Friday, April 13, 2007

Happy 5th Bloggiversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111eleven

It was 5 years ago today that I first started the Invasive Species Weblog. It took less than a week after that for the puns and general snarkiness to start leaking in. Thank you, readers, for all the visits, comments and post suggestions. Five feels old in internet years!

How will I be celebrating this 5-year-bloggiversary? By getting a root canal. :-( While I am hopped up on Valium and being tortured by my endodontist, I thought I would hold a contest:

Write me an Invasive Species Haiku and post it below. Best one wins the author a prize.

I'll start:

For you, dear readers
Invasive Species Weblog
Full of aliens

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not up for haiku right now, but do want to wish you a happy blogiversary -- you were one of the blogs that prompted me to start myself, a fact that might inspire more snarkiness when readers find you are partly responsible for my drivel!

Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener) said...

Five internet years
for Jennifer Forman Orth.
Human years? Don't say.

Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener) said...

Monk Parakeets are
Brooklyn's most charismatic
invasive species.

Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener) said...

Outside my window,
starlings, sparrows and pigeons.
More fun with haiku.

Patrick B. said...

Invasive critters
Plants, birds, fish, mollusks galore
Five years of helping

Anonymous said...

Cuscuta. Dodder
Pale, alien spaghetti.
I will eat your trees.


{Cuscuta japonica has destroyed trees in Houston)

M. Reed

Anonymous said...

Advanced in science
Stuck in Middle School humor
Nice combination

Assessing myself
I find my love for this blog
Is most troubling

This faithful reader
Must conclude the invasion
Has taken your mind

Sent from the future
To warn us about dangers
Jenn is a robot

Anonymous said...

Loosestife never loses
Barberrians at the gate
Welcome to Weed World

Anonymous said...

Remorseless vetch climbs
Pale spring colors reach for sun
Green and purple sea

Anonymous said...

Scented flowers lure
Strangles garden beloved
Eradicate thee

-Dominic S.

Anonymous said...

Oooppss... forgot to add the title

Japanese Honeysuckle

Scented flowers lure
Strangles garden beloved
Eradicate thee

-Dominic S

Unknown said...

Hard to get across
Wicked inconvenience;
Invasive species

John B. said...

Congratulations on the blogiversary!
(Not so much on the root canal.)

Anonymous said...

Insipid encroachment
relentless creative destruction
homo sapiens

Anonymous said...

winter blooms bright yellow
broom, acacia, and sorrel
drive out monkey flower

John S. Wilkins said...

Lantana flowers
In the middle of the bush
Australia weeps

Anonymous said...

Veligers in water
floating toward
a ship in ballast