Viva La Love Pen Click Message Flash Mob Contest

On Facebook, I wrote about my amusement at the dollar store with these click for love message pens. It brought on a million bucks worth of fun and laughs! At the urging of conspirerers & fellow pen clickerers :

We have a contest!


Love is.....


1. In one line I want you to describe to me what love is. Make it gushy, lovely, Lady Gaga bad romancy, give me a bang for my dollar store buck!

2. Send to: jessjo 33 at gmail dot com with love bug in the subject line. Also, you can post down below in comments section of this blog, or at Facebook. Be sure to have the words "Love is..."

3. Along with your one liner, send me your name (hyperlinked to your website if you choose). No anonymous one liners! If you write it. Own it.

4. Please don't quote movies or songs.

5. Submit as many times as you like!

6. I will post everything I receive (unless vulgar & gross- that will be deleted) right here in this post for us to oogle and wonder if it would really fit on a pen and what size a pen that would be. (hee!)(Talked about THAT at PMM last sunday.) If you don't see your one liner here, email it to me! I probably missed it in the ruckus.

7. Contest starts now until Feb 3rd. Winner announced next Friday on Feb 4th.

8. Winner(s?) will receive a Click Rotating Love Message Pen to give to their honey on Valentine's Day.


Magnetic Fields on the Playlist all damn week, baby! And YES. This is pointless literary fun. We spend so much time taking the craft seriously, let's play. Let the one liners begin!

*Contest Title credits given to Lynn Alexander and Doug Matthewson.

Love is...

"Love is a Date with a PORN STAR!!!" ~ Miketonio Banderas

"Love is a cruise on the Wicked Woman." ~ Aj Hayes

"Love is ...bwahahahaa!" ~ Mari Juniper

"Love is a virus which cannot be inoculated against." ~ David Raffin

"Love is an anagram of vole, coincidentally the only monogamous rodent."

~ Steven Chapman

"Love is a bottle of whiskey, the more of it you have, the more shit-faced you get."

~ Chad Case

"Love is found in the 10 cent store but if you want that in writing it's 10 times more.

~ Harry Sanderford

"Love is....he not only doesn't mind your tentacles...he helps you thread them through the holes in your sweater." ~ Karen Schindler (Note: she likes big pens Pencils)

"Love is in the snapping jaws of cosmically intergalactic, invisible alligators."
(For Karen)

"Love is evolved from evil: live life, evolve." ~ Sean Monaghan

"Love is a sunrise." ~ Sean Monaghan

"Love is... lovers brushing." ~ Sean Monaghan

"Love is upside down and inside out, taking the fun and scenic route, always and forever." ~ Nicole Hadaway

"Love is an old wives tale" ~ Marc Nash

"Love is the opiate of the Misses" ~ Marc Nash

"Love is whatever Hallmark can rhyme it with" ~ Marc Nash

"Love is the correct concentration of chemical signals enabling the prospect of DNA being passed on." ~ Marc Nash

"Love is...the making of strange bedfellows." ~ Abha Iyengar

"Love is the antibiotic applied to your lover’s wrists once the handcuffs are removed." ~ Angel Zapata

"Love is having THE naked cupid (adult kind) lying beside you and not pointing an

arrow at your heart." ~ Mari Juniper

"Love is a howling snow storm...clouding your vision yet filling your heart with wonder." ~ Alan Davidson

"Love is elsewhere. It's never been here." ~ Marilyn Simpson

"Love is the click of a pen." ~ Marilyn Simpson

"Love is a room filled with chocolate." ~ Mariyln Simpson

"Love is a beast from the depths, risen." ~ David Raffin

"Love is tactile, making it hard to discern from a distance." ~ David Raffin

"Love is something I left somewhere and now cannot find." ~ David Raffin

"Love is something which, when given, is often not returned." ~ David Raffin

"Love is something that will make you strong– if it doesn't kill you." ~ David Raffin

"Love is only for the brave or foolish." ~ Willy Banger

"Love is breaking the surface and filling your lungs, just when you thought you were going to drown." ~ Willy Banger

"Love is...the banana on my cereal...the peanut butter on my toast...the curry on my goat." ~ Alan Davidson

"Love is a pause, a quickened breath that makes your heart stutter." ~ Lori Titus

"Love is knowing he's on the way home, and that in about four more hours last night's argument/snub/irritation won't matter anymore." ~ Lori Titus

"Love is irrational, inconvenient, divisive, and unfortunately altogether worthwhile."
~ John Wiswell

