Site Update: Sister blog

This is a subscriber-only advisory and will not be posted on the blog itself.

Dear all,

Since furloughing The Naked Listener’s Weblog on 15th March, I feel tremendously flattered that many of you have pleaded with me to render it active again.

While I toss and turn in bed at night with beads of sweat dribbling from my forehead anguishing over the future viability of my main blog, might I suggest you subscribe/follow my other blog?

Learn English or Starve
“Thumbing at grammar nazis and lingo lolicons”
http://learnenglishorstarve.wordpress.com

Naturally this sister blog (‘LEOS’) is nowhere near as extraordinarily thought out or unfunnily hilarious as The Naked Listener’s Weblog.

But it more than makes up for the slack in brain-dead bias and sordid self-pwnage that are breathtakingly unbelievable, even if I do say so myself.

Indeed, I’m not arsed (BrE slang) / bothered to update it as frequently as this blog, mainly because the subject matter is so uninspiringly unmotivating and the people who care about this sort of thing are so deeply bloodyminded. Yet the expectation alone of something arising there should keep your ‘expectations’ at stratospheric altitudes.

I would have thought Teh Grammerfraggotz would launch high-altitude aerial bombardment for the content there. Strangely, there’s be zilch flak, so maybe you fine folks could help out in that department and give me one more reason to furlough LEOS as well.

Thanks all, and I look forward to your follows.

The Naked Listener

(You’re fired for drawing no flak.—Editor.)

© The Naked Listener’s Weblog, 2012. Image from author’s collection.

Site Updates: Furlough

FROM THE MANAGEMENT

Dear all,

The Naked Listener’s Weblog will be on furlough in around two hours’ time.

When it happens, you will see only one static page (‘About’) instead of the usual front page of five rolling blogposts.

The full menubar will also be inoperable.

I have not yet set a date for coming back, but I should like to think it would be sooner than later.

As you can see, I’m not a person who likes to surprise people. BOO!

I am very, very pleased and touched by my readers and subscribers who have put in very caring and persuasive words for me not to close up this blog.

NO NEED TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Like I say, it won’t be closed up, but on absence of leave. I need to do this to prove a point. The amended ‘About’ page will hopefully give you an idea of my ‘unhappiness.’ You can leave comments, criticisms and even hate messages there.

Readers, no need to unsubscribe. Leave it alone. It won’t affect your inbox or RSS feeds. If and when the blog is ‘re-animated,’ your still-active subscription allows me to send you site updates of the re-animation or The End of the World, whichever occurs sooner.

Come to think of it, your still-active subscription should also allow me to send you password-only posts during the furlough for which I will send you passwords in advance. I don’t know … because I don’t know yet.

YOU’RE ALL PROMOTED

Ladies and gentlemen, by the powers vested in me by myself, all of my readers are now promoted to ‘Programs’ from mere ‘human beings’ (if the human condition is anything to go by nowadays).

Thanks all, Programs! See you all later!

The Naked Listener

10.56pm local time
17°C (62°F) breezy, cool and muggy

© The Naked Listener’s Weblog, 2012.

Time soon to face the music…

6.11pm local time / 17°C (62°F) breezy, muggy, overcast

SING WITH ME.

SING TOGETHER NOW…

* * *

“You Get What You Give”

by The New Radicals

The YouTube video (with lyrics):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6jd9P1X6w

One, one, one…
One, TWO!
One, two, THREE!

Wake up kids
We’ve got the dreamer’s disease
Age fourteen we got you down on your knees
So polite, you’re busy still saying ‘please’

Frienemies, who when you’re down ain’t your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes-Benz
First we run and then we laugh till we cry

But when the night is falling
You cannot find the light
(Light!)
If you feel your dreams are dying
Hold tight
You’ve got the music in you

Don’t let go
You’ve got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don’t give up
You’ve got a reason to live
Can’t forget
We only get what we give

I’m coming home, baby
You’re tops
Give it to me now

Four a.m. we ran a miracle mile
We’re flat broke but, hey, we do it in style
The bad rich
God’s flying in for your trial

But when the night is falling
You cannot find a friend
(Friend!)
You feel your tree is breaking
Just then
You’ve got the music in you

Don’t let go
You’ve got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don’t give up
You’ve got a reason to live
Can’t forget
We only get what we give

This whole damn world can fall apart
You’ll be okay — follow your heart
You’re in harm’s way — I’m right behind
Now say you’re mine
You’ve got the music in you

Don’t let go
You’ve got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don’t give up
You’ve got a reason to live
Can’t forget
We only get what we give
Don’t let go
I feel the music in you

Fly high … HIGH
What’s real can’t die
You only get what you give
You gonna get what you give

Dont’t give up
Just don’t be afraid to live

Health insurance ripoff lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they’re multiplying

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You’re all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We’ll kick your ass in!

Don’t let go
One dance left
Don’t give up
Can’t forget
Don’t…

* * *

See you ’round,
While I get myself sorted out by pound.

I’ll be back,
After I lay down the track.

Sooner or later,
Hopefully tastier than ever.

One fine day.
Whatever at me they spray.

* * *

“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” (Anon)

“Question your answer.” (Grandpa)

“Mountains never meet. But men do.” (Russian proverb)

© The Naked Listener’s Weblog, 2012.

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