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The Second Annual Wordsmoker Valentine’s Day Love Contest

January 22, 2012 in Valentine's Day Love Contest

Remember that feeling that you had when you looked across the dance floor at your high school sock hop and that cute girl or guy in whom you'd been interested catches you staring? How he or she stopped talking to his or her other sycophants just long enough to give you a smile. Do you recall how you felt when you realized that, although that person was everything you could possibly want in another human being, you fell far short of his or her expectations? Instead, the object of your desire was going pass you by for someone who had a shitty soul, but was slightly better at sports, or had developed breasts a little earlier than you did. 

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The Wordsmoker Valentine’s Day Love Contest

February 5, 2011 in Valentine's Day Love Contest

We are ten days away from one of the most high-pressure holidays ever created by the Roman Catholic Church or whomever, which is saying a lot. I’m speaking, of course, of the Saint Valentine’s Day holiday. Some people absolutely love Valentine’s Day, with its shiny red cardboard body and purple velour bucket seats, but others hate its sticky, viscous, 5 a.m. floor of the IHOP sweetness. For me it just means that I get to add another love bear from the  Vermont Teddy Bear Company™ to my growing collection—I’m hoping for Love Bandit™ this year. For you it means that in addition to whatever else you’ve got going on, you also have the chance to win a contest. Read the rest of this entry →