Post by Akbar Le Grey on Nov 19, 2006 4:42:13 GMT -5
November 19th – November 26th
Editor-in-Chief: Akbar Le Grey.
Sub-editor: Linda*.
Contributors: PJ, Jemima, Libitina, Spoony.
Published by 667er Publications, ltd.
A subsidiary of the 667er Group.
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Introduction
By Akbar Le Grey
Often rude, rarely comprehensible, ADR’s answers to our myriad questions about her rule are never quite satisfying enough. That, however, was with single members. Her answers to The 667er, although not very different, did show some signs of a struggle to be understood. And so we present them to you, unedited so that you might exactly how painful the aforementioned struggle was for her.
THE INTERVIEW.[/u][/size]
By Libitina
This week, we interviewed our new administrator, All Due Respect. This is our second interview with her, and it is rather different. Gretchen was interviewed as well this week. Also, we love Akbar.
The 667er: Welcome, Emily. Thank you for joining us. What are your feelings on being the new admin of 667 Dark Avenue?
All Due Respect: Its extremely exciting and I'm honored to have this bestowed on me.
The 667er: Do you feel that you are worthy of the job?
ADR: Of course! I believe in destiny and I think I discovered the password and became the new administrator all for some reason. I just dont know what it is yet
The 667er: That's an interesting viewpoint. Do you have any plans for the future of 667?
ADR: Just one small improvement at a time - right now my main focuses is to improve the moderators.
The 667er: How do you plan to do this?
ADR: By hiring new qualified people and getting rid of people who arent doing their jobs of course!
The 667er: Which sections will get new moderators, and what kind of people are you looking for to be the new ones?
ADR: Probably Wicked World and of course theres the new Deputy choosing. I hope that new moderators will be very dedicated and well.... not whiners
The 667er: What are your feelings on the constructive criticism you have received from different members?
ADR: Hmm Im not aware of what you speak of - could you be more descriptive?
The 667er: There have been a number of threads offering suggestions to you and possible different ways of doing things, such as this one. Have you responded to any of this to satisfy your members, or do you plan to?
ADR: Well the thing is that Ive always been doing my best to make Dark Avenue better and no one can deny this because I know this personally! Of course no one recognizes this and I have a few explanations including: jealousy (sorry but its true!) complaining because things arent exactly how they want. its a combination of things - people dont respect me which makes them think its OK to complain about EVERYTHING I do. Understood?
The 667er: Yes, but do you understand where they are coming from? They are trying to help you improve the forum. Do you take their suggestions seriously?
ADR: Hello? Where have you been? I added new moderators, tried polls and applications and of course made some new sections from J's suggestion. You just ignore the good things I do because that's what's "in" right now!
The 667er: Do you have respect for anyone other than yourself, or do you simply refuse to realize what I am actually asking? There have been numerous other suggestions you have turned down as "whining," or ignored without any explanation. Why?
ADR: Can you please give a few examples of these suggestions. And yes I do respect people I dont like what you are implying here. If you are talking about suggestions such as ADR should step down, well I think youre asking the wrong questions!
The 667er: I am not trying to imply anything. Here is my suggestion, love: Realize that not everyone is trying to jump on your case. One suggestion you didn't really acknowledge was having more than two options for the new global moderator.
ADR: well that came up only after I started getting votes in and I had already taken the suggestion of having applications in the first place so I thought I would be changing too many things at once. i mean seriously its like serving a king or something! everything has to be juuuuuust right
The 667er: So you are willing to take everyone's suggestions seriously?
ADR: Hi. For the millionth time I already HAVE taken some suggestions seriously. what you want me to do to every single thing you tell me to?
The 667er: Would you please show some maturity? Goodness gracious. If you were taking everything seriously, twenty-seven people would not want you replaced. We're not trying to hurt you. We're trying to help the place we've been for years. Thank you for your time, Emily.
ADR: You are VERY welcome.
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-Libitina & Akbar Le Grey.
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[Editor’s Note: PJ likes being rebellious or unique or something. Bleh, as long as he keeps writing well. (:]
I’ve become a social creature. It’s true. You all, surely, remember the old PJ, who never budged from his computer seat. Well, he’s pretty much the same, except on weekends, he gets out a lot more.
