Monday, April 28, 2008

NOR is paying it forward

I like commenting on posts. It makes my fellow bloggers happy, it keeps us connected and it gives the ones that I like more motivation to keep writing. Plus, the other day I posted a comment on Jenn's blog, You are flawed if you are not free, and won a prize.

Now for the part that matters to YOU. Having won that prize, I now owe the universe. Unless I mail out (small, cheap) prizes to three of the people who comment (chosen at random) on this post before Wednesday at noon (Atlantic Standard Time because otherwise I have no idea when to stop), I will surely be killed a la Final Destination.

Let me know if you want in but be warned that should you be lucky enough to win (cannot stress enough, SMALL CHEAP prizes), you will also be threatened with certain death should you choose to ignore the power of the blogosphere.

32 comments:

Lauren said...

Oh, alright I'll enter. :) These are spreading! I've only entered one so far, and didn't win, so I'm excited more blog friends are doing them. Hooray for gifts!

JB said...

Darn, you stole my idea first. I won a pair of bunny slippers (have yet to arrive) and was planning on doing something similar once I received them. I'll enter yours if you enter mine when it goes up!

heidi said...

oh pick me :) :)

Becca said...

Well, I was going to comment anyway, just because I liked the fact that you mentioned that you liked to comment and I liked the reasons for it. No really I was going to comment. Buuuuuuuut since your have a contest, you could pick me to win if you wanted.

Christie said...

so many people are doing this, I wonder how far it will get? great way to connect!

surviving myself said...

I'm in.

Deutlich said...

I wanna play! I wanna play!!

fiorella said...

Why not? :)

nancypearlwannabe said...

I seem to be extraordinarily lucky when it comes to blog contests, so what the heck. Count me in. Although, I would hate to die in a fiery plane wreck just for tempting the blog fates.

JB said...

My roomie just informed me that my bunny slippers that I won from a similar comment contest arrived. You better sign up to my comment contest next Monday!

Hillary said...

oooohhhh I like presents!

Jenn said...

I'm just commenting to say hello! You don't have to include me in your contest. So, hello!

P.S. It took me three times to get that word verification right.

Lauren Oostveen said...

Oh! I like this idea!

Final Destination... what a weird point in the career of teen idol Devon Sawa. Did he die at the end? I forget. Best movie I've seen him in: as an acid-head in SLC Punk. I suddenly feel compelled to look up JTT. Oh no.

BloodRedRoses said...

I like this idea! Genious really... who doesn't like bonding over presants??

Laurel said...

Hey, aren't you the guy who dances with his ipod on in the previews before the previews at the movies?

I love free downloads!

Stay cool homeslice!

Lissa Ford said...

How do you know which ones to choose, it's not that easy to be random. And are you really going to send me a gift from the US to Norway? I guess that will be far more expencive than the gift.

Leigh said...

gifts? really?
ok... if I win, can you send me two extra strength tylenols in a ziplock baggie?? ;)

- i guess i'm out of the loop since this is the first i've seen of blogs giving gifts... but that could be because i read all of 3 blogs weekly, and only yours i read religiously.

miss you missus
give the newf a smooch from me ;)

drbolte said...

bring it. i want to dance with the universe's (apparently fatalistic) pay it forward requirements and win small, cheap prizes.

(which means PICK ME PICK ME!)

Joel Kelly said...

I'm a participant!

Erin said...

I must insist that you pick me! I keep entering and never win. I like to win. I deserve to win. I'm a good person...and I got pooped on today!

Dustin said...

I am so happy you are doing this. So many people seem to be doing this lately and I really hope it keeps up. Count me in!

Essentially Me said...

So you mean all I have to do is comment and I'm in the running? Cool!

Raul said...

And I think I found your blog through one visit you did to Monica Hamburg's but if you are running a contest, count me in!

Raul

Kathy said...

Hi, I just wandered into your blog while browsing and it looks like it's my lucky day. Prizes?? I'll take two. Thanks.

LindzML said...

I don't want to mess with the Blogosphere Powers That Be. That would be wrong. Plus, I love your comments (and your posts), so I always have something to say me. So...what up?

Ben said...

Thanks for all the entries! Turns out this is a great way to up the feedreader's work-out.

jb: I will certainly comment but probably won't enter the competition since then I will have to pull this all over again. That would be cruel and unusual punishment.

jenn: I'm just commenting to say I love you. Let's make a recording of that awesome Stevie Wonder cover. Was it worth it in the end after the verification trouble? I usually give up after four tries.

Laurel: Please...please...no pictures. I'm just a regular guy trying to live his life!

Lissa: I'll be using randomizer.org, where it IS easy to be that random!

Erin: By a bird, I hope?

Joshua Cross said...

I'm also up for a free present.

Shannon said...

I am calling you bluff. I think you are just trying to increase traffic.

I mean, I love you.

RED MOJO said...

Wow, say the word "free" and look at all the frickin comments! I'm gonna try that!

brookem said...

I've seen this going around these here interwebs. I'm in!

Lissa Ford said...

Aw, I really thougth I was hard to make that random, and there is a website that makes me? So I can't win this gift with being cute. I have to say once again, I really love your blog. It makes me want to get to know you in real life.

sophie said...

Yay! I saw one of these before, but I think it was afterit was over. I promise if you pick me (at random) I will not upset the balance in the blogosphere. Thanks for doing tis either way.