By The Way...

Thursday, May 18, 2006
1:21:00 PM EDT
Hearing Cruel to be Kind -- Nick Lowe
We all like to think we're a little different, and now here's a fun way to prove it:

Weekend Assignment: Show off a personal possession of yours that you are reasonably certain other people don't have. Note this is limited to possessions: Don't haul up the spouse and go "neener-neener." Pets are also off limits unless it's a truly bizarre pet: We're talking like a hyena or an ocelot or something like that. Otherwise it's best to stick to physical objects. Also, as I've done a similar Photo Shoot in the past: don't recycle. Come on, you've got more than one odd thing in your house.

Extra credit: Pictures! I mean, obviously.

Here's mine:



As you may know, one of my gigs when I'm not doing this blog is to write DVD reviews, and just today I got this promotional package for the 25th anniversary edition of Mommy Dearest. It comes out June 6th (which is why I'm pretty sure none of you have it hanging around). What makes this package especially sweet is the canister of cleanser that comes with the DVD. It really is cleanser, incidentally. Sweeet. This sort of thing is not unusual for DVD promo packages, but it doesn't make it any less fun when you get it. And as it happens, we need cleanser. So this is even practical. Weird.

Your turn: Tell us about the thing you have you're pretty sure no else has. Write about it in your blog or journal. And then come back here and leave a link. Let's see if your unique thing really is as unique as you think.



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• #17 Comment from pattboy92 
  5/23/06 2:14 AM | Permalink

  Hey, John!  
  
  The game show buff in me couldn't resist playing along with this one:
  
  http://patricks-place.blogspot.com/2006/05/scalzis-weekend-assignment-112.html
  
  Patrick
• #16 Comment from hewasolddog299 
  5/21/06 5:13 PM | Permalink

  It's the whole thing...
  http://dailysnooze.blogspot.com/2006/05/whole-hole-and-nothing-mostly-but-hole.html
  wil
• #15 Comment from rlspina 
  5/21/06 9:00 AM | Permalink

  I don't have a hyena, but I do have a different twist on lawn ornaments.....
  
  http://journals.aol.com/rlspina/thefrontporch/
• #14 Comment from pandorasbazaar 
  5/21/06 3:08 AM | Permalink

  OK. Here's mine.
  http://pandorasbazaar.blogspot.com/2006/05/weekend-assignment-112.html
  ~Cosette
• #13 Comment from jlester961 
  5/20/06 4:50 PM | Permalink

  OK!OK! this is not in my house, but who else has access to the Doll Run Cemetary?
  http://journals.aol.com/jlester961/YarnsandTallTails/entries/2338
  PS - next week I'm making a run at Ices Cemetary and no, I have no idea who comes up with these names.

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