If using 70s catch phrases won't convince you I'm right, nothing will.

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sprint for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

“Hey, who loves ya, baby?”

Is there ANYONE alive who still gets that joke?  I’m not sure I get it.  It’s from Kojak, right?  I’m pretty sure it’s from Kojak, although I have only a vague notion of who Kojak is.  Bald guy, detective… that’s all I got.

The point is not that my knowledge of 70s television detectives is garnered exclusively from old Mad magazines that I bought as a kid and didn’t really understand because I didn’t pay any attention to the pop culture they were lampooning.  The point is that I love you, my readers, and for that reason – my love of you, and Kojak references, I’m gonna let you in on a deal:

For the next four days (that’s counting today), you can get a Nexus S™ 4G for FREE

The Nexus S

 

is the new 4G phone that’s coming from Galaxy and will be available on Sprint.  It’s got front/rear cameras, an Android platform, panoramic 1080p photos, and it can handle Google Wallet – so you can make your phone be your credit/debit card and lose the wallet.

“Heh: Wallet.”

That’s at least a little more timely, right? Okay, so you get this free phone that does everything except sort your socks and there’s probably an app for that just by opening a new line of service at Sprint or adding a line, and with that, you’re in business for the fastest phone service around, even faster than those guys who sit around on commercials saying “That was so 12 seconds ago.”  Don’t you hate those guys? Me, too.

You could, if you were so inclined, skip the Nexus S, but why would you do that? Maybe because if you didn’t get the Nexus S, you could get the the HTC EVO™ 3D for only $49.99 when you open a new line of service or add to your account at Sprint. The EVO has a perfect-for-web-browsing display, call capability around the world, and also has the 4% speeds with a 1.2GHz processor which, I’m not going to lie, that’s faster than my work computer, which’ll be nice for using the 250,000+ apps you can get at Android Market.

These are online deals only, with waived activation fees and free shipping at sprint.com, and they’re only good until February 8, so get going on getting a new phone.  Honestly, I can’t even believe you’re still using that hunk of metal you lug around.

I'm Hearing Voices (Blogfest Entry).

"You can't hold a blogfest and then not take part in other people's blogfests. That s**t ain't right."--

Abraham Lincoln.

Today is Day One of the "I'm Hearing Voices" blogfest hosted by Live To Write... Edit When Necessary," and as the host of the wildly-successful The Stupid Pineapple Blogfest, I'm gonna try to be part of society here and maybe give a little back, in the form of "secretly advertising this book that I just released..."

Today is "Characters on the couch," the challenge being to have a character answer the questions posed by the bloghosts.

And... what? 250 words? That doesn't count intros, does it? Better not! Here we go:

Saorise from the After takes an online profile test to help pass the time, as she is actually dead and living in an afterlife in which everything is supposed to be exactly the way you want it... which poses some interesting problems when what you think you want is not what you actually want...

1. What is your biggest vulnerability? Do others know this or is it a secret?

I have a great deal of difficulty accepting that this particular life... or state of existence, or whatever it is, is what I've got and I should make the best of it, even when I can make things better simply by accepting just that. Almost everyone knows this about me -- especially William Howard Taft, who tried to use that facet of my personality to get me to lead him to a way out of the After.

2. What do people believe about you that is false?

That I didn't love my life. I realize now that I was happier than I thought I was -- but I didn't know that at the time.

3. What would your best friend say is your fatal flaw? Why?

If I have a best friend, it's my husband Ansel. He would probably say that my fatal flaw was making the decision I made when I finally found what I'd been looking for for so long. Maybe it wasn't my place to determine that outcome for everyone, but I did what I did because it was for the best for everyone else but me.

4. What would the same friend say is your one redeeming quality? Why?

I never give up. Even when I was feeling lost in that house, even when the lightning was crashing all around me, even when the only choice I had was to keep on swimming down, down, down into the water and I didn't know where I was headed... I didn't give up.

5. What do you want most? What will you do to get it?

To go back. And there's nothing, and everything, I wouldn't do to get that.

Click here to read more about the After.

A tiny stegosaurus would have voted for Mario Manningham as MVP.