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Bookninja is officially four today. If Ninja Boy has been any template, this means the site should soon start disobeying my every command and treating me with equal parts love and contempt. Actually, it’s kind of been like that all along.
We have some great things coming up in The Magazine, including, today I hope, of a podcast interview with literary/theatre impressario Sean Dixon. I had hoped to have a banner discussion piece on empathy in writing and reading ready for posting today, but to get your appetite whet, I’ll just tell you this, the participants are: Peter Behrens, Catherine Bush, Barbara Gowdy, Sheila Heti, and Lisa Moore. Patience, it’s coming in a few weeks.
And what would a birthday be without a contest? . Based in the west of Ireland and have a laptop? Snap a pic of you surfing on a cliff face. Are you a Manhattanite with a view of the ESB? Hold up a printout of the front page and let us see your smile. Headed to Banff and already have some ninja wear? Climb a mountain and haul out the cell cam. Bill Gates’ secretary and have access to his desk? Send us the pictoral evidence of your snooping crimes (and the password to his bank account). An Aussi planning on wrestling a Great White off the Barrier Reef? Try stuffing a shuriken logo down its throat. The most creative entries win. You don’t need to be a photographer, you just need to get you and the logo and some interesting spot into the shot. Have fun with it! (Please don’t do anything dangerous. I love you, and I’m frightened our stats will sag….)
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August 13th, 2007 at 8:48 am
I was thinking of videotaping a synchronized swimming performance where I had the Bookninja logo shaved into my patch of back hair…
But I guess I would have to get other people in on this, or it wouldn’t be “synchronized.” And I would have to learn to swim.
Still, there must be something to this idea. I will keep thinking!
August 13th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Happy birthday!
Will you be posting the pics?
August 13th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Unless they break any decency laws, yes.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Last year, you said that Bookninja’s birthday was August 11. This year, the birthday is August 13.
What calendar are you using?
August 13th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Georgian. We put the first test posts on the site on Aug 11 and erased them and began posting publicly on Aug 13.
Someone get another drink for Frankie. And maybe a noisemaker. Or a hooker or something.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Ooh, I got a good one.
August 13th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Happy birthday, Bookninja.
August 13th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
I am waiting for “Paul” to update last year’s birthday poem.
You know the one. It goes like this:
When you were One,
you had just begun.
When you were Two,
you were nearly new.
Now you are Three.
SHURIKEN TO THE FOREHEAD!
August 13th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Hey, it’s my birthday too. I’ll think of bookninja as a birthday present.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Happy Birthday! Can’t wait till puberty hits!
August 13th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Hooray Bookninja! Long may you run.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Congratulations on turning four!
August 14th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Happy birthday Bookninja and I guess it’s been a year in Sin Jahns too. Your crowd’s a welcome addition to the community so big ups to it all.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
A blog named Bookninja turns four
we all wish it many years more
to be incendiary
about things literary
that most publications ignore.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Sorry Frankie, I couldn’t think of anything clever this year. Maybe next august?
August 15th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Bonne fête, Bookninja. Just so you know, the “Bookninja” part was said with a Quebecois accent.
Not quite a Drummondville accent, but not quite Victoriaville either.