Booze, wymin and parties seem to take up a lot of my time, nowadays. Well, wymin. And parties. Not so much the booze. Although I did get proper drunk a weekend or two ago. In a spa. With four other men. In a non-gay way.
Ever tried to recite the Raven whilst drunk? It’s quite a chore. My drunken companions, though, found it quite entertaining, and didn’t seem to realize that I skipped quite a few verses, near the end. I’m not quite sure if they’d studied the text quite as extensively as I have. Or at all. Or maybe they were just heaps drunk. Which they were.
Well, Kig was. He climbed over the neighbour’s fence and fell down onto hard concrete. Twice. His toe is still recovering. We also tricked him into believing he made out with Giles. Heh. We told him the truth later.
Also, near the end, Giles and Jay found him naked, unconscious, on the toilet. The video is hilarious, and the natural shadows ensure no-one gets blinded watching it.
But yeah. Lotsa parties. Meeting new people. I’ve also got a girlfriend, which I mention every chance I get. She’s totally awesome. Everyone out there who hasn’t got one should do so immediately. Seriously. And not necessarily in the sexual way, either, for you younger readers out there. Something as simple as holding another person can feel amazing.
So can sex, or so I’m told, but that’s something for when you’re older. Yes, especially you over there. And me to. She introduces me as “My magee” and wants to write it on my chest in Indian crazy-ink that doesn’t come off. Seriously, you have to get rid of the skin in order to get it off.
But yeah, you’re probably wondering what the point of this article is. Is PJ just gloating cos he’s more popular? Well, yes. But there’s also a point buried deeply in here somewhere!
All of this, the parties, the girlfriend, the new people, the booze, it’s all quite a bit of fun. Loads, in fact.
So my point is this. Go out and make new friends. Even if you just meet one more person, it can be great. Example: I go fencing with this dude called Giles. It was through Giles that I first met Alice, and it was through Giles, again, that I met her quite some time later, and eventually started dating her.
But through Giles I’ve also met Rhys. And through all three of them, I have met Harrison, Samuel, Sarah, Spyder, Big Tom, Rosa, Sheeny, Bendy, Angus, Ruben, Dana, Joel, Mikey, Tom, Tristan, Rory, and that guy who got covered in shaving cream by the other Rory.
And those are only the people I like. There’s quite a few others whom I have no opinion of, or just plain don’t like.
To reiterate: Make some new friends. Even just one. Before, I spent my weekends playing computer games that are almost as old as I am. Now, I have quite a few more friends, and a girlfriend. It’s amazing how much your life can change if you just meet one person. It’s not impossible to change, and if you want to, just go out and talk to some random on the bus. Get his e-mail, and talk to him. If he’s a jerk, block him. If not, go and watch a movie with him, or bring him along to some party, or even just go to a cyber-café and play something with him. The worst that can happen is that he doesn’t like you, in which case you just find another random to talk to.
So go do it. Quit whining about how no-one likes you, or that you have no friends, and go out and try to find some people you can stand. And keep on trying, even after failing again and again. The world is an unimaginably big place. And the town you live in, whilst considerably smaller, is also more vast than you could possible imagine.
So go make friends, jackass. Life is so much sweeter with them. Really.
-PJ
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Welcome to Jem's Random Article! The column where Jemima talks about anything that happens to be on her mind. This week, the topic is:
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!
It's a lazy Sunday. So I wake up in the late afternoon, call up PJ just to see how he's doin'.
"Yo, what up Peej?!"
"Yo, Jemmy, what's crackin'?"
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Narnia! Man, it's happening."
If you can't tell, that was from the famous Digital Short from Saturday Night Live, Lazy Sunday. Love that skit to death. It's really the one video that made youtube popular. And it's also the one skit that made me love SNL.
I got into SNL really big just this summer. Even though the skits get weird into the night, they are very good most of the time. Everybody does a great job on it, but the main one who does it all is Ms. Amy Poehler. She does the best impressions of modern people. I always crack up in one of her skits.
