

I stole that description from a certain porkpie hat. He called us that and I thought it wonderful.

Heh... nomadic hairdressers. Makes me think of the gang of old ladies in that Monty Python skit.

Angeline - (I'm a little slow in reading this thing lately) Should there be a remake of "Mr. Telephone Man," I will promptly move my ass somewhere without radios. Now, if somebody would do something smart like reunite the kids from The Party (the short-lived group from the Mickey Mouse Club of the early 90's), now that would be something.

sorry, double post

"But I always take comfort in thinking my own death would be the last scratching off on my giant 'To Do' list. Just think. You're done! No housecleaning, no doctor apts, no homework, no paperwork."


*terrified, covers ears and runs in circles* I can't hear you! I can't hear you!!!

Grrr... I want to publicly announce my bitter hatred for the blasted "post and publish" button. I've had three posts end up somewhere in cyber space, never to be seen or heard from again.

My gang of nomadic hairdressers on the board I post on were teasing me that i was going to write IC #3 anyway.

Me do unnecessary work? Uh-uh.

But I always take comfort in thinking my own death would be the last scratching off on my giant 'To Do' list. Just think. You're done! No housecleaning, no doctor apts, no homework, no paperwork.
It's got to be kind of satisfying.

"I don't know what exactly I'm supposed to be trying to save face over"

Over knowing you are a dong and your odd compulsion to put punctuation  where it is not needed.

You're going to wear out your comma key, Pal-y.

Hey! I thought you posted a picture of your rack, not your rack holder. Cheater. I guess I just saw 'rack' and got excited.

Oh my goodness, Angeline. You have made a junior cog in the Paramount Studios a very, very happy boy. :)

You might want to see about filing a restraining order.

And for my third post in a row--da da dum--I'll explain exactly why I had a problem with this week's IC, since there are those who still question how bad it is. And I am aware that I will let myself in for a lot of malicious fun-poking (not from the judges--thought I'd clarify that), but really, it's my feeling that I at least should explain my stance. I don't think my passing comments this week have made it clear.

Ever since I was nine years old, I have had a severely phobic fear of death. Simply put, I don't want to die. I work very hard every day to NOT think about death. I am so terrified of dying that I wake up crying in the night at least once a month. Everything described in my IC is straight out of the nightmares I have. And I've been asked to write about my OWN death...for a fun writing exercise.

I can talk about death in the abstract, basic, every day sense for a short time, but something like this really taxed my endurance. I could not sleep last night, not for hours. I stayed up with the shakes, tears in my eyes, acutely conscious of my own mortality, and I was not having fun, not for one minute.

I know that the judges didn't have time to go through our diaries entirely; I wouldn't have expected it. But this is something I don't hide. I'm pretty sure I've discussed it fairly recently. This challenge isn't something I would have asked of anyone. But that is my opinion, only mine, and it's colored with my experiences and fears.

I wouldn't have wanted to do the obituary challenge, either, but I might have handled it better and with less bitching than I did this one.

Sorry if I ruffled feathers. But I wanted to explain.

And in more distracting news, here is the Yahoo! word of the day:

Antagonist
DEFINITION: foe, opponent, adversary
EXAMPLE: The child and the cat became bitter antagonists after the child pulled the cat's tail.

I'm posting this not because you all will think it is apropos, but because I love the example sentence. Pure gold.

--angeline

Miss Kim: Please tell your internet friend that just for him, I have posted a webcam picture of the bra that created my amazing rack. :P

Sue me, I was bored.

It's a good bra though.

As for Jackass the movie: No. I prefer my topic. Let us return to bashing P. Diddy and his strange efforts to breathe life into New Edition. I wonder if they will remix "Mr. Telephone Man!" Oooh.

--angeline

Hey Mike....dude, seriously I stopped humping your leg like a half hour ago. I swear that isn't me....oh and sorry about the mess I made of your shoes..heh


And couldn't we have found a better topic then discussing P. Diddy, Bobby "crackwhore" Brown, and flaming New Edition?


How about this instead, the social and econimical ramifications of Jackass the movie. Is it A) A movie about a bunch of morons who smash shit while showing off there balls, or 2) A rebelious and unique perspective about taking life to seriously.


um, yeah.

