UCB

UCB Rules and Regulations

What is the UCB?

Now its time to honor a few special readers who take this blog to a whole another level, they have crossed he threshold from reader to contributor through an institution I invented called The User Choice Blog (UCB). The idea behind the UCB was to allow for further reader involvement and subsequent interest allowing anyone who reads the blog to suggest a topic for me to write about. Now the topics can be about anything. You can say for example, “Chris what if you were a Tyrannosaurus Rex living back in the age of the Dinosaur” or you can be more serious “Chris what do you think about the current state of our Health Care system in the United States” or you can request a story from the depths of Lisanti Years Past “ Chris remember that time when you broke your nose dropping in at the 14 ft vert ramp at Rexplex”.

Some even ask advice, like we had a blog about how to eat on a budget of $10 a day, or we had blog on how to pick up chicks at the bar. You can ask for sporting advice, although outside of surfing or skating I doubt I can be of much service, but it could fun to try. The point is the possibilities of the UCB franchise are endless, their only limit your imagination and contributions (by contribution I mean only intuitive not monetary, although if you would like to send money I will be happy to accept US money orders or certified cashier checks, believe me no one will put it towards having a good time better then me, you can be assured I wont waste it on helping the needy, also as a result I don’t think your donation will be tax deductible either, unless there is a get Chris Lisanti drunk refund).

How can I request a UCB?

Well that’s a good question. It used to be that in order to be eligible to request a UCB you had to be a myspace.com member, and a subscriber to my blog. Due to the recent rise in Face Book and Twitter and god knows what other ridiculous social networking sites there are out there I found my readership slowly falling off as a result of the competition. In life you either learn to adapt or you become like my friend the Saber Tooth Tiger and become extinct. I fought, kicked and screamed and finally created a Facebook.com account. You can find me if you search for Chris Lisanti .There are not too many of us out there. I think its me, some minister and a renown doctor. You can be their friends too if you like I wont hold it against you even if they did steal my name. Finally in 201o SurfingRuinedMyLife.net was born.

So I changed the rules for 2010 and they are as follows: Anyone breathing who has even remotely heard of my blog can make a submission. There are countless ways you can do this.

You can make your request any where here at surfingruinedmylife.net, leaving a comment is very quick and easy that even a baby could do it.
You can do it the old-fashioned way and post it as comment on the actual Myspace.com blog, anywhere on my Myspace.comprofile or as a personal message via myspace.com.
You can make a request via Facebook.com. Send me a message, post it on my wall, take a picture of all your friends spelling it out and post that (if you do that last one you will win for the week no matter how dumb your topic and I will give you five bonus points)
You can send me an email at clisanti@gmail.com (no spam or I will kill you and your entire family by burning you alive while you sleep) with your UCB idea.
If you have my personal phone number you can call me and pitch it to me.
If you are in the Santa Barbara area you can tell me face to face. If you make the effort to fly out here and make a suggestion I probably wont burn you at Rincon.
Misc: homing pigeons, smoke signals, telepathy, telegrams, US Mail, FedEx, UPS, break into my house and write it on my bathroom mirror in semen, whatever other creative means you feel so inclined to attempt, although I will kick your ass for the semen thing.

Whats in it for You?

If your blog wins I will send you a personal check for one million dollars. It will definitely bounce. In all seriousness you will have the personal satisfaction of having your blog picked out of thousands of suggestions, ok that’s a lie more like two or three from the same four or five people. I will mention you as the winner in the blog and you will have helped me write what have come to be some of my greater blogs.

Finally we have four blog quarters, Summer, Spring, Winter and fall and at the end of each quarter who ever has the most UCB points wins the quarter and who ever wins the majority of the quarters wins the year. If ties are abounded I will create a sudden death tiebreaker round. As always you cant win if you don’t play so keep those suggestions coming and although I do roller overs form week to week I usual forget so don’t be bashful to post an unused suggestion again.

The Grand Prize

The winner for the year receives the grand prize: A SELF EXPENSE PAID TRIP TO LISANTI LAND! Thats right, you get to sleep on my couch, get dragged all over Santa Barbara on Lisanti misadventures and your own Chris Lisanti Adventure Tour. This will include at least one night of heavy drinking you may or may not regret for the rest of your life at the Wild Cat. The out come of which has varied results. You probably won’t die. There are no guarantees and I will not be held legally responsible for anything, although I can help to provide you with some first class legal council if you so require it while here. In most cases I will get you out of any mess I get you into.

The Power of Ten

The Power of Ten is a new installment to the UCB as of the Summer of 2011. Basically each reader can submit a list of ten mini topics, things that can be answered in one or two paragraphs. Each reader gets one Power of Ten submission per month and one power of ten will be written each month. A power of ten is worth two points since it is double the work. If your list is not picked you may roll over the list to the next month, but it must be reposted. If two lists contain the same topic that topic will be given to the person who submitted their list first. I will contact the person who caused the redundancy and allow them to change that one topic on his/her list if the topic is not changed the list will then be voided. For an example of a Power of Ten blog click here. When submitting a Power of Ten list you can post twelve topics out of which I will pick my favorite ten.

Weekly topic Limits

Everyone can only post five topic suggestions a week. If you use more then FIVE and I decide to pick one of your topics then your points will go the the previous week’s winner. Only ONE Power of Ten list can be submitted per month. Topics will be rolled over for the entire quarter. Anything I did not write during a previous quarter can be submitted again, by anyone not just it’s original author. If two people submit the same topic it will be given to the person who submitted it first that quarter.

The Point System

The first UCB of every quarter shall receive 1.5 points. Each UCB there after will receive 1 point. A Power of Ten List gets 2 points. Bonus points are determined by me and vary depending on the difficulty of the task involved to accumulate said points.

Remember what Alfie has to say: “Dont Be A Kook, Participate in the UCB cause you can’t win if you don’t play”