I sent out an email a few days ago to all the people who pre-ordered Antisocial Commentary. It probably got stuck in a few spam filters, so here's a link you can use to pay for the book. This form is only for people who pre-ordered the book. If you haven't pre-ordered it, you can buy the book here. One more note for the pre-orderers: If the email address you provided to PayPal is different from the one you gave me, please send me an email at diesel - at- mattresspolice.com letting me know, so that I can make sure I give credit to the right person.
In other news, I have gotten rid of my Links page and put the whole Mattress Police Force blogroll on the left sidebar. If you have linked to me and I haven't yet added you, please let me know. I try to add everybody who has me on their blogroll, but it's getting a little tough to keep up with.
I hope to be promoting a few more of you to the vaunted position of Adjutant Inspector as well, but I may need to clear out some deadwood first. If you're an Adjutant Inspector who hasn't left a comment in several weeks, drop me a note to let me know you're still around.
Also, I know that there are a lot of you out there who never leave comments for some reason. Maybe you feel too much pressure to say something witty. Maybe the hospital staff frowns on commenting. Whatever the reason, please take this as an invitation to just leave a quick comment saying hi. Maybe let me know how you found this place, or how long you've been reading, or why you don't have better things to do.
Ok, that's about it for now. Make sure you vote in the caption contest. I'll be posting the results on Saturday. And I'll be back tomorrow with an update on the Diesel for President campaign.
In other news, I have gotten rid of my Links page and put the whole Mattress Police Force blogroll on the left sidebar. If you have linked to me and I haven't yet added you, please let me know. I try to add everybody who has me on their blogroll, but it's getting a little tough to keep up with.
I hope to be promoting a few more of you to the vaunted position of Adjutant Inspector as well, but I may need to clear out some deadwood first. If you're an Adjutant Inspector who hasn't left a comment in several weeks, drop me a note to let me know you're still around.
Also, I know that there are a lot of you out there who never leave comments for some reason. Maybe you feel too much pressure to say something witty. Maybe the hospital staff frowns on commenting. Whatever the reason, please take this as an invitation to just leave a quick comment saying hi. Maybe let me know how you found this place, or how long you've been reading, or why you don't have better things to do.
Ok, that's about it for now. Make sure you vote in the caption contest. I'll be posting the results on Saturday. And I'll be back tomorrow with an update on the Diesel for President campaign.
Labels: Antisocial Commentary, Blogging
| posted by Diesel at Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
|
Leave a comment! |
Hi. Sorry I don't comment much. I read you in a feed reader, and usually at work (like now). I like the caption contests but I'm not clever enough to come up with anything. I link to you but you don't seem to have me linked. And I found you when you commented on my blog, if I remember correctly.
Can I just put "Hi!" on each of your posts and still maintain my elite status?
Kirsten - Hi! It's no problem that you don't comment; I just get curious who all these people are that I see in my traffic stats. Glad you enjoy the contests. I'll get you added to my links.
Howard - Pretty much, yeah.
Hello there. I think this is probably the first time i've ever commented, but I've been reading your blog for a while. I don't quite remember how I found your blog, but it makes me laugh. Anywho, just saying hello.
So I paid for your book but I didn't see anywhere to fill in my ship-to address. Did my PayPal do that automagically for you?
And will my book come wrapped in an inconspicuous brown wrapper so my neighbors won't be able to tell what I've ordered?
Alright, I'll de-lurk...
I first found your site through crummychurchsigns, which I (oddly enough) got from one of my pastors when I was a church secretary. (It was, thenceforth, our goal to NOT end up on that site...)
Anyway, I am now a regular reader, and I have better things to do; I just make the choice not to do them. Who wants to do schoolwork when instead she could be laughing at the musings of a random stranger?
I'll mention that I, too, am originally from the GR area- Cedar Springs, to be exact.
I linked to you and you forgot me. This is exactly why I don't like the police. Or why the police doesn't like me ? Hummmm....
:D
Have I commented lately? I think some things aren't being retained in short-term memory ... but I don't remember.
