What a week! We had everything from dead horses to spam. Between a fully functional powered birdie, to an ongoing birdie recount, the launch of cvilleMUSE.com, and a new private club, I’d say this week is as exciting as any week. Let me know if you think I missed anything!
We opened up the doors to some new writers this week. Parlie formally introduced himself and both Stanley and Lu Sid became official members of the cVillain team.
While eating fried chicken, we yelled at some out of town laxers (mainly their parents) for puerile actions and food throwage. Because we were still a little upset, we yelled at some Catholics and their attack on cartoons and quickly realized that anger was not fun.
Time to take some stress out with a nice run (did you know so many of you were active runners?) and a visit to the Might Be Giants show. We asked about OASC, and before you think it’s some crazy bondage position, the outdoor adventure social club quickly made us realize that non-competes aren’t real smart ways to treat your customers… and they agreed.
We bust out some serious rumors/news this week:
- OK Go is playing at UVA’s spring fest. Treadmills, anyone?
- We launched cvilleMUSE.com. Shaun is one kickass dude and he’s running the show for us.
- New name for Kiki, private clubs near Boheme and Villain Nights? Yes please.
- We confirmed our steakhouse rumor with the formal naming of the place above Escafe: The Upstairs.
We touch on C-VILLE’s cover story on the lottery, review Saigon Cafe and talk about freaky internet things. We also whip out the boring business talk. You hate it.
With a near fight in the running thread over on topic/off topic commentary, we launch our “Free for All.” From the traffic metrics, you guys love it! We’ll keep it going with version 1.1 this week.
And guess what else happened this week? Don’t forget about spring fever and spam. We realized that spring means a lot of different things to a lot of people. We caught spam fever with a dead horse, a look into a Hook as a victim of spam, and … then our own office prank contest got spammed! The irony is dripping with spam juice.
What else did we learn? Over 50% of you are Apple computer users. We are hip, especially when we bring our Macs to Salsa Sundays.
We finished off the week with some great pickup lines, a pillow fight and some all natural donuts.
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I’d like to thank Parlie for introducing himself last week.
Thanks Parlie
And welcome
And welcome to Lu and Stanley
And thank you Thor for being godlike
I think the Free for All post should be linked to from the home page somewhere. Otherwise by mid-week it’ll get lost in the shuffle and I’ll have to spend my valuable work-time searching for it when I should be spending my valuable work-time making inane comments; and I don’t think my employer would appreciate that.
Ay, I’m not that.
And welcome to Lu and Stanley
Hey! Thanks, Silmo. It’s nice to feel welcome at the internets.
you forgot to mention the bird vote. we voted for the bird, and then argued about it… even more, in fact, than we had ever argued before! in the end, my suspicion was confirmed: that the internet, while leaps and bounds ahead of his competitor the ham radio, is fucking retarded.
It’s nice to feel welcome at the internets.
I thought this was e-mail.
/so confused
When are we declaring Scowly the winner of the mascot race?
I thought this was e-mail.
I thought this was a MMORPG.
@7 - don’t rule out the superdelegates
@7. I’m also wondering when Scowly will be crowned Queen ‘B’ird of cVille??? Officially!
Have you finished up those TPS reports yet?
Why are the mods so quiet on the Scowly front? What are they hiding from other cvillinains?
Who is carrying shenanigan’s love child?????????????
Uh, rumor has it you are carrying shen’s love child.
Bob, is his name (okay, I don’t actually know that, but I was burnt out on all the fighting).
I’m only carrying a torch for shenanigan.
I’m carrying a coat for shenanigans… but that’s only because its hers and she asked me to
I carry nothing for shenanigans ’cause she looks like she can take care of herself.
Why are the mods so quiet on the Scowly front?
If you look at the most recent voting post, you’ll see polling and closed and there’s a “Recount Pending”. Beyond that, I know nothing. Then again, I haven’t asked. Thor?
ahem. “polling is closed, that is.
scowly will rise again.
I feel like we are all just sitting in limbo waiting. Grr…I hate waiting.
Oh, and I miss Bob.
Even if Cecil garnered more votes, I’ll always call our birdie Scowly.
/can’t make me
I’m starting to get sick of that bird. Will someone name him already?
Speaking for only myself, it makes one wonder about a blog that gets everyone all hepped up on a contest and then takes longer than Florida to count the votes. Hey, I know this is a minor thing but WTF? If it’s a messed up vote, say so- if it’s a do over, say so. But this radio silence is not how to deal with people who post and give you page views so you can one day make some real ad dollars.
Act like business people and step up. Until then I’m going to be like (and I’m loathed to quote the man) Secrest.
I’m out- for reals
His name is Scowly. B’ yo takes a couple days off and the commenting on this site drops in half. Is he really the keystone to this entire site?
@14: i know, it’s cute
@15: huh? did i leave it at the party?
@16: damn straight
this is what i get for going to bed early.
@ 25 B’ yo is by no means the keystone to this site… please. Y’all are hilarious too!
Everybody breath.
Scowly!