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Listless Mondays are the most popular regular feature on ABDPBT. Here's how it works: each Monday, I publish a post in the form of a list. Usually it is funny, but sometimes it is just bizarre. Some of the more popular lists I've come up with include:
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- Stage a respectful protest
of Yummie Tummie promotional tweets in the weeks prior to BlogHer 2011 due to my skepticism that the ingestion of fifty pounds of branded cupcakes can be restrained by any amount of lycra spandex, however well-engineered.
- Start a BlogHer conference pass scalping ring.
- Add a descriptive term to (“provocative ” ?) to my URL to help people understand that I am edgy.
- Use more expletives in my writing.
- Wait. That’s not possible. Never mind.
- Take a really radical stand on something like breastfeeding. Like, say, come out as being pro-breastfeeding. Because that is really hard to do in today’s society, particularly online. It’s just so edgy, and provocative , to be willing to take a stand and say, “I breastfeed my child,” and expect people to applaud you for doing it.
- And this goes doubly in the mommyblogging community, where there is so much open support of formula feeders.
- What we need are more people who are willing to talk, openly, about how much they love to breastfeed. Yes! That — that is provocative !
- Find a multinational corporation to despise.
- Make a thing of it.
- In fact, why not? Get a PhD in my despise of multinational corporations.
- Oh? There’s no PhD in that? Well, never mind. Nobody will check.
- Consider breastfeeding another woman’s child at a conference.
- Write a post about how I breastfed another woman’s child at a conference.
- Lead a panel on the radical act of breastfeeding another woman’s child at a conference at another conference.
- If I can, break into tears in the middle of moderating my panel at another conference about my radical act of breastfeeding another woman’s child at a conference.
- Provided my panel about breastfeeding another woman’s child at a conference is a success (it will be), start a whole conference devoted to the radical act of breastfeeding the children of women who can’t or (more likely) just fucking won’t breastfeed their own children because they are lazy and selfish and not willing to live on the edge.
- Fine-tune the rhetorical gaps on my application to the Mighty Summit .
- Speaking of which, check out the romper section at American Apparel.
Glossary terms: respectful protest , Yummie Tummie , branded cupcakes , boobgate , conference pass scalping , Nestle , provocative , Mighty Summit , Broad Summit , Maggie Mason
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Check out these list lovers:
- How To Get The Most Out Of A BlogHer 2010, Businesswise | ABDPBT Personal Finance
- 4 Tech Items To Pack For Your Next Blogging Conference | ABDPBT Tech
- Kitchen Door Katy
- Ginger at Ramble Ramble
- I’m taking my talents to South Beach .
- Oh? Well, I’m taking my talents to YOUR MOM.
- That’s interesting, because I recently became the mayor of your mom.
- This is hard, because I know how loyal I am . . . to YOUR FACE.
- I know how loyal I am to YOUR MOM.
- I know how loyal I am to YOUR MOM’S FACE.
- [Really, any repetition of a version of these with "FACE or "YOUR MOM" substituted in at the end.]
- If there is a copyright issue with that image, let us know and we will happily remove it.
- [For example, "If there is a copyright issue with that image, let us know and we will happily get YOUR MOM to remove it," or "we will happily ask YOUR MOM to remove it from YOUR FACE."]
- The facts reflect that BlogHer actually is doing a better job of monetizing your blog for you this year versus last.
- All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.
- Rough Day? Hugs!
- If you don’t want an iPhone, don’t buy it.
- If you bought an iPhone and you don’t like it, bring it back.
- We’re not perfect. We know that. Our phones aren’t perfect. But we want to make our users happy.
- The iPhone 4 is perhaps the best product we have ever made at Apple.
- Noted.
