I only need one more follower to hit 1,450. That is such a nice number. Come on, help a brother out. You don’t even need to read any of my posts or comment or anything. I mean, you can if you want to, and you wont regret it if you do, but I don’t want to put any pressure on you… we just met.
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Pouring My Art Out 
I already follow you so I can’t help you out with this.
Once again, it is all just a gag. I try stuff. I see what works. I move on.
Do you check out the blogs that follow you?
I am often equal parts amused, appalled and confused by some of the followers I get.
I have a pretty wide assortment of people. That’s why I do those posts now and then when I finish a series asking if the new people are sure they are in the right place… because I might never do anything like that again.
I can’t click the follow button again, it has an opposite effect. (sigh) Someone else will have to do it. Oh, I see 52 people already did! 😉
Oops – my maths skills rearing their ugly head. Three people already did…! o.o
Oh man, I thought I hit the mother lode…
hee hee
eeh eeh
There’s that monkey out again! ooh ooh eeh!
That just sounds wrong
hee, hoo hoo hee?
Somebody feed that monkey!
Mmm.. bananas for breakfast. That was funny, I typed, “bananasera!” (ha)
Banana cereal… why don’t we have that yet?
Mmm… banana cereal…. this one is for the kid in you, Art! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVGJgxtsLw
That is awesome… I am doing it… then I am going to freeze it and eat it like ice cream, But that is too many bananas to eat at one time. You will plug yourself up.
Yuummm banana icecream. I used to freeze a whole unpeeled ripe banana. The skin goes black, and you peel it off and eat it. Great fun for kids.
I love chocolate covered frozen bananas…
Mmm… I haven’t tried that.
what???
The banana! I’ve forgotten what kind. Umm. Smoothie? Oh – chocolate coated bananas!!!!
Now I’m hungry.
Freeze one, after you put a stick up it’s bum to hold it by, then melt chocolate and dip it in.
You are so brainy. I never thought of the stick idea.
They sell frozen bananas in chocolate in civilized countries… the stick keeps you from getting sticky… ironic, when you think about it. Oh, I need to tweet that.
Nooo… that makes us an uncivilized country. Oh actually it makes a great cottage industry! Does the frozen banana have its skin off already in civilized countries? Oh my goodness, it’s the chocolate that stops the banana from oxidizing! Brilliant! I have to tell my son. He’s the confectioner of the household and knows how to do melted chocolate. (rushes off to spread the chocolate, uh, I mean… the word)
Jeeze… it’s like you people haven’t invented toilet paper yet…
We used to rub newspaper together…
To start a fire? You don’t have matches either?
(griggle giggle gurgle… not quite rolling on the floor)
We have always had matches.
What about ice cubes?
I gave them up. Every summer I feel vague withdrawals.
My grandfather used to put icecubes into the fizzy-drink maker when we visited. At the time we lived in the bush with no power, phone, or running water. At the moment we have a tiny ice box, that generally doesn’t have room for an icecube tray. I might squeeze a banana in there though. Hopefully the chocolate coating will stay intact!
I always liked the expression ‘living in the bush’… like there is just one big bush. I guess it sounds better than ‘living in the bushes’… HA!
HA!! That got me giggling out loud. I’m not one to go beating around the bushes, and living in the bushes sounds one step worse!
I am not going to pursue this line of humor too much further…
Stoppp! (gasp) Oh stop, please stop!!!
No really, it is time to stop.
She steps back, and pulls the door closed, balancing five dinner plates stacked high with fish and chips, and shepherd’s pies, sloshing a little from the armful of beer handles, as she balances on her left foot, and extends her leg to gently pull the door handle to a satisfying “click” with the big toe of her right foot.
(toodle-loo!)
I never take a toodle in the loo… too unsanitary.
True, true!
ha
You know it occurs to me if you are editing then you get to see the end of the book when I finish it.
Is that okay? Would you want me to pay for it before reaching the end?
