The Challenge: Despite being averse to cameras, teamwork, exotic foods, travel, haircuts, and physical exertion, I have to submit an audition tape to Survivor.
The Result: As with the Saw marathon challenge, once again I find myself rocking back and forth in a corner while simultaneously Googling "Microsoft Word Letter of Resignation Template."
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Posted by Lindsay at 6:30 PM in
Tags: Audition Tape | Survivor
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The Challenge: To create a video blog, or vlog, using a set of ground rules established by Lindsay.
The Result: Gabe leaves videogum.com and returns to LiveJournal, where he can be with people who have similar interests.
Is there anything more embarrassing to humanity than the trend of vlogging? When the A.I. liquid mercury aliens take over our ice planet and discover evidence of our vlogging, they will not even save the humanoid robot, even though they know he's just a machine. He will bear too much of a resemblance to the vlogging race that was decimated (thankfully) by the Emmerich Event of 2011.
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Posted by Gabe at 12:55 PM in
Tags: Alicia Keys | Haters | Politics | Vlogs
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The Challenge: To watch all four Saw movies in a row with no breaks.
The Result: Possible impending eye surgery, Post-Traumatic Stress, Hatred of Gabe.
One of the things I like to say to be obnoxious is: "I don't watch violent movies. In 1999 I re-sensitized myself to violence." But it's more or less true: I don't like violent anything. Or anything gross. Knowing this, and the neat trivia fact that I once tried to watch Saw 3 and ended up vomiting in front of people, Gabe chose to force me to view all 412 minutes of the Saw franchise, uninterrupted, as my first Double Dog challenge. If the Saw movies are about appreciating your life, they worked, because I now appreciate the life I had before the Saw movies.
Ground rules: I can't turn off the movies, but I can have friends over to "proctor" my ordeal. But all of my friends are at work, so I choose one, Stephanie, to bother the entire day on instant messenger. Note: if you think this is going to be about the Saw movies, it's not. It's about the liveblogging of emotional stress.
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Posted by Lindsay at 4:43 PM in
Tags: Saw | Saw II | Saw III | Saw IV
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THE CHALLENGE: To go to The Today Show and stand in the audience with a sign of Lindsay's design.
THE RESULT: My alarm is set for 4:15 in the morning because my challenge is to be in the crowd on the Today Show, and I read on a website that "If you think you can arrive at 7 a.m. and get a good spot, you're mistaken." It should probably read "If you want to be on The Today Show at 7 a.m. you are mistaken," but I can't find an email address on the site for sending in editorial corrections. I get up at 4:15 in the morning and I do ten push ups because I'm Jack Fucking Palance, apparently. You know where I just read about sleep deprivation and push ups? In a New Yorker article about Abu Ghraib. I'm not saying this is as bad as Abu Ghraib, but I'm saying this is definitely like Abu Ghraib. Before I leave the house, I take three anti-diarrheal tablets to lock it down. Because the only thing that I can imagine worse than having to stand around in the cold in Rockefeller Center with high school kids on spring break, is having to stand around in the cold in Rockefeller Center with high school kids on spring break and shitting your pants.
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Posted by Gabe at 9:05 AM in
Tags: Al Roker | Ann Curry | Matt Lauer | Meredith Viera | The Today Show
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