The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

1. A Bald Blog - Anthem For Lost Love and Innocence

“I carry some fairly bulky baggage. No surprise, that, everybody does; but I had no idea I was still carrying anything so old, so utterly unresolved, still so raw after all this time. I’d just put it all away in a drawer in some dusty room in my head, and simply stopped going there.”

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Nominated by Ben

2. Boob Pencil - Or….

“Maybe I’m crying because they wouldn’t let me breastfeed or hold my three-day-old son in the TV room, because it’s for adults only. “Not appropriate,” they said.”

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Nominated by Zinnia

3. Mumbojumbo - Put ‘em up

“In an attempt to sex up my exercise routine I have started boxing.”

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Nominated by Rachie

4. Naked Blog - A Matter of Life and Death

“It was near the top of Turnhouse Hill where I noticed two sheep still way above me. White blobs in the green. Neither of them moving that much. Then as I got closer I saw why. The one lying down looked very unwell indeed. More than unwell… dead. (I gleaned that due to it not running away at my approach. Although they sometimes play possum.) A few feet further away a lamb was grazing on the rapidly yellowing grass. Breakfast at 400m. Autumn coming early, due to complete lack of summer.”

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Nominated by Mike.

5. Steakhouse Blues - A Country Depends Upon The Hearts of Men

“It took about ten minutes before I realized that something was wrong with the picture, and when I realized what it was I immediately found myself in a terrible quandary. Sitting in front of this gentleman on the bar was The Macallan 55 in its unmistakable Lalique decanter–a $10,000.00 wholesale bottle of liquor–a bottle so rare that I doubted there would be a single one found behind any bar in my city, much less in this fine but unremarkable chain establishment.”

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Nominated by Lyle

6. That’s So Pants - Naked Crunch

“For interminable weeks Australia has been seized by the dilemma of whether or not it is acceptable to photograph naked children for the purposes of high art. The only respite for the socially conscious media watcher is to be briefly drawn into fretting about the likelihood that the world will run out of food, water and petrol before it runs out of air.”

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Nominated by tpe

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

1. Bete de Jour: Speed Dating, Part 1 :: The Seduction Line
Nominated by Angelalala

There were ten women and ten men, which meant ten dates each in two and a half hours, with the women assigned their own table and the men moving from date to date like giant, knicker-sniffing wasps. It was quite an ordeal, and basically a production line, the males slowly paraded in front of the females like incomplete consumer durables, holding up their shoddy personalities to the light of quality control, trotting out their stories and their questions and their jokes like tramps emptying their pockets looking for pound coins they know they’ve already spent. It was a seduction line.

2. blah, blah, black sheep: Random Acts
Nominated by Bob

I am a philanthropic misanthrope.

It’s not that I hate humanity. The inner core of me is truly bright and full of hope. My sarcastic outer layer is mostly posturing and the result of my intuition needing an outlet.

3. Blonde Moments: In which travel broadens the mind. And the luggage…
Nominated by Ben

There are certain things one anticipates when taking a holiday with one’s best mate, and when one’s best mate is Best Mate, these include a frighteningly well-stocked case and German-like efficiency in organisation.

4. Get In The Car: Everyone Was a Baby Once
Nominated by Barb

Late this afternoon I walked onto one of the ICU floors to get some paperwork filled out by a patient. The first thing I noticed was the grim-faced police officer sitting outside of his room, clacking away on a small official looking laptop. I did a double take on the patient’s chart - oh. Meth overdose. No wonder.

5. mumbojumbo: The letter I want to send to John Lewis but probably won’t
Nominated by Maurice Mcleod

Dear John,

I’m so disappointed with your service recently, I can’t tell you. Everyone has bad days but this is beyond a joke.

6. Sometimes funny is all I have: My One Track Mind Thinks About Kittens
Nominated by Angelalala

I sat on the tube, hugging my cardboard box on my knees and trying to wipe the tiny smile from my face. Nobody, I knew, would be shocked or would even care what the innocuous-looking box contained, so it didn’t warrant even the smallest of scandalized eyebrow raises from me.

7. The Other side of me: The Art of Insomnia
Nominated by Zinnia Cyclamen

As children we were given purses with pennies to play with in our cots to wile away the wee hours, a wicked wheeze my mother learnt from her mother who learnt it from her grandmother. Of course with the advent of decimalization that went out the window as a pastime, the modern penny being rather too small for prudent child play. I can however still remember the taste of an old penny if anyone is interested. Cloth books replaced them but frankly they weren’t half as satisfying. They lacked that metallic bite.

8. ’til the cows come home: Wonder Woman Toddler
Nominated by Bob

Several weeks back I got a phone call from my sister, L. When I answered the phone it sounded like she was sobbing.

“What’s wrong?” I asked nervously. “Who’s dead?”

9. Travelling, but not in love: Euston Station. 21 March 2002. 4.45pm
Nominated by Ben

21st March 2002 and I’m in London for the day. I’m working and have been in and out of a succession of meetings all day. Luckily, I finish early and head to the station.

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to
1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

1. Back in a Bit: Why I like cryptosporidium
(nominated by Eric)

“Is that it? No magical chemistry? No super-complicated witchcraft? No, just boil it, allow to cool, and it’s fine. Now if only there were such a thing as a simple, cheap device that would allow me to boil water… wait, there is! It’s called a kettle.”

