--The AELEOPE Post-Your-Best-Post-Forward Cyber-Wave--

I'm a pebble.

Well, not a real one, but a hypothetical one.

Well, OK, I WANT to be a pebble. Not a big one. Just a little round one, one that can be flicked off one finger into a quiet pool.

I want to make a ripple. I want that ripple to travel and travel and travel.

I want to be a pebble that does the cyber-cannon-ball and makes a big splash with a small flick of the finger.

I want to be the booger that empties the White House.

Yeah, I've got that much ambition...

This idea came across the desk of my mind this afternoon (I really should be getting laid) and I let it simmer a bit like a snail in a summer puddle in my brain before I thought seriously about making a real event out of just a passing fancy.

There is something in my psyche that is so very fond of movements. From bowels to symphonies to Arlo's "Alice's Restaurant" anti-war chanting ("You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant...") to EST and then beyond...

I'm just a movement kind of guy.

In my younger days, I dreamed of making it big with a bumper sticker. I mean, wasn't "shit happens" just another movement? I was going to think of a bumper sticker that would storm the world and beat out "shit happens" by fifty car lengths.

That never happened.

So tonight I am announcing the AELEOPE Post-Your-Best-Post-Forward-Cyber-Wave.

Yep.

The cyber-wave.

This wave will act like a real wave and radiate outward (not like those donut-waves you see on TV). This wave will start with a small drop in a small body of water, and go traveling outward in all directions until its energy is gone and it dissipates at the end of the cyber-universe...

Cool huh?

So here is the deal. If I am the pebble (I DID think of it, you know) you all have to be the medium that the wave travels in. (This is a bit like the donut wave you see on TV in that it won't work if you don't put down your hot dog and beer and do your part).

I make a small splash in my little puddle of cyber-world (I don't mean to imply that if you read me, you are a small, lukewarm, dirty body of inconsequential water, truly-- just bear with the metaphor, here...) and then you all radiate that disturbance by contacting two or three bloggers and suckering them in... uh...asking them to participate... and then they get some eager blogger folks to post their best post... and then... see?

What's in it for the bloggers who participate? Well good question!

That's what started this idea.

It has been bobbing in the back of my mind for weeks now, like an apple in a washtub without any teeth to snare it up. You get to drag out YOUR BEST POST from the bowels of your archives and give it new life and meaning and a place in the great cyber-good-vibration-thingy all started by an Aeleopean pebble...

Are ya with me? Ain't it all sounding so cool you wanna squeal?

No?

Let me clarify what I have in mind.

I want the world to know I hit my Pops in the nuts with a 140mph tennis serve.

Not many people know this.

But I WANT THEM TO.

So what you would do, is post that post on your blog. Not a link, but the whole long-ass thingy. That sacrifice on your part, then allows you to pick out several people you know who blog, and foist upon them YOUR NUMBER ONE FAVORITE POST OF ALL TIME. The one you got so many kudos for and now is buried in your never-to-be read-again archives. You explain the rules to them, and if they post your post, they, in turn, get to foist their bestest blog entry on several people, pointing out that THEY participated, and so on and so forth.

That's it. What I figure is, it will expand people's awareness of other blogs, other bloggers, and may create some new connections and new friendships and all those other good cyber-hugging blogger thingies that just may save the world.

And if it doesn't? Well, screw 'em all. The main thing is that I tell SOMEBODY about how I hit my Pops' in the nuts with a serve that served him right.

See?

So...

First I will explain the rules in a paragraph you can cut and paste. Then, if you want to participate, I have provided the link to the post I want to see on someone else's blog. I am trying to figure out how to make this all easy to operate and perpetuate. OK. I will post the rules in a picture image, that you can cut and paste...

And here is the post I want you to proliferate by posting it as a post on your blog...


THE POST I WANT POSTED FORWARD-- Smokin' Car Parts, Topspin, And My Father's Nuts.

If this is all confusing, help me, to help you, make sense of it all...

All suggestions are welcome.

ADDENDUM-- One of the things about being born when I was born is that I am always forced to live up to the descriptors given to my birthday. "Innovative". "Cutting edge". "Weeks before your time."..

I gotta tell you, it's not easy waiting for the rest of you to catch up to me in your thinking patterns and habits. I've had to learn patience, wisdom, and deep, hoarse threats to affect great change in the world. I was the guy who stuck glow in the dark stickers on my yo-yos and turned off the lights. Did you know that?

So, what I'm saying, is that these cyber-waves are the waves of the future. People all over will be making little splashes and watching them ripple. Some have inadvertently done so already. Think whats-her-name's shaved, uh... head and that girl who spent two weeks doing mean things to her guy because he cheated on her...

But this ripple is for all of you who have written something great that is just sitting in an archive doing nothing but gaining days. This ripple is a way to change your circle of readers for an afternoon. This is Stucco's testicle tale getting read by some mommy bloggers. Kario's menstruation dissertation being read by some young boy sports bloggers. That type of thing...

If you are worried about being too cool to join in.... well... I feel your pain. It feels like a marshmallow in the bottom of a sock I just put on, to tell you the truth.

Come on brave bloggers, let's make waves...