Very Important Special Alert Notification!

I have signed on to join the hive mind at Aquent. They aren’t a temp agency, so just purge your mind of that thought right now. Instead, they host a wellspring of the brightest (unemployed) creative talent in the country and seek to place those shining stars in contracts with the nation’s most progressive (cheapest) companies.

My handlers at Aquent have encouraged me to create a personal webspace/resume/samples hole on their site (despite the brilliance of bobtherieau.com? The nerve!). I thought that it might be fun to comply, but I’ll need your help.

I have a Ken Burns kind of idea going for the thing, so I respectfully ask that you send some sort of short piece about me. It can be anything, really. If you hate my writing, send me something about that. If you like what you see here, write a short piece about that. If you simply have a short quote about anything that I’ve done or that you anticipate I will do, send that. I’ll pull it out, put it in a giant font and place it in the middle of the piece. Please also be aware that I’ll attribute anything you say to you, but feel free to treat this as seriously as I will (not very).

Am I brilliant? A hack? A dupe? A creep? An insightful commentator on the state of the world? A bloviated, self-important navel-gazer? Perhaps something in between? It’s your pick.

Send your pieces (under 100 words if you can manage it) to bob@bobtherieau.com with “We Bow In Tribute To The Gods At Aquent” in the subject line.

Oh, by the way, I need your submissions as soon as humanly possible simply because I want to build the subsite this weekend if I get enough material.

Thanks folks!

bob

WHAT DO I GET OUT OF THIS? UPDATE: Gosh, that’s a good question. I guess if we apply the standard Jaunty Rules (The selection of winning submissions is solely at my discretion, as is the prize selection—which may be worth not much at all, but may be worth hundreds of dollars depending on how good your stuff is—and is subject to the laws of the state you live in [or not]), I’ll assign a bigger prize from the closet for a “pull quote,” a smaller prize for any quote that goes into the body copy, and honorable mention here for everyone who submits an entry. Contrary to Jaunty Rules, I feel the need to use your real name on the Aquent site, but if you want to remain anonymous here just let me know. Also, I may chop the hell out of your submission in a vain attempt to make it as compelling as possible. If you don’t want me to do that, let me know.

I think this is going to be very fun, so don’t be deterred by the deadline I’ve imposed. Tell your friends! If they submit something for the contest make sure that they include their postal address so I can send them a prize too (if they make the cut)!