(Darn, I think he is on to me. Thought I could figure out early if I was murdered. Who knows, perhaps I could somehow save my life…. Shhhh!!!! Play it cool…)
Shall I edit the end of the book blindfolded?
(Shhh… keep cool, he might give the end of the book to someone else to edit… shhhhh!)
Ha… It gets exciting the last three or four chapters. I could give one to four people and they might know who did it, but not why or how it all comes together. You are brilliant!
Hahaha… you are the one saying the brilliant idea!
I was just squirming comedically!
Is that what that was? I thought you were avoiding the poisonous bush snakes…
Yes, comedic squirming is the first defence against poisonous bush snakes, the swines!
I saw a girl doing that at a Grateful Dead concert once. But the snakes were not really there.
I think Miley Cyrus calls that ‘twerking.’
Never say her name when we are talking about the Dead!!!
hee hee, I don’t even really know who she is! Then again, I know very little about the Grateful Dead either!
Apologies for the infringement!
Apology accepted.
🙂
(I’m good at that, squirming comedically…. Ha!!)
That should help keep you alive.
Eh, bien sur! Of course….
right
You know, I just threw that out there. I didn’t even check the number first.
Maybe it really was 52. You have a way of making me feel better!
You have a way of making me feel better… what a team!
Yay!!
yeah yay
How come I got as many followers as you? That doesn’t sound right. Of course, ninety five percent of mine are nowhere to be seen, have never been heard of, and may in fact be shut-ins slobbering for attention.
Yeah… I can’t account for that either… AHA!
Meanie.
I kid… that’s what I do…
Okay, I clicked on your follow-button after your first guilt trip post, which successfully prompted me to go back and read your stuff to think about post. I really liked it, as I told you in my comment. But since clicking on your follow-button, my email box has been inundated with emails…lots of emails; too many emails…from WordPress telling me that you have a new post and suggesting I go read it, which I dutifully did.
But each new post from you was just another guilt-trip trying to guilt me into doing something I’d already done. I’m sure you put a lot of effort into those numerous guilt trip post and you certainly displayed your prowess with Photoshop.
But now this: pleading with me to click on your follow-button so that you can get 1,500 followers. Seriously?
Hey, I understand your desire to have followers. I have 22 followers for my puny blog, and most of those are from bloggers associated with something called Affiliate Marketing, AWOL Project, or Empower Network. They are trying to get me to sign up for their sales scheme so I can “do all the things I’ve always wanted to do in my life.” Yeah right.
But you have almost 1,500 followers, so I don’t feel bad for you at all. Here’s an observation from someone who don’t even know. In my humble opinion, you’re coming across as being very needy. And if that’s all you have to offer, I’m outta here.
No, I’m not going “un-follow” you yet, but if most of your posts are like your last half dozen or so, I probably will. A few more stuff-to-think-about-like posts, though, and I’ll be a fan and loyal reader.
There is no rhyme or reason to what I do here, but I very rarely stay on one thing for long… with the exception of these occasional series things. I will tell you a secret… it is just an act. I thought it was funny to use the overkill method on this. So I did. The thing is that if I start taking the advice of one person as to which direction the blog is going next, that sets a bad precedent. Everybody will want to start telling me where to go. On the other hand, this is an interactive blog, and I do like getting ideas and feedback… I just do what I want with it.
So you see my predicament, right. Obviously a lot of people like what I do here. The irony is that if I only do what they like most, it wont be the same blog that used to like, see what I mean? I get new followers all the time when I am in the middle of doing one silly series. Then I do a post telling them that they might have come to the wrong place.
So I will tell you what I tell other people. The way to decide if you want to stay here is to scroll way down past a couple months of my old posts, just looking at the pictures and maybe reading the titles. If something catches your eye, stop and read it. If nothing does, you are in the wrong place.
But I can’t do posts that make people think all the time. They get sick of that. Sometimes I do posts that require no thinking. Or make you thinks about things in a weird way.
