I never participated in free for all friday because, well, mostly because I'm a control freak. The thought of someone putting something icky on my site scared me or, and this was my huge fear, no one posting anything at all. :shudder:
Lemme tell you, nothing is more depressing than being forced to do stupid call-in giveaways at a tiny college radio station and having no one call in. I have been that deejay. Oh have I been that deejay. "You mean the FCC says I must stay in the building even if I see a funnel cloud coming my way just to report severe weather to these bastards??" Makes you want to just play Blondie's "The Tide is High" on repeat, lock the doors, throw away the key, and leave. There's actually an urban legend about a deejay doing this in Birmingham in the seventies.
So have you ever wondered what that Egeltje Group link is on my sidebar? Originally I created it for a group of small friends so we could share stupid links with each other. And to practice skinning and mt stuff without messing up my own site. And an excuse to use the dueling hedgehogs image. Yes that's a photo of two hedgehogs with their heads in the same toilet paper tube.
Anyway, these so-called friends (and spouse) seemed to have actual lives and stuff and never posted all that often. (just teasing friends and spouse ;) ) Indeed the last post is from August. So there this cute little dueling hedgehog weblog sits without any real use whatsoever except as a spam comment bot receptacle.
Then I had a thought tonight. Open it up for a free-for-all-every-day!
Here's what I have in mind. Find a random-ass link you want to share and don't have a site of your own? Have a site of your own but just didn't get enough satisfaction posting it once? Post away! Post long silly op-ed pieces about the innate stupidity of limited edition food products! Talk about that time that guy was totally hitting on your female EQ character then what he did when you told him you were actually a man! Review your favorite dvd commentary tracks! Go crazy!
No need to feel insecure or pressured to be the first person to link to so-and-so like on the big group weblogs! This is just a silly insectivore weblog subdomain!
So go log in here
username: guest
password: nerdsrule
and post away!! I've even given you permission to edit categories oooh! And upload images aaaah!
There's also a bonus! group! blogroll! group@egeltje.org / password - one1two6
Just a few teenincey requests:
now go have fun
for easy linking, the group site can also be linked using http://group.hedgeblog.net and http://group.littlehedgehog.org