Green Room - Week 19 - Day 6

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The Gatekeepers are all in - and I have some results for you.

It came down to one vote, and that vote decided to send 3/4 of you home. . .




Oh come on, you saw the date! ;) There was no way that I was announcing eliminations today! Even if I had them all in, which I do not!

I hope you end up on the role of the fool-er today and not the fool-ee! ;)

Comments

[shadowwolf13]

Plus you titled it Green room instead of Results. ;)

I'm smarter than that.



ETA: And first? Wow ... Too cool. I guess waking up at the pre-crack of dawn has some advantages. :D

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Yay, good for you!

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Congrats for being first!

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I was thinking the same thing. XD

[alephz.livejournal.com]

I'm just bummed 'cause I made a quick notification to a friend on my journal and forgot that it was April First and I should have... I dunno. Made some kind of new character-me to just be a jerk at everyone.

Maybe I'll do that anyway.

Aaaaanyway, happy April Fools.

[tentaclecore]

I'm in the midst of a bloody CAPSLOCK battle with a good friend on FB because she disapproves of Google Motion and I think it's the greatest thing ever.

What can I say, she hates fun :\

[momebie.livejournal.com]

HOW WOULD THAT NOT BE THE BEST THING EVER? It's like the Wii for boring business people! I could use this! This reminds me of several years ago when Google tried to convince people they could pre-date e-mails to send them from earlier and my friend spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get it to work.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Most elaborate gag I've ever seen!

[barrelofrain.livejournal.com]

Love your user icon!

Also, I <3 Google's yearly prank.

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I was SOOO sucked in by this. My heart fell through the floor, no joke. Maybe that just shows how fatigued I really am. Or perhaps I'm just gullible ;D

Anyway, I'm just popping into a Green Room to say, sorry I haven't commented on ANY entries this week, not even my friends' entries... life just got a whole lot busier over the past few days! I hope to catch up on some sleep this weekend and promise I'll do better next week.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, new babies can have that effect ;)

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

I'm too nervous about this to look at the date :P

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Seriously... the waiting is killing me.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! My music video view count has reached past 400 views today :D

I know there were some non-flisters who'd been interested in seeing it at some point, so if said folks are still interested, here's a link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsnasDsX_G4) to the music video I shot in Hawaii. If you recall, I wrote a couple of Idol entries about the experience. :)

(Watch, share, etc. I want to see how many views I can get and it didn't quite go as viral as I'd hoped, though I am still pretty impressed with that many views, since it's still more than 100 more than any of my other videos on YouTube.)

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

I know there were some non-flisters

I keep seeing this as "fisters"... And I keep thinking, that's a whole lot more about you than I wanted to know! :-p

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

I am tempted to stay off the Internet today so as to lessen the opportunities to be fooled.

Ah heck, who am I kidding.

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

As I am not a fan of pranks, I ought to do the same...

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be on high alert today. I'm naive at times, but I'm likely to remember the date and not believe anything I hear...so if you have important news to share, don't make it today or I won't believe the truth :p

No jokes planned except one on me. I'm getting my taxes prepared. FUN stuff. I won't do the whole pregnancy joke most girls play. It's overdone and knowing Idol's history, I wouldn't want to jinx myself...not to mention, give my poor boy a heart attack!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I took a pregnancy test for you. Don't worry, you're not pregnant ;)

Meanwhile, it is well past the time I'm allowed to pull pranks. So anything I've sent you on FB isn't April Fool's related.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many of my coworkers think my announcing I was leaving the office for 10 days starting today is a joke.

This is my first real go somewhere vacation since 2008; and I can not *wait* to get on the road later today, even though it means all sorts of interesting issues tomorrow with Idol.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Neat! Where are you headed?

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

It's a big day around here. My mom is having Grandparents' Tea with my daughter at school. Then Grandpa is coming home from the rehab facility!!! He's been bouncing between rehab and the hospital since he had his pacemaker put in at the beginning of December. So this will be his first time home in about four months. We're getting some food from his favorite Italian restaurant to celebrate, and I actually remembered to bring my camera with me today.

