Friends

1) dave packing a bag full of stuff to get rid of
2) being ahead on blog posts, finally
3) almost done with cat training product
4) the weather lately
5) ninja's awesome progress

Before I get to anything else I would like to thank our original tribal leaders for doing a fantastic job.

As you may know, they were the ones who selected who was going to be in their tribe over the past few weeks. Each had a different style, but I think they all did the job quite well.

This week, with the topic oriented tribes changes up that. But I wanted to make sure that we took a moment to acknowledge the work, and thought, they they put into it.

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Obviously, since no tribe has a single "bye" in it this week, all of them are tied for "fewest byes taken". Which means we go to the next element, which is the tribe that finished the quickest.

The voting poll is here: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/270539.html

By sheer lack size alone it's pretty clear which one that was, since the others kept adding more entries up until the last minute.

So the tribe that is immune this week is "Who's that Trip Trapping Over My LJ?".

You will also be given a special extra benefit this week of being able to decide which of the larger tribes you want to join next week. So please email me at clauderainsrm@gmail.com or via LJ to let me know.

Sometimes there is a benefit for picking the road less traveled. Congratulations.

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There was a drop this week, that I forgot to mention in the voting poll.

agentkatie1013 had to leave us yesterday in order to concentrate on her education. Hopefully she will be poking her head in every once in awhile though.

Unfortunately we also must attend to the business of the "bye outs". These are the folks who used up both of their "free weeks"/byes and have missed a third deadline.

I hope everything is OK with them all and that perhaps we will see them in the future:


diabological
leda_et_al
ewok_626
geordiejihad
monkeysugarmama
unsold_capacity

It's a combination of some old friends and fan favorites and some new folks that we never really had the chance to properly meet.

A few words from clauderainsrm:

Each decision we make takes us to the next page. Closer and closer to the end of the book.

Will you open the door and see what is inside or go back out and wait for the others?

Will you ask the stranger for directions or find your own way on foot?

It's Choose Your Own Adventure Time, and I think it's fair to say that this week there was plenty of "adventure".

Five different topics. Which, as per usual, is how the tribes have been reshuffled.

Some tribes are going to be huge. Others tiny. There is an advantage and disadvantage in each.

But for this week, that is how they look. There is an extra tribe for the "byes" this time around. Just to show how one slip, and one decision, could very well change the change the fate of the season entirely.

One open door. One question asked.

One vote cast.

Maybe that vote is going to be yours.

The bottom vote getter in each tribe (except "the bye week tribe" of course) will be eliminated.

Voting closes Tuesday November 17th at 8 pm EST
Good luck to everyone!

( Click here to Vote! )

1- I <3 NY Hoodie for less than $13
2- Big bowl of spicy noodles
3- "New York, I Love You"
4- Holding my huns hand in the movie theater while he's sound asleep.
5- Goodbye kiss from him before I got off the train.

Well this has been a week huh?

In my various travels over the Wide World of LJ I've seen comments of all shapes and sizes and differing opinions on this and that.

One of them stuck out to me. I'll be honest, I'm fuzzy at the moment on who it was and I may have even gotten the quote wrong so I'm going to paraphrase:

That *a lot* of the entries this week are some of the best. That the bar is being raised week to week and how proud people must be to see it.

That interpretation is obviously going to vary from person to person, but as one of the people who can honestly say that they look at every entry, every week (for 6 seasons now) I think there's a great deal of truth in there.

That said, the second part of the paraphrase was that they thought it was a shame that with all of the attention on a particular entry and responses, that these people were being lost in the shuffle.

It's a common enough accordance in every situation. But when you get something a little bigger, you tend to see it happen more often. Fortunately you also get the reaction of people being concerned that it might be happening.

So, that said - what entries out there do you think ARE NOT receiving the attention they deserve?

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So, other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play? How was your weekend?

How was linking your entry to the Topic post before 8 pm EST today? http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/268775.html

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Happy birthday to our own elfwench and marjory

1) the future
2) having logic
3) my husband
4) fruity noodles
5) emo music

Nano update! Right now, in the storyline...

Amara is about to travel north to speak to Celdura and warn her that Amara's ex-boyfriend has come back from the dead and brought a magical death curse with him.

Geraint is also heading for Celdura, with the intent to kidnap her and bring her back to Tristan. He is going to fail, on account of Celdura being a goddess and Geraint being a mortal. Tristan, meanwhile, is brooding in a very theatrical manner. At some point he will probably get up and kick some ass because that's his second-favourite thing to do.

Grom, the undead ex-boyfriend in question, is rampaging around the countryside with his army of evil death gnomes. He isn't quite certain what he's come back from the dead for, but Melech is happy to explain things to him in such a way that Melech gets what he wants.

But before any of that can happen, Amara has to stop talking to Lucius and uncover the secret that he's implanted mind control devices in most of his favourite people.

Fun fun.

1) doing things differently
2) her making me talk
3) working things out
4) a clean garage
5) sooooo much productiveness today

You heard it here first - today is Friday the 13th. I'm quite certain that no one else on your Friends List has mentioned it. I didn't want you to hear it on the street. We all know how the street can be. Even the ones with no name.

It's also someone's birthday. She has a name though - it's shadowwolf13. Well, OK, that's not her actual name. But it's how most people here know her. If it were her name, I would like to think that her last name was "13".


http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/268775.html is where the entries for this week are still being posted. Is yours in yet?

So - what are you up to today? Other than walking around wearing hockey masks?

Today we are saying goodbye to

danialtravieso

This isn't a surprise. But damnit, it should be.

