One of the more vexing conundrums with which we've been faced in the evolution of this site is what to do with the final Friday post. Barring some earthshattering news event which compels one or the other of us to race to our laptops, whatever we stick up here late at the end of the week will remain atop the page until we return on Monday morning. But what should it be? A review of the week's most interesting posts? Boring, plus you loyal readers have already sifted through them. A collection of amusing videos which we might not otherwise mention? There are no videos we might not otherwise mention, particularly me, because I am somehow both lazy and committed to a fairly regular schedule of new material. An open-ended question meant to provoke discussion and thereby allow space for a conversation that can continue throughout Saturday and Sunday? It's not an idea of which I'm overly fond, and, besides, it's the kind of gimmickry I'd just as soon not resort to. We all hate those posts that end with a question blatantly aimed at prompting reader response. It feels cheap. Anyway, what would you all suggest? Alternately, what are you doing this weekend?
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nekkid pictures.
that is all.
Yep. Works for the Sun!
Totally.
I just realized that this could be construed as a response either to "What should we do with the last Friday post" or to "What are your weekend plans." I refuse to disambiguate.
Sir, you are a man of high standards.
beering.
I think you should take a novel or movie and write an alternate ending.
I don't know why this popped into my mind, but it just did.
You could start with Citizen Kane.
Or Spaceballs.
One of those.
it's a toss up between PCP and taco night with the girls. oh wait no, that's right. i'm going snowboarding!
I will be living the best of the southern california existence: I will be spending part of the weekend on a house overlooking the windswept coast of Santa Barbra and the other half in a modernist masterpiece set among the Joshua Trees of Palm Springs...lolling by the pool sipping an aggressively shaken martini.
Oh wait...thats some elses life. My plans are to post up at the busiest intersection in town with a homemade sign that describes my current sad life and a pitch for any extra change or a half eaten taco all the while trying to stay well despite a serious opiate habit and a lifetime of loose moral decisions.
Dad?
Keep walkin' kid.
Wow. We should split a bottle of vodka.
It's Canardliak Thanksgiving, so besides the usual schedule of liver damage and bong hits, this little spinster will be in the thrilling vicinity of more than a few basters!
As for your final Friday posts, three words: INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNT.
YES YES YES
ooh, ooh! oui, oui!
ooh, ooh! oui, oui!
good gravy, how'd i manage to do that?
FUCKING GENIUS.
it's a toss up between PCP and taco night with the girls. oh wait no, that's right. i'll be snowboarding!
sorry..awl was having a technical difficulty? can you delete the duplicate? thx
Is that punctuation made of guacamole? YUMMMMM
oh FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK NOSEBURN It's wasabi!!
Even if it had been guac, I'm concerned that you're snorting condiments.
I think you should recognize that this is the 21st century and that the five day work week is only in play for calcified industries like the fourth estate. How about letting your ever-so-creative writers do some writing on the weekend and let them take a weekday off? This way they won't have to lie about being sick when they absolutely need to go out with friends on a Tuesday. Also, that way when I'm working over the weekend, like most real people have to do, I can check theAwl on a break and actually see something that happened on that day.
Hey, I was writing a response and something crashed. Well, that's to be expected. Here's the basis of what I was saying before the Gods of the Internet interrupted me: "I agree with Bucko. It's like sitting at a desk on Friday night and watching everybody leaving for the pub or a bar, while you still have work to do, and all you can think is, "Those d*cks." And then they even turn off most of the lights so you're in the dark." Something like that. But yeah.
I'm spending this weekend gripping my cell phone, waiting for the come-get-your-nephew-I'm-in-labor call, thanks. My palm is already warm.
I HAVE A NEW NIECE!
Yay! +1!
HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY DAY!!!! Congratulations to your family!!
Thanks, guys!
CONGRATS! You're in charge of teaching her all the bad things to do!
Well, you could go the Salon route and just throw up Heather Havrilesky and some downloadable quaaludes (Salon Premium members only).
"Click publish, close laptop, start drinking" - oh, hidden photo text, how I love you.
Going out with a friend for steak tonight. Hiking, cooking, reading and movies the other 2 days. Maybe hit up the FB for some sexing.
You can get sex on Facebook?
If you're a female you can get sex anywhere.
You can if you're a dude, too! It just has to be sex with other dudes!
and that is that n-1 article in a nutshell.
This weekend? Stewing in my own juices.