Lesser judge Mike, I have a feeling you are babbling about my supposed affection for you to try to save face. You strike me as the sidestepping when cornered type. Otherwise you are delusional.

RacerMike = a bear of very little brain.

Who you callin' Psychophant, sycophant! Mispell one word intentionally ~coughs~ (and be totally off the mark on the definition no less) and that evil troll K-Lo is all up in your grill. Bring it on Mama!

God damn but that song is painful!

I am given to understand Mr. Brown is not welcome, due to his crackmongering ways and being married to Whiney Houston (typo intended), They will just be getting all the other guys, including Bell Biv Devoe, into the studio. My guess is that P. Diddy is gonna be the Bobby Brown replacement. Scary!

--angeline

dude, bobby brown's shacked up with a crack pipe and a 40 of old e. you know he ain't tryin' to leave his drug ensconced compound. as a fan of new edition from the ole skool, i must request that they please for the love of god not ruin my memories by dragging they old asses out into the spotlight again. puffy should just go bail shyne outta prison and make some money offa him.


1983 was a good year: "She gives me pretty lovin' with the kissin' and huggin'. You're such a sexy thing. You give me a bang. Even when we're walkin' or maybe just talking, yeah, You're such a sexy thing. You give me a bang."

Awright, that's it.

P. Diddy's decided the world likes New Edition better alive than dead. Discuss.

--angeline

dammit! i can't read the judges blog!!!

To be honest, I didn't mind this challenge. It was a bit weird writing it, but feh. I want to know what the cereal box one was!

Aha! There's your #3 topic. Death by shame of association! Break a leg.

kim! how dare you! first you take on the role of crazy jennE and then you are nice to me. i'm doomed fo' 'sho!!!

You got guts, raw. Your writing is compelling. One of the journals I bookmarked and plan to read more.

These little Sally boys think they'll die from words unknown people say about them. That's not guts. That's silly while being extremely fun to tease.

However I'm becoming the Jenna of the contestant blog. :)

Good luck w/the #3 challange.You can do it. I always thought it would be interesting to spontanously combust. Just leave your shoes and a little pile of ash.

And now for a comment that isn't pissy: Public props to Ms. M who inspired me during a short but sweet IM convo. Thank you. :)
And yes, I've IM'd with almost all of the contestants at one time or another. I didn't realize it was a problem but frankly, I'm not sure I care at this point. :-)

yeah i was pissy and then i deleted it. cause it's just not worth it. cause i don't care enough. cause while i may be vapid and disappointing, i want to have at least a bit of fun in this whole thing. i deleted it cause it's not my place to rant about stuff that has nothing to do with me. and, though i know i was mentioned and it wasn't in a "nice" way, nobody has to be nice to me. basically what i said was that i have IMed with several of my fellow contestants. fucking sue me. i didn't realize that was an issue. so, i'm done with this now. i'm with july - moving on.

and i still have not written the ic, which sucks cause i can't read y'alls til i finish mine. but i just can't write it yet. i'm not freaked out by it. i actually enjoy the mental acrobatics it'll stir. my problem is more laziness and the pursuit of the niche that will win me this round's immunity. cause we all know we need a niche, right? i think we've figured that much out.

july = party pooper.

You don't like post, you skim a post and move on.

We're having fun, is all.

Make your own fun, move on yourself. You don't see me telling you what to do. Wait. Scratch that. :)

This is all very frustrating. Can we all just drop this and move on?

Mike (racer96) = not one of the interesting judges.

tahnks, lw

scud = noncapitalizing bitch.

Tahnks,
lw

ahahaha, oh god what a good laugh, thanks for re-posting those chrome i actually had no idea about the whole board. jesus now that's just funny as shit, the prototypical person who doesn't have enough friends in real life so has to go whoring themselves out to digipals to try to look cooler. and at least i know how the hell lw was winning that poll since she has NO ONE listing her as a favorite save for most of us ds4 people. the sadness of it all makes me laugh, because while you call us little snide names in your stupid message board lw you're no where near witty enough to do something here. i don't care if someone says shit about me, but at least be amusing instead of trite and stupid. reusing 'bitches' over and over just shows your mongoloidian lack of intelligence [go look mongoloid up in the dictionary if you have to or you'll miss out on the entire joke]. thanks for playing, try again.

