Green Room - Week 10 - Day 7

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People are always talking about how there is "so much bad news in the world today", when actually there is just more time to fill and greater access to information than ever before, to fill it. Plus, "cat found in tree" isn't as interesting of a headline as "What did people do to cause cat to flee?????"

There IS one piece of good news out there though, that I personally haven't seen one negative comment about. (I'm SURE they are out there, it's the internet, but I personally haven't seen them*) The Reading Rainbow Kickstarter campaign raised over a MILLION DOLLARS IN 11 HOURS!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh

Kids! Books! Kids reading books! Yay!

*and just like that, I went to find a link to the story, and here was this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/05/28/you-might-want-to-reconsider-that-donation-to-the-reading-rainbow-kickstarter/?wprss=rss_lifestyle

Ah, that's more like it. Thanks internet, you never disappoint!

How has the Internet managed to NOT disappoint YOU today?

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Speaking of "never disappointing" - the Topic thread is slowly filling up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/741490.html and I DO mean "slowly". I expand deadlines to keep more people in, and more people simply find new ways to submit last minute. ;)

Also - there are still a few spots open in The Killing Floor: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/743022.html and of course, you should definitely be going there to offer constructive criticism.

Vote - Week 10

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A few words from clauderainsrm:

Calling Mister Oswald with the swastika tattoo
There is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo
Carving V for vandal on the guilty boy's head
When he's had enough of that maybe you'll take him to bed

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THERE IS NO REASON TO BE POSTING THESE SONGS LYRICS HERE

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
Doing anything my radio advised
With every one of those late night stations
Playing songs, bringing tears to me eyes
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
When the switch broke 'cause it's old
They're saying things that I can hardly believe
They really think we're getting out of control
Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'Cause they think that it's treason
So you had better do as you are told
You better listen to the radio
I wanna bite the hand that feeds me
I wanna bite that hand so badly
I wanna make them wish they'd never seen me
Some of my friends sit around every evening
And they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
And the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut out
They don't wanna hear about it
It's only inches on the reel-to-reel
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
Tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel
Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'Cause they think that it's treason
So you had better do as you are told
You better listen to the radio
Wonderful radio
Marvelous radio
Wonderful radio
Radio, radio


For that matter, there was no reason to post those either.

What this IS the place to post however, is a poll.

But before we get to that, we have to say goodbye to some friends, and it’s kind of an All Star list.

Dropping out this week are: bhyphen, mothermelete and similieslip

Byeing-out (using their final bye and then missing the deadline) are baxaphobia, cail, cloworora, deathling, dizzydog, imafarmgirl, lordrexfear, pennywhistle, rattsu and snarkerdoodle

It’s a really sad day. BUT there is a special power out there, for those interested, that is capable of bringing some folks back into the game. (more on that and the other special powers in play in a latter post) For those who need a little more time to get back into the swing of things - there is always the Home Game and the spectre of Second Chance Idol coming into play at some point later down the road!

I hope you take advantage of it!

As for the rest of you, there is still the matter of a poll for Week 10!

The person with the fewest votes in each poll will be eliminated. There IS immunity in play though (more on that in the later post) so you never know what could end up happening!

The poll will be closing MONDAY JUNE 2ND at 8pm EDT

Good luck to everyone!

( Click here to Vote! )

Note: http://ohelectricshock.livejournal.com/338098.html is ohelectricshock's entry. She did not take a bye and will be safe this week. But read and comment on it anyway!

Special Powers Part 2

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Since there is a lot of things going on this week, I figured that this was a good time to sit down and explain what the powers are, and who has them.

(Especially relevant with the Mystery and Pandora's Box, which no one who hasn't looked inside - or been shown knows what was inside of those!)

Some of them are pretty straight forward, and some are just plain fun! :) (for me anyway!)


immunity to give to one person - kate_spencer has that. If you are in danger, she could be your best friend. :)

1 free bye to give to someone else - deza had that. She actually used it this week.

personal immunity - diagenou has that. If he is in danger, he will be safe. (until it is actually used. It's an one-shot deal)

1 free bye for self - kotenok_angel has it. That's pretty self-explanatory.

Here's where we get more involved:

Bouncing immunity - currently possessed by morleysnow, at the end of this week it will be handled off to someone else. No one can possess it more than once. If it is NOT handed off by the topic deadline for a given week, it is out of the game. If it gets to the point that there are no more eligible contestants to possess it, it is out of the game.

Power of Veto - possessed by bleodswean Basically, if they don't like any given tribe's results, they can negate them. It's like a Judge's Save on American Idol, or a Non-elimination week on Amazing Race. Only it's in the hands of one of your fellow contestants!

Resurrection Stone is in the hands of belgatherial It's the power to bring back ONE contestant who is eliminated, giving them an one week immunity in the process.

Mystery Box was given to kathrynrose who had to make the decision between giving every single remaining contestant EXCEPT HERSELF an extra bye OR giving herself two extra byes. She now has two extra byes.

Pandora’s Box - was given to theun4givables who was given the power to bring 0-10 contestants into the game. (She had to decide how many/IF she was going to allow it to happen). I actually gave her an extension until an hour before this poll's deadline, because she told me she wants to bring back the maximum amount, if possible. http://theun4givables.livejournal.com/192209.html for details on that.

I will be updating you as the powers are used/past to someone else.