Another essential to my wave of SNL was Rachel Dratch. She was the one who played Debbie Downer. Always hilarious. I met two twins this summer that looked very much like Rachel Dratch. It was freaky. But the twins were funny like Dratch. So it was sort of like I had met Dratch. I prefer Poehler, though. She helped write Mean Girls. Have you seen it? What am I saying; of course you have, with the whole "Plastics" deal while I was gone. She also played a role in the movie. Pretty darn good at it, too.
But I am also a big, big fan of the former co-stars. All the big comedians got their start on SNL. Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, David Spade, Eddie Murphy-- the list is ginormous. In the Halloween season, my parents always rent the Halloween video of SNL. We laugh our butts off. And who could forget all the reccurring skits? The Coneheads, Debbie Downer, Wayne's World.
This is annoying, I have a massive headache talking about all of the history of Saturday Night Live. IN SHORT, what I'm trying to say is....
WATCH SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
ON ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AT 11:30 P.M.
LIVE.
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Interview Of The Week.[/u]
This week, we interviewed Gretchen Skeleton Key.
The 667er: Thank you for joining us, Gretchen. How do you do?
Gretchen: I'm kinda sorta okayish, I guess. Fourteen year old Sweeney Todd is living in my dreams, but he's getting along okay with Ms. Penny Dreadful. (The demon news reporter of The Av.) M. and E. don't really talk to them; they're too busy making appearances as psychotic museum guards.
The 667er: Psycho people are cool. Is your illness getting any better?
Gretchen: I'm too drugged to tell.
The 667er: Cheer up, Charlie. Or rather, feel better. If you woke up to find an eel in your bedroom, what would you do?
Gretchen: I'd put in a fishbowl, then talk to it and love it and name it Shockular.
The 667er: Shockular is a pretty name. Has anyone ever compared you to Wednesday Addams? I was watching one of those movies today and she reminded me of you a bit, especially when she fell for the adorable sick boy.
Gretchen: All the time, but mostly because of my hair. (I wear it in two braids. Always.) And, of course, my love of chopping my dollie's heads off. Once I made an iron maiden with thumbtacks, and that worked fairly well.
The 667er: I didn't know you chopped dolls' heads off. That's fascinating. Are you currently working on any writing or artwork?
Gretchen: I'm doing a graphic novel, and I'm making mutant fetuses out of clay. (Horns and wings and such.)
The 667er: D: Given the choice, would you become a pirate, ninja, or undertaker?
Gretchen: I'd like to be a pirate undertaker, and a pirate coroner if possible. I would live in a place called Port Mort, where everything has curly wrought iron, and seafoam-colored fog rolls in from the ocean. I'd work in a Pirate Cemetery.
The 667er: That's for all you pirate/ninja fighters. Pirate undertakers win. Thank you very much for your time, especially when you are ill. Best wishes.
Gretchen: Be careful who you wish at.
-Libitina.
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Spoony's Thought of the Week
[Editor’s Note: Apparently, it adds to the ‘effect’ of this column if I don’t edit it. *shakes head*. I’d like your opinions on this, dear readers, so do comment on it.]
why is it that my house is -40 degrees below and I get frostbite in bed, while outside, it's snowing and it's only 29 degrees?
Spoony's Game of the Week
This week, I'll give you clues to guess this random object i have in my pants. the person to guess it will get mentioned in next week's edition of The 667er and will also get a cool little prizey.
CLUES:
-it makes beautiful noise.
-it is very fragile, and it would be sad if it broke.
-this object can look very pretty.
-it can be a very prized possession for a child.
-one may keep it so they can remember their past.
-if it's not made properly, it will whirrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
-once broken, it is very hard to fix.
-sometimes it's in the form of a box, but most of the time it comes in tons and tons of varieties.
-you have to wind it in order for it to work.
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Hi, all.
Haven’t posted or been active for a while now, what with the play [w00t] and exams [haven’t started studying D:] and blah. So, yeah. I thought I should write an editorial.
But I’m tired and have no idea what to write about. I <3333 everyone who contributed to BSam’s special issue of The 667er, and everyone who sent in articles this week. (:
Sorry, can’t write more. *dies*
Peace out,
Akbar.
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