As many of you are most certainly aware, there’s this fancy book thing about Arthas coming out in the near future. Krizzly wrote a rather surreal poem about it.
Big Bear has already posted his review and run through his contest. So I’m going to be fashionably late and do pretty much the same thing, only starting now instead of… well, earlier. That’s what “late” means. The fashion part comes from this ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS scarf I’m wearing.
Natch, I’ll be posting a review, too, but I kinda sorta need to read the book first.
I haven’t gotten it yet, but I have to say, I’m actually kinda excited. I haven’t been this excited to read a book since Timothy Zahn finally finished his Conqueror’s trilogy (now only $6.99 on Amazon!)
Book? You haven’t heard? Allow me to enlighten you.
Christie Golden likes to write nerd fiction. Well, maybe she does. I’ve never actually asked her. I mean, maybe she likes writing toaster manuals, but she sure likes to write about Star Trek and Warcraft.
She uses words like “spiffy”; I can only assume a toaster manual writer would never use words as exciting as “spiffy”.
Wouldn’t it be totally awesome though, if you were reading the manual to, say, a dish washer, and it said something like “plug in your absolutely spiffy new dish washer”?
I seriously need to lay off the Java Nuts.
Back to geek books.
I mean, she’s already written two books set in the Warcraft universe (Rise of the Horde and Lord of the Clans, now available at a bookstore near you! Probably!), and is also helming a trilogy of Starcraft books. Oh yeah, she writes Star Wars, too.
I am suitably geeked out, and fully expect the book to be awesome. There’s a reason why Thrall is my favorite orc ever (yes, even superior to Ratshag (action figures now available at a Wal-mart or something near you!)), and it has a lot to do with Ms. Golden’s skillful writing.
I mean, hell, check out this excerpt from the book. I’ll admit, I may have pumped my fist and cheered a little when Thrall chopped that bear’s head off.
While you’re there, maybe poke around a bit. Simon and Schuster are, after all, providing the free stuff, so wouldn’t it…
What? You didn’t know? Hell YES there’s swag!
Would I host a contest and not give you free stuff? I’m all about the free stuff. Free food, free… food, it’s all good!
Crap, this is really disorganized. Ok, lemme try again.
FOOD!
Wait, wait, wait, that came out wrong.
CONTEST TO WIN FREE STUFF!
There, see? It’s a common typo, really. I spell food lots of times when I actually mean something else, like “OH GOD SHE’S WRITE BEHIND YOU! Get it? ‘Cause she writes books?”
So basically this:
The contest will be open for… a time. Several days, probably a week. Five winners will be selected, these people will receive a copy of the Arthas book FOR FREE.
Sadly, the free books are only available to people with adresses in Canada and the US. None of that crap about “open to US citizens only”, I’m sure you could find someone living in Canada to forward the book to you.
NONETHELESS, because I feel bad for my Australian readers (the rest of you can suck a delicious, fresh lemon) if you don’t live in the US/Canada, I’m willing to offer you PARTY GRENADES instead.
Sadly, I only have three of these codes, so I can only offer… well… three of them.
To summarize: five lucky Canadians/Americans get a free book, three not quite as lucky non-North Americaners and Mexicans get 100 of these things.
E-mail your contest entry to criticalqq@gmail.com with the subject line “GIMME FREE STUFF”.
Entries will be judged by a panel of three experts, and will be judged according to the following categories:
- Deliciousness
- Creativity
- Sheer Audacity
Alrighty, that’s everything! Best of luck to everyone, and…
What do you mean “what is the contest, you loon”? Isn’t it obvious?
It’s about Bacon!
I tried to come up with an intelligent and creative idea for a contest. Spent something like a day wracking my brain and googling “contest ideas that don’t suck”.
Then, I came to a brilliant realization: since when is anything I ever do intelligent or creative?
That’s when I decided on bacon.
The contest is simple:
Send me your best recipes centering on or chiefly involving bacon.
Coming up with some stupid salad and saying “add bacon bits!” doesn’t count. It either has to be focused on bacon (bacon on bacon sandwich) or heavily involve bacon (bacon-wrapped steak).
Bear in mind that your entries will be judged by two people who really like bacon, and one that doesn’t so much.
Also, please remember that it’s highly likely that your entries will actually be attempted and eaten by me, so… try not to kill me, ok?
Well, I am eating loads of bacon here, so I mean… within reason. A recipe involving antifreeze probably isn’t a good idea, but something like “chocolate covered bacon muffins” is well within reason.
yes please lay of the java nuts with all that bacon coming in…
you’ll get a heart attack or something
Well,
I was anticipating to have to write something
about the simply delectable bacon is ways
beyond eating it!
However, its a cook-off 😦
I can cook, rather well, but I don’t use
recipes. I just go with the flow, perhaps
use a internal timer or two to master it.
Oh, the woe.
I was about to get my write on about
the magnificent wonders of bacon, and perhaps
a fictional story centered around bacon.
So, I defiantly right clicked magnificent as to
spell check it with Firefox’s handy-dandy checker,
however it seems it was preferred that I simply
submit instead.
Website coding be damned!
That’s why you have me! I can make you say anything…
That fabulous scarf is quite a reasonable price, especially considering how fabulous it is.
for your bacon loving needs:
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/
yes, it really is that awesome…
no, it won’t instantly kill you…
well, maybe if you ate like, 3 of them at once… 🙂
I’m not going to email… pfft to that.
My best bacon recipe is simple.
Get a handful of bacon… a big handful…
Stick it in a frypan that is way too hot…
How do you know if it is way too hot… it sounds like fireworks whizzing past your head…
Wait until the smoke is filling the kitchen (don’t you dare do this outside… it wont set off the smoke alarms!)
by now the bacon fat… err I mean rind… will be delicious and brown… maybe even black in parts
While everyone else is running for the exits, dump the bacon, grease, fat, oil and all onto a plate.
Now get your hands back into it….
Hang it over your face like you are swallowing worms at a freak show…
Make sure all the oil/fat/grease is dripping down your chin, and burning little marks down your cheeks…
Close your eyes…
Cry in sweet bacon loving joy…
Don’t mess with bacon…
The only compliments to it are other meats…
“Mixed Grill” 6 different kinds of meats, is the only way to eat bacon if you need something extra…
Wait – what…?
You EAT bacon…?! Well I’ll be damned. And my garden plans were coming along so nicely.
*runs off to unplant his bacon trees* 😦
Also (Wtb edit post button 😦 )
Behold! The Ultimate sandwich – http://www.royalbaconsociety.com/blog/bacon-porn/the-ultimate-blt/
The part I especially enjoy about this is that there’s even a Royal Bacon Society to begin with. I didn’t even know the Queen ate bacon with her caviar.
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