Glossary terms: sparklecorn , unicorn cake , MamaPop , copyright issue , weeping from the awesome , monetizing your blog for you , taking my talents to South Beach
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Check out these list lovers
- Establishing Rules For Trips, Barters, & Other Blogger Grey Areas | ABDPBT Personal Finance
- Kitchen Door Katy
- Brooke at Mommy in Chief
- Lisa at Seriously Take 2
- Ginger at Ramble Ramble
- Amanda at Adventures of a Sober Mommy
- How much have I been drinking tonight?
- Was it top shelf alcohol?
- Shouldn’t it have been?
- Wasn’t this probably the best night to break out the Johnny Walker Blue Label?
- Is it possible that I might have seen this coming?
- Really?
- Not even when LeBron took off the Cavalier’s jersey before he even made it to the locker room after losing to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals?
- No inkling there, huh?
- Let me ask myself this: do winners ever stay in Cleveland?
- Now wait — political correctness aside — if they have a choice do winners ever choose to stay in Cleveland? I’m just saying.
- Would you stay in Cleveland, dude?
- But back to the letter — Comic Sans . . . still think that was the best choice?
- Will Comic Sans make it more believable later, when I try to blame the whole thing on 4Chan?
- So, let me just clarify my argument: having the greatest current basketball player — possibly the player who will be the greatest player ever to have played — that keeping that guy was not enough motivation for me to win a championship, but now that he’s gone, NOW, I’m totally motivated to win. Yes, yes, that sounds totally reasonable.
- And the way I’m going to do this — is with a geriatric Shaq and that guy who looks like Sideshow Bob?
- Oh, wait — no, Shaq is a free agent now, too. Scratch that. I’ve got Sideshow Bob and the guy who is allegedly banging LeBron’s mom? That’s my plan?
- Still sure about that guarantee?
- And the revamp on the Curse of the Bambino, am I sure about that one?
- Is it too late to put a call in to Paul Pierce? What about Stoudemire? Has he signed yet?
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- A Blacklist I Can Get Behind: Jeff Starr’s IP Blacklist For Spammers, Hackers, Malicious Coders & Other Web Evildoers | ABDPBT Tech
- Bento Mania: Let’s Enjoy A Time With Me Because Memories Are Forgotten Soon | ABDPBT Commodity Fetishism
- Katy at Confused Dildo
- Ginger at Ramble Ramble
- Lisa at Seriously
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- Your best pair of Crocs, because if you don’t get any for free, I hear it is difficult to strong arm yourself a free pair.
- A Yummie Tummie tank or two, just so you can pretend like you were sponsored to wear them, too.
- An extra iPhone battery pack.
- That last one was actually an earnest suggestion. Sorry to throw you off.
- While I’m at it with the earnest suggestions, if you have access to some kind of 3G wireless network card for your laptop, bring that. The hotel wireless system in these places is almost never equipped to deal with tech conferences, and almost always crashes.
- Now back to the snark.
- A towel, your best pair of boxing gloves, and a straight razor with which you can ask Mickey to cut the swelling — that way, you won’t miss any of the action at the swag table.
- An extra suitcase to fit all of your swag .
- The original, smaller suitcase for when you realize that you really don’t want like 99% of the crap that they give you, and it’s not worth the extra luggage fee on Southwest Air to bring it all home.
- Shame over flying on Southwest Air in the wake of the Kevin Smith Incident.
- Vaseline for your teeth to accommodate the need for 24/7 smiling happy sunshine.
- Some protein to counterbalance the carb-heavy conference catering.
- Kleenex, lest you be overcome with weeping from the awesome .
- A gas mask to assuage any discomfort that might be caused by the respectful protest against Nestle planned.
- A few Nestle Crunch bars to get you through, just in case they are hard to get, in light of the respectful protest .
- A healthy sense of humor.
Glossary terms: Croctomom , Yummie Tummie , swag , swaghags , weeping from the awesome , Nestle , masterstroke , respectful protest
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Check out these list lovers
- MommyBlog Traffic Building Strategies That Don’t Require Major Life Trauma Or Stress | ABDPBT Personal Finance
- Katy at Confused Dildo
- Susan at Things I Learned Today
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