Oooops. Apology to Pischina, as it wasn't her who called me out yesterday. It was Jenistar.

And Loudwoman? I never claimed not to be a bitch, to either of your faces.

Racer96 I have to just say this....


YOU FUCKING RULE, MAN!


ahem, just had to get that off my chest. You can go on with your regular brodcasting now.

Ah ha...ignore my earlier post about blogger, I guess I had missed this one becoming ad free too. At least I think it is ad free. If such is the case I've not the foggiest idea what happened at the judges blog with all the posting errors ya'll have mentioned.

As far as anyone having issues with the IC topic this go round, I think I only have issues because I am thanatophobic. This was not a pleasant topic for me. But! I did it. With a modicum of griping. I'm unhappy, but is done. Not sure I'll sleep tonight though. Anyone else?

--angeline

Hootie hint....

If you don't win any ICs, it's not the rant.

tahnks! lw

Chromeydome, your lack of sportsmanship makes Michael Moore cry. :(

Chrome's lack of sense of humor = dissapointed in you Michael Moore.

heh


After reading my long ass rant I'm sure now I'll never win an immunity challange.

Ok I got on and read all the judge's blog and the contestant's blog and I have to say I'm quite disturbed and very insulted by some of you who assume the rest of us are threatend and scared of Loudwoman because of her votes by the viewers. I find it laughable that I should feel threatened by someone so petty as Loudwoman has proven on here and here. Orginally I was going to keep my mouth shut about this message board, but obviously a lot of you assume to much. *Note: That is not meant to be a blanket comment about all the judges, just the ones who decided they knew before they found out.* There's your answer how she got so many votes. As you can see she pimps herself out every turn she can get for more and more votes. To the point of being pathetic and truely sad.


I'll tell you right now I voted for her this time and was wishing to vote for her last time. Kinetix and I seem to see eye to eye about her, I don't trust her. Not only that, but I find her behavior childish and very "retro high school" clique-ish. Also I didn't think her first IC was all that good. So she can count syllables. Yay, she gets a gold star and big thumbs up on her homework! The first thing I thought when I got done reading her immunity challange...*she obviously put this off for the last moment then winged it half assed in hopes she doesn't get booted*. Personally I was more then suprised that she had one. I had to question if she bribed some of you judges with money, I couldn't see any other reason to vote for her.


By no means was I part of an alliance and as you can see by many other people on here, none of them where in one either. So what does that tell you? A lot of us don't like her, period. That to me is a good enough reason to vote her off.


And now she will come on here and try to be clever by calling us bitches or tards or something uniquely twelve year oldish while slamming us and other people she doesn't like with her friends on the message board. And I thought I led a pathetic life.

Dear Meg Probst: I have not had problems with Blogger today. Perhaps it is the server the judges blog is on? I'm sure the ad free blogs are on a different server than the ones with ads. So it is not inconceivable for one of these blogs to act up and the other be fine.

Dear TVZero: We called you all psychopants. HAHA! Psychopants!

...I don't know what I was thinking, I suppose I just though psychopants would be funny.

--angeline

See?

Scud =Judgemental bitch.

hahaha. where do i do run on sentences? that's what i thought, i didn't. oh and next time for your info, there's such a thing as being a good loser, and being a good winner. you aren't either sadly.

See?

scud = run on sentences bitch.

what? i'm a bitch for offering my thoughts? i'm sorry, but no. i may be a bitch for other things, but not that. and jesus i didn't even vote against you so simmer down. either way that's my opinion i mean if you want my opinion i throughly disliked other people's IC entries as i'm sure someone disliked both of mine, that's the way things go. you can't please everyone.

See? kinetex = bitch

Raw wrote pissy
stuff and took it off the contestant board and I didn't get to see it. :(

I CALL SHENANIGANS!

