Sweetney

We think you will love this post. It won’t save human­ity or cure the com­mon cold, but it is a fas­ci­nat­ing tale that winds up a lit­tle like David and Goliath. Can you imag­ine tak­ing a pic­ture of your pet, putting it on your blog and hav­ing a huge cor­po­ra­tion rip it off? With­out even ask­ing? Tracey Gaughran-Perez is the author of Sweet­ney. It is a fam­ily blog, a humor blog and a life expe­ri­ence blog all rolled into one. The post of the rip-off is from Decem­ber 23, 2007 and it titled All I Want for Christ­mas is for FOX to stop using my copy­righted pho­tos in their NFL broad­cast with­out my per­mis­sion. Yes, it is the lobgest title of a post we’ve hon­ored, but it is a great one.

She tells the story, “Sud­denly, Jamie called to me from the other room, claim­ing I had to come see some­thing. When I entered the room, he unpaused the broad­cast he had been watch­ing (thanks, TiVo!), and imme­di­ately I saw the image of an adorable pug, dressed in fes­tive Santa gear, pop up at the bot­tom of the screen beside FOX’s Happy Holiday’s ticker. I vaguely remem­ber Jamie say­ing some­thing to me to the effect of, “Gee, that dog looks a lot like Tru­man, doesn’t it?”, but I couldn’t really process some­thing as com­plex and nuanced as lan­guage at that moment, what with MY FREAKIN’ HEAD EXPLODING ALL OVER THE PLACE. Because that adorable pug? That pug didn’t just look a lot like Tru­man. THAT ADORABLE PUG *WAS* TRUMAN.” You’ll have to check out her blog to get the rest of the story that con­tin­ues in addi­tional posts as well. Con­grat­u­la­tions, Tracey! You have writ­ten The Ris­ing Blog­ger Post of the Day!

Review writ­ten by BUD WEISER.