Okay, time, once again, to make those picks. And it’s a big week for it too. We’re about to get redonkulous with this Lark, peoplez. This week we are trying to unlock The Dart Gun!

If you haven’t already done so, you may want to read set of posts I put up yesterday, They’ll explain all the rules surrounding the specialty items as well as the unconventional finale show. You can read them here.

Or not.

Maybe you’re thinking, “Cabrera, I skimmed it yesterday. It’s just too complicated for me to digest, too many numbers. Just tell me what I need to put down in the comments here.”

Okay, no problem. Here we go. In the comments below you will:

1.) write the name of the Guy and Girl who you think is going home tonight.

2.) write the name of the girl who will be told she is safe before any other girl. That means the FIRST GIRL (not guy) to be told she’s in the finale.

3.) IF YOU UNLOCKED THE CAGE LAST WEEK, write down the name of a fellow player you’d like to try and cage. Not a dancer… a player in The Lark (formerly known as the FDL).

After you’ve placed your picks, if you would like to read about my experience at the Live show on Monday, how it differed from my experience watching it on TV last night, CLICK HERE. But please place your bonus picks here in the comments first, that way you don’t accidentally place them in the comments of this other post.

Good luck Larkers.

Okay, so we’ve got a few new rules coming up in The Lark dealing with specialty items and unfortunately new twists in the show itself. I’ve decided to hammer out all of these rules a day early. Partly because I want to give everyone time to absorb them… but also, I guess, because it’s become instinct for me to write these posts the day after I watch the show, and since I saw tonight’s episode yesterday live……. hehe….. is there a little bit of bragging in this paragraph? You betcha! Ha!

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the practice of reblogging other people’s content, not just on Tumblr (a community built to promote that form of blogging), but even here at johncabrera.com. My big questions deal with how we credit those who came before us in the content chain… a chain that is often very long and broken in spots.

One of my Tumbleros tumbled this today, and it helped me formulate some of my thoughts a bit better.

maedecember:

There’s a lot of people out there that bitch about credit being removed from a picture. I’m understanding this in two ways.

1) Credit as in who the photographer/painter/model whatever is. Yeah. That’s true. Pretty fucked up. I come across pictures and save them on my comp and sometimes in the title I’ll have where I got it from, but most of the time, I just StumbleUponed it and it didn’t HAVE credit.

2) The name of the person who originally posted it. I like when people don’t remove my name because then that way other people will link back to me, and the more followers I have, the more chances I have of making friends worldwide. (I’ve already made three good friends thanks to this thing) so that’s the only reason why.Otherwise, I wouldn’t bitch about who posted what because MOST people that I follow on Tumblr, don’t bother trying to put the REAL credit behind the picture. So don’t bitch that other people are doing the same.

mmK?

I guess credit on Tumblr has become a pet peeve of mine. I don’t harp about it much on online, but I’ve shared my thoughts with other blogger buds.

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Back when I lived in Chicago, I did temp work for a short time. I was being sent out by the company Manpower, and I was making a fairly good rate. I scored pretty high on my tests there, specifically software. Anyway one week, I was placed as an administrative assistant to a lawyer at Loyola University.

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