Archive for December, 2005

Improbable communiques

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

In my inbox, ca. 12:30 am:
Re: felly niminy
I just would never write something like this! What does it even mean? This is the most improbable spam I have ever received.
Joceline Riffel, wherever and whoever you are, it must have been someone else who wrote to you about felly niminy. Please direct all further correspondence […]

More already!

Friday, December 30th, 2005

8. The San Jose Mercury News resolves to throw out the red phone that connects their office directly to our house. If they need subscribers they had better get a new red phone that goes to the Kremlin or the White House, because WE DO NOT WANT ANY.

This post was invented by a cartoon character

Friday, December 30th, 2005

I think Calvin, or maybe Garfield. Anyway, the real title is “my New Year’s resolutions for other people.”
1. The New Yorker resolves to not print so fucking close to the fold. People want to actually read this magazine, God damn it.
2. The US patent office resolves to stop being a tool of […]

A coalition for suckiness

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

When Google bought a piece of AOL, a lot of Silicon Valley movers and shakers (the Annalog, needless to say, both moves and shakes the Valley regularly) worried that the move would dilute Google’s admirably non-sucky brand. And indeed, the Google-AOL partnership seems to be oozing sticky AdWords into my Gmail. A recent AdWord linked […]

More news on Russian mail-order brides

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

For those of you who spend all day Googling “Russian brides,” (or “caught having sex,” “sex with my sister,” or “16 having sex” — all search terms that apparently led you to The Annalog), here’s a little tidbit. It’s culled from a matchmaking site called Chance for Love.
The Russian woman’s attitude about herself is feminine. […]

His weapon is knowledge

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Unlike some of my readers, I am off work this week, as my employer is locking us all out until Jan. 3 to save on heat. In the little free time left to me after sifting through all of my David Copperfield emails (yes, they keep coming), I’ve been fortunate enough to watch the Dr. […]

The ghost of Charles Dickens haunts my inbox

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Today is a Spamalog day. Around 6, I received the missive excerpted below:
and then, over a glass of Yarmouth grog, we will have the
the greater Mr. Peggottys ecstasy became, and the more he rubbed his head in his mothers lap to be out of harms way, and little unable to liquidate, brought a tear into […]

The answer

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

is yes.
And the question is, are men necessary?
As Maureen Dowd said on the Dec. 5 Colbert Report, “Why do people always assume the answer is no? The answer is yes, of course!”
Dowd wasn’t a particularly good guest — she has a very flirty manner, part of which I’m sure was affected to match the […]

Fishwomen from the moon

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Want something to get you in the mood for Christmas? Well, here it is.
“Finding Nemo on Ice.” Because you always wished the Rockettes had fisheyes for boobs.

Ducks against diversity

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Sunday’s Mallard Fillmore touched on an issue close to my heart—whether America’s college students are nincompoops. Cartoonist Bruce Tinsley’s contention: universities emphasize diversity at the expense of learning. The result, according to BT, is students who mindlessly spout the word “diversity.”
The argument appears in more serious fora than the funny pages, in forms more […]