Tahnks! lw

I think the judges are just enjoying stirring the cauldron of poo, and that what they say
in the blog should be taken exactly as seriously as the viewer polls...

"Kinetex"? "Tahnks"? At least this bitch can spell.

I'd also like to add that kinetex and scud are bitches.

Tahnks! lw

Smell ya later, suckas!

The drag about the Judges is that they are made up in large part of the paranoid psychophants from last years DLand Survivor. Since most of them had a miserable time they appear to be trying to make our time during this as painful as possible. Loud Woman is a damn fine writer but she made some silly mistakes and seemed to miss the target in her IC's. We're supposed to be voting on what we like and what we don't, people need to get over it. If there is an alliance, all the power to you - because nobody else seems to be a part of it. I say, "Ignore them." Sure they can give you immunity if they want to but blah... blah... blah.... This is all so tiresome.

i sit here and read both the judges blog, and this one, and giggle [yea yea i know a guy giggling, doesn't sound right but whatever i do it (ok maybe chucking, but whatever)] because it's amusing to me. maybe i'm the only one, and it sort of looks like it is, that doesn't really kirk out about ds4. i mean i think about it when i'm writing and i think about who to vote for, but other than that i almost never think about it. yes there could be some alliance i'm not part of, yes there could be backdoor dealings to get the good people voted off, but really who gives a monkey's uncle?

someone got voted off, it has to happen every round and it'll happen every round until the game is done though i will agree with kinetix in that i thought loudwoman's first ic didn't meet the criteria. because if anything it was similar to the 'one word descriptions' we had going here, not a description of the events. but whatever she won so be it. but to think there's something going on behind the scenes, and state it, is retarded. even if there was, so fucking what? we're allowed to do that aren't we? i thought so.

Raw: Wouldn't you rather be in the Matrix than out?
Alterna: I said sorry!
Judges: Shouldn't you be a bit more neutral?

OK, I said if the judges had a question, they should ask, and Pish did, so I'm answering. I speak only for myself, and I voted as an individual, not as a cog in a wheel or a member of any alliance. As far as I know, there is no alliance, or, if there is, I didn't get asked to join. I did not base my vote on the readers' poll. I recognize that several of the contestants are more popular than I am, and I don't feel threatened by that. You can choose to believe that or not believe it, but any number of people today have already shown that they'll believe what they choose to believe, regardless. I voted for Loudwoman. I didn't vote for her because she won the IC. That's what kept me from voting for her last time. Most of my criteria in voting is based on the IC writing, and I vote for the person that I think does the worst IC. I would have voted for her last time, since her IC, while creative and well written, failed to meet the minimum requirements of the challenge, in that it did not talk about the first day on the island. A good number of judges (probably the same ones that complained the entries were all blandly similar and uncreative) chose to ignore that. Denied the ability to vote for her, I picked the one that I thought was the worst out of the remaining eligible entries, and that's where my vote went. This time, I also did not care for her IC, although I was tied between her and another contestant. As I said, though, the IC writing is only the majority of my voting criteria. The rest of it is based on personality and my gut feelings, and my gut feeling is that I don't trust her, and given the choice to remove myself from interaction with her, I took it. She's a great writer, but I didn't like either of her IC's, and I went with my gut.

So, question answered. If this means I get voted out next week, fine, so be it. That's a choice the other contestants get to make for themselves.

As for the judges who are flinging accusations and assumptions all over the blog, I think I made my thoughts on that clear this morning. My actions, as explained above, may not be perfect, but at least I'm not speaking blindly from a position of ignorance, which I think is worse.

JULY!! Now you'll never get the secret handshake into the alliance! ;-)

*Ahem* At the risk of playing into the whole Stirring the Cauldron O' Poo game: I am aware of no alliance. I am aware of my vote, and my reasons for voting the way I did. I have no plans to reveal those reason in a public way, nor do I expect anyone else to justify their vote. But for the judges to say to us, as a group of adults: "You must have voted that way because you're jealous" or "You must have been threatened" is, in my opinion, more than a little juvenile and highly contradictory. First the complaint is that the contestants are getting along too well, then the complaint is that the contestants were just being petty. Either you expect the gamesmanship or you don't. Please make up your mind. You want nicey nice or you want catfights and backstabbing? I don't think there's been either extreme as of yet, but I am not going to apologize for getting along with the other contestants.
~AlternaMommy

july: are you saying we're not in the matrix? i mean, next time, could you please break it to a girl gently?!

