I have to confess. I'm not as fired up about this Imaginary Girlfriend thing as I should be. It strikes me as something that I don't really think I am, pathetic. Maybe I am. I dunno.
It also could be a lot of fun and laughs aplenty could ensue. So I'm going to do my best to make it a group effort. Seems only fair as a lot of fine, fine people are coughing up hard-earned cash for the project. Your first task, group, is to help choose the IGF. I have someone in mind and I get, let's say, three votes.
So take a serious look here and pick your favorite. Every vote counts! Even Ken's!
double blah right back atcha!
Posted by: Cassie on April 5, 2004 03:29 PMI think I want Anaiis to be MY imaginary girlfriend. Her write up is hilariously pretentious!!! She ROCKS.
Totally get her.
Posted by: Daniella on April 5, 2004 03:44 PMThe idea was mildly amusing in theory but to put it in practice? I'd gladly have chipped in for a real gift for Mike.
Posted by: LadyCrumpet on April 5, 2004 03:52 PMUm...the fundraising has hit a snag...but Daniella RAWKS!!! As opposed to Crumpet, I guess.
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on April 5, 2004 05:04 PMwoa, there buckaroo... are you saying I'm the only one who actually sent in my pledge? Damn, how do you yankees support your NPR station then?
Fine, Mike can buy himself somethin' nice with my pledge if he decides not to get an Imaginary Internet Girlfriend.
I say we take my pledge and go drinking with it this weekend... I think we can afford a couple of Pabsts at the hipster bars in Williamsburg (although I may have to kill myself and/or a hipster or two). Or are hipster bars expensive now? I know not of these things.
Posted by: Daniella on April 5, 2004 05:27 PMDiana needs to be disqualified; she misspells the name of her favorite author. Though actually that might add to the splendiferous silliness of it all.
Posted by: Linus on April 5, 2004 06:20 PMSpeaking of spelling, you don't want to know how Wolfie spelled Anaiis' name the first time around...
Posted by: Frankenstein on April 5, 2004 11:46 PMAs in Seven of Nin ... ?
Posted by: Linus on April 6, 2004 12:50 AMi'm horrible. i picked Anaiis simply based on looks. ick.
Posted by: pea on April 6, 2004 01:27 AMAm I the only practical one here? I chose Janey... not only because she seems a little psycho... but also because she's the least expensive. How often in real life can you use those criteria?
Posted by: K.Britt on April 6, 2004 12:45 PMSo, whomever coded this poll software needs to get back to the drawing board. You might think Anaiis is doing well with her 100% of the votes, but the others, with scores up to 20% of the votes, are slowly gaining.
I'd like to pay my bills like that, I think. "OK, you get 70% of my salary, and *you* get 30% of my salary, and let's not forget you and you and you with 20% of my salary each ... which leaves me with, lessee, that'd be 100% of my salary."
Kind of like Reaganomics.
Posted by: Linus on April 6, 2004 12:46 PMLook, some of you people can send in a freaking pledge to help Wolf get this imaginary girlfriend! Only pledge-maker's votes count!
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on April 6, 2004 05:42 PMYeah, it has to be Anaiis, having that fine combination of hotness and brainy loonability.
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on April 6, 2004 05:46 PMMy Payment on my Pledge is going in the mail today!! You have shamed me into paying!!!
Posted by: Christy on April 7, 2004 06:44 AMI thought Diana looked like a real pipe-hitting ball buster, so I voted for her.
But anaiis is totally psycho! she's the one for mrw!
though I support this in spirit, i cannot contribute money on the grounds that I have related previously: far better to drop $45 a month on some really good porno than on a fake girlfriend. cause the masturbatin's still gonna happen, but poorly-written letters won't help much.
Posted by: Matt on April 7, 2004 12:20 PMBefore you take Matt's recommendation too seriously, just remember that really good porno is his solution for everything.
Posted by: Mike on April 7, 2004 05:59 PMMatt. doesn't MRW deserve some semi-porno, too? He's really nice!
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on April 7, 2004 11:26 PMYou should actually try to meet Anna. She's not in the poll, but she lives right there in NYC! And Carrie is still one of my favorites for mrw, but she's all IGF'd up right now. Look at the pic of Amy. Isn't she adorable? And she's from your home state, too. Too bad she's unavailable.
Diana and Anaiis are both too scary.
Posted by: Meredith on April 11, 2004 12:15 AMRosie's the one. She's got the best rack!
Posted by: cathy1709 on April 12, 2004 10:04 AM