2. frizzyLogic: Fibretaxis
(nominated by Pete)

“I am talking, of course, about the ability of the average cat to assess the quality of light reflected from its coat and, having done so, move to position itself precisely on a surface displaying exactly the opposite properties.”

3. The Other Side of Paris: Feeling Flat
(nominated by Fifi)

“I was buying a newspaper and a book for PP at the station today when a midget, rancid old bitch-troll with glasses pushed in front of me. I looked down on her and said,”What the feck do you think you’re doing?” Shrug, pout and distinct whiff of body odour was the only reply I got. I could have crushed her like a raisin but didn’t want to dirty my hands.”

4. Rise: Tantrum
(nominated by Mike)

“Lily continues to witter on about how he knows that he is behaving badly, and I should give him a punitive Time Out when we get home. This is not the time or place to be explaining to her that I have only just, in the previous few minutes, had to work out my philosophy on discipline in response to a tantrum.”

5. The Unbearable Banishment: Watching Your Breath
(nominated by Bob)

“Christianity shouts: “YOU NEED US. WITHOUT US, YOU’LL BURN IN HELL. Oh, and by the way, GIVE US SOME MONEY!” Buddhism gently whispers in your ear: “You need you. Look within.” I think I might attend another class.”

6. Visions of Wrong Terrance: The perfect bacon sandwich
(nominated by Josh)

“This chain of bacon butty one-upmanship went on for some time, until I decided to ignore the question and concentrate on more pressing aspects of my life, such as getting a job, having a shave, and completing the final historical challenge on Brian Lara Cricket on the Playstation 2.”

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

1. Alphabetica Prime’: I Am Most Beautiful When No-one Is Looking
   (Nominated by Ani)

   i wouldn’t know what to to do with a man’s love if it was given to me. one shouldn’t waste their time with me in my bed, my bathtub, my hands. you must be trying to trick me if you’re interested. waiting to ask me to the dance to pour pigs blood all over my dress.

2. Bloggertropolis: A Frank Spencer Moment
   (Nominated byMatthew)

   The first two bulbs are swapped out easily enough – and I’m impressed the guy can do this one-handed given that his other hand is pinching hold of a ledge while his legs straddle a 12ft drop. The third and final bulb requires a manoeuvre that even Peter Parker would baulk at but Mr Sparks manages it. He must be clinging on with his teeth at this point I swear.

3. Down In Me: Nylon Threads Scattered Over My Tummy
   (Nominated by Id Entity)

   The force of reality thrusting its dick into my spine, won’t stop me writing what I have to say, specially in the comfort and perceived safety of my middlebrow dwelling in my western-civilised, policed, high-walled, barbed wire cell. Whether or not it’s true. Whether or not you believe me. This world is fucked. You are fucking it. I fucked it and now you’re gorging on my sloppy seconds.

4. Every Day I Lie A Little: MA in ‘Creative’ Writing
   (Nominated by Bob)

   Every time you write something I will print it out and show it to all my friends. We will sit in a pub and laugh at it. We will make notes on it in coloured pens. Everything we write will be instructions on how to make it better. We will send you back the pages. You won’t be able to read our writing. You will need to implement all the suggestions into future drafts, even when they are contradictory.

5. Jerrychicken: I’m Still Not Flying - Part Deux
   (Nominated by kate)

   I don’t like businesses that make me stand in line for an hour or so just because they haven’t got enough staff to deal with the amount of customers that they already know are going to appear at their check-in desk at a given time, its not like its a surprise that 200 people will want to be served two hours before a specific flight is it

6. Non-Working Monkey: Day 707: I Have English Teeth
   (Nominated by Mike)

   “Your teeth are not good”, says the dentist. “Every time English people come here I think, surely one will have good teeth! But no, all of you have terrible teeth. Do your dentists actually go to dental school?”.

7. PC Bloggs: Treading Water
   (Nominated by Zinnia Cyclamen)

   After he stabs her, he’s going to stab his son, then his daughter. And then he’s going to kill the first cop who comes through the door. At the moment, that’s likely to be me.

Wow, another short but sweet shortlist:

Nominated by Barb: Mattbites with: Making History, Tying The Knot!

No separate-but-equal, no domestic partnership paperwork, no kinda-sorta-real-but-not-really. No my friends, none of that. Today I married the man of my dreams and it was officially recognized by the State Of California.

Nominated by Fifi: The Other Side of Paris with: By George We Had Fun

“We’re going to have an evening of great wickedness!” George’s eyes sparkled with anticipation of the night that was to unfold.

By “great wickedness”, George did not mean that we were going to have a Sodom and Gomorrah experience but rather a jolly night out in London wining and dining.

Nominated by Mike: Smaller Than Life with Life Through a Lens

It is time to say goodbye to an old friend that I have known for four years. It is the Post-it note that is stuck inside the bathroom cabinet where I make a note of whether I have replaced my contact lenses each month.

Nominated by Karen: Trauma Queen with Manners

Fair enough, this job’s unpredictable. You never know what’s coming down the road, what the radio holds for you.

Like drunks.

Short but great I think you’ll agree - if you want to vote this week, drop an email to peacharse@yahoo.com