By The Way...

Thursday, November 3, 2005
5:13:00 PM EST
Hearing The Rock Show -- Blink-182
I thought we'd try something a little different for this week's Weekend Assignment, something to stretch those creative muscles in your brain:

Weekend Assignment #84: Take a look at the picture below. Tell us what you think is going on in the picture. You can write as long as you want, or as short as you like -- even a photo caption works. Now, it's a fairly weird picture, but I thought that would just give you more to work with. Ready? Here you go:



Hey, I told you it was odd. Remember, I am a science fiction writer.

(And yes, you can borrow the picture when you write it up in your blog or journal. Here's the direct URL; you can just copy the URL and link directly to the picture or download it onto your computer and into your own Hometown space. Also feel free to fiddle with it in a photo-editing program if you have one and you want to.)

Extra Credit: Would you like to see more "explain what's going on in the picture" sort of assignments? Not every one would be as odd as this one, mind you. But I want to keep the assignments fresh and fun, and this might be a way to do it from time to time.

Remember, the purpose of the Weekend Assignment is to go back to your own blog or journal, write up the assignment, and then come back here to leave a link in the comment thread. Commenting directly is fine if you don't have a blog or journal (although you can always make one!), but if you do, leaving a link after writing up your Weekend Assignment is a great way to get people to visit your Journal and see what's happening.

You've got the photo above: Now tell us all what you think is going on! Personally, I'm very interested to see what you all come up with.


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• #235 Comment from confusedscoot 
  11/7/05 6:46 PM | Permalink

  I think you are wondering how did I get in this mess and how can I fix this now that I have posted the real me.
• #234 Comment from sparklea99 
  11/7/05 5:08 PM | Permalink

  Normal Person: Okay for the last and final time what does 1+1 equal?
  Weird Person: uhhhh BUNNY!!!
  Normal Person: ugh! Just forget it
• #233 Comment from energydncr 
  11/7/05 9:36 AM | Permalink

  well whats happening in this picture to me is that he's very stress because he has to do so many web design's for other companys and have them all do by a certain time, so that means he has to rush to get all these web designs done or it 's not going to be good business plus he over booked his self causing him to be stressed out and look  very confused
• #232 Comment from loralei37 
  11/7/05 4:59 AM | Permalink

  It's obvious iisn't it?  My journal tells the truth about this faux pas.
  
  http://journals.aol.com/loralei37/ThemeaningoflifeandothersuchBS/entries/179
  
  Come and see!
  
  Lori
• #231 Comment from jgrand1 
  11/7/05 3:27 AM | Permalink

  Hi John, I hate to tell you this but you are the victim of an alien abduction.  See my blog for the whole horrifying tale!
  Jeanne x
  http://journals.aol.com/jgrand1/JeannesOracle/  

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