Why bludfeast is one of the great people in this world

[docwebster]

He posted the following at the end of the big zombiefic throwdown yesterday:

I hope everybody enjoyed my participation in the Blog Like It's The End Of The World party yesterday. I assure you, this activity has no further significance than as the blogeriffic offering it was intended to be. The internet's own version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo!

Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates, so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very eyes, and utterly destroyed Livejournal and MySpace. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business.

So goodbye everybody, and remember please, for the next day or so, the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Zombie... it's not even Halloween yet.

Apologies to Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air


It never ceases to amaze me the amount of bile spewed when one of these things happens and gets very, very popular. I realize fully some people had legitimate issues with it (and you know who you are and you know I know who you are), and that's fine and should be addressed. But it seems to me like the vast majority of the complainers and precious little more than whiners who can't be bothered to hit the downspace key. I'm sure people will be sure to check with you next time they want to get creative and have fun. Actually, no they won't because they don't have to. Their level of skill thereat is utterly irrelevant. I might strongly suggest those who participate in such things use the lj-cut feature, but that's neither here nor there. Discuss. Politely.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Either lj-cut, descriptive tag, or both, for my preference.

Ideally, sufficiently over-the-top that I can tell it's fiction, but that, too, is a matter of preference. Mostly I just scrolled past them.

[bludfeast.livejournal.com]

In an event like this, and LJ cut would kind of inhibit the authenticity of the fiction. The whole premise was that it was to appear that this thing was actually happening. If some sort of massive attack like this was to occur in reality, it would be highly unlikely that the few folks able to keep people posted via their blogs or webspace would bother doing a cut, and in fact, would be doing the public a bit of disservice to do so.

For my part, I thought it was great. It was a nice change from the endless memes, polls and relationship-oriented pouting I usually have to rifle through, and after all... it was only for one day.

I do think I should try to get as many Who fans to pick a day later in the year for a similar exercise involving a Dalek invasion, though. I wanna photoshop a Dalek exterminating Wolf Blitzer or Rosie O'Donnel, and make it look like an actual news story on the CNN site ;)

Sheesh some people DON'T Want to take a joke

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

Remember that time when I tried to get everyone to switch their user icons to a pic of their butt?
There was more reason for people to be upset about that than people blogging a Zombie invasion. My joke involved nudity.

Personally, I love being part of a big joke.

And that's why I'm still part of the human race.

Re: Sheesh some people DON'T Want to take a joke

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Amen.