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Well, 24 hours and around 183 posts later, Creative Loafing’s first 24-Hour Blog-o-thon is over.
If you missed anything, follow this link and check out the tons of stuff we posted: 24 Blog-o-thon Archive
Here’s another interesting post I found in the personals section on Craigslist:
No Time For Beating Around The Bush - 49
Reply to: pers-603312717@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-03-11, 9:26PM EDTI want to meet a good man who goes to church is not afraid to go to church with me for fear of who he may see and who knows him. Need a man who believes in God…REALLY believes in God, can be monogomous, wants a long term relationship (eventually that is) with the potential of moving in and sharing my home (your own bedroom and bathroom of course until we see how serious we want to get and someone who can pay 1/2 the household bills…not any of my personal bills, but 1/2 of the household bills, but if he believes in chivalry, then he’d pay more than 1/2 the household bills without me having to ask. I need someone who knows about chivalry and keeping his word and making his woman feel important and safe. Is that you? If so, please respond. Your picture gets mine. No picture, no response from me. Race doesn’t matter. Size doesn’t matter. Heart matters a great deal. Must be at least 35 years old.
Whenever I go to my parents’ house, I take the opportunity to get in some good cable TV viewing — since my own lack of cable leaves me with only two channels.
But tell me why Larry King is interviewing Tori Spelling. Is this what I’ve been missing?
— Kimberly Lawson
Yes, more ads! And this guy is deep. Lookee here:
Balance of Things
The laws under which we live are designed solely for our advantage. These laws are immutable and we cannot escape from their operation.
All the great eternal forces act in solemn silence, but it is in our power to place ourselves in harmony with them and thus express a life of comparative peace and happiness.
Difficulties, inharmonies, and obstacles indicate that we are either refusing to give out what we no longer need or refusing to accept what we require.
Growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new, of the good for the better; it is a conditional or reciprocal action, for each of us is a complete entity and this completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give.
We cannot obtain what we lack if we tenaciously cling to what we have. We are able to consciously control our conditions as we come to sense the purpose of what we attract, and are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our further growth. Our ability to do this determines the degree of harmony or happiness we attain.
The ability to appropriate what we require for our growth continually increases as we reach higher planes and broader visions, and the greater our ability to know what we require, the more certain we shall be to discern its presence, to attract it, and to absorb it. Nothing may reach us except what is necessary for our growth.
All conditions and experiences that come to us do so for our benefit. Difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until we absorb their wisdom and gather from them the essentials of further growth.
That we reap what we sow is mathematically exact. We gain permanent strength exactly to the extent of the effort required to overcome difficulties.
And he adds:
Deeper
I can quote all the lines from Peaceful Warrior
What is your favorite slang expression? Word
Isn’t it funny how people often choose the easy way out of an uncomfortable situation now that technology has consumed the world?
E-mail and texting, although both great ways of communication, can become bitch-ish ways to handle certain situations.
For example, my Marine ex of many moons ago initially broke up with me via an e-mail. Coward. That’s why he’s twice-divorced now. Because he didn’t man up and talk to me.
Moral of the story? When handling an uncomfortable situation, please do not choose a cowardly method of dealing just because it’s easier on you. That’s just fucked up.
— Kimberly Lawson
I think the Blog-o-thon has been reduced to me just posting weird personal ads. But who cares. I’m exhausted … and I love these damn ads. Check out whatsarahsaid. I actually want to date her myself! Call me.
Fighter
I’m Sarah, and I’m 21 years old. Currently a Senior at UNC Charlotte with a double major in Communications:Mass Media and French, Minor in Women’s Studies. But that really means nothing because my passion is to go to culinary school and study Baking and Pastry.
I’m a big nerd with tattoos. If either of those put you off, don’t bother.
I like good food, good drink, watching movies, reading books, going to shows, anything authentic.
I keep it real, kick it old school, and cuddle too.
Just posted some videos from an artist named Algebra on The CLog. Here’s an article I wrote about her a while ago for Creative Loafing Atlanta:
Bridging the gap
Crunk plus soul equals Algebra
When it comes to urban music, it sometimes appears that America still suffers from a bad case of segregation.
On February 26, a soul vocalist by the name of Algebra finally released her debut solo album. This CD has been in the works for years and now — at long last — it’s in stores (you can pick it up at Best Buy).
What does she sound like? Sadly, you won’t hear her much on the radio. But check out this music video:
And check out this backstage performance:
