One of the fun things about blogging (and also often annoying) are the never-ending memes (”meemz”). The term “meme” applies to many types of cultural and social phenomena that start small and wind up gaining traction, quickly becoming passed through social circles and “exploding” in popularity. Internet memes are catch-phrases, pictures, quizzes, and such that spread quickly among bloggers, often with each blogger adding their own spin or opinion. Here’s an example of a quiz meme that I found over at Jen’s place; all you have to do follow the directions for each of the examples to come up with some “new” names for yourself:

1. SPY NAME: (middle name + current street):
Andrew Delmar
2. MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/mother + your favorite candy):
Irving Whopper
3. GAMER TAG: (favorite color + favorite animal):
Black Goose
4. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name + birthplace):
Andrew Phoenix
5. PORN STAR NAME: (first pet + street you grew up on):
Dutchie Easthaven
6. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The”, favorite color, car your dad drives):
The Black Grand Marquis
7. ACTION HERO NAME: (name of character in last film you watched, last food you ate):
Bill Croissanwhich

What can I say? I just came from Burger King, and it was either Bill (from Kill Bill) Croissanwhich, or Bill Cini-Mini.

Well, not THIS day of April 8th, but rather the day of October 30th, which is when I celebrate my birthday. Seen over at Charles’ place is the Wikipedia meme: first, type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org; then list three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday. So here we go:

1. 1864 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch.”
2. 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
3. 1974 - “The Rumble in the Jungle“: Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
4. 1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
5. 1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
6. 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)

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Spocko left a comment on my entry about the movie “Snakes On A Plane” and seemed to think that I was some sort of “viral messenger” for the movie, and that my blog entry and purchase of a SoaP t-shirt were somehow part of a larger campaign to promote the movie. In fact, there is no such campaign that I am aware of. I read a few entries on MetaFilter and Digg and a few other sites several months ago about the movie, and my first reaction was that it was some sort of gag based on the Saturday Night Live sketch. Lo and behold, it turns out to be a real movie (presumably). My interest in it is based on the following: the sketch on SNL was bizarre to the point of being humorous; the concept of snakes on a plane stretched into a movie-length story is oddly intriguing; anything with Sam Jackson gets my attention; and the t-shirt that I bought has such cute, simple graphics that I thought it would be fun to wear. (more…)

The lovely Viking Zen posted a lengthy (but fun!) movie-meme, and I’m gonna play along. You should, too… (more…)

Haven’t participated in a “Day Of The Week” meme in quite a while, but Leesa offered up a pretty tasty one, so let’s do it:

Appetizer: About how many times per day do you check your email? My personal e-mail, probably between three and ten times each day, depending on the day and the amount of traffic/comments on my sites. My work e-mail is alwayswhen I’m at my desk, and about 50% of my work is done via e-mail, so it’s a non-stop thing when I’m at the office.

Soup: If you had the money to collect something really valuable, what would it be? Ummm…money? Heh. Actually, if I decided to collect something, it would probably be miniature things, like Cow Parade figures and such.

Salad: Write a sentence using the letters of your favorite beverage. Consider Ostrich Farming, For Enjoyable Entertainment

Main Course: If you could be on a game show, which one would you want it to be? There is only one: Jeopardy! OK, one other possibility: Match Game, if I could go back in time to 1975.

Dessert: Name 3 computer programs or web sites you would hate to be without. Good grief, how to narrow it down? Um…can I cheat and just say BlogLines, which includes feeds from all of my regularly-visited sites?

Amazing Fact of The Day: 978 of the last 1,000 hits to my site have been referred by Kate over at Electric Venom via the Blonde Joke Meme.