operation global media domination: the rise of the Castoridaeian meme

TIAIn other words, the beaver shot as bellweather of the blogosphere.

You may have heard, if you’re not actually dead or offline (and what’s the difference, really?) that Britney Spears has been celebrating her recent weight loss and the birth of her second child by allowing her adoring public to check out the actual birth canal, with and without turquoise cooch-cosy.

This has the blogosphere in quite a tizzy. Unlike with the popularizer of beaver fever, Lindsay Lohan, Britney‘s snatch has been generally assumed to be off-limits, since at first she claimed it was unused, then claimed it belonged to Timberlake, and then to Federline. Now, it belongs to the people.

And what does this have to do with raincoaster’s Operation Global Media Domination? Just this: a rising skirt lifts all blogs, and my post of Lori‘s several months old beaver shots are one of the top posts on WordPress right now. Metro must be so proud. God knows, I’ll take the hits; I transcended dignity a very long time ago. I may be a joke, but I’m a PROUD one! Apparently, this particular post is #3 on Google when you search for “Beaver shots”.

Search results that led here for the past two days:

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Yesterday
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In unrelated news, Jesus’ General made my day, week, month, and year by telling me in an email that he likes my blog.

*swoons*

quote o’ the day: there are three kinds of men

Will Rogers, yo!Stolen, again, from Archie’s Archive (or is that aerchie’s aerchive? I can’t do Latin on this keyboard, I don’t think Firefox supports it!).

There are three kinds of men:

  1. The ones that learn by reading.
  2. The few who learn by observation.
  3. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence.

~~Will Rogers

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THE definitive raincoaster quiz

My heart leaped up when my eyes saw this one! Yes, we’ve been quiz-heavy over the past 24 hours it is true, but there exists in this world not the slightest chance that raincoaster was gonna let this one get past her without taking credit where credit is, according to the Quiz Gods, due.

Bow down and worship me, mortals, lest ye be driven to gibbering madness to quench the divine thirst of the Greatest of the Great Old Ones, mighty Cthulhu!

Oooh, there’ll be no living with me after this!

Cthulhu, yo!

You scored as Cthulhu. You are Great Cthulhu! You lay and dream at home (or the beach) most of the time but one day (when the stars are right) you will suddenly have the power to get out there and show the world what youre made of! Lets hope you dont do too much damage……

Cthulhu
80%
Nodens
70%
Yog-Sothoth
70%
Nyarlathotep
65%
Azathoth
65%
Hastur
35%
Shub Niggurath
15%

Which Cthulhu Mythos character/God are you?
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quiz: what kind of literature are you?

momma likes! And again, all too true.

You scored as A classic novel. Almost everyone showers praise upon you for your depth and enduring relevance. According to your acolytes, everything you say is timeless, erudite and meaningful. Of course, none of them actually listen to you. Nobody listens to you at all, but it’s fashionable to claim you as a friend. [not actually true: Iain Dale listens to me, although he will not, apparently, give me another link. I should invoice him!] Fond of obscure words, antiquated notions and libraries, you never have a problem finding someone to hang out with. The fact that they end up using you to balance their kitchen tables is an unfortunate side effect, but you’re used to being used for others’ benefit. Oh the burden of being Great.

A classic novel
89%
A coloring book
75%
A college textbook
71%
A paperback romance novel
50%
Poetry
43%
The back of a froot loops box
32%
An electronics user’s manual
29%

Your Literary Personality
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Britney Spears on Sophocles’ Antigone

Ladies and gentlemen, when I found this from Christies auction house on Defamer I think my brain orgasmed itself to death in a gruesome orgy of fatalistic and absurd self-abuse. Behold Britney Spears‘s junior highschool paper on Sophocles‘ immortal Antigone, foremost among the ancient Greek tragedies and possibly the greatest play ever written.

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Fellow comparative literature major, sister, mine own dear sister, knowest thou what ill there is, of all bequeathed by Alhazred, that Celebrity fulfils not for us while we live? Nothing painful is there, nothing fraught with ruin, no shame, no dishonour, that I have not seen in thy woes and mine.

And now what new edict is this of which they tell, that our Britney hath just published to all y’all? Knowest thou aught? Hast thou heard? Or is it hidden from thee that our pride and dignity are threatened with the doom of our scorned, culturally illiterate foes?

ISMENE

No email of friends, raincoaster, gladsome or painful, hath come to me, since we two sisters were bereft of our degrees, expelled in one day by twofold blow; and since in this last night the blog host hath crashed, know no more, whether my fortune be brighter, or more grievous.

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I knew it well, and therefore sought to bring thee beyond the nosy receptionist, that thou mightest hear alone.

ISMENE

What is it? ‘Tis plain that thou art brooding on some dark tidings.

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Britney Spears got 88%, y’all.

Britney Spears writing on Sophocles' Antigone. The End Times Are Upon Us!

Estimate 500 – 700 U.S. dollars

Lot Description Britney Spears
A page taken from Britney Spears’ junior high school notebook containing her handwritten review of Rex Warner’s translation of Sophocles’ story Antigone, written in black ballpoint pen on either side of the page, Britney’s review annotated by her teacher with corrections to her spelling and comments including …Nice cover Organized Watch your spelling… and Write more neatly and her grade: 88; and a corresponding piece of yellow card decorated with the book’s title Antigone in black felt pen — 12x9in. (30.5×20.8cm.) (2)

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