Posts Tagged ‘blogography’

Todave is an important dave.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

In honor of Dave2 from Blogography's 63rd birthday, I have decided to pit him against other well-known Daves. Let's see how he fares in the Dave-off challenge:

Dave 2 Dave Barry Winner:
Draws cute cartoons Writes whimsical articles Dave2
Makes his own merchandise Has books published Dave Barry
Has an eye for design Has an eye for Garrison Keillor-esque stories Dave2
Overall winner: Dave 2!

Dave 2 Dave Thomas Winner:
Is vegetarian Founded Wendy's Dave Thomas
Hangs out with a Bad Monkey Had a redheaded daughter named Wendy Dave Thomas
Is alive Is dead Dave2
Overall winner: Dave Thomas!

Dave Coulier Dave2 Winner:
Has been on TV Watches TV Dave Coulier
Does youth-friendly comedy Murders Webkinz Dave2
His famous line is "Come on now, cut it out!" His famous line is "Ann Coulter must die!" Dave2
Overall winner: Dave 2!

David Cross Dave2 Winner:
Is bald Has hair Dave2
Was on Arrested Development Watched Arrested Development David Cross
Is absolutely hilarious Is pretty funny sometimes David Cross
Overall winner: David Cross!

The statue of David Dave2 Winner:
Has a really gay hairstyle Is 20% gay Dave2
Has a six-pack Doesn't Statue of David
Is sculpted from marble Probably doesn't have all of his marbles Dave2
Overall winner: Dave2!

Well, there you have it. As you can clearly see, Dave2 beats 3 out of 5 famous Daves. Happy birthday, Dave!

In other Avita-news, LeSombre has written me a guest post and in his own inimitable fashion, it's on his own blog! Go check it out!

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Ten Honest Things About Me

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Dave did a post where he was rehashing a meme called "Ten Honest Things About Me". I've already listed more than 100 things about me that are honest and interesting and weird, but I thought I'd see if I can come up with ten more:

1. When I was in high school, I listened to Rush Limbaugh. After I went to college and started thinking for myself, I realized that he was just as big a buffoon as Howard Stern is.

2. I didn't swear in front of my parents until I was in my mid-twenties. While my parents swear without a problem, I've only heard my dad say "fuck" once when he was really pissed at me and my mother say it once when it was integral to a joke she wanted me to hear.

3. I think some semblance of class structure is good for the world.

4. If I had to pick one hobby or past time that I had to choose and could do only that one activity forever, I would pick reading over anything else.

5. I write complaint letters to companies who have done a bad job for me, and I expect my opinion to matter.

6. I used to be a very angry person and in college I went through a phase where I felt complete apathy for everyone and everything. When I came out of that phase, I no longer got mad at people. Even now, I almost never lose my temper. (It's how I'm still friends with Britt!)

7. When I need to think about something, I'll usually pull up some type of strategy or puzzle game online and do that for hours.

8. The only person whose death I truly mourned was William M. Gaines, who died when I was 15.

9. I've only been in one physical fight in my life, and I lost. It was two on one when I was in the eighth grade and they were older and I never had a chance. As I grew older and larger and meaner and scarier, things changed. There were opportunities when a fight might happen, but the person backed down instead. I much prefer the latter memories.

10. I'm not really frightened of anything. I have a few phobias, but anything that I have the conscious ability to control doesn't scare me.

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In other Avitanews, thanks to those of you who joined us last night for a lively talk about employer/employee relations and who's an awesome boss vs. who's an awesome employee. If you missed it, you can download the episode and listen to it or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!

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OMGLOLWOOT!!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I'M SO EXCITED!

My Davewear finally came! I ordered it years and years ago and have been dreaming about it ever since. It is the coolest, most awesome stuff ever, and if you didn't order some, you should be sooo jealous.


I got four decks of cards:

I got my awesome black "Try Evil" hat:

I got my awesome white "Do Not Push This Button" t-shirt:

And from now on, I'm not wearing anything BUT my kick-ass new stuff! Thanks, Dave!

