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    Monday, July 4, 2011

    Quote of the Day: Jdmpapgaf

     Jdmpapgaf


    [posted 6.23.11]

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    SURPRISE!


    Today, as I stumbled through my blog, adding a new html code discovery [note to self - add html to all other blogs...], I was unpleasantly surprised to find this lonely, loner post. I know this is my blog, and considering the minimal posts posted throughout its lifetime, I shouldn't have been totally surprised, but - believe me or not; ruin my rep or not -  I truly did just (7.4.11) FIND -  this little treasure.

    Which, upon this moment of way too comfortable confusion...

    I think:

    • did a guest blogger invade my site and post this gibberish?
    • did Blogger run the fate of facebook and was momentarily invaded by 9th grade typing flunkees?
    • wtf?
    • who wrote this? not me, surely?


    and then (now)... taking some responsibility:


    • i obviously must have astrally channeled a new genre, perhaps, flarf II, and/or The Reduced Haiku.
    • did i begin a blog moments before a neurological blackout?
    • did i have a neurological blackout on 6.23.11 at 11:10am?




    and then-then (now-now)... seeing things in a more lucid light:

    • ahhhh, the same person who's been sneaking into my apartment while I'm sleeping or at doc appointments, or on my mad dating schedule (wink, wink), and hiding my debit card, prescription glasses and sunglasses, clean underwear, fresh-made coffee, lighter, my big pink glass full with water, the melanie who did go to the gym to restart aqua therapy, my cat... you get the (scary) picture.


    I'm so glad I figured this one out - now-now-now.

    Saturday, April 9, 2011

    Abe Books E-mail Database Hacked



    It figures that a remaining sense of dignity we have in this country - books, and good books, and people who read, and people who read good books by great authors on great topics published by well-sighted publishers, then sold by good (or greedy) booksellers, and on and on - would be the victims of potential identity theft, or at minimum an invasion into their privacy.


    Image from Blog Patrol
    Read about this (story that's available and linked to this wonderful, not so new, blog I just discovered,  dedicated to books and book-related news that I just discovered and was instantly hooked like [way too many "things that are hooked" entries in the blogosphere..., so here's my own go at defying the cliche] indoor hanging plants, winter coats on rainy days, and a single person in chronic pain to their pain meds, couch, and TV.


    If you haven't yet, subscribe to this and all of my blogs (see right column) and then subscribe to Book Patrol: A Haven for Book Culture too, written a man with a long name and a long list of achievements that make him the dopest blogger on, well the obvious..., the blog's title.