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Great F#@%ing Posts! Week of 5/29/09

by chris on May 29, 2009

I know, I know, it’s been a long time since I rapped at cha.  And I haven’t done this with the fervor or frequency that I’d hoped, but that’s slowly getting changed.

Here is the week’s posts:

Great Post:   Crappy First Job.  No job I’ve ever had has been substantially better, so it begs the question: why work at a job at all?  Yes, we can make a difference in the ordinary…

A hilariously sick Yahoo Answers about if your son is teh gay.

A video about the post office that you must see to believe.  It was once cutting edge.  I still love the way that the post office smells.

Finally:

A more serious snippet of an interview on Threadless.
Anyone I linked out to can get a free copy of the book if they review it, good or bad.  Anyone else can buy it.  I’ll be updating this a little more frequently and a little bit better quite soon.  But in the mean time, here we go.

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F#@%ing Great Post: March 6, 2009

by chris on March 6, 2009

Who Wins This Week's F#@%ing Great Post Award? March 6th, 2009

Total Voters: 26

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It’s time for our weekly F#@%ing Great Post Award. We’ve found the best F#@%ing posts on the Internet. We’re looking for truly original thought, truly different thinking, a healthy dose of joy and attitude in writing, and clearly communicated ideas.

F#@%ing Great Post Award

F#@%ing Great Post Award

We’re not looking for above average posts—we’re looking for F#@%ing great ones.

The overall winner gets a free copy of the book F#@% Therapy: Permission to Think Your Own Thoughts.

How to Win a Blogging Award

Simple. Go ahead and submit anything that you’d like to our Award page. We won’t spam you. Much. On Friday we’ll be posting the final nominees, and on the following Monday we announce the winners. The post can only be on this list once—but all nominees also get a F#@%ing Great Post badge.

This Week’s Nominees

  1. Brazen careerist Penelope Trunk lets us in on the secret of finding your next mentor – be annoying.
  2. Bre Pettis helped perfect the Cult of Done Manifesto. Well, it’s not really perfect, but it IS done, so there!
  3. Before you go pointing fingers, you might want to give Chris Brogan’s The Righteous Web a thorough read.
  4. What happens when reality wakes you up from the dreams you had? Ryan ‘Oktober 5‘ D. Scott sucks it up, looks inward and finds that he was living the wrong dreams all along. So he moves on.
  5. Seth Godin is sick of dealing with all the damned quick-to-say-no-people in this world. Want to learn how to make your customers happy? Give them more yesses!
  6. Want to eat lunch with Jenny the Blogess? Would you decline the invite if the topic of conversation involved giant labias? Or would you be more inclined to go?
  7. Having a birthday party for your child? You probably won’t want to hire Cynical Dad to DJ. His choice of music might get you arrested, or at the very least, on some sort of watch list.
  8. Looking for a solution to the United State’s economic woes? Jeremy Schoemaker has a suggestion – regulate online gambling!

Now….Nominate a great post for the award next Friday!  Vote at the top,

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Poll Winner: Trey Garrison, by a Landslide.

by chris on March 2, 2009

Congratulations to Trey Garrison for winning the first poll, by sending everyone he knows to us.

You’ll be getting a copy of the book shortly…so, congratulations, Trey. Again, the winning post was:

Here’s Where I’ll Be, Buying Cheap Guns

So here, feel free to display this badge anywhere you like:


(It also lives on the server in 206 and 125 versions, so if you don’t want to brag garishly, change the URL to 206 or 125 when you right-click to save image as.)

Trey, you’re no longer just a blogger. You’re an award-winning blogger. And we want to hear you read the 190-page, 36,000-word e-book aloud. You contracted with your entire group to do just that in exchange for votes. So hopefully more fun will continue.

For those of you who’d like to nominate one of your—or better yet—someone else’s F#@%ing great post for THIS FRIDAY’S award, just put it in the box below. Our editors (ahem, me) screen posts for quality, but we’re looking for the best F#@%ing writing on the internet.

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Thanks—and check back soon.

Remember: We’re taking down the ability to buy this book at 12 noon today all the way ’til 12:00 noon on 3/16/09 so we can focus on launching everything appropriately. So it’s really your last chance to grab it before then…

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F#@%ing Great Post: Kickoff Edition.

by chris on February 27, 2009

Which Post Should Be Given The F#@%ing Great Post Award.

  • Trey Garrison Buys Cheap Guns (47.0%, 85 Votes)
  • Monk finds a way to be pissy about gratitude (12.0%, 22 Votes)
  • Teenage Kicks, Free Association Friday (12.0%, 21 Votes)
  • Remarkablogger shakes his head at fickle people (9.0%, 16 Votes)
  • NameTag Scott says to be honest (8.0%, 15 Votes)
  • The Ferrett Is Dictator (4.0%, 8 Votes)
  • There's No better life than Hugh Heffner's (4.0%, 8 Votes)
  • Ogunbase hates black history month (3.0%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 180

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It’s time for the first weekly F#@%ing Great Post Award. We’ve found the best F#@%ing posts on the Internet. We’re looking for truly original thought, truly different thinking, a healthy dose of joy and attitude in writing, and clearly communicated ideas.

F#@%ing Great Post Award

F#@%ing Great Post Award

We’re not looking for above average posts—we’re looking for F#@%ing great ones.

The overall winner gets a free copy of the book F#@% Therapy: Permission to Think Your Own Thoughts.

How to Win a Blogging Award

Simple. Go ahead and submit anything that you’d like to our Award page. We won’t spam you. Much. On Friday we’ll be posting the final nominees, and on the following Monday we announce the winners. The post can only be on this list once—but all nominees also get a F#@%ing Great Post badge.

This Week’s Nominees

http://teenkicks.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-association-friday.html Teenage Kicks, a fantastic rock ‘n’ roll blog riffs on the Boss’s halftime performance, and how he’s darn good in 2009, but 2009 ain’t 1978.

Finding loads of people willing to sell cheap guns. http://www.treygarrison.com/2009/02/where-ill-be-saturday-between-9-am-and-noon-buying-cheap-guns/

Remarkablogger talks about how people are fragile & fickle morons: http://michaelmartine.com/2009/02/11/are-you-serious/

The Ferrett brings up his new world as a benign dictator: http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1234281.html

Raging Daemon again puzzles over the nature of women: http://raging-daemon.livejournal.com/265693.html

Ogunbase takes potshots at Black History Month: http://ogunbase.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-dont-want-black-history-month.html

This post could be either an ARE YOU KIDDING ME or a GREAT F#@%ing POST. Monk at Work riffs on Gratitude. And how it’s a trap. Way interesting…we don’t know where we stand on this one.  http://monkatwork.com/709/the-gratitude-trap/

The guy with the nametag, Scott Ginsberg, well, he talks about being F#@%ing honest.  http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2009/02/greatest-branding-secret-in-history-of.html

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