Right now I'm watching my baby, my baby nephew and my toddler, so my hands are a little full, but I wanted to pop into the GR while one of them was sleeping :)

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Good to see you in the Green Room. And that sounds like a great way to celebrate. :D

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Good Morning Idolers... And a Happy April Fool's Day to ya. But more importantly, Happy Friday!!!

Ordinarily, I *love* April Fool's Day. I love pranking people. But for whatever reason, I just came up blank today. I gots nothin' unfortunately. Or fortunately, depending on your point of view I suppose.

But hey, it's Friday. Reason enough to celebrate right there. Hopefully, we'll see either Suckerpunch or Insidious this weekend, depending upon how Ms. pixie117 feels about it. I really want to see both of them like a lot. Other than that, probably just some lounging and decompressing before we have to crank up the machine again next week. Bleh.

So how about the rest of you fine folk? Any big weekend plans?

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I think it's probably a good thing for me that you don't have any ideas....but I'm still not letting my guard down just in case you get an idea :p

I'm good with either. Or we could try for another double feature like we did that one time ;)

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

I have a student matinee this morning and a regular show tonight. I'm hoping no one decides to play pranks at the theatre, I'll get cranky. Between shows I'm taking myself out to lunch, donating blood, and hopefully watching a movie on my computer. Though if the weather stays this nice I may ditch that last one and just sit in the park for a few hours.

Sadly, I've never seen results come in early, so I didn't believe you on general principle.

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've got a full plate today. Hope it all goes well, smoothly and that nobody makes you cranky. :-p

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

*cries* so I figured you out with that "one vote" BUT the first line GOT ME GOOD. *shakes fist*

Almost done reading, and very much enjoying myself this week :D

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Seriously... that first line was the first thing I read at O-dark-thirty this morning and I almost had a heart attack.

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

Easy work day for me. Enjoying the LIFE OF PI book. Hubby is home from work sick as a dog today. The Mothership goes to her doc this PM. Her leg isn't right, but I'll spare the gross details. Life is pretty blah here today. Hope I won't have to cancel our shared family birthday dinner for my mom and me tomorrow night. I'm getting tired of dealing with sick and hurt people so much of the time.
AW

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Oh Gary, you're such a kidder!

I'm doing ok today, made it 1/3 of the way up Enchanted Rock (about 2/10 of a mile) before it got far too steep and I had to turn back. Did more walking though on the flatter trails, so I still got a good workout today. We are driving back to the ranch now. My fet are tired!!!!

April 1, 1811

[adelinerigsdale.livejournal.com]

Dearest Readers,

What an absolute delight it is to discover that, over 200 years after I won The Real LJ Idol 1808-10 Competition, that both the competition and Gary are still chugging along.

I know that I despise when father pulls out the "in my did, all our Horses died of tetanus while we were riding them" lectures, but I can't help but take this opportunity to let you know how easy you have it in the 21st century.

Those of us that participated in the 1808-10 competition (yes, it ran two years, so stop complaining that the modern ones take a paltry nine months) learned about it from droll little advertisements. The one I found was in a popular periodical titled "Mrs. Farrington's Dispatch Concerning Proper Decorum For Young Christian Ladies, Vol. 18 No 6." I was reading an absolutely intriguing article about how it was our patriotic duty to offer tongue baths to American soldiers when the advertisement caught my eye:

Literary Fame And Fortune Can Be Yours!
Monsieur Gary's Most Excellent and Famous "Live" Journaling Competition offers men and women of all ages and social classes^* the opportunity to compete for the title of "Idol."
This "Idol" wins a generous cash prize and the opportunity to wear a badge with the title "Idol" on it for the rest of their natural life. Badge must be returned to Monsieur Gary upon death.
^*Children and Slaves, please ask your owner and/or parents for permission before registering.

Well, that caught my attention!