Thanks to those of you who listened to Britt and I debate the death penalty. If you missed it, you can download it (and should download it) here, or find it as a podcast through iTunes here, or just listen using the widget in my sidebar. It was quite an hour – can you guess which one of us was pro-death penalty and who was anti?

Humor-Blogs.com shows its balls too.

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Holy Dave Day

Monday, March 24th, 2008

When I started blogging, there was one blogger that I looked up to. His posts were always very creative, and he had legions of fans. I carefully examined his style and methods. I marveled at the posts he came up with, and still comes up with, on a regular basis. As I get older and become more seasoned at blogging, I hope to someday surpass this blogger.

I'm talking, of course, about Mr. Fabulous.

However, today is not Mr. Fabulous's birthday. It's Dave's! If you don't read Dave, you're missing out. Every post, whether it's about wiping his butt or just an image, is a treat – he's one of the most creatively skilled people I know. Not only that, but he's the nicest person I know, too. Seriously. One day I asked him if I could skin him and wear him to a costume party, and he handed me his own personal potato/skin peeler to do the job! That's just one small example of his altruism and karmic personality.

For Dave's birthday, I decided to give him the one thing he wants: A marriage to Elizabeth Hurley!

Dave_Wedding

Today, I'd also like to talk quickly about an awesome blogger named Hilly. Most of you already know Hilly's blog very well, and if you don't, get over there and fix that. She's cute and funny and dirty and wonderful. And I really, really, really want to meet her.

I have the chance to meet her when I go to TequilaCon 2008, but there's one problem. At this point of the year, given the shitty economy and costs of flights from Los Angeles to Philly, she might not be able to make it!

This just won't do, people. This boy has to meet HillySue!

So here's my solution, and a chance for you to turn a dollar into fifty! I know that some of you have an extra dollar or five rattling around in your Paypal account. It's not doing you any good there. Why not donate it?


And for everyone who donates and/or puts one of the following buttons in a post (use the code provided) and asks your readers to come here and donate, I'll enter you into a drawing to get a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate! So spending $1, 5, or 10 to help me meet Hilly will give you a chance at $50!

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The contest ends on April 6th. If instead of donating you own a private plane that you want to loan us, that will work, too. Thanks!

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Super mondo big announcement!

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Last night I had a very strange dream: Dave from Blogography had a Blogography compound outside of Seattle. It was a multi-acre piece of land that sloped downhill all of the way to the interstate. Dave ran his entire Blogography empire from this compound.

Then, one day, the site no longer worked, and emails to his email address came back undeliverable. A large group of bloggers flew to the Blogography compound, only to meet with Dave and find out that he decided to close up shop after four years of blogging every day. The reason? He decided that blogging wasn't environmentally friendly, so he sold the compound to Al Gore.

Al Gore was there, and he had decided to make the compound into a park that had one long slide, much like a Slip-n-Slide. Except, since using all of that water was wasteful, it was a dry slide. As you can imagine, it didn't work very well.

I talked to him, and said, "Al Gore, you should visit my blog sometime. It's at Avitable.com." (For some reason kept referring to him as "Al Gore" instead of "Mr. Gore" or "Vice President Gore").

He laughed and said, very patronizingly, "Ohhhh, suuuure. I'll go check out your blog." He started randomly typing keys on the keyboard and pretending to type in my URL. For some reason, whatever random characters he typed went to a Christian Scientist site. He laughed at me, but I felt vindicated because his stupid slide idea didn't work.

Then, everybody got naked and danced to that song that they dance at the end of Caddyshack.

Weird, huh?

And now, for the super mondo big announcement!

It's almost Thanksgiving, and that means that Christmas is right around the corner. And that means that it's almost time for another round of Avitable Christmas cards!

If I was smart (well, I am) and organized (I'm totally not), I'd already have many of your addresses from when I sent out postcards. But I don't!

