Today! $45! You guys really spanked that llama! Thanks, you anonymous fools!

Real Entry

Sweeeeet! I founf my old Amazon.com Wishlist! I totally forgot about it!

Today I went off to the neighborhood wading pool with Frannie, her sweet little boyfriend from down the street, his mom, and her eight-month-old. She and I frowned at the young mothers smoking while holding their babies and the trashy moms yelling at their kids from across the pool. We also frowned at the unsupervised children who were being managed by the lone pool supervisor.

“We could go to Volunteer Park instead,” I said, “but then we would have to listen to moms pushing fifty talking about their fabbo Egyptian vacations.”

“Pass,” my friend said. “We should go to Bitter Lake wading pool next time.”

“Okay,” I said. We drank our granitas and watched Frannie and her friend nail each other in the face with water.

“I am the poorest snob I know,” I said.

“Me too.”

We are both over-educated and underfunded.

In Other News, I Suck Major Ass

I got a nice friendly comment today from someone who stumbled upon the site by accident. I meet many cool readers this way, who often have blogs of their own. But most of the time it’s just bozos Googling around.

Most of the time when I get flamed, people are smart enough not to leave their email address. Not this time. Heh heh heh.

This comment refers to this entry.

“IP Address: 65.128.144.76
Name: shantel
Email Address: shantel_da48@hotmail.com

Comments:

your site is horrible.me and my friend made up the word fuckbag its a
old person or a person who looks like they should scream out
fuckbag!!!!u suck major ass!!!”

I am a very devilish person, generally, so I started thinking: what can I do with this email address? I sent a test email to it, to see if it was fake and would bounce back. My subject line was “Testing” and so was the body of the text. I wonder if Shantel will respond. It hasn’t bounced yet.

My next reaction, as always, was to Google. “Give email address spammers,” I typed, leaving out stop words.

This is what came up: a site about how spammers get your email address. I knew about spiders and all that, so I figure the easiest way to spread the love around is to make the email address available via a browser.

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Normally I delete comments like this, if they don’t include an email address; this one I will leave up and I will ban her IP number.

My favorite way to type my real email address is like this: resvj@ATyahoo.com. Or I switch the letters around a bit: revsj@yHAoo.com. Or revsj@ATNOSPAMyahoo.com. Most people figure it out, I think. Stupid web spiders!

Shantel_da48@hotmail.com is now my faux email address of choice. I will now take this moment to apologize to “fricky@yahoo.com.” Sorry, Fricky!