January 16, 2004
Mess Up The Vote
Hi
I just finished tabulating the Readers' Poll winners.
A special shout-out and "Thank You" goes out to Ashlee Allen for inputting all those ballots into our database!!
We have a few ties, however. I am going to attempt to break the ties by sending an email out to our 6,283 email addresses on our email list. (Not on it? Email me and ask to be added -- Doug@HMmag.com)
I am going to ask the recipients to break the handful of ties that we've got.
It's raining in the Austin area today, so it makes it easy to stay holed up in the office, cranking out the final deadline things. I've got to touch up my Project 86 story and "What Thrice Says."
Lots of people are subscribing nowadays, especially with our "Subscribe & Get A Free Gift Subscription For A Friend" offer. Very cool.
Have a great weekend. May your football watching (or non-watching) be blessed with much joy. The question of the weekend is: If you were a placekicker and the ball were lined up for a 50 yard field goal with 1 second left and your team is behind by 2 points...would you make it?
What would be going on in your mind when, as the field goal team was lining up and preparing to snap the ball, the defense of the other team calls a time-out to "Ice" you? Would you stare at the ground? Pray frantically? Look in the crowd for John Candy or some other celebrity to make you laugh?
Kicks that are that long are hard, because you have to put more leg power than usual into it in order to make the distance, which can take the routine swing out of your approach and kick... If you miss the kick, you have the immediate shock and despair of "losing" the game, plus all of next year to think about it.
As a true blue Cowboys fan, I would enjoy it if David Akers, the Philadelphia Eagles' placekicker, misses on such a shot this weekend. Man! I really have a "mean side," don't I? (blame it on the Eagles' fans -- they started it!)
