"I got to tell you a real freaky idea"
"Can you dig it? Do you know? Would you care to let it show?"

Announcing My Share of the Web's

Soon To Be National

Monkees Love Something Ugly Week



brought to you by Mike from "Monkees In Manhattan" and the group Hearts and Flowers
Who: In an interview at the end of the "Monkees In Manhattan" episode, Mike tells off camera interviewer producer Bob Rafelson about an idea he heard the local Los Angeles band Hearts And Flowers doing. The idea that it's easy to dig something considered pretty and takes no special talent to do so. But what takes talent is digging something ugly. Mike gave the example of a garage door (which no one would say: "Oh, that's a great looking garage door!").
What: It might seem a really silly waste of cyberspace, My Share Of The Web as a public service is sponsoring the "Monkees Love Something Ugly Week".
Where: anywhere in your little corner of the world
When: There's no special week. I have chosen something to dig for each of the 52 weeks of the year.
Why: Well, because you're bored (Note: since you read this page you must be) or because you can.
Bonus: All the items come from one or several Monkees TV episodes. Do you know which ones? Click here to get the answers (no peeking now).

Week 1- Mike’s psychological warfare of Toto	Week 2- a haystack
Week 3- drumsticks	Week 4- headphones
Week 5- an eraser	Week 6- a trashcan
Week 7- a birdcage	Week 8- a paintbrush
Week 9- a bullhorn	Week 10- a note pad
Week 11- a brick	Week 12- a gurney
Week 13- a chalkboard	Week 14- a light bulb
Week 15- a make-up puff	Week 16- a violin bow
Week 17- a half net and a blue gel	Week 18- a director’s chair
Week 19- a lab coat	Week 20- surgery gowns, masks and gloves
Week 21- a floodlight	Week 22- restaurant salt and pepper shakers
Week 23- a helmet	Week 24- a filing cabinet
Week 25- a gavel	Week 26 a cork top
Week 27- a park bench	Week 28- a thermometer
Week 29- a sidewalk	Week 30- a broom
Week 31- a paper bag	Week 32- a crystal ball
Week 33- stairs	Week 34- a soda bottle
Week 35- a jar of peanut butter	Week 36- a yo-yo
Week 37- a cardboard box	Week 38- peeled grapes and banana peels
Week 39- playing cards	Week 40- handcuffs
Week 41- a gasoline can	Week 42- a karate outfit
Week 43- binoculars	Week 44- rope
Week 45- a steering wheel	Week 46- a frying pan
Week 47- checkers	Week 48- a typewriter
Week 49- golf clubs	Week 50- a wood board
Week 51- a stretcher	Week 52-a stethoscope

How: Choose one of these things to do for each week of the year.

1. Call/ e-mail 10 people and tell them how much you love the item (Note: and not just Monkees fans)

2. Think about the usefulness of item in your life- how could you get along without it?

3. Be thankful in your prayers for the item

4. Concentrate on the good, the bad (and instead of) the ugly of the item

5. Spread happiness when talking about the item

6. Answer your phone with the name of the item instead of hello

7. Change your answering machine or voice mail message to include a mention of the item

8. Drive around in your make shift Monkeemobile with a picture of the item on the side of the door instead of the Monkees logo

9. Put a picture on your office wall or change your desktop picture to a picture of the item

10. Write a kid's story about the item living once upon a time in the land of Kirshner

11. Have people call you by the name of the item

12. Paint a painting of the item (Note: like Peter's great paintings of doors)

13. Write a song about the item (Note: but don't sell it to High Class Music Publishers)

14. Make up a dance about the item

15. Create a web site about the item

16. Dream about the item

17. Make up a story about the item as you go along

18. Promote the item with these ideas: use the promotional slogan "You read the book now see the movie" (Note: but first, have someone write a book about the item), seek Dr. Sisters advice on how to promote the item, employ the services of Pete Digger (Note: after all he has the right last name) and buy ad space on a billboard

19. Have MD make a movie about the item (Note: just make sure he is looking through the lens the right way)

20. Realize that you don't need gimmicks to celebrate the item- just music

21. Insist that you're still Jenny from the block even though you have this preoccupation with digging ugly things

22. Have a typical Monkee romp featuring the item

23. Move to 1334 North Beachwood

24. Don't use words with ugly sounds (Note: a lyric from the song "Sweet Young Thing")

25. Have everything monogrammed with the name of the item

26. Walk around town wearing a sandwich board with the name of the item on it

27. Get a temporary tattoo of the item

28. Place the item for sale on E-Bay to see if anyone bids for it

29. Make up t-shirts, hats, notebooks, mousepads and other memorabilia with a picture of the item on it

30. Save the Texas Prairie Chicken

31. Summon the Crocodile Corps to help spread digging the item

32. Lower the drawbridge

33. Place bets on horses at the track that have the same name as the item

34. Have the Frodis hypnotize the whole TV viewing audience into digging the item

36. Have the name of the item written in concrete in front of the Chinese theater

36. Very carefully without them knowing, place a bumper sticker with the name of the item on the back of a cop's helmet (Note: Although this may only work for Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson)

37. Join in on the local celebrations for the item: blow your town wide closed, entertain with a capital E and book a two-headed org for the celebrations

38. Walk around town dropping pistachio nuts with the name of the item on it

39. Eat Kellogg's® Corn Flakes and buy Yardley Of London® products (Note: well, it doesn't have anything to do with digging an item but they were sponsors of the TV series and we should all support their sponsors)

40. Make a speech to your local city council on making digging this item as an observance in your city (Note: remember July 10, 1989 is "Monkees Day" in Hollywood, California)

41. Promise your city council that if they make digging this item an observance in your city: Davy Jones will perform at the local celebrations- after all you are the president of his fan club (Note: well, it worked for Marcia Brady) and if the city council doesn't approve digging the item as an observance then threaten to hold your breath until your face turns blue and to no longer eat your vegetables

42. Research and try to find out the inventor of the item and proclaim them for the week "America's Unsung Hero"

43. Have a party with the decorations and games that contain pictures and ties to the item

44. Have John Brockman do a TV spot by repeating the name of the item several times

45. Arrange to have a skywriter print the name of the item above your town (Note: and if the item has an "i" in the name, use the sun to dot the "i")

46. Take out a front page ad in your local newspaper about the item

47. Go on the "Crazy Micky The D" radio show to talk about the item

48. Use the name of the item when teaching someone how to talk again after they wished on a monkey's paw not to talk

49. Incorporate the phrase "it is better to give than to receive" when talking about the item

50. Write your Senators and Congress People to get a dig something ugly week observed nationally. (Note: Did you know that there are hundreds of silly observations that Congress has passed into a national observance? For example- there's National Truck Driver Appriciation Week, National Pet Peeve Week, National Love Your Files Week, Silent Records Week, National Jell-O Week, Giltter School Week, Get Paid To Shop Week, National Pancake Week, Celebrate Your Name Week, National Bubble Blowers Week, Egg Salad Week, Someday We'll Laugh At This Week, National Carry A Tune Week, Get The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week, National TV Turn Off Week, Superman Week, Take A Kid Fishing Week, Marbles Week, Be Nice To New Jersey Week, National Salad Week, Thanks For All The Gifts Week, Cookie Cutter Week and It's About Time Week)

51. Say "you'll do and I'll be sorry" to people who do not want to dig the item

52. Get the support of all 4 Monkees (Note: Hey it can happen)

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