I try to post something every day. Sometimes twice a day. Even on weekends. I don't ask for much in return. Other than your attention, which I seem to need in a profoundly-pathologically-needy way, but otherwise, not much. I don't ask for donations (not that there's anything wrong with that). I don't make you view ads (not that there's anything wrong with that). I don't make you view that little Blogger bar on the top of 95+% of the other blogspot blogs. I don't even have a sitemeter that keeps track of your IP number. That's how unconditionally I love you (yes, love! yes, you!). I just give and give and give.
Until now. My friend Shelly B has spent years dreaming of getting to be a stormchaser. She can recite virtually the entire screenplay of "Twister". She knows her nimbus. She can smell when it is going to hail. When a local television station announced that they would select a lucky viewer to join their stormchasing team this year, she spent weeks carefully crafting and market-testing her entry. All her efforts have led her to be one of three selected finalists. Now, it's up to the public to vote. This is her dream, and you can help it come true.
Seriously, I'm asking you for a favor here. Don't be rude and blow me off. All you have to do is take your mouse, CLICK HERE, and then click the top button on the right to vote for "Michelle".* Three seconds, max. This sentence may have taken you that long to read, at least once I tag this extra part onto it. Do it, do it. Pretty please. Pretty please with sugar, honey, spinkles, and croutons on top. Thanks.
* Polling ends 4/14. You are not allowed to vote more than once. The WeatherBug website dips your IP address in purple ink to prevent multiple voting. Of course, if you had a way of changing the IP number on your machine, like say logging in and out of WinCenter if you were a Madison Sociology user, you could vote more than once. I will leave such matters to your own moral-karmic compass, the lengths to which it is appropriate to help a deserving person realize her lifelong dream.
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have done. i can feel my social capital increasing already.
Go Michelle!
-jnsys
I voted for Michelle but only as a favor to you. If I had come across the weatherbug website on my own and read the quotes I would have had to vote for someone else. Nothing against Michelle, of course. I JUST CANNOT STAND NATALIE MERCHANT OR ANY SONG BY HER!!!!
Good luck, Michelle. But get a better theme song!
I just now voted for her too.
Yes, she got my vote (assuming that Shelly B and Michelle are one and the same).
More: I am demonstrating my deep support of JFW by writing up a "vote for Michelle" post on my blog too, since I have a somewhat different readership.
You can leave a (freshly baked, please) cupcake with sugar, honey, sprinkles and croutons on top in my fifth floor mailbox at the Law School. You might as well bake a whole batch for the other bloggers who volunteer to do the same.
For those who just vote: it takes more than 3 seconds. Unless you're one of those voters who clicks "vote" without reading her statement. That's just lunacy. You gotta believe in your future stormchaser!
If LDM and his many attributes vote, she will win hands down.
I'm so touched. Thank you ALL!
In truth, I _did_ pick a user-friendly theme song to appeal to the masses. More my style:
"Like a Hurricane" - Neil Young
"Hard Rain" - Bob Dylan
"That Summer Feeling" - Jonathan Richman
"Box of Rain" - The Dead
Michelle
They did.
Nina: I appreciate the link (here). Not to quibble with such a kind post, but the post Michelle is pursuing is "storm chaser". Calling it "strom chaser" makes it sound like she is pursuing deceased senators or Italian sandwiches.
Well, I am pursuing this senator: http://www.channel3000.com/news/4367564/detail.html
Michelle
Jeremy: and now I have a quandary: change it to make myself look good or leave it alone to make you look good? I’ll have to mull that one over…
Michelle: much relieved that you are indeed Shelly B.
I voted for this person.
-Tom
Actually the site doesn't check your IP, it creates a cookie instead. So just delete the cookie and vote ad nauseam (though too much abuse may attract attention). If cookie deletion is too hard, vote once using once using Firefox, then once using Safari, then once using Internet Explorer, then... etc.
Louisiana Rain -- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
It's Raining Again -- Supertramp
Here Comes the Rain Again -- Eurythmics
Who'll Stop the Rain? -- CCR
Red Rain -- Peter Gabriel
Summer Rain -- U2
Does this date me, or what? K.
It's Raining In Bavaria -- Herman and the Polka Masters, they made the circuit in Ohio in the early 1960s.
What about Lightning Crashes by Live? That's way better than any whiney, self-righteous, don't beat your kid, get on the peace train, Natalie Merchant crap.
Having few moral quandries, I will vote from work, home, and laptop...and might I add if we are to really be serious here "Paid in Full"-Eric B and Rakim.
---Elizabeth
Elizabeth: Are you one of the Elizabeths I know, some Elizabeth I don't know, or another pseudonym for LDM/Goesh?
Let me assure that I am not an incarnation of LDM in any form! But I will email you jeremy...
--Elizabeth
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