Meaning two is a little more complex, so I'll get to that when the time comes.
So, first is first. There's a "challenge" going around on Facebook where you have to post a picture meeting certain criteria every day for thirty days. Some examples:
Day One: Post a picture of yourself with ten facts.
Day Six: Post a picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
Day Eight: Post a picture that makes you laugh.
I just posted Day Seven: A picture of your most treasured item—one of the little Audrey Two pods from Little Shop of Horrors:
I was looking ahead, trying to see if I could get some of the pictures cued up for the next couple of days so I didn't have to go hunting, when I came upon Day Thirteen. Day Thirteen says "Post a picture of your favorite band or artist."
Well, okay, sure, that's simple. The problem is I've got two—Green Day and My Chemical Romance. For those of you who don't know much about either or both of those bands, they're sort of similar musicians, but My Chemical Romance is a little darker, writing about sadder subject matter (like in Skylines and Turnstiles) and I guess Green Day tends to be a little more angsty, making up "perfect characters" (like Christian and Gloria, the main characters in 21st Century Breakdown).
Anyway, somehow I've gotten it into my head that the two bands hate each other. I do this a lot. I just decide that famous people hate each other. Like Emilie Autumn and Lady Gaga. They totally have issues with each other. And, like, Johnny Depp can't stand anything by Taylor Swift. It's just this thing I do... Like, there's some kind of rivalry that I just decide exists. Maybe Billie-Joe Armstrong and Gerard Way were, like, dating or something, and then when Billie-Joe met his wife-to-be he was like "LATA SUKKA" and now Gerard's all like "wow, what a tool" so he goes and starts messing around with Mike and then somehow Billie-Joe finds out and...
Uhhh, you get the point.
So I'm looking at Day Thirteen, and I figured that I was going to have to stick two pictures together and just deal with the fact that it looks shoddy, half-assed and lame. Then I thought about the powers of the internet, and that maybe, just maybe...
Here was my actual thought-process:
"Man, I'm going to have to stick two photos together for this to work, and it's going to look shoddy, half-assed and lame, but I'll have to suck it up because there's no way for me to find a picture of the two...bands...together...GOOGLE IMAGES!"
Here are my results:
That's the first line of results in page three. The third picture in is definitely a picture of Billie-Joe hugging Frank Iero, which is as good as I could have hoped for. I thought I had hit the jackpot. Then I looked at the next line:
Fourth picture in. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... Eight people in that picture... That would account for everyone—Gerard, Frank, Mikey, Ray, Bob, Mike, Billie-Joe, and Tré... But it can't be...
But it is. It's a picture of Green Day and My Chemical Romance posing together at the Grammys.
Also P.S., Gerard's wearing an American Idiot shirt.
So yeah, I'm really proud of this discovery. It's pretty excellent.
Now we come to part two of this post. I've decided that I'm going to be doing a 30 Days Challenge on this blog. I won't be posting pictures—that's not what a blog is for. I'll be writing a post about the criteria for each day. I may have to make a few alterations to some of the criteria to make it a prompt, but I don't think so. Anyway, I'll try to do that every day. If I don't, I'll catch up, so after thirty days there will be thirty more posts. Starting today. LOOK OUT, INTERNET! ETSIE'S BLOG IS ABOUT TO GO CRAY-ZAY!!
That's all. I'm done now.
EDIT: If I had had safe search on then quite a few of those pictures would not have shown up, and my post would have lost a bit of body in my post. Therefore, always keep your safe search off. It makes for a better blog post.
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