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS I AM WRITING?? DO I NEED TO TYPE MORE SLOWLY, SO YOU CAN CATCH THE CLEVER DRIFT I DEPOSIT HERE ON A REGULAR BASIS???
oops, heh heh... sorry about that outburst. i know you're not talking to me. because if you WERE, i'd have to come out there and slap you. and that wouldn't be good for anyone.
great post -- short, sweet, and to the point:
1. Buy the book
2. leave a comment
far as i can tell, the only thing missing is:
3. tell me I'm pretty.
gosh Diesel, you're SO pretty! ; )
Quick Comment: HI, DIESEL!
I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday, let alone how I came across your site, but it might have been courtesy of TDBB.
PS: I really DO have better things to do, but I just can't help myself. I find myself inexplicably drawn here for some reason.
LUVZ YA, DIESEL!
Oh I have lots of better things to do...I just don't wanna.
(Did you notice how PRETTY Aunt Bea looks today?)
add me too pretty please.. :)
or in texas purty pleeeeez..?
Well, it's great to meet you all. I will definitely add those who have requested it.
Crazy Aunt Bea - You do seem vaguely familiar to me. Have you commented here before? Or did you used to babysit me or something?
Diesel - Can't wait to get the book!
Sandi - I can't wait to send it to you!
Jeff - You gave me your address when you pre-ordered. I just have to match up your paypal acct with your name/email, and we should be good. Don't worry, you're the second person to ask. :)
That's a long, fucking caption contest! (Sorry... I forgot... am I allowed to swear here?)
Is it always that long?
Do people often ask you that question?
Teri - Yes, it's always that long. Thanks for asking.
Actually, I might start posting the results on Friday so I can take another day off from posting. This posting schedule is killing me.
Well it's too long. You should post the picture, take entries for two days, post results for two days of voting and then finalize!
There, I said it.
Teri - You're clearly not familiar with the concept of milking a gimmick.
I yam, I yam! I am just impatient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woe is me
Hi Diesel~ Remember me? I'm the one currently NOT winning the caption contest. I think you should extend it for another month so I can find an abandoned school full of computers where I can vote for myself on every last one.
...Did I just type that?...
Glad you sent this out. I sent your email to the junk box cause I didn't recognize the name, and all the subject header said was "It's ready!"? If it would have said "Diesel" or "Antisocial Commentary" in the name and subject headers, I would have caught it quicker. I retrieved it just now.
Paypal is on the way dude!
I haven't posted a link on ZoD's website for a while. I just added the Mattress Police.
http://www.zigguratofdoom.com/
You're on my blogroll. The "Too Much To Bear" is what got me.
What is an Inspector Adjutant, anyway?
An Adjutant Inspector is sworn to uphold something something something Mattress Police. Clear enough for you?
First time/long time.
Crap - am I living up to my adjutant inspector status? I sure hope so.
I try to comment on each and every - doesn't always work out. Sometimes I read at work (often) and don't always get to comment. What the? Why am I explaining to you, you little skallawag!?
this comment is not at all funny. but i too suffer from "it saaaayyys i have 100 page views today. and 2 comments. HMMM"
You're on my blogroll. I bought a copy of the book. I printed out a picture of the simpsonized you in your underwear and put it on the mantle and I kneel before it each morning before I post. I have a cool avatar. Give the frogster some sugar.
G - Don't worry, your position is secure.
Lisa - Yeah, I don't mind it, but it does make me curious who all these people are.
Frogster - Sugar coming your way.
You're right! I should say HI more often. Well, here I am... Hiii and have a wonderful weekend!
My Darling Diesel. Since I'm being gay in Paris, er, I mean I'm in gay Paree, I figured the cost of shipping would be a billion dollars, and then I couldn't pay my lawyers what I owe them.
But frankly, I'm dirt poor so instead, I link to you as often as I can from my blogs because my dream is also to publish a book and so I am living vicariously through you (can you feel me there, mouth breathing and watching) in hopes you will Make It Big and I can shuffle along in your footsteps.
How's that for a run-on sentence?
Hi, D- I read everything by RSS, probably within an hour of you posting it. What can I say, I spend my working day in front of computers.
Pick me! Pick me! Oh, wait, you already did. Okay, I bought the book and am leaving comments, so I guess now all that's left for me to do is shout DIESEL FOR PRESIDENT!
BUY MY BOOK!
LEAVE A COMMENT!
VOTE IN THE CAPTION CONTEST!
Damn it, Diesel. Those things require EFFORT. I read Antisocial Commentary to avoid work, not do more.
