Today is international de-lurking day.
Many people prefer to stick to the shadows of a blog, seldom making their existence know to the blog’s author. They read quietly and then move on, leaving few traces other than a solitary digit on a statcounter or feedburner. They are the ninjas of the blogging world, silent, stealthy, and perhaps even a tad sneaky.
But today is different. Today is the day that all lurkers leap out into the light and loudly proclaim:
“I [insert name] am a regular reader of All That comes With It. And what’s more I believe That Dan is one of the unsung literary geniuses of our time.”
Over on his blog Rude Cactus has a hundred and fourteen comments on his de-lurking day post. I fully expect to reach the same number. If I don’t then I shall delete this blog in disgust and concentrate on my glamor modeling career.
Which brings me nicely to the second thing I wanted to mention. On Thursday I challenged all the none blog holding people who read this blog to do the self portrait meme that is floating around at the moment.
The rules of the meme are that you have take a photo of yourself as soon as you get tagged, without spending any time on making yourself presentable. Two people emailed me a photo, which to be honest was about two more than I’d been anticipating. Thank you very much Helen and Oli, you are officers and gentlemen (metaphorically speaking of course).
Here first is Oli. Notice his strong masculine jawline and broad muscular shoulders. Every pore of his body is just throbbing with male sexuality. Pwooorrr eh ladies?
And now to the delightful Helen. She is one of Kerry’s friends and therefore I shall keep my own council about her numerous qualities. I can say that she’s very nice though, and no doubt if she and Oli were to leave their respective partners (does half a melon and a tub of Vaseline count as a partner Oli?) and join forces, they would in all likelihood produce the master race.
So there you have it. A couple of fine examples of human beings. But you don’t have to send me in a photo to get my admiration and respect. All you have to do today is de-lurk. De-lurk damn you and show yourself.
Even if you don’t even lurk in the first place you can comment. Tell me your favorite joke, tell me what you had for breakfast, smash your forehead into the keyboard and type out some random gobbledygook, but just comment.
Please, please, I just want to be loved.
Please.
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