Hi all. This is a brief administrative note to let you know that I have returned from my time off and am back in full control of the site. My Christmas didn’t go quite as expected – it was downright awful in fact, but that is now in the past and we have the New Year to look forward to!
Just prior to going away I did an interview on CBC – one of Canada’s largest broadcasting networks. It was a thirty minute interview and it went very well. You can listen to the interview here – I am in part one. It is great for the site to be recognized by the mainstream media.
The Christmas competition is over and the prizes will begin to be sent out today. Congratulations to the winners! I was glad to see that my choices were generally regarded as good. There will be a slight delay on the five “book” prizes because Amazon is out of stock and I am still waiting for my box of books from the publisher, but they will eventually get sent out. The first three prizes are all available so they will be the first out.
I hope that everyone had a good Christmas and a happy New Year. We are not far from our third year of existence and this year will be our best I am sure!
good to know youre back =)
Glad you are back but sorry your christmas sucked. Mine did too.
I see. Welcome back and happy new year!
@oouchan (2): At least we can both look forward to a fresh start this year! I need it that’s for sure.
i saw that you had posted on your fb about it being less than desirable. if you need someone to vent to, shoot me an email or on fb. what is out in front of us always offers hope.
Another Christmas behind bars?
Glad you’re back. I forgot to tell you, I finally got the book—brilliant. Nice piece of work. Hope sales are going well.
I heard the interview, nice!
Welcome back Jamie and Happy New Year.
Your radio interview was noted here at site during your holiday away. Check the comments for that day–You’ve become quite the heartthrob.
Congrats on the sell-out status of the book, but you’ve left me wondering…WHO won the randomly drawn book prizes? Did I miss something here? Will you be posting their names?
Regardless, welcome back!
yay
Welcome back!!!
Welcome back! Your awsome
Aww why did your Christmas suck? I hope you have a better one this year!
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I just listened to the interview and damn… that 12 days of Christmas song hit me hard.
Short, sharp bursts… that was good, too.
I don’t think we’ll feel inadequate upon not completing some of the lists on this site.
Hey maybe now one of my 3 lists waiting in the wings will see the light of day! Just joking JFrater glad to see you’re back. Does this mean Cogitz may also see an update soon?
Btw kmk, I wish you and you kin a very bad new year.
Living the dream brother…living the dream. Congratulations. I never miss one of your posts.
@deeeziner (8): what list was that? I can’t seem to find it!
@jfrater (18): I just found it at Mummified Bodies. Me and gabi were totally hitting on you.
Damn, I wish I knew I could buy your book on bn.com, I just spent my entire gift card =(
YAY!!!!! – Welcome back!!!
@jfrater (18): Ianz09 is right.
Top 10 Famous Mummified Bodies 12/14/09
The first comment is #59, but you have been deemed *****y by many by the end of the day.
LMAO… This douche thinks Canada has “mainstream media”. You and your site are a joke pal. I wish I stumbled into a swimming pool full of aids rather than here.
@LMAO (23):
Never mind your AIDS, I think you stumbled into a swimming pool of stupid when you were young and swallowed all of the water.
The CBC is mainstream media in Canada.
Hey! Good to hear from you! I was alone for Christmas. Not so much fun.
WB!:)
Listened to it!
Well done
my christmas is always the same, go to parents, enjoy family, get stuffed, leave, go to friends, get drunk, blurry after that
celibrating christams is evil, because the christians are invovled. and the chistrans are evil people who birn black and other stuff like that. or so im told
@joe (29) It’s hard to take your point of view seriously when I had to read it twice to work out what you were trying to say, because of the grammar, spelling and punctuation.
(I bet there’s a spelling mistake in this, it always happens when I comment on someone else’s spelling)
Man, that Christmas carol was painfully terrible…
Who thought THAT was a good idea?
Cool to hear Jamie’s voice, though.
Are all of the lists in your new book written by yourself and not by people who had submitted it to your website? If not, then technically you’re not the author – did you give credit to those who wrote it?
glad to see you are back JFray
Im so sorry christmas sucked! There will be better ones in the future. This site is my daily fix and i love it. You rock jfrater. Welcome home and happy new year! ( :
@Anonymous (32):
Unnecessary ***** stirrer is unnecessary.
Awesome. This is certainly great news
Welcome back! Sorry to hear about you being in the clink on Christmas (see how rumors start, Randall). Here’s to 2010: may we all have good health, great love and many laughs. *raise your glass* CHEERS!
Crap! I just spilled wine all over my laptop trying to cheers you guys…
Too American
Thanks all for the nice comments – I appreciate it! It is certainly good to be back in the fold
My first list of 2010 is going to be published tomorrow. It was fun to get back to writing.
Glad you’re back Jamie! I’m sorry your holiday sucked, I bet it’s cuz you missed us so much, huh? I’ll have a listen to the interview soon, right now the fiance is blaring “Juke Box Hero” too loud for me to think! Anyhow, we missed you!
@Anonymous (32): By submitting lists to Jamie for publication, you give up any & all claims or rights to that list. On the site he credits people under their username, I’m not sure about in the book, haven’t gotten it yet. I also notice that according to BN & Amazon’s websites, the author is listed as “listverse.com”
Good to have you back Jamie! I gotta say though, I think I won the big prize – first list of the decade
And it was a great list random! I really enjoyed it!
i lost my mom and brother the past year so it was my first christmas without my family, my dad past away when i was 12, so i know all about awful christmas’ now
@gr8flddfn (44): I’m sorry for your loss. I hope that you were able to surround yourself with friends/loved ones.
@Dk (43):
@gr8flddfn (44):
@ames801 (45): Hi! I’m new here and I accidentally pressed on “Report Abuse” under your name. Sorry
it won’t happen again.
@jfrater (40): Please ignore said report. My bad. Rookie mistake!
@jfrater (40): BTW, good to have you back Jamie!
(Better late than never. I almost forgot to greet because of the mistake I made! Felt like the whole world crumbling down on me. Didn’t want to offend anyone.)
MOre power!!!!
@sgcvelasco (47): Rookie mistake forgiven
I’m glad you’re here.
Hi Jamie this is Joanne. Until now I was wondering why you weren’t responding to my emails – you must have had a busy holiday!
I wish I would’ve caught you on CBC. I don’t post much but I appreciate what you’ve done here in this site’s first couple years.
OMG welcome back =]!!!
I”ve had some ideas of list i would love to see soon.
umm well conspiracies!!! like government, in music, science and such.
More science articles =] like odd things of nature and such, and more articles about mysteries!!! thank you!
^^^lmao
-But JF…are you going to post a list of the prize winners? I know 1st, 2ed, and 3ed…but what about the 5 book winners?
@jfrater (4):
Mine sucked too man, glad to have you back though!
@HA (57): I will do that in the next day or two. As promised, the winners will be random selections from the lists sent in (excluding 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners) so their lists may not have appeared yet. I will still continue to publish competition lists over time. Having just gotten over the revolting Christmas I have not had time to do so yet.
well done!!!
Welcome back. My Christmas was good, but today sucked out loud and days are likely to get worse before they get better.
I have suffered significant emotional/psychological damage, first waiting anxiously for the selected lists to be published and then in bitter disappointment that mine wasn’t. Even your post 59 is little consolation at this stage.
Glad to see you back – sorry your christmas didnt go well… a belated happy new year to you anyway
@gr8flddfn (44): sorry to hear about that…