Because we want this blog to be more than just a few guys rambling about the stuff in our lives, we have added several features over the last week or so.
In addition to our live music listings for the local bands we love and support (as well as direct links to their respective websites), we have added links to all kinds of places for outdoor summer fun. Drive-in theaters, farmers' markets and zoos & amusement parks from all across the country can be located with the click of the mouse in our "Summer Fun" section at the top of the page. Also, for the convenience of the bulk of our friends and 'followers', we have listed individual links for the nearby state parks of all six New England states. We hope to be the destination for people looking for fun things to do, with or without the NLM crew! ☺
Also, I personally have had an incentive/'thank you' program in the works for about a month now, and I just got delivery today. In order to show our appreciation, as well as nudge people into following our adventures in their free time, I decided to have a bunch of wooden nickels manufactured with the Not Lame Minus site and slogan on one side, and a "free beer/drink" image stamped on the back. The way this works is: anyone who joins or who has already joined Not Lame Minus as a 'follower' will receive one of these wooden nickels. This wooden nickel can be kept as a souvenir, or it can be turned in at any time when the recipient is "out & about" with an NLM member, for a free beer or mixed drink (in the $5 range - no scorpion bowls or pony kegs!). Also, there will be a monthly wooden nickel awarded to the 'follower' who leaves the most comments (or most interesting one, in case of a tie or obvious one or two-word spamming). Finally, if you attend a live show by Air Traffic Controller, The Johnnies, Vanessa Kafka, Andre Obin, or Jason Sharron & Kris Lucander at the same time as an NLM crew member, you could be handed a wooden nickel on the spot, just for showing your support for such great local music!*
If you've already joined (or when you sign up), please send your mailing address to NotLameMinus@gmail.com and I will drop your wooden nickel in the mail on the very next day! We hope to build some buzz with these wooden nickels, and give you all a good reason (besides your deep and abiding love love for one, some, or all of us) to keep coming back to read what we choose to babble about! And once we have twenty followers, there will be a contest every once in awhile, with the chance to win cool prizes, such as cds by the bands we love, NLM t-shirts, extra wooden nickels, and other stuff. Thanks again to all who have so kindly followed us so far (don't be shy, leave comments!), and to those of you who join in the upcoming weeks...
* DISCLAIMER: The wooden nickel promo is the sole responsibility of "Not Lame Minus". No artists mentioned above are officially involved with this freebie, and should be kept out of any disputes, should they arise (which would be the very definition of LAME MINUS!). "Not Lame Minus" wooden nickels are for fun only, and should not be considered a legally binding contract under any circumstances.
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