Tonite you get a choice of memes. One comes from an LJ blog I visited where the blogger had picked up the meme from Patrick Nielson Hayden's LJ - it goes: When you see this, post an anti-war song in your journal. Now, those of you new to meme'ing here's a bit of a meme primer:
1. Always credit where you got the meme. Post the link and name the originator or person who passed it to you. You can go back two links as well but you don't have to go further. Linkage is good for blogging.
2. Tag someone to do the meme next. Better yet, tag a few folk. Try to pick folk that visit often but if you don't, you need to comment on their blogs that you tagged them.
3. If you do the AW Monday Meme, please put the Technorati Tag in your post and go to Technorati and do a 'ping'. Don't know how that works?
Go to
Technorati (that link takes you straight to the AWMonday Meme tag page) On the right side of the page is a little sidebar that says:
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What’s this? A tag is like a subject or category. This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged awmondaymemes. To contribute to this page, just post to your blog and include this code.
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Click on "this code" (at the Technorati site - the link in the quote box just takes you to the tag page again) and a box will appear underneath that looks like this:
Copy that stuff in the box (it's HTML code that tells Technorati that it's a tag and how to categorize your blog by the tag)
Now - see the "More Tag Help" below the box? When you've added your code to your blog (and you'll have to add it in the HTML editor, not in Rich Text) go back to the AWMondayMeme's page and click on "More Tag Help"
which will take you to this page:
You'll have to scroll down a bit but when you find this:
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If your blog software does not support automatic pinging, or if you haven't set it up yet, or if you're not sure, you can manually ping us here. You might also want to configure your blog software to ping us automatically so you don't have to do that every time.
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Click on the "manually ping us here" link and put your blog's URL in the box provided and click "Ping!"
You're done! And when I go look at the AWMondayMemes tag page I'll see your blog listed and I'll go visit!
Now, as promised, you get a choice. Some folk might not want to do the anti-war song meme. That's ok by me. I was tempted not to do it, but I was a teenager in the last years of the Viet Nam War and there's one song that always comes to mind when I hear "anti-war song" so I posted it on my
Live Journal account. My LJ is set to friends only for most posts - but that one's public.
The other meme is one I saw on another AW Blogger's site. I can't remember who - bad Dawno forgot to make a note of the blogger when she copied the meme to save for tonite. *sigh*
Edited to add: Give credit to our own Maestrowork! His blog is at
http://itheauthor.blogspot.com/ so be sure to link there!
1. If someone is going to make a movie about you, which movie star/actress should play you?
2. What are your favorite movies and/or books?
3. Coffee or chocolate?
4. Hot tub or beaches?
5. Do you like to take naps? Or do you sleep only a few hours a day?
6. Do you sleep in the nude?
7. What do you consider is your best achievement so far?
Thanks for playing!