Apparently, if you use the Blue Yonder UK search, my blog scores very highly when you are searching for the term, “Viggo Mortensen Got a Girlfriend.”
I’m sorry to have to dissappoint you, but I have no comment at this time.
We’re just good friends.
Spam: FINALLY!!!!! A New One
At last, one I haven’t seen before:
| From: Joanne Goodwin joanne.goodwin@yahoo.co.uk | Signed-By: yahoo.co.uk |
Reply-To: raymond.ho1@tiscali.co.uk
To: raincoaster
Date: Mar 21, 2006 10:45 AM
Subject: Business Opportunity!
Date: Mar 21, 2006 10:45 AM
Subject: Business Opportunity!
I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: joanne.goodwin@yahoo.co.uk
Hello,
My name is Joanne Goodwin and I am an artist. I have acquired your email address as a person who is actively involved in or is looking for an online business opportunity or looking for a part time job to compliment current earnings. I live in United Kingdom, with my two kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life. It is definitely a full house.
I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That gives me about 31 years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done in either pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils. I have recently added designing and creating artwork on the computer. I have been selling my art works for the last 3 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines. I have sold in galleries and to private collectors from all around the world.
I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans, cos they are always offering to pay with a US money order/check, which is difficult for me to cash here in United Kingdom. I am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for me as a part-time worker and i will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which wouldn’t affect your present state of work, someone who would help me receive payments from my customers in the states. I mean someone that is responsible and reliable, cause the cost of coming to the state and getting payments is very expensive,i am working on setting up a branch in the states, so for now i need a representative in the united states who will be handling the payment aspect. These payments are in money order/check and they would come to you in your name, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your percentage and wire the balance back. But the problem i have is trust.[ed note – no shit]
It wouldnt cost you any amount, you are to receive payments which will be sent to you via Fedex or UPS courier services from my business patners, which would come in form of a money order/check then you are to cash it and send the cash to me via western union money transfer or moneygram money transfer, all transfer fees should be deducted from the money. If you are interested, kindly get in touch with my secretary Raymond Ho, (raymond.ho1@tiscali.co.uk). Thanks and God bless.
Joanne Goodwin,
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight Village
Wirral, CH62 5EQ
England
-Joanne Goodwin
Welcome to the Blogroll: Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
Very much in the spirit of yesterday’s advice column, we present Geoffrey Chaucer’s Friendster Blog, including the fabulous Aske Chaucere section.
Q: My betrothed, a most wicked man, betrayed me near as bad as Tereus
did Procne. His woman of choice commited, though, that villainy which women do best, and tempted him away. Presently it is not legal, where I live, to have either of them killed for this treachery — what shall I do to avenge the wrong they both have done to me, and to my virtue? Their joy at my grief does pain me so.
Cor Fracta Est
A: Ma Cher Coeur Brisee
Thoughe y love a goode revenge tragedie as much as the nexte guye, y muste counsel yow to a bettre path. Yow sholde maken pece and kepe faithe, not wyth thyne betrothede nor wyth this womanlie Diomede, but rathir with yowrselfe. For vengence aperteneth and longeth al oonly to juges. Remembre yow that pacience is a greet vertu of perfeccioun, and remembre that ther are tymes ordained unto al thynges by the first moevere — of the ookes, and of the hard stones, and of man and womman seen we also, in youthe as well as age, alle shal be dumped , a kyng as shall a page – som dumped on dates, som dumped by telephone, some dumped in compaignie, som dumped allone – ther helpeth noght, al goth that ilke weye.
And thus, take two pintes of hagen dasz dulce de leche, a ful seson of buffie the vampyre slayre, and calle me in the morninge.
Le Vostre G
The Nameless, Named!
Cower in fear, for the end of the world is nigh: the unnameable has been named!
Behold, mortals, the nameless dweller in the accurst city named “The Nameless City.”
Well, actually he’s from New Mexico.
And from Columbia University:
Two Columbia scientists have discovered the fossil of a toothless crocodile relative that looks like a six-foot-long, two-legged dinosaur, but is actually a distant cousin of today’s alligators and crocodiles. Adjunct professor of earth and environmental sciences Mark Norell and his graduate student Sterling Nesbitt, both of whom also work as paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History, have named the fossil Effigia okeeffeae.
Effigia means “ghost,” referring to the decades that the fossil remained hidden from science [and also the fact that it was found on the Ghost Ranch Dig; like, synchronicity, dude]. The species name, okeeffeae, honors the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, who lived near the site in northern New Mexico where the fossil was found.
According to Wikipedia, the fossil was discovered back in 1947-1948 by Edwin H. Colbert, but was lying unclassified in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History when Norell and Nesbitt were looking for something else and the one of them went, “I say, that’s odd. Never seen anything like it. What do you say, old chap?” or something like that, and the other fellow said,
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons death may die.I should have known that the
Arabsother department heads had good reason for shunning the namelesscityfossil, thecityfossil told of in strange tales but seen by no living man, yet I defied them and went into the untroddendesertbasement with mycamelgrad student. I alone have seen it, and that is why no other face bears such hideous lines of fear as mine; why no other man shivers so horribly when thenight windair conditioning rattles thewindowsspecimen cases. When I came upon it in the ghastly stillness of unending sleep it looked at me, chilly from the rays ofa cold moonthe fluorescents amidstthe desert’sNew York’s heat. And as I returned its look I forgot my triumph at finding it, and stopped still with mycamelgrad student to wait for the dawn.
Or words to that effect.
(nb Cthulhu references get the squid tag. Makes total sense, right? Aw, shut up)
Colossal Octopus: i shit thee not
Well, what does that look like to you?
To me, it looks both colosoid and octopudlian. You might be different, I dunno. We all have to live our own truths, even if it involves sleeping in a tinfoil-lined Chevy Impala on somebody’s back forty. Didn’t know you could get wireless inet out here, but it’s right handy.
Where was I? Oh yeah, Colossal Octopus. Tako Grande. Venti. Whatever.
So here, from the Unmuseum, is the story of the St. Augustine Colossal Squid Landing. Gather ’round the campfire/manifold intake, children, and listen well…
The Highlights:
The portion of the creature that remained, the body minus the arms, was eighteen feet in length and ten feet wide. Parts of tentacles, unattached to the body, stretched as long as 36 feet with a diameter of 10 inches. Dr. Webb estimated weight at four or five tons.
Strangely enough, despite the importance of the find, neither Dr. Verrill, nor any other scientist, traveled to St. Augustine to view the carcass in person.
Webb finally sent Verrill a sample of the tissue of the creature preserved in formalin. Verrill was surprised to find it had the appearance of blubber and abruptly changed his mind stating that he now believed the creature was a whale and that the arms were not associated with the body.
The whole matter would have rested like that if it hadn’t been for Forrest Wood, the director of Marine Studios (later Marineland) in Florida. Wood came across an old news story about the monster and discovered that Webb’s sample was still stored at the Smithsonian Institution.
Wood persuaded the Smithsonian to let Dr. Joseph Gennaro, of the University of Florida, to take some of the samples for analysis. Gennaro immediately recognized that the material was not blubber and examination under a microscope showed the tissue was more similar to octopus than whale or squid. Further tests later confirmed this conclusion.
Honestly, look at that monster!
Is it any wonder that my greatest fear is snorkling?
When you have your period, it’s called “chumming.”
