Posting is going to be light this week, as I'm working on a super top secret awesome project I've been hinting at for the past few weeks, which should be unveiled in a matter of days. And yes, expect email bombardment from yours truly to hype up this new product and offer you the exciting opportunity to get on the bandwagon before its becomes full of freeloaders and/or freemasons. If you're picky about throwing your facebook likes and twitter follows around worry not, for as a wise man (i.e. myself) once said to me, "This is gonna be the PoopShit!"
Anyway, on to the post! For this one, I decided to draw inspiration from one of the most prominent, consistent, and handsome figures in my life: myself. Back on Sunday I tweeted this:
At the risk of explaining and hence ruining my own joke, two years ago here in DC they unveiled a "bag tax" of 5 cents per plastic bag. The objective, I believe, was partly environmental--to curb the proliferation of eco-harmful plastic bags--and partly societal--to cut down on the resources available to crazy bag ladies on the bus. Regardless of its motivations, the bag tax is here, is queer, so get used to it. Hence the hilariousness of my tweet. 4 cents is less than 5 cents, so buying them from me at a 1 cent discount would save you money. A little mathematically humor. Get it?! Whatever. You wouldn't know funny if it sat next to you on the bus and started beating you with a bag full of other bags.
So as part of the Earth Day tradition of being really, really bored, I decided to act on my hilariously witty tweet and see if I could get any takers for this deal on craigslist. The link is somehow still up but I'll just give you the screen shot since these only stay up for 7 days.
For you grammar and/or math sticklers out there, I'll have you know I purposely made some errors in this listing so people would think it was not a prank but just the posting of an idiot. Sadly I only got one response, an email from someone who simply said "Wow!! Are you serious??" to which I replied, "yes but I forgot to say in ad I cannot pay for shipping." Radio silence since then. Was hoping for more responses to concoct longer blog post, but sadly it was not to be.
I may have time to squeeze another iteration of my occasional "Week(end) updates" series this week, but I may be hard pressed for time as I get ready to unveil our new awesome website very, very soon. With that, I leave you waiting with bated breath. Just don't bate too long. Prolonged bating of breath is one of the leading causes of death in the US, second only to birth.