"Love is the radiation that kills cynicism." ~ John Wiswell

"Love is owing nothing and still wanting to give." ~ John Wiswell

"Love has a silent 'e' because it knows when to shut up." ~ John Wiswell

"Love is sharing your beer, and most definitely, your toothbrush." ~ Erin Cole

"Love is a slap of lightning, from which if you survive, you are never the same."
~ Erin Cole

"Love is always in the heart, even if you buried his in the backyard." ~ Erin Cole

"Love is an evolutionary imperative." ~ Jason Michel

"Love is...difficult. It gets in the way of all the fun stuff." ~ Jason Michel

"Love is... picking up smelly socks in silence." ~ Shannon O. Esposito

"Love is... a big ol' pot of organic veggie soup." ~ Shannon O. Esposito

"Love is... unclenching teeth, fists and expectations." ~ Shannon O. Esposito

"Love is for angels - and they have a devil of a time with it." ~ Kevin J Mackey

"Love is... the clashing of souls and minds, of tongues and teeth and of wobbly bits." ~ Lily Childs


"Love is... cleaning the whip for her after a good lashing." ~ Lily Childs


"Love is... a shag, a bucket of wine, and a dozen roses." ~ Lily Childs


"Love is... locking them in so they can't get away." ~ Lily Childs

"Love is... when it hurts so much to be apart you want to live inside each other's skin." ~ Lily Childs

"Love can move mountains...his standard fee is $69/hr." ~ Chris Allinotte

"Love is a tattoo you don't regret- even when it looks like cartoons f*cking."
~ Chris Allinotte

"Love is standing in front of each other, sweaty, dirty, ketchup stained and thinking, 'that's hot.' "~ Chris Allinotte

"Love is the hot sauce that makes the taco of life worth eating." ~ Chris Allinotte

"Love is silk stockings, lacy bras and stilletos - even when I let her wear them for a change." ~ Paul Phillips

"Love is a lie...no, wait - that's democracy." ~ Paul Phillips

"Love is overused, undervalued, overstated and underappreciated." ~ Paul Phillips

"Love is that feeling that makes you throw up on your shoes." ~ Paul Phillips

"Love is sweet and bitter, hard and soft, smooth and jagged, and the best and worst emotion two humans can share." ~ Zelda Martin

"Love is what a man claims to have for a woman, when actually he just wants to fuck her." ~ Zelda Martin

"Love is not for the faint of heart." ~ Zelda Martin

"Love is something that should be given only if it is returned." ~ Zelda Martin

"Love is a frequent cause of heartburn." ~ Zelda Martin

"Love is a word that cannot be defined, but we all know what it is when we experience it." ~ Zelda Martin

"Love is unrestricted access." ~ Daniel Stine

"Love is the kiss that follows the sting of the whip." ~ Carrie Clevenger

"Love is...keeping dinner warm for 3 hours while I, "just finish this paragraph."

~ Sam Adamson

"Love is...correcting homework at 3 a.m." ~ Sam Adamson

"Love is...cooking my favourite meal and not complaining when I'm too tired to
eat it." ~ Sam Adamson

"Love is...taking care of the little, fiddly, practical things that make life so hard."
~ Sam Adamson

"Love is...shaving the matted fur from an elderly cat." ~ Sam Adamson

"Love is...fingerless writing gloves." ~ Sam Adamson

"Love is...a bottomless cup of coffee." ~ Sam Adamson

"Love is the regret you can't imagine life without." ~ Bryan Doyon

"Love is a gamble win or lose." ~ Bryan Doyon

"Love is a fantasy that never comes true." ~ Bryan Doyon

"Love is never as good yet better than you had ever hoped for." ~ Bryan Doyon

"Love is ink." ~ Richard Godwin

"Love is showing up with a bouquet of daisies because I remember that they were your favorite flower back when we both were young." ~ Tony Noland

"Love is the best excuse." ~ Trevor Mcpherson

"Love is an itch you can't scratch yourself." ~ Trevor Mcpherson

"Love is the precursor to marriage and other expensive habits."
~ Trevor Mcpherson

"Love is a cheesecake - two forks, no plates." ~ Trevor Mcpherson

"Love is like swimming in warm Thanksgiving gravy." ~ Sean Patrick Reardon

"Love is sitting through "Little Women." ~ Sean Patrick Reardon

"Love is...remedy for the jaded heart" ~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is...unwavering honesty" ~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is...a rope thrown down whilst in the pit of despair" ~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is....life reanimated" ~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is....2ft of snow falling overnight!"~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is....chocolate pudding."~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is...offering the 1st or last bite. Obsession is offering both." ~ Rob Lundahl

"Love is....listening-- when all you REALLY want to do is make them see it your way" ~ Karen Schindler

"Love is....cold hands, warm heart ...and both can make niPPles stand to attention." ~ Karen Schindler