I got the biggest smile when I saw that he came back this season. Go back and read his stuff if you've missed it. Not just his poem for the run off but the last few entries. The "Smile" wasn't, IMO, up to his usual standard, but I still liked it quite a bit.

He doesn't fit everyone's taste and he certainly doesn't conform to anyone's rules. The word "brave" gets thrown around a lot. I know that I use it - Just showing up and putting yourself out there is an act of bravery after all.

Showing up, knowing that you are going to put your head into the lion's mouth week after week? That you are going to be the odd one out and still not compromising a single ounce of your vision?

Yeah, he's an All Star in my book.

I hope that he does decide to play the Home Game and that he gets the chance to showcase his talent in front of a larger audience. Because he certainly deserves it.

With the "reveal video" at the end, there isn't any doubt in my mind that he knew he would be going in this run off before the first vote was even cast.He did it anyway and he did it the way he wanted to go out. You can't ask for anymore than that.

Pro: Dragon Age: Origins is awesome. Whoever had the idea of recasting dwarves as scheming bastards totally devoid of atrocious Scots accents deserves a medal. TWO medals, one of which is made of CAKE.

Con: I keep playing it instead of doing my Nano. =/

1.glee
2.waking up early
3. another day to study for test
4.finish editing video project
5.started using photoshop in digital imaging

1) some progress with ninja
2) funny jokes
3) breakfast
4) the pretender
5) seeing ace today

Morning.

There's still a tie-breaker going on! Have you voted? http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/269249.html

Is your entry in yet?
http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/268775.html

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People are going to have different views on things. That's part of what makes them different people.

Another part is that they have different bodies. In some cases they live in different places. (Although I'm not sure that I believe in that. "Foreigners". Yeah right!)

I think the secret is to remember that what might be right for you, might not be right for Conrad Bain.

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Whatcha you talkin' about today?

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Happy Birthday to ageofscorpio and plunderedheart!

1. That my grandpa and so many others sacrificed and continue to sacrifice so much for us in wars past and present, around the world, whether we agreed the war or not those veterans still deserve our gratitude.
2. My best friends who are family and the loves of my life (kelleyjordikylerneddykevinjessimadelinelizzydanerosekaiheidihannahadyhaileyisabelleamerobin your smiles, laughter, hugs, warmth, and love make me the happiest)
3.Curling up on the new couch with my boys and watching south park and corny movies
4.Cuddle puddle in jordi's room
5.Trader Joe's and Castle with kyler!

Ladies and Gentlemen! Boys and Girls! Siegfried and Roy! Hansel and Gretel!
Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!!!

As you may know, at the end of the last round there was a tie in one of the tribes. To break this tie, I threw out a tie breaker topic: Making Fire.
The two contestants had roughly 24 hours to complete it. The entries are listed below.

The poll is open until Thursday November 12th at 10pm EST. You do not have to be a member of the community in order to vote in this run off.

One will stay. One will leave. You will decide.
Good luck to both of you.

Poll #1484201 LJ Idol, Season Six – Tribe apisanthrop, Week Three Run off
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 185

The Ballot:

Happy Armsitice Day!

(The US has a different focus altogether on it, - Veterans Day - so happy that too!)

Happy Remembrance Day to those weirdo foreigners to the north.

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The new topic is up. Or rather, the Choose Your Own Adventure topic(s are up!
http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/268775.html

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There is also a run off between danialtravieso and marjory happening

http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/268414.html

While over there, you have the chance to say goodbye to the latest group of contestants leaving us.

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Not enough going on? How about "99,941 comments received" as of this moment. What does that mean? It means someone today is going to be the one to claim the 100,000th comment. Who will it end up being? Unlike 'FIRST'! that's something that is going to only come around once!

100,000 have been achieved! Congratulations to all of us. It's one of those ticks on the odometer! It appears that this one was claimed by chalkolitlover!! (or maybe kittenboo - heh, you guys can fight it out!)

Here's to 100,000 more!

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Still not enough? Then I'll break character a bit and point you toward a couple cool "fan series" that I've recently discovered:
Love the Joker? Who doesn't? Our own season 1 winner tinhuviel actually does some promotional work with this guy: http://www.youtube.com/TheJokerBlogs or thejokerblogs.com

There is also a fan made "Dr Horrible prequel" that was released last night: http://www.horribleturn.com/watch/

Speaking of fan efforts, it's always worth a visit to see what is going on over at www.ljidol.info!

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All of that should be enough to suck that last bit of free time away today!! But just in case - What else have you got going on?

So, today's Nano pep talk was written by Lynda Barry. I have no idea who she is.

What a heap of shit. If nothing else I need to become a super-famous published author so when I stand up and say this sort of thing is shit, people listen.

Boom.

Welcome to our very own version of Throwback Week!!

It might sound a little confusing, but it’s actually fairly straight forward.It's a Choose Your Own Adventure for the Idol set, where you have a chance to pick your poison and potentially change your fate!

There are *5 topics*. You ONLY NEED TO WRITE ONE.

Pick the topic you want to write, and then post a link to that entry (per usual) here. The only difference is that I will need you to also say which one you are doing when you link it.

It’s “throwback” week because all the topics come from previous seasons!

- Moments of Devastating Beauty

- “I Don’t Care About Apathy”, What I “Should” Care About, But Don’t.

- Sexual Ethics

- "Who's that Trip Trapping Over My LJ?"

- Current Events*

(*Current Events is the only topic with an explanation and a rule. Pick something out of a reasonably current online news source, I’d love to see local news, but it’s not a requirement. Give it your own twist, feelings, insight, whatever, to the story. Also provide a link to the original source material)

Deadline to link your entries back here is Saturday November 14th at 8pm EST

Have fun.

Reminder:This thread is for links to entries and byes only.