Raw: Did you know that if you die in the Matrix, your real body dies? And if you die in a dream, you die? Etc. Etc. Etc.
(Just a silly joke regarding your comment on the new topic- and I agree)
Boon Disease: A state in which Boon The Cat Jumps upon his pet human's shoulders, then proceeds to lie down across said shoulders, typically letting all four legs hang limp. Boon Disease can be spread person to person in some cases. However, this disease can only afflict one human at a time, and is fairly easy to cure.
(Sorry, Joanna)

I am the International Freak of Mystery and I... what? What's that, a soap box? What'll I do with this? Oh.

I share one thing with what the judges said: I am suspect of this mass of people voting for loudwoman. To me it means there's a alliance working that I am not a part of. Either that or it was a freak occurrance. Or finally: it was a basic move in strategy.

Remember that show Weakest Link? I always thought it was smart when the game was down to 4 or so people that they would always vote off the BEST person- the strongest link. Why? Why would anyone do that, knowing that that person could be the one that makes the bank fat? Because if I was one of those people and I knew the other one was smarter, if I wanted a crack at actually winning I would vote off the biggest threat. And I suppose that's what really happened here.

Don't take that as me saying I voted for her- I will never share who I voted for or why. However, you must remember that this is a game, and no matter how much we like one another, sooner or later we have to vote someone off.

As for the judges thinking it's jealousy or something for winning the previous IC, I highly doubt it. And I don't think any of us would vote based on the poll- after all, that's a viewer's thing, not a "who is going to win" thing. (I'm upset I'm not at the bottom anymore, damnit). Anyway, if my theory about game-playing sans alliance is true, it must mean that she was voted off because a good number of contestants knew she was probably the best writer. Simple as that.

Of course, if the judge's theory of IC winning is true, I'm fucked. Say I say "fucked" in here? Oh shit, sorry.

-big kisses for everyone!

+ july / lacuna

woah. july, i just want to say this in regards to a comment about the ic being a big target. i think we are all voting based on effort and good writing. we may be the only ones, but be that as it may, that's what this contest is supposed to be about. we all have our own strategies, but you can rest assured that MY strategy is not that illogical or malicious.

anyway! man oh man, can y'all believe this week's topic? i'll be thinking long and hard about this one!

Dear Judges:

If you have a question, ask. I don't mind explaining who I voted for or why.

If you don't feel like asking, then by all means, continue to speculate, make guesses and assumptions, and project your behavior from your time as a contestant onto the people who are playing now.

And yes, I'm fully aware that you're probably trying to stir things up for your own amusement, and that I'm playing into your hands, but looking at the judge's blog this morning has left me feeling pissy enough to fight the network for ten minutes to log onto here.

July? It's not the dreaded Pat Boone disease is it?! Someone! Call TV Execs - we could have a remake on our hands!!

July: DS4's Man Of Mystery. :)

I am trying not to hover around online whilst awaiting the TC results, but most likely will be. Will turn on AIM and MSN, so if anyone wants to chat.....

~AlternaMommy

July, I put "Boon disease" into Google and all I came up with was your entry mentioning it. Do tell!

Oh, forgot one thing. I'm always invisible when I'm on ICQ. So if you use ICQ to try and get a hold of me, let me know ahead of time so I can mark you as one who always sees me visible.

Ok so I'm not seen as being anti-social on here. I get that enough in real life. You can find me on MSN Messenger with the address chromemagnumman@hotmail.com. Or you can find me on ICQ with this account number: 111629769.


I won't have AIM or Yahoo for a quite awhile tell I solve the mystery of "the modem that drove me to insanity." Tell then, thats all I got for instant messengers.

Long established diarist? Hmm, I don't think there is a text-book definition available. What would you say is long-established? I'd throw in a 'stuck with it over a year', as a first offer :D

July! *begs* what is Boon disease?

--angeline