"Love is…like a slushball to the back of the head – cold, sloppy, and gives you a bit of a headache." ~ Laurita Miller

"Love is…settling for spooning when you really wanted a fork." ~ Laurita Miller
(she claims complete innocence in that remark)

"Love is what directly opposes your I.Q." ~ Guy Fishburn

"Love is the only good reason to lose sleep." ~ Guy Fishburn

"Love is conceding the argument when you know you are right." ~ Guy Fishburn

"Love is seeing her beauty in a flannel night gown and pig slippers first thing in the morning." ~ Guy Fishburn

Love is over-thinking for the millionth time what you want to say, rephrasing, cutting and pasting, editing until you're out of rational thoughts - then not having to say any of it aloud because he/she can feel every single one of your unspoken words. ~ Estrella Azul


"Love is a curse, bestowed on mankind by Eros; not knowing it's a curse is part of the curse." ~ David Raffin

"Love is a sad-eyed dog in an alley; no one wants that painting." ~David Raffin

"Love is letting me read the new book first" ~ @jacsmom (on twitter)

"Love is a four-letter word." ~John Wiswell

"Love is...the yin and yang of life." ~ Francesca Stevenson

"Love is...what you hate most sometimes." ~ Francesca Stevenson

"Love is...your everything, everyday, everywhere." ~ Francesca Stevenson

"Love is....why do you ask me? Don't you know?" ~ Francesca Stevenson


"Love is your favorite can of soup. It doesn't do you any good until you open it,
heat it up, serve it up and share it with some one. MMM mmm good!"
~ Guy Fishburn

"Love is a wooden stake and a silver bullet." ~ Tim Vansant

"Love is a popsicle -- lick it until it melts." ~ Linda Simoni-Wastila

"Love is like a horse on a carousel, all up and down, up and down..."
~ Linda Simoni-Wastila

"Love is a box of chocolates filled with nuts, fruit, and cream."
~ Linda Simoni-Wastila

"Love is...communication without saying a word." ~ Kevin Arth
 
"Love is...knowing the right thing to say, and when to say it." ~ Kevin Arth

"Love is...looking into her eyes and feeling that connection to her soul."
~ Kevin Arth

"Love is...giving her that foot rub, even if they've been in hiking boots all day."
~ Kevin Arth

"Love is a giggle in the middle of argument." @storyofmum

"Love is the spark that inspired ALL creation, it's energy dwells within all people and ALL things great and small." ~ Guy Fishburn


"Love is great until it ain't." ~ Linda Simoni-Wastila

"Love is blind; it has a guide dog who is prone to licking." ~ David Raffin

"Love is always a surprise, so much that I'll never be authority on the subject."

~ Margo Gremmler

"Love is...the last ray of light til the night bathes you in blue light." ~ Justin

"Love is...knowing when it's time to walk away." ~ Karen Schindler

"Love is...mindless reason." ~ Billy Pauley 

"Love is... knowing someone so well you could begin to take them for granted...  and then not doing that." ~ Billy Pauley jr

"Love is something you spend all your life looking for and rely on instinct to discover." ~ Billy Pauley jr

"Love is simple... people are complicated."  ~ Billy Pauley jr

Winners have been posted!!!

But Love is...forever. I am keeping this up and would LOVE for you to continue to contribute. Either leave a comment below, email me with lovebug in subject line or tweet at me (@jodimacarthur) with hashtag #lovebug. Thank you so much for your openness and vulnerablility. This has been a spontaenous, flash, random, and powerful force of yes, Love. And Yeah, I'll probably reformat all this when I get the chance.

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Love is... what I'm feeling as these variant and wondrous and ponderous one liners pour in. Keep sending in your LOVE IS... Greek Goddesses, Gods, Pirates, Lovebugs and Nerds! And yes, the colors, sizes, and fonts are swirling, twirling before your very eyes as the list grows and Ms. JMac's cluelessness to formatting befuddles her ever-the-more.

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I Interview Melanie Browne at PMM Where We Suffer the Leetle Lemmings, See Circus Fish, Sculpt Charles Manson (kinda), Pole dance with Gypsies, and then the Wicked Woman's Booty Sails into Thunderous Thwarts of Thicketing Trunks of Trampled... Trinkets

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The title? True story. Mostly.

