While you’re waiting for the next Cool Job…

…why not visit my other blog, Carrie (Like the Movie) and enter the Holiday Contest?   You know you want to….

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Another Quickie! Contest Winners Announced!

This is NOT the prize for the contest...

I know some of you link to my “silly” blog through My Cool Job, and I want to make sure no one misses the exciting conclusion of the “about me” contest.   If you missed the contest but would still like to see how well you might have done, click here.

If you’re simply dying to know who won and which amazing facts about me are true, you can click here to see if you’re a winner and get some details on those crazy facts!

Now if you’ll all excuse me, I have only 24 hours left to finish my entry for the pumpkin carving contest here (which I’m hoping to win, of course!).  See you all next week!

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I’d Like to thank The Academy…

…well, actually, I’d like to thank Miranda and the gang over at Creative Construction: Life and Art for giving “Legend of Guitar Hero” it’s first (and most likely only) award as the winner of the weekly creativity contest!

There’s a wealth of talent and creativity over at Creative Construction, and I hope you’ll all go over and take a look and get involved.

Check back later today for my newest Cool Jobster to make an appearance!

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Who is this man?

Who is this man and what is his cool job?  Tune in tomorrow and find out!

In the meantime, I’m curious as to what your guesses might be!

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International Intrigue Contest

I’m still pumping out emails in order to find the next Cool Job for y’all…when the replies come in I’ll be good for weeks and in the meantime I’ll try to keep everyone mildly entertained.

Today, there is a mystery for us to solve! Put on your deerstalker, grab your meerschaum pipe and follow me!

I like that people are reading My Cool Job, and although I don’t care too much about the numbers (I’m much more flattered when people actually stop by to comment), I do look at the wordpress ‘stats’ page every once in a while. Today, I noticed that there have been 6 visitors today to my little corner of the web that were referred by this address: http://blog.fc2.com/.

The address looks rather innocuous and boring, doesn’t it? i thought so too, until I started surfing the site in question only to discover unicorns, bunny rabbits, Ze Frank-ish ‘duckies’, lots of pictures of cute kids and strange food, and interesting tidbits like this: “‘ve D&G BODY ジオン d’erlanger 90’s L’Arc～en～Ciel L’ALSACIENNE color’s B’z GRILL’OR 浜崎あゆみ,talkin’ pop’nmusic color’s～“.

Small though my readership may be, I do know it includes people from literally all over the world, so I’m hoping that with the combined brainpower, language skills and sometimes weird but always entertaining imagination power of the Cool Jobsters we can figure this out together.

Here are some of my guesses as to what it all might mean:

1) I have a bi-lingual reader who likes My Cool Job but is too shy to email me and let me know;

2) This is a clever ploy by the skate punks who invaded my blog a few weeks ago to drive me insane with curiosity;

3) It’s all meaningless: just another computer-generated link to a blog that was created by a robot program;

4) Japanese actor, musician, fashion model and ultra-hottie Tadanobu Asano has received the psychic transmissions I’ve been sending every time I watch Last Life In the Universe, Zatoichi and Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl. The link in question is just his way of saying “Ohio!” to his biggest fan*;

5) OK…now it’s your turn. What does it all mean?

Best answer gets a prize!

*Note: For those of you not familiar with Tadanobu Asano (aka the “Johnny Depp of Japan”), this guess is about as likely as Brad Pitt stopping by your house for a cup of tea, but equally nice to imagine. Sigh.

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