The game was played considerably differently back in those days. There were sixty three competitors at the start of the competition and we were scattered about the world. Monsieur Gary would mail us all a prompt (and some very charming daily dispatches to keep our spirits from sagging) and we would have a two weeks to write about by hand in our actual journal and then mail our journal to Monsieur Gary.

He would then painstakingly copy all of our journal entries by hand into a book with a title like "Journaling Competition, Week #1." He'd make as many copies as there were competitors and then mail them to us (along with our own journals). We'd then have a week to read that week's entries and mail back a list of our favorites to Monsieur Gary.

It was a painstaking process, and Monsieur Gary was unforgiving about delays in mail (one competitor who worked as a trapper in what is now Nebraska was eliminated because the pack mule who normally delivered his mail was dyspeptic one week and refused to work) or about health issues (twelve of the competitors died of consumption before the contest ended - Gary made it clear to the rest of us that we should let him know if we had even the slightest signs of a terminal illness so he didn't have to make a weekly book for us to peruse).

The social aspect of the game was also challenging. We all wrote to each other in the hopes of influencing each other's selections, but the process was tedious and expensive. Still, I had a great deal of time and was rather good at it. In fact, the famous poet, Lord Byron, was one of my fellow competitors and he was eliminated in Week #7 because he took to calling one especially delicate writer (Mrs. Beardsley of Oak Street Plaza, York, England) a "fart face" with the "literary capacity of emu mucous."

Though the words he spoke were true, we judged him to be too cruel and voted him out. Mrs. Beardsley, as it happens, was with me in the final two before a nasty case of syphilis did her in.

(continued)

Re: April 1, 1811

[adelinerigsdale.livejournal.com]

My goodness, the comment system here limits the number of words you can enter. My friends, that was one advantage in my day. I could write as many words as I wanted to on paper, provided I wrote small enough. And I could write very small letters indeed.

Anyhow, I was alerted by mail late in May of 1810 that I was that cycle's "Idol." Oh, what joy I felt in my heart, a joy that was unaffected even when my father cruelly said, "it still won't help you find a husband."

The cash prize was very generous indeed. Now, I've heard that Monsieur Gary became unable to afford to give out a cash prize shortly after World War 1, but back in those days it was enough to travel the world and visit some of your fellow competitors. I, of course, opted to travel to visit that charming Lord Byron and made plans to leave for England immediately.

As coincidence would have it, I booked passage on the HMS Mirage. I spoke at length to the captain during our sojourn at sea, and he told me that he had acquired this ship when he saw it from a distance. He ordered his crew to pursue the mysterious ship and one crew member had commented, 'Captain, its a mirage."

He was undeterred! Eventually, he caught up with the ship - which was abandoned - and named it The Mirage as a tribute to his crewmember's words.

"I don't even know what a mirage is," he laughed.

"Why, captain, its an optical trick that makes you think something is there when it really isn't."

"Really," he said?

And suddenly the ship vanished and all 75 souls found themselves floating in the cold Atlantic.

"Damn your book learning, woman!"

Fortunately, I was able to lash my floating hope chests together using some thread and made a fine sail from my bloomers. Those of us that didn't die of exposure or get eaten by giant squids had a splendid time waiting for rescue - and we were rescued, by a ship named the HMS Illusion.

I shant bore you with the repetitive details of that disaster.

As I wrote at the start, it is a delight to see that Monsieur Gary is still plugging away with his delightful "Idol" contest. I wish you all the best of luck and would be happy to answer any questions you might have about how we did things in the 19th century version of this journaling competition.

Cheers,

Ady

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Read and commented on everything.

It seems like there are a whole lot of entries that haven't gotten the comment love they deserve, even on page 1.

Go love you some entries, people! :D

[similiesslip.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to read.

My house was flooded due to plumbing on Sunday. Everything is still messed up:(

And even when I get on LJ it won't load usually, even today. Especially LJ idol community entries. I don't know what has been wrong.

AT least I finally got the green room to load!

I thought LJ was fixed... Why have the problems lasted so long:(