T.G.I.WHAT?

The acronym TGIF traditionally stands for "Thank God it's Friday." What else might it stand for?

I should have said THAT!

Have you ever had a confrontation with someone (perhaps an ex-friend, a rude stranger, a trash-talking hobo who was an ex-friend) that you somehow left unfinished? You didn't get to throw in that last-second dagger or were too dumbfounded to talk?

Now's your chance. upost an explanation of the situation and then what you would have said/done if a) you thought of it in the moment, b) it been socially acceptable, c) you had bigger balls/ovaries, etc.

Read a book! Read a book! Read a goddam book!

Think of a subject you would like to know more about. Do a bit of research on the subject and as soon as you learn something new, upost it here.

Gandalf makes a mean firework

Today is Independence Day in the US and it will be celebrated with fireworks displays that will illuminate the night sky with brilliant colors and loud explosions.

Remember the awesome dragon fireworks from the beginning of The Lord of the Rings? No? It doesn't matter. upost some ideas for amazing fireworks that can do a lot more than shoot, spin, or go bang.

A Century of iposts

Yay! Huzzah! Woot?

This marks the 100th ipost! (At least we think it does. We're not good at counting.) If this blog were a human and posts were years, we probably wouldn't know where we were or why there was so much drool on our shirt, but luckily, that's a ridiculous thought and 100 posts only means that ipost | upost is just getting started.

Big thanks goes to everyone who has sent in suggestions for iposts, banners, and thoughts, but especially to those people who upost and contribute from day to day. ipost | upost would not exist if it wasn't for its contributors.

In honor of this milestone, we are posting links to the 3 most popular iposts as well as the 3 most unpopular, reviled, and generally ignored iposts*. Maybe, just maybe, after this little plug, they'll only be the 2nd or 3rd most hated iposts. Hmmm?

Top 3 Favorite iposts
Poetry? Oh noetry!
A Cuddly G-Rated Monday
Rip-Off Wednesday #1: The Joy of Six

Bottom 3 (most plague-ridden) iposts
Lime Ricky
Et tu, Brute?
Get your head in the gutter.

*Special Note: If one looks way back to the first iposts, one may find that many of them have no uposts (comments). They only appear that way because in the switchover to the Intense Debate commenting system, some comments were lost in limbo. The comments are still out there somewhere, but they can't be viewed without uninstalling Intense Debate.