My summer of love

Hi, I’m LeSombre – Canadia’s Blogger, a.k.a Mike, a.k.a. Michel a.k.a. The Canadian Polar Bear, a.k.a. “You know, that guy”. You might remember me from such great guest posts and fake guests posts as “Holy Crap!“, “Witchless Wednesday“, “Mikey Sunday” “Witchless Wednesday“, “The Roast of Wayne Hall“, “The best of LOLPolarz” or “Adam does Ottawa“. I run this little corner of the web called LeSombre.ca – please feel free to come and visit sometimes, eh?

Oh geez, already my turn at this summer of love thingy. Sigh. When Karl asked a few of his close friends the whole blogosphere to guest post for him, I was really excited to be part of this very select group. Immediately, I started jolting notes down for what could quite possibly be my best guest-post ever. Of course, here we are, 50 days later and I did not execute one single idea to completion. So I present to you, without further ado:

What I could have done for Karl’s summer of love.

The Monkey suit

Karl’s graphic for the summer of love is this:

So I had the idea of renting a monkey/gorilla costume, hold a banana and stick a finger up my nose, take a picture and make a graphic that said “I blogged at secondhand Tryptophan so I didn’t have to blog at my own blog”. Of course, it’s now Thursday, and I can’t find a monkey/gorilla costume…

Ok, they’re bunny ears I made myself and taped to my bike helmet, and I’m holding a peach, but you still get  the finger up the nose. It has to count for something, right?

The Russian Bride

Right around the time Karl’s Summer of love was announced, I received this letter from Gohara. It was obviously a phishing scheme, but I figured I was going to have some fun with it and make that my summer of love post.

Hi, how are you?
Maybe now you will be surprised. I long thought before write you a letter. This morning, I got love the Internet dispatch, from an unknown to me addressee. In this letter, it was romantic relationships between people. In the list of e-mail recipients, I saw Your email address. I long thought before writing you. Perhaps this the only chance for me, so I decided to write to you. I find true love! I would like to begin acquaintance with a small a story about yourself. My name is Gohara. I am 27 years old. I am calm, young, goal-oriented girl. I like all women of our country, like cooking, sports. I am leading a healthy lifestyle. I do not smoke and not drink alcohol. I have work which very strongly love. But I do not have enough love. I am convinced that our planet is people who can give me happiness and love! On the Internet I I was just recently. I do not have much experience on the Internet acquaintance. I’m looking for this man who will love and respect me. I think that is important in the relationship between man and woman. Perhaps it is our fate? I want to meet you closer via email.
Please reply only to my personal e-mail:  gamirsyan@yahoo.co.uk

You can write me. I am happy to answer you. Of course, I will send you my photos. I look forward to your letter to me with a more complete story about you. Gohara.

Yes, that was the picture included with the email.

So I replied:

Hello sweet Gohara,

Wow, that’s quite a breath-taking picture you have there! I’m so glad you found me, but I assure you that I did not send you any love letter – not that I wouldn’t you’re obviously very pretty.

Anyways, I’m including my picture, I’m just and average looking guy really. E-mail back if you’re ready for some happiness! I know I am!

All the best,

Karl

And I included this picture:

After that, I never got a reply so I couldn’t make this my summer of love guest post.

MetaBlogging

I also had the idea of taking you on the great journey that is me writing this awesome Guest Post!

Since Karl’s blog hates me and won’t let me embed a Youtube Video here, you’ll have to click through. Sigh.

But somehow this wasn’t as funny as I originally thought. You might even say it was a little asshole-ish.

In conclusion

So there you have it, three awesome ideas for my summer of love that didn’t quite pan out the way I wanted them to. Hopefully, you can imagine all of those in your head the way they’re supposed to be executed and comment accordingly. Rest assured that I’m already starting the planning stage for next year’s summer of love. I’m pretty sure that if I start right now, I can write a much better guest post next time, possibly with at least 10 incomplete ideas this time.

Until next time, I bid you Adieu. I’ll go bug LovelyWife for some Bow-Chick-A-Wow-Wow. Isn’t that what a Summer of Love should be about, really?