There are a few reasons why Texas shouldn't be thrown to hell in a handmade casket. In no particular order: Carrie Clevenger, geckos, Suzy Bradshaw, wildflowers, Bill Crider, mourning doves, Nicole Hadaway, Mark Crittenden, this thing, the cactus on my roof, and 

Yes, this is her tattoo! I found this
at Billy Idol's site.
Hawt as a Borderland Texas BBQ
grill in the grid of summer
where the wasps the size of f*cking
birds come out to bite then sting you.
Sizzle, sizzle little lady
let that rebel roar.
(I wrote that for you, Mel) 

<------  Melanie Browne, editor of The Literary Burlesque, who I had the distinct pleasure of laughing with,  lemming-tossing with, pole-dancing with, rebel-yelling with, chatting with, ahem, officially interviewing for Pulp Metal Magazine. She is nothing but abstract awesome and everything I had hoped Texas to be. Thank you, Mel, for making the lone star state, well, not so lonesome and for giving the world such lovely visions through your eyes. 

Also.... ARRRR!!!!!  PMM spanks

The Wicked Woman's Booty in Episode #6 Thar Be No Rules 'ere Gentlemen o' Fortune Tread

A big Thank You, as always, to Jason Michel. 


ps. I'm terribly behind on reading stories and responding to emials I'll catch up soon (I hope!)

Godwin's Review of Michel's "Confessions Of A Black Dog"

As most of you know, Jason Michel's book Confessions of Black Dog was unleashed recently through BrownPaperPublishinG.


Richard Godwin has given a stellar review of COABD that has got me and everyone else just itching to read it (as if we weren't already!). Both men are remarkably intelligent, and even more importantly, have a respect and love for the art of storytelling. Read Godwin's review HERE or HERE. Then rush off to purchase Michel's book HERE.


Comments are closed on this post! Please leave your wonderful thoughts at these gentlemen's sites. I'm sure they would love to hear from you.

P&E Poll Time - Click It or Ticket

Two sadistic, lovely souls decided to torture and delight mine by nominating my short stories Spindled Souls & Pillow Talk over at Predator & Editors Polling Site. If Amazon Goddess Frogslingers threaten you or  lest I send Henrietta with scarlet binds and finely feathered pillows ~all the better to smother you with, my dear~ then go now, and vote for the tortured souls of the scarecrow folk OR for whoever the heck you want to vote for (Lori Titus, Sean Monaghan, Angel Zapata, Paul Brazil, Bill Crider, Chris Holms, Brian Barnett, Jim Bronyaur, ect, ect, ect...)  HERE.

And while you are at it, there are many fine ezines and editors that have been nominated as well. I've made my choices and you can make yours.

Click here to vote for editors.

Click here to vote for ezines.

Everybody Loves Cocaine... and Matthew McBride, My review

Random. Chance. Fate. Fatum as the latin word goes. Which, enunciated, sounds like fat tombs. You tell me the words ‘fat tombs’ and I think of the frog plague from the old testament and I wonder if the children (the children of the children) of Egypt, as a past time, made pyramid tombs for fat frogs...
Did I mention the word random?

Well, fate dishes it out to us in both the good and bad varieties. And I was happy when Matthew McBride let me know I’d won a copy of Needle magazine with his story, Everybody Loves Cocaine. The envelope arrived endowed with his wonderful art, and his story page has a “best wishes, you rock!” and signature. It simply made my day. Good 'fat tombs' for Jodi!

So Matt, I hope you like the collage I made above and the review I wrote for you below. And that Bowie? It’s been places, man. But I ain’t sayin’ where. *wink*

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McBride’s story, Everybody Loves Cocaine, is a razor edged read you don’t want to shave or snort with. Although, the razor comes in handy if you happen to find yourself, like his protagonist, with two other dudes, and only half a gram of cocaine. Sometimes, “Sorry, dude” just doesn’t cut it. You want some more? Get some while its still legal… by purchasing Needle magazine here.

Recently, I’ve been disappointed in small press releases. Because of the availability and ease of self-publishing, there is a rush to throw paper, words and names together and fart it unto mankind. All that to say, I was very pleased with the quality of Needle Magazine. It is on par with other high quality magazines I’ve subscribed to over the years such as Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Shimmer.

Thanks to fatum and some good people, I won’t be building any frog tombs, but I got
a good smile, a signed kick ass story, and a pleasant discovery of a quality ezine.

Thank you, Matt.

Interview with Richard Godwin & Choose Your Poison Weekend

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I was interviewed at the Slaughterhouse while The Girl Who Was Chased by the Abominable Snowman with a Machete spanked The Wicked Woman's Booty.

Poisoned pleasures come in 3's.

Links below.

Interview With Richard Godwin at the Slaughterhouse

Thank you Richard!

The Girl Who Was Chased By The Abominable Snowman At 10Flash!

Thank you to 10Flash! editors Kc Ball & Jude Marie-Green

The Wicked Woman's Booty #5: Tis Be th' Way o' Lust an Lore

Thanks to PPM editor Jason Michel for docking me bad boy pirates!