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Thursday, April 12, 2007
6:08:00 PM EDT
Hearing Assassin -- Muse


Why does Mrs. Scalzi look so pensive here? Perhaps because she's pondering this week's Weekend Assignment:

Weekend Assignment #160: Suggest a Weekend Assignment for one of the next few upcoming weeks. Why? Well, because very shortly now, I'll be doing a three week book tour, in which I'll be traveling all over the country like a madman in support of my latest novel, The Last Colony. While I'm doing that I'll still be checking here and doing things like the photo shoot and the Weekend Assignment, but it would be helpful for me if I had the Weekend Assignment topics all lined up and ready to go. Not only that, but we do this "suggest a topic" thing about once a year, and it generally ends up with some really interesting topics that I myself wouldn't have thought up. So in all, this seems like a great time to pick your brains for great topics.

For this particular weekend assignment, you don't have to write up your suggestion in your blog or journal, just drop it into the comment thread. You can suggest more than one topic if you like -- but try to limit yourself to no more than three or four. Make your suggestions, and on Monday I'll let you know which topics I've selected and from whom. Then over the next few weeks, I'll run those topics and play along as well.

So get to it! I'm looking forward to seeing what Weekend Assignments you'd like to see.


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• #17 Comment from lurkynat 
  4/18/07 12:37 AM | Permalink

  Dear John,
  here is mine:
  http://journals.aol.com/lurkynat/Interface/entries/2007/04/17/suggest-assignment-topics-scalzis-assignments/1506
  that was fun! thanks!
  Best Reguards to you and your family,
  natalie
  ps cool picture!
• #16 Comment from astaryth 
  4/16/07 7:19 PM | Permalink

  1.Reincarnation is a fact and you are going to come back as some type of animal... what kind would you prefer and why? Extra Credit: Do you think you have good Karma or bad? Do you believe in Karma?
  
  2.You have a chance to visit a real life version of Jurassic Park... Do you go?  Extra Credit: Do you think cloning extinct animals to bring them back would be a good thing or a bad thing.
  
  http://journals.aol.com/astaryth/AdventuresofanEclecticMind/
  http://adventuresofaneclecticmind.blogspot.com/
  
  
  
  
• #15 Comment from plittle 
  4/15/07 1:07 PM | Permalink

  I couldn't help myself. I had to post an entry instead of just dropping a suggestion here.
  -Paul
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/entries/2007/04/15/john-scalzis-weekend-assignment/2358
  
• #14 Comment from monponsett 
  4/14/07 11:43 PM | Permalink

  - Pretend to be Bush, and justify your upcoming invasion of Venezuela.
  
  - Make up an ofensive-yet-catchy slur for "white American" for blacks to use.
  
  - Play Anchorman for a real writer.... John starts off a ficlet, and finishing it is your weekend assingment.
  
  - everyone START a ficlet, and make John waste a day writing endings to each one.
  
  - Comment on the emerging Emo scene developing in Afghanistan.
  
  - Invent a theoretical super-weapon to kill Moslems with.
  
  - Use Photoshop to give John really cool friends to hang around with.
  
  - Mad-Lib.... John writes a story, but leaves critical words out of sentences. We fill them in, to the amusement of all.
  
  - Pick a name off the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List, then make a MySpacepage for him, with the home address of one of your neighbors. Bonus for SWAT team photos....
  
  - Blpggers Without Pants
  
  - Use Babel Fish, and do a post in some f***ed-up language.
  
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• #13 Comment from jmorancoyle 
  4/14/07 6:25 PM | Permalink

  http://journals.aol.com/jmorancoyle/MyWay/entries/2007/04/14/john-scalzis-weekend-assignment-160-suggest-your-own-weekend-assignment/2061
  Much good luck on your publicity  tour. I'm pretending it's me and my trip. Take care.
  jude

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