And I mean this part with all due respect and humility, but threating to leave when you just got here because you don’t like what is happening right now is like going in an art museum and looking at three or four paintings and then leaving because you didn’t like those paintings. There are rooms full of paintings here. You have to look through them a little. I can’t paint a new picture of the kind you like every day. I have original songs, novels and kid’s books, humor, stories, poems, original paintings and drawings and tikis I carved. I cover a lot of ground.
I hope you stay.
Fair points. I don’t want to tell you how to run your blog or threaten to stop following you if you don’t blog the way I think you should. That’s not my place, nor was it my intention. I certainly wouldn’t want anyone to do that on my blog. It’s my blog and I’ll post whatever it is I want that to blog about. I was merely expressing my highly personal opinion in the comments section. No action on your part is or was required.
I “like” a lot of posts that I come across, but I follow very few blogs. I was so impressed with that one post of yours…you know, the one that you shamelessly tried to guilt people into reading…that I decided to follow yours. I do intend, when I have the time, to go back and read through some of your older posts to see if they are similarly intriguing and provocative. And I’m not going to un-follow you now. I will visit some of the other “rooms” in your virtual museum and I will look at the artwork there. I will await any new “paintings” you add to your collection.
If I like what I see, I’ll stick around. If not, I’ll leave and I’m sure, with all of your other 1,500 or so followers, I won’t be missed.
You will be missed, because you take the time to comment and think about things. And I didn’t mean to sound worked up… it’s all good. You do have to admit that there is a little humorous irony in the fact that you followed me for something weird that I did and then got sort of sick of the very thing you liked in the first place. That is why I bounce around so much.
Dude, stick around, this guy swings all over the place. So in the interest of checking you out and potentially expanding your follower base, how on earth do you get to your blog? Your name doesn’t have a link.
oooohhhhh… a man of mystery…
Weird. Don’t know why you can’t link to my blog. Here it is, should you be interested. http://mindfuldigressions.com/. It’s a modest little blog.
Done and done… ummmm… chocko….
We’re all modest little blogs, no worries there.
Well, I’m little… I don’t know about modest… sigh…
“Little” is exactly how I pictured you. Meanie!
Well my head looks small because I am so much bigger than you… it is called perspective.
It wasn’t your head I was referring to.
Well, if you were looking at ‘that’, then I think I already won this round…
why do you keep messing with the master? It never turns out well.
See you in the funny papers.
Well of course I look small there… silly…
So is there a secret to putting a link back to my blog when I make a comment? Sheesh, no fucking wonder nobody reads my blog!
You are asking the wrong person… I am a computer moron. But most of the people here can tell you about that… whatever it is…
Naked gay atheists. That’s where it’s at.
I dunno. But it’s weird. You should send an e-mail to WordPress tech support, I hear they’re actually quite good at helping out.
Where are my tech support guys! My kingdom for a tech support guy… bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring me tech support hither!!!
The tech support people hereabouts may in fact be crack squirrels you know.
I knew that, but he didn’t…
I am enjoy in the drama here.
Anyway, as for the newborn’s challenge with linking your site, two things I know possible: either you are commenting via an email that is not your blog’s primary email,
or, go to your dashboard, then under Users, click on Personal Settings. When that page loads, scroll down to where Account details are… you’ll see website (automatically linked when you make comments) after username and password. Input your blog address there.
Hope that helps.
I am enjoying the drama here.
Anyway, as for the newborn’s challenge with linking your site, two things I know possible: either you are commenting via an email that is not your blog’s primary email,
or, go to your dashboard, then under Users, click on Personal Settings. When that page loads, scroll down to where Account details are… you’ll see website (automatically linked when you make comments) after username and password. Input your blog address there.
Hope that helps.
1500 huh? wow.
I been doing this for a while, and I have a niche… mostly I am just lucky… and weird…
hmm…
I can’t explain it… I have so few friends in real life…
Hmm…
no… really
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