1 - Being Featured on Mental Floss
My most successful blog entry was part of a series on postmodernism. I decided to include pictures of my cats because it was boring, which turned out to be a good decision. I sent the link to Miss Cellania (because she loves posting cat things and she's smart) and she said to get ready for traffic - she was going to put it on Mental Floss.
I had 3,000 hits that day! It was great and the conversations that started were excellent. Thanks Miss C!
2 - The time I slapped my forehead so hard I was dizzy
I recently discussed a film I made with my old buddy Andrew a few years ago, and I completely left out the contributions of the third person who worked on that project - my friend, Krystal! When I realized my mistake I felt like a big sexist jerk. She worked hard and did lots of tedious chores putting the set pieces together and she competently handled much of the filming. What was I thinking?
I was pretty hard on myself about that. But I suppose (KRYSTAL I'M SORRY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, I STILL FEEL BAD ABOUT LEAVING YOU OUT) everyone makes mistakes.
Here's the video, if you missed it.
3 - Death threats. Oh, yeah.
As you may remember, more than two years ago I wrote about the outrage in Pakistan over a teacher allowing her students to name a pet "Mohammad." There were riots in the streets and mobs crying out for her execution. Uncool.
Some say that my response was not entirely kind while others have told me that it was diplomatic. Make your own decisions, meanwhile, I'm still receiving death threats over it. (And I don't really care.)
Here's a few, but I'll save the best for last. (I could write "[sic]" everywhere there is a spelling mistake that is not mine, but that would take a very long time...)
Hey, you don't know anything about islam. Hoping that Allah SWT will punish you... Allah will curse you...And, please repent before it be late
You want Allah to smite me and you want me to repent. I hate to tell you this, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
dude your wasted. i hope god shows you the right path. and in the bible it was said that the satan had tried n got in the head of jesus too. if he was the lord could satan even come close to him ?? and i hope you delete this. you can post all the shit you want. one day god it gonna strike u down
I didn't delete his post, so I guess I showed him.
I am mailing this to every muslim on this planet with ur name so that anyone who sees you should kill u.
Either every Muslim on the planet is pretty bad at finding me and killing me, or they didn't get the memo.
In the Bible, Allah and Jesus never teach us to hurt the other one,
So, as your posting, I am sure, you are not a christian, or may be not a human.
So, as your posting, I am sure, you are not a christian, or may be not a human.
How did he find out that I'm not human? My Reptoid overlords are going to be quite angry over this.
sorry about da mistakes wernt looking at keyboard
...but, you obviously didn't have that problem the second time around.
Adam D.Jones you suck
My favorite insult, to date. This guy doesn't beat around the bush, he just tells you like it is.
on the day of judgement may allah
burn you in the fire of ur deeds you will newer smile now u sucker
This guy should write action films. I can see Sylvester Stallone looking down on his defeated foe, machine gun in hand, and saying, "You'll never smile now, you sucker!"
Who do you think would win a fight between jesus and muhammad? and i mean muhammad the prophet not muhammad the possum.
Good question. I've been reading a lot of Augustine's work lately, but it hasn't shed any light on this critical issue.
But my favorite comment was more mutlimedia-friendly. Some people actually go through the trouble to email me their complaints, and a few weeks ago I received three photographs from a stranger and no explanation, other than the subject heading "Some pictures."
One of them had words on it, so I sent them to a Lebanese friend of mine who did a translation and explained the photos:
Well the first picture is the word "Allah" which means God in Arabic. The second is a picture of Mecca from the top, and the third is an ad for Hammas promoting "Jihad" against infidels like you and I guess me too for explaining this to you...
Here's the photo:
That's all for me from 2009. You may want to keep away from me on the street, I appear to be a marked man.
What happened to you this year?
2 comments:
Christians are all marked people, in one way or another. There's a quote, I don't know who its from, but it is very true. This is not direct, nor exact, but a paraphrase.
"Show me a man who has nothing he would die for, and I will show you a man who has nothing to live for"
1- Wow, Mental Floss? That is SO cool! How do you have friends there anyway?
2- Aw, you're so kind, and totally forgiven, and thank you very much, and please don't feel bad anymore :) Also, I hope you didn't really slap yourself or get dizzy, but thanks for the sentiment.
3- I remember these from the first time, but gee they're still really funny. Literally laughed out loud a few times here. Those haters are really entertaining, and I almost felt bad laughing at their comments, because I'm sure they were trying hard to be very serious. If only people with such strong convictions could help their own cases by writing well and saying things that were actually logically thought out.
Oh well. I'd say I'd stay down next time I walk down the street with you (cause we do that all the time), but I'd probably be pretty safe at my comparatively shorter target level.
So thanks for sharing your year in blogging. I did a lot of school projects... that pretty much sums mine up.
Happy Tuesday, Adam :)
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