Friday, September 17, 2004

Elusively Illusive Huntsman, Etc., Etc.

Yesterday while the girls emptied my linen closet of sheets, pulled all the chairs away from the dining room table, and constructed what they alternately referred to as a cottage, castle, apartment, and hideaway, I worked a little on my huntsman idea.

My huntsman, it turns out, is the bodyguard/driver of the spoiled second wife of a Filipino media, um, tycoon. So far he has scored some drugs for her and ignored her coarse attempts at seduction. Oh, shut up. I know it's all very "Movie-of-the-Week," but at least I'm writing.

Then this morning there was a message in my inbox from "TheElusiveHuntsman." I did the Looney Tunes doubletake--what the...? Did I wake up in the middle of the night, invent a fake e-mail addy, and write myself the whole story while half-asleep? Maybe I did! How excellent would that be? Of course, the fact that "elusive" was spelled "illusive" should have raised my antennae, but it didn't. I blithely opened the message and...you guessed it...Viagra spam.

In other strange internet happenings...have you been using the new Blogger nav bar with the "Next Blog" button? I click it sometimes and usually end up visiting the blog of someone who writes only in Portuguese, a techie guy who might as well be writing in Portuguese, or one of those teenage girls who insists on typing every other letter as a CaPiTaL. Not good. But the other day after I had finished checking out what was new with Gura, I clicked "Next Blog" and arrived at...Jean's class blog (which I can't re-locate, or I'd link to it for ya)! What were the chances of that?

The only problem is that I will probably now begin to obsessively click "Next Blog" just to see if that kind of thing will happen again. A lot like video poker, in a way.

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