Folks who know me know that I love food and cooking it and eating and experiencing it, and Food Network is like finely-razored crack on a hot plate when it comes to my enjoyment.    I purposely don’t Tivo much of it or I’d spend most of the day watching cooking shows and doing little else.

So I jumped on the bandwagon when my friend, the sweet yet awesome Tara from TaraMetBlog recently held a contest for a Food Network Wii prize pack giveaway which was promoting the new Wii game, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked, and included a bunch of promotional items along with the game.    She recently got to have a sneak peak of it along with Iron Chef Michael Symon, lucky gal she is.

Guess who won it?

Yup!    Little old me.    I was stupidly surprised when she messaged me with the news.    Awesome.

What ended up arriving at my doorstep was the following bundle of good things:

• A copy of Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked for the Wii
• A Food Network reusable shopping bag
• A Food Network Celebrates! Healthy Cooking DVD set featuring Rachael Ray, Ellie Krieger, and Alton Brown
• A copy of Food Network’s “Meals on DVD”
• A Food Network branded oven mitt, already used it tons
• A Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked branded apron — a rather nice one that actually FITS
• A Food Network sideways peeler, a new one for me (I’ve always used the straight ones)
• A Food Network key chain
• A Food Network refrigerator magnet
• A Food Network 1/2 size pen

So that’s pretty nice, eh?   Many and copious thanks to Tara and the fine folks at Weber-Shandwick, Namco Bandai Games, and of course Food Network for the nice swag!

Lexi from “My Life as a Drama Queen” has won the NO FEAR Gear Giveaway!    Congratulations, Lexi!   Courtesy of the overly-caffinated people at No Fear, you’ll receive the whole lot of goods shipped to your house shortly.

Thanks everyone for participating — it was fun to see your answers, even if I only got a few entries!

I have no street cred, ‘hood cred, or any other sort of cred.   I consider myself fortunate and unusual if I have card cred (VISA, hollah!) let alone anything else.

But now YOU, yes you, my gentle and inquisitive reader, can get yourself some major cred and score some funky loot while you’re at it.     The bouncy and efficacious Tara of TaraMetBlog.com has given me another contest to pass on to my readers and that’s exactly what I intend to do, provided you can follow a few simple instructions.

What’s up for grabs?   Check it out!

No Fear Energy has launched its first-ever under-the-tab-code promotion—Earn Some Cred.  You crack open specially-marked cans of No Fear Energy drink, guzzle it down, levitate, find the code under the tab, enter that code at EarnSomeCred.com, and start earning cred.    Dude — cred!    Ted!   Bedhead!   Lead!     CRED!

What for?   For No Fear gear, of course,  or if you’re super lucky (not my forte, but maybe yours?), you can instantly win VIP Credentials for a Hawaiian surf getaway or a stop on the No Fear Energy Music Tour featuring the metal band, Lamb of God.

This is the prize pack I’m giving away to one lucky reader of PhilosYphia!

2 – No Fear Hoodies
2 – No Fear T-shirts (one of each style)
1 – No Fear Bloodshot Hat
1 –  12-pack of the new No Fear Bloodshot Energy Drink
1 – Lamb of God’s latest CD “Wrath” releasing on Feb. 24
1 – Sticky Bumps Surf Wax

All of this will be shipped to the lucky winner, free of charge, after the end of the contest.

How to Enter:

Because this is a philosophy-based blog, and because I make the rules, here’s what you have to do in order to be placed in “the hat” for this drawing:

One Entry — Leave a comment on this post, answering the following philosophical question:   What one thing should we as modern humans fear the most and why? Interpret that as you like.   Comments without an answer or with an incomplete answer will not be valid.   You’re gonna have to think and work on this one a bit, I’m afraid.

Five Entries — Instead of writing your comment here on this post, write an article on your own blog or website, answering the same above question, and linking to this post.    Place a comment here referencing your blog post so I can go read it.

So, get to it!    Let’s see some good, interesting answers and get yerself some cred, man!       Contest ends April 12th at midnight.