Unless I can find some I. W. Harper!
http://www.adclassix.com/ads2/55iwharper.htm
"Would you rather" questions.....? Shovel for a hand or a sword????
NEWS BLENDER WHAT
STRONGLY AGREE
Also, I will be spending the weekend at the rink watching hockey tryouts.
My peewee goalie son has been moved up to Bantams....not because of any unbelievable skill....but because one of the Bantam goalies quit to join the debate team.
So there's that.
You and everyone in north dakota. God, it snowed today and I can HEAR the hockeyboners popping here.
I imagine that sounds like clogs.
NAKED SLEDDING AT THE DIKE WOOT WOOT
I figure I can get in a good deal of mopin' before it's time for weekend chores.
http://croneandbearit.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/tgif.jpg <-- just post this, every friday
You could end with a list of suggested things to do this weekend. It would be helpful to certain people named me.
will spend weekend working on my plan to fill my house with cats and lovers, seeing as the whole love-of-my-life thing didn't work out.
oh shit, that wasn't meant to be a reply to you!
You should come over. The old lady's working all weekend.
... oh...
oh i'll totally come over if i get some amazing art deco jewellery out of it.
Eating acid, seeing Monotonix.
People still take acid? Good.
Frying balls to enhance the experience of an Israeli tweaker throwing a garbage can at your head is easily the third worst idea I've heard today.
My folks always told me if I didn't apply myself I'd always end up with bronze. May as well call them and admit they were right.
I'm planting garlic and onions all weekend, but acid sounds lovely.
I'll be at the Phoenix with all my bearded ladies in 30 minutes. Asleep by midnight. On a bus to DC at 9 am. Marching and hooting and fighting for my rights for two days. On a bus back Sunday night. And staying home and doing Fall cleaning on Columbus Day. Yippee.
Marching and hooting and fighting for my rights
Don't forget squealing.
See you there!
Keith Gessen finds your activism lacking by about 10,000 words and 425,000 syllables.
Quaalude & Champagne!
Don't forget the hot tub and inappropriately older nekkid man to go along with those either.
OMG Monday is Columbus Dayyyyyyyy
Is that a holiday anywhere other than Boston?
You're thinking of Patriots Day. This Bostonian has to work on Monday.
PS-----I've been waiting for Columbus Day since the 4th of July, when I realized Labor Day was already spent ...
Shameless pluggery:
New Yorkers should check out Castle Face* recording artists Thee Oh Sees at various venues this weekend, backed by The Fresh & Onlys. Brooklyn Vegan has some deets & downloads.
(*My friend's label. Remember the Mr. Sub commercial?)
Just saw them in Lawrence, KS a couple weeks ago. They are great. Your friend is doing the lord's work. (The new album is really good, too)
You don't know the Bergwells by any chance, do you?
Mud wrestle between Choire and Gessen.
Good for 20 clicks at least.
I intend to spend all weekend being not married. UTOPIA!!
Me, too! Maybe we should protest the march on Washington with big signs that say "SELL OUT" "THANKS FOR RUINING OUR BEST SHOT AT REMAKING EH SEXUAL HOUSEHOLD! JERKS!!!"
I'm drinking a bottle of wine and sewing my Halloween costume. Anyone can come over! Hello? Anybody? We'll put What not to Wear on in the background.
That sounds fucking perfect.
I am doing pretty much the same thing this evening. YOU SHOULD COME OVER!
you should put something for sale on etsy
Probably TMI but I already promised Keith and Mark I'd teach them double anal. Research for some construction of a new view of erotic society or some psychobabble blah blah blah. Damn you two shut up already!
You could start a petition every Friday night!
Oh, come on. Start your own FNFF. Enable video posting and we'll all get ripped together in various timezones. Don't let Wordsmoker get away with all the fun.
As much as my liver cautions me not to, I fully support this idea. Also the sacavenger hunt upthread i was overenthusiastic about.
I love the term "upthread!" Made my Saturday morning.
I'm seeing a movie about nuns.
And wishing I was stoned.
How about crashing your server on Friday afternoon and spending the weekend rebuilding it? No?
OK, try this. Eating, Drinking and Fist Humping. That's probably closer to reality for most of us anyway. If we get something more, that's why they call it getting lucky. Knock yourselves out.
Pictures of Balk abusing the cat when Choire is taking his Friday afternoon old-person nap.
Do you really need me to tell you this?
