HELP
ME WRITE THIS SITE!!!
H'okay,
check this out. I'm 28 years old. I've
got three big projects that are taxing the shit out of my wrists.
I've got twinges of pain from time to time and I'm exhausted of
writing anyway (after putting up this site, i really need to take
a break). So I just came up with a pretty killer idea... have
an essay contest!!!
Here
is the deal. I think among this generation are some of the best
writers, artists, poets and priests of all time. I want to solicit
your contributions. I'll kick down twenty free stickers to anyone
who writes an essay for me (that I publish on this site) in the
form of why ________ sucks or why _______ rules,
which I've temporarily decided is the paradigm of the first big
expansion of the "ideas" section. You can of course
send me an essay with a different title, but just because the
titles I've suggested above seem formulaic, doesn't mean the writing
and ideas have to be - I'm looking to turn Unamerican into the
most opinionated site on the web, and it doesn't get any rawer
than this!
In
addition, I may throw in a bunch of other freebies for you, too,
depending on how i'm doing that day. In other words, contribute
to unamerican.com and you will officially be my friend and I will
give you gifts. I am dependent on the gifts of content YOU are
going to be creating for this site, and I appreciate your contribution
in advance! Yeah, I know, free stuff is neat and that's the main
motivation here, but seriously I think that by aggregating all
of all y'all'z talents in opposition to the lying fucks that control
this society, we can craft a weapon with which the current cultural
hegemony can be brought to its knees. Think Patrick Henry made
opensource. We are going to kick the ass of the ruling class,
RIGHT NOW!!! YEAH!!!
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WANT
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the HELP US section
for ideas on how to do something for which I'm willing
to trade stuff. I am so looking forward to getting
a whole bunch of free stickers out to the people who
help me out and it's really easy to help out and it
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WHAT
DO YOU WANT TO READ TODAY?
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Enter it here and maybe someone else can carry it
out! Think
of it like a radio request - there are a lot of
people who want to enter this contest but don't
have very good ideas on what to write about (even
though they're good writers). So enter your idea
here!
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Here
are the guidelines for submitting for this contest -
- You
be serious, I'll be serious. I am looking for seriously good
content - the best you have to offer. Remember, you are going
to be representing yourself to The Unamerican Audience, who
are pretty smart people; I am not going to waste their time
with something that you didn't create without total involvement.
- No
racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise uncool work is eligible
for this. Thanks.
- I
favor work that has sort of a cultural/political spin on it,
that's well-written and that makes sense to people of all
backgrounds (in other words, it's common sense.
- I
*definitely* favor people who put their pages in the format
that this page is in - in other words, if you take the source
for this page, substitute, say, your photo in place of mine,
and write and design the page as if it already was part of
this page, I will probably be quick to add your page to the
site (making you at least a $20 winner). The less work I have
to do between your brain and this site, the better. If you
don't know what I'm talking about, please
click here.
- I
will consider almost any type of content, including cartoons,
essays, MP3's (please include lyrics), recommendations, reviews,
screensavers, billboard modification ideas, manifestos, spoken
word, research, ideas, photoessays, etc. I'm very excited
about Flash, the PDF format, and other advanced technologies
- but I'm also very excited about the power of speech and
the written word.
- I
also favor work that ties in with Unamerican as it exists
right now. In other words, I'd be very excited to see an essay
about one of the slogans I make. For instance, I am ALWAYS
on the lookout for good "fuck work" essays (i want
to publish a book called "fuck work", and if you
want to write a chapter, that'd be awesome!)
- Oh
boy do I get into things written with a revolutionary slant,
even if that just means "how to liberate your high school.
Fire it up!!!
- If
your entry is physical (let's say, an essay you wrote out
or a bunch of cool photos with writing on the back), please
mail it to: UA CONTENT CONTEST, PO BOX 410663, SAN FRANCISCO,
CA 94141-0663. I'd rather you avoided email attachments,
but if you must use one bear in mind that I've only got Word
5.1 so save it backwards please! please email srini2@unamerican.com
and if you can upload the html file to your own server, click
this link instead.
- It
goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway - by sending me
an entry, you're giving me permission to publish your stuff
on unamerican.com. I promise that I will not directly make
money off of your idea without giving
you a cut. But I mean unamerican.com to be the coolest
online destination for our insane generation, and I want your
contribution to add a log to the fire.
Anyway,
I'm going to assume that you now have enough information on this
contest to intuit how to enter it successfully. I'm going to leave
the rest up to you. Oh, okay, you can ask me questions about this
- just email srini@unamerican.com
for details. Thanks for reading this and I hope you find the time
to submit something at some time!!!
follow
me back to the main truth page...
!!!srini
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