Hey, it’s Friday! It’s also Giveaway Winner Announcement Day.
Before I name the winner, allow me to observe how many of you have failed to appreciate the giveaway concept. With a giveaway, you get something FREE. Like, I have something, then I give it. Away. To you. For FREE. I am flummoxed by how many people viewed the post, yet did not comment. My only hypothesis is that most people are not as cheap as I am. You could have a, a…tractor giveaway and I’d comment. I have absolutely no desire whatsoever for a tractor, but a free tractor? I NEED IT. GIVE ME THE FREE TRACTOR.
Anyway, I really am grateful to all readers, even those who do not fully appreciate getting something for nothing. And perhaps next time I won’t even ask you to say something witty or makes guesses about movie stars. I’ll just ask you to offer up your middle name or favorite color. And when it becomes the Lamest Giveaway Ever, we will all know who to blame.
Yes. So. The winner, as determined by the ever-so-helpful True Random Number Generator, is #15, Cavalier, who shrewdly named Mel Gibson as a probable Golden Globe drunk. Excellent guess, Cavalier, and congrats.
Shall we take a moment to consider who Cavalier will soon be welcoming into his/her home, as soon as I get that DVD out the door?
None other than the delectable Stanley Tucci, one of Julie & Julia’s brightest selling points. I find the diminutive Stanley very compelling. Not in a dirty-dreams kind of way, necessarily, but more the talent-and-skill kind of way. He’s like Napoleon, without all that hand-tucked-in-jacket, island-exile crap.
That about sums up this giveaway Friday. As we head into the three-day weekend, with its chance of more freakin’ snow, let me educate those of you unfamiliar with the wilds of Greater Boston on how we like our snowmen:
That’s right. We like ‘em made out shaving cream. We also eschew snowmen with wide-set eyes, much preferring them to have twoeyessquishedtogetherreallytightly. Arms, eh. As long as they have two of them, somewhere in the general vicinity of their enormous rectangular nose, we’re good.
Finally, snowpersons with rosebud mouths or pouty lips have zero chance for survival. You want to make it in metro Boston, you stick out your pipecleaner tongue. It’s like the middle finger you would have if the preschool teacher didn’t frown upon things like that.
Monique said,
January 15, 2010 @ 4:28 pm
And what may I ask is the dark colored thing with the *ahem* right hook?
Karen said,
January 15, 2010 @ 10:19 pm
Oh crap, we’re getting more snow? Thak heavens the snowblower is back from the clinic, ready to heave-ho once again. And I like Aura’s snowman. It has a very modern art look to it. Not that I know anything at all about modern art.
Sara said,
January 16, 2010 @ 10:09 pm
Did you see Stanley Tucci in The Day Trippers? Two words–Parker. Posey.
Also, I really love pipe cleaners. And glue snowmen.
Monique said,
January 17, 2010 @ 2:00 pm
Come claim your award, lady!
blueviolet said,
January 17, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
Well, since I trust my friends implicitly and Surferwife espoused the virtues of your blog wholeheartedly, I’m over here to join in the fun of your blog!
And I quite enjoy Stanley Tucci’s work myself and…your son’s.
dg @ diaryofamadbathroom said,
January 17, 2010 @ 7:55 pm
OK, I didn’t win something AGAIN. I didn’t enter, but I also did not win. And let me throw this out there – if anyone is giving away a tractor, you and me are gonna wrassle, because NOBODY has a tractor where I come from and I need (like crack) to piss off my neighbors with loud and obnoxious farm machinery.
My eyes are on the prize (should there ever be one). Consider yourself warned.
Karen said,
January 18, 2010 @ 9:03 am
Jeff Bridges! It was Jeff Bridges, by far the drunkest. Of course he was LAST so he had the most time to drink, so maybe that’s not playing fair.
Sarah C. said,
January 18, 2010 @ 1:54 pm
I’m over here on the recommendation of surferwife. I’m loving what I’m reading on your blog! I also got married several years ago and have yet to buy my wedding album. Ah well. Will definitely be back and am about to try and follow you.
Becca said,
January 18, 2010 @ 7:07 pm
Damn, that is a fine looking snowman! Please, please put a tractor on your blog! I need one so I can attach a plow and get rid of all of this snow that keeps attacking my driveway!
foxy said,
January 20, 2010 @ 10:05 am
Um, how did i miss the giveaway? Dang it! Next time, I’m in it.
LOVE the snowman. Especially the extraordinarily large rectangular nose. Very nice.
T.J. said,
January 20, 2010 @ 3:52 pm
That, may I say is some snowman! All the important parts needed to tackle a Boston winter (you know, like arms) and yet thankfully missing a metro man purse. I like your style, snowman!