So, get sending! Email me at my first name at my last name dot com with the subject line "Santa is coming" with your name and address, and I will add you to the list. Santa won't be checking this list, so it doesn't matter if you're naughty or nice. Although naughty is better.

Email me by the end of next week to make sure you get added to the list!

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Halloween 2007 Recap Part 1

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I had hoped to do this all in one post, but it ain't gonna happen. I'm still waiting on photos from some others at the party so I can try to post as many costume pictures as possible, all at once, so that will hopefully happen tomorrow. I will give you one photo now, though, and that's of my costume:

Camp Avitable

For those of you with bad eyes, I created a camp T-shirt and cap. The T-shirt said "Adam Avitable's Clothing Optional Camp for Girls Aged 14-17", and the slogan said "There's grass on the field, let's play!" The cap said "Camp Avitable: We'll be on our knees, talking about birds and bees". You'd be amazed at the number of job applications I received for potential camp counselors at Camp Avitable throughout the evening.

While I'm going to write up a real recap once I have all the photos so I can do it right, I thought, just to tide everyone over, I'd let Britt do the talking for now:

Here's the direct link if you can't play the video directly.

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Week in Review III

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

RW gets shit on by his boss Robin names her vagina Heather thinks about sticking animals in her vagina Dave visits Greece and thinks about doing ass to mouth NYCWD gave me an apple worth eating
  1. RW gets shit on by his employer, and if anyone doesn't deserve it, it's RW. The main built the business from the ground up for the employer and just got fucked in the ass and punched in the crotch. Go give him some support.
  2. Robin (aka Mistress Yoda) decides that "furkids" is a good name for her vagina, and she plans on talking about her vagina every Friday in the near future.
  3. Heather thinks about the type of person who would want to masturbate with an animal. She doesn't admit her crush on gorillas, though.
  4. Dave travels to Greece for a bad Hard Rock meal and some time to enjoy awesome Greek ass to mouth action.
  5. New York City's Watch Dog gives me an apple that I really want to bite into.

Updated

In creating this post last night, half-asleep (and boy, does Dave look weird in my drawing. My last Dave was much better! And why is everyone sticking their hands in the air?), I forgot that today was also Mother's Day. Since none of you are my mother, I'm not wishing any of you Happy Mother's Day. However, I'd like to say Happy MILF's Day, because some of you are most definitely MILFs!

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Week in Review I

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

With apologies to NYCWD, who does an awesome Sunday Smorgasbord every week (he's on #25 now!), I have also decided to use Sunday as for a new weekly post: my week in review. I'm going to pick five posts (one for each day of the working week) from other bloggers and illustrate them on one page. I'll try to pick different bloggers each week, if at all possible, although I'm sure there will always be certain favorites.

Week in Review I
You can also mouseover each illustration to go to that post.

Blogography is four years old! Crystal is a fucking hot redhead! We three genius authors Strawberry milkshakes are magical Her birthday reflections for her baby boy

  1. Dave celebrated his 4th Blogiversary with contests, prizes, and a lot of effort. I've got both my 3-year anniversary and 1,000th post coming up in the next few months, so I think I'm going to try to emulate Dave as much as possible. Although when I do it, there will be much more nudity.
  2. Amy, Britt and I had a threesome . . . of writing. We wrote a round-robin 3-part story that was very funny and really highlighted each of our individual writing strengths. It's something we'll definitely be trying again.
  3. Crystal dyed her hair red as an homage to "Run Lola Run" and then jetted off to Prague. Whether or not she's going to have to relive her day as she tries to steal enough money to save her boyfriend is still undetermined.
  4. Poppy discovered the magic of Strawberry Milkshake Oreos, and then grooved to my milkshake dance. These cookies are available for a limited time, and they are amazing. I even ventured into a Wal-Mart (*gasp* I know, it's crazy!) to buy some – that should tell you how delicious and magical they are.
  5. Bluepaintred's baby turned 5 years old and she turned into a mommyblogger for a day. But she's allowed, because she's one of the more foul-mouthed, dirty-minded mommybloggers around.

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