(BTW, Hi. Not a regular commenter, but I've left a few. I found you through Pointless Drivel, I believe.)
Thanks, everybody. Sorry to make you work so hard. That gives me a little insight into who all you people are, although it still leaves about 300 of you unaccounted for. Oh well.
I'm still around, just insanely busy. I'll try to be more stalker-ish soon.
8-]
Hi...I have nothign better to do..becuase I am sick and the doctor ordered three days strict bed rest...you are NOT helping my recovery!
Hi, Diesel. I met you through wolfesmusings.com and I peek in every day. I even comment sometimes, but you're right that the wit bar is set very high amongst your regulars. Perhaps if you installed a wet bar, I'd comment more often. That seems to be what happens in real life.
I pre-ordered your book and just discovered that paypal thought I was still married and tried to extract the $9.95 from an account that is empty but not deleted. The bottom line is that I *do* have $10.00 to my name, paypal is going to give it another go, and I have to pay a $33.00 overdraft fee. In light of the new price of the book, I think I'm going to buy a book cover for it this weekend, when I'm school shopping.
Cheers.
hiya. i'm one of those filthy always readin', never commentin' kinds. i believe i found you through educated & poor. and i really can't think of another thing to say, which is probably why i never comment. oh well, great site, good luck with the book, etc, etc.
Let's see. I found you cuz you found me. Not sure how your fancy pants ended up at my meager little site, but there you were, so here I am. And I've been laughing ever since. Seriously. I read everything you write. I don't always comment and there are a couple reasons--one is that by the time I get here, there are already seventy-six comments or whatever. I suspect mine would get lost in the mix. But also, sometimes the comments are (almost) as funny as the post itself and... yeah. The pressure to be clever kills me.
And no, I have nothing better to do. (I say, as my children stare up at me, wondering when they might actually get their breakfast. Hey, it's only noon. They can wait.)
Thank you for the linky-love, dear. I'm truly honored.
hey - linked to you now
I found you through Radioactive Liberty, which should tell you the kind of drak I read and/or post about.
You've commented on my site (Redneck Rants) a few times and now it's become my mission to call you names until I'm more popular than you. So far, I'm failing miserably.
I'm not sure if I've commented on your site or not. The members of Humor Blogs have told me that I'm not funny so I don't comment much because my humor and funeral marches seem to get the same amount of laughs.
I think I put enough linky-stuff in here to get caught in your spam filter. Have fun with that.
Oh, and FLORENCE HENDERSON NUDE. More links for you, sir. Not sure it's the type of company you want, but that's okay.
So I bought a book and then I read this post!! Hooray for me! If I send you my book will you sign it? Pretty please? I'm so excited. I think I need to buy Dan a copy for Christmas.
Oh, and you must have asked how we all found you. Hmmmm. Snuppy, I think. Or Dan. Dan or Snuppy. Snuppy or Dan. Hmmmm. How did this all begin . . . (Alzheimer's is a tough disease. I can't . . . hmmmm . . . can't . . . what was it I was saying?)
Or maybe I found you when I googled "mattress police" looking for Jerry Seinfeld. I remember linking to that hilariously funny post in the way back, but I can't remember how I found it. It's fuzzy. Maybe a couple shots of tequila would help me remember.
look at me, I'm the crazed freak commenter leaving more than two messages in a row. Time for decaff! ;)
Discount? I want to pay full price and keep you in business, buddy! You're worth it! A signed copy would be lovely, though. If I can't live without it, I'll ask for your addy (or just buy another copy for Pete's sake). Who is that Pete guy, anyway? Thanks for the thought, though, Diesel. As far as I'm concerned, you're the man. I have to be honest and say that I have missed the recent self promotion because I have been quite loverly lost in the woods of the Real Northern California where Internet and cellphone reception is unheard of. It's been lovely. Hope you've been enjoying your summer!
Oh sure...I've had you linked since mid May but am I remembered in your list of the top 12,000 blogs? Noooo! I ask you "where is the love?"
Hey Deisel,
I found your blog from when you commented on my sister (Lisa, commenter above)'s blog. I think you are HILARIOUS...I even bought your book, which says something, because I am one of the cheapest people alive. Keep it up!
A while back you teased me with the promise of promotion to Adjutant Inspector. I've been waiting patiently. PATIENTLY! :0)
Did you ever get that bubble wrap I sent you?