Balk doesn't abuse the cat. Wait, does offering whiskey from an eyedropper while coaxing with soft crooning sounds count as abuse?
oh come on, we all know it is actually the cat who abuses balk. looks at him funny and makes him cry.
I am replacing all the food I don't have in my house. And cooking. I will make hummus, and pasta sauces, and anything my kids request.
As for Friday nights, I have no idea. I am generally too shattered from the week to do more than twitch and moan.
(1) Well duh, you could just put up a last-minute open-ended question like this one. It gots 72 suckers already, one of the heaviest trotlines of the week. Obviously we nerds are dying to pretend-socialize online around about this time of a Friday. So maybe someday your last-minute question will snowball into an epic blizzard of Foxymorons.
(2) Me? Watching howling gangs of eurotrash stagger through vomit.
I will be in New Hampshire-which in October means packing for 70 degree temperature swings. I exaggerate.
Thank you awl for a lovely week.
Well, I just picked up my poor cats ashes from the vets, in the rain, and through some residual tears of my own. Going to Deep Creek Maryland tomorrow to watch my niece be band leader in her high school band for some Octoberfest parade. There will be crafts and pony rides I'm told. Oh, also sharing a hotel room with my parents... not looking forward to that part.
I'm sorry.
poor cat.
Oh... That's terrible, I'm so sorry!
I hope your cat had a long and wonderful life.
i am sorry for your loss.
Thanks all. She did have a long life, I suppose. I was hoping for a longer one so I wasn't really prepared for making that decision for her. It sucks being a grown up.
Stop taking weekends off, slackers!
Going to the Guggenheim (for freesies!) and an Evan Hecox show.
Also, every day is Saturday for the unemployed!
What happened to shift memo?
OH my. Teh Twins are Tigering the Yankees.
OMG THAT WAS FAIR YOU BLIND YANKEE-LOVING UMP!
Youse wuz robbed.
Sang tonight. Tomorrow, first coloring my hair, helping a friend at a craft fair, then dinner in Beantown. Sunday, cleaning (UGGG.) Monday pseudo class reunion.
Leave clues in the Awl newsletter to find backdated, secret posts.....(about bears).
Serious suggestions: best comments of the week. or day. or what you read. whatever (remember the tremendous thread about "whatever?")
Howsabout best commenter name I hadn't noticed before because halfunemployment had messed up my Awl-reading schedule for a good long time? Oh hai, P.G.O.A.T.
leave out a sandbox. i like how this blog puts up some photo, with a vaguely provoking title, and invites readers to unload. it's free-form and stuff floats up. no moderation needed. may be good, may be bad, but if something is going on after you turn off the lights, people have a place to talk about it...for example:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/late-night-confessions-hotel.html
monday morning, you might even have a "from the comments" posts.
drinking red wine and muttering to myself about how i should have known never to fall in love with a belgian psychoanalyst. sorry, what was the question?
Oh, honey.
It's gonna be o.k. Really, it is.
Riot Fest!
you should post my cooking show! www.economybites.tv
I microwave a can of tuna with cheez wiz (not joking) and I'll probably never change. But that is a great site. Incredibly well done.
Consider an invitation to do / say / post / reveal the seed pf something salacious, provocative, insulting, or just plain entertaining in the comment thread. Ideally, it would pertain to something that's likley to happen the following week.
Then you can spend the next week expanding this into some theme, and maybe include action and prizes.
The point, really, is that you don't do anything at all. Just set the site to 'crowdsource' and go have some fun.
Maybe a giant game of "I've Never...?"
I'll start, I've never met Balk.
every friday afternoon you should walk out of the office and not fucking worry about it 'til monday.
I will be doing the same thing i do every weekend, pinky.
i've never hit a vein while shaving my balls.
"We all hate those posts that end with a question blatantly aimed at prompting reader response. It feels cheap. Anyway, what would you all suggest? Alternately, what are you doing this weekend?"
Yes, we all hate posts that end with a question. Even more if there are two questions.
Tags!
Drinking red wine and trying to figure out how to upload a photo to my Awl commenter profile. Did it work?
Yeah! Oh fuck yes!
congratulations!
Now I would like to delete these!
One of the quirks I like about the site is you don't know who wrote the post until you get to the end. Most times it pretty obvious- downtrodden pathos = Balk or politicky/handbags = Choire.
So, on Friday the last post should be a mystery post w/ no author revealed until Monday.
That or a weekend book club segment.