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More browsing on craigslist, led me here, to one of the countless people on this site who believe writers should be paid with handshakes and smiles. More criticism under the post.
Writing/Journalism Intern who loves dogs
Reply to: email@MetroWestDog.com Date: 2007-12-18, 5:15PM EST Fun dog-related articles for local online resource MetroWestDog.com is an online pet directory, resource, and recent start-up. I am looking for a Writing/Journalism Intern (or other) to write articles on dog-related subjects. Refine and use your research and interview skills to write articles to be posted on MetroWestDog.com. Write about the local dog scene in MetroWest, lifestyle, health and wellness articles, legal issues, pet fashion and more. Assist small business owners by ghost writing articles about their field. You will get a byline on some articles. Also need to write press releases, brochure, direct mail and email newsletter/advertising. Can you blog, too? I have plenty of ideas for subjects so all you have to do is write!! This can be great for your portfolio! Dog lover preferred (obviously). http://www.MetroWestDog.com email@MetroWestDog.com
So let me get this straight: You won't get paid. You will ghost write articles, so you won't get credited. And you get to write about pet fashion... Where do I sign up? Maybe the person who runs this Web site will allow me to do the laundry and clean out the inside of his or her car, so I can gain valuable knowledge on those subjects.
With Christmas and then the weekend, most of the Web sites I check regularly (Poynter, Slate, Fark) have been pretty sparse. So I've spent a little bit of time trolling through the missed connections section of Craigslist.While it seems like a bad place to find a roommate or a girlfriend, the personal section can be an entertaining read. The anonymous postings are similar to poetry on bathroom walls, though on Craigslist, the humor seems less intentional.Here are some of the entertaining posts I found today.
Some are overeager to show off their writing abilities:
trident bookstore - raven hair - m4w - 27
Reply to: pers-524000709@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-31, 12:33AM ESTThough, really, it was your easy charm that made me interested.I wish I met you someplace where you weren't working... I don't like to "hit" on waitresses because it seems offensive to bear you in your working den.Still - my God, I wish you came outside and had a cigarette with me and we had walked and talked endlessly...I hope I see your eyes dance during conversation again...
Others are difficult to decipher:
I have the sense - m4w
Reply to: pers-521947782@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-28, 6:07PM ESTto recognize that I don't know how to let you go.This loser for you Elizabeth. HOT COLLEGE GUY IN GAP - w4m - 21
Reply to: pers-521429627@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-28, 9:00AM ESTwow, you were so hot. i saw you this morning in starbucks in harvard square sipping your lactose-free beverage with such style. you looked a little like a combination between bette middler and ryan phillippe. you were dressed from head to toe in gap apparel. you were surrounded by three beautiful women, but i would gladly be your #4. come lay on a futon and tell that's what she said jokes with me?
Some seasonal:
Merry Christmas P - w4m - 32
Reply to: pers-518842024@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-24, 10:35PM ESTI know I am the furthest thing from your mind now, and most of the time the same is true for me. But, I did think of you tonight as I drove to my cousin's and thought of how much you enjoyed coming with me last year. For the first time in months I teared up a little thinking of you. I've always been a softie about Christmas I guess. A lot has changed since we parted ways and I do believe everything happened for the best. I am happier now than I've been in a long time, but I guess it's just the littlest bit sad that we can't even wish each other a Merry Christmas. I would never contact you again so I'm putting this out here to get it out of my head. Merry Christmas to you.-MThere are borderline creeps:
Jogger at Day Blvd. - m4w - 38
Reply to: pers-519889829@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-26, 3:55PM ESTI saw you jogging on Day Blvd. all the way to Castle Island and up Broadway on the Sunday before Christmas about 3pm. You had pig tails, blue outfit. I was sitting in the police cruiser killing time and drove by you once or twice:)I thought you where super cute. While others have clearly crossed that line:
Please Repost "Daddy's Girl looking for Man of Substance" - m4w
Reply to: pers-521450045@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-28, 9:35AM ESTThe post title appeared in w4m on the 26th but had been flaged and I could not see the content. I want to know what that post said.I am looking to find out if something I said was taken in a way that was not intended from someone special to me that considers her self "Daddys Girl". You stoped talking to me twice and I have no intention on pestering you repeatedly but if a change of heart has occured... I would like to know so I can act on it. But I have to know this from you and you alone.
Some seem lacking:
regattabar server - m4w - 40
Reply to: pers-523394598@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-30, 11:50AM ESTto the very cute, hardworking redhead - was that red? it's hard to see in the dark - who served me at the 1st mccoy tyner show friday. my guest paid so you didn't get an adequate tip. you may have thought you were a bother walking back and forth in front of me. you were not.And rarely, they are kind of beautiful / probably lyrics stolen from an 80s song:
won't you tell me what you're thinking of? - m4w - 20
Reply to: pers-523112280@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-29, 11:57PM ESTWon't you let me walk you home from school?won't you let me meet you at the pool?maybe friday i canget tickets from the danceand i'll take youwon't you tell me what you're thinking of?would you be an outlaw for my love?if it's so well let me knowif it's no well i can goi won't make youAnd there are a lot like this:
the most beautiful woman at ajc last nite - m4w
Reply to: pers-522562683@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-29, 12:44PM ESTYou know who you are!Gypsy Bar Friday Night - m4w - 28
Reply to: pers-522490007@craigslist.orgDate: 2007-12-29, 11:16AM ESTYou were an amazingly attractive. You looked like you may have drank a bit too much but I can't get you out of my mind. Are you out there?
