Week 44: Pageant of the Transmundane

A woman bought a couch this week for 27 dollars at a secondhand store, and for days she heard odd noises coming from it, but she couldn't fathom what was going on until she finally discovered a starving calico cat underneath it. The former owner of the couch was the owner of the cat who had gone missing a month earlier.

That story is weird and sad, and I feel this week's Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award winning entry has those two elements, though I think a different definition of sad applies.

This week, the award goes to someone who has won it in the past: Drew of Back of the Cereal Box.

There are a lot of people who have problems understanding how technology works. People who don't get how a particular site or service are meant to be used... and this week's winning entry is demonstrative of this.

This is an truly epic Twitter fail. The fact that I am using the term "epic fail" should demonstrate that well enough (because let's face it, aside from a few gaming terms like pwned, I don't subscribe to the I can has Cheeseburger/1337 speak school of blogging terminology).

I think seeing that display put me off Twitter for another few months, for which I am grateful.

And because this involves both a computer and seeming incompetence, well, Homer Simpson sitting in front of a keyboard (doing what TMZ and other gossip sites do so well... making things up), seemed to be the most appropriate thing.



Congrats Drew on your second win. This was a great find.



The rules of this little contest: Every week I will be selecting one blog post that I have seen from the vast reaches of the blogosphere to bestow with the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for being one of the freakiest(in a funny way) things I've seen or read during a 7 day period. It doesn't necessarily have to have been written during the week, I just had to have encountered it. That means that if you find something interesting and repost it like a movie or whatever, if I saw it at your blog first, you get the prize. Of course, creating your own content is also a very good way to win.

Now, if you see a post that you think is worthy of this illustrious prize, just drop me a line at campybeaver@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't get your suggestion up and award-ready while giving you some credit and a link to your own blog.

Tags: pageant of the transmundane, homer simpson, twitter, epic fail, calico cat, back of the cereal box, drew mackie, couch, tmz, gossip, mr. x