. . . is one that WordPress has been stopping. It consists of comments that merely duplicate earlier comments on a blog post.
These pseudo-commenters generally use free accounts—Hotmail, Gmail, etc.—no surprise there.
Often there is a URL linked to the commenter’s name, but instead of directing you to a site trying to sell something, it just goes to a blog with no entries.
So what is the point?
Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi of Iran explains that women cause Middle Eastern earthquakes.
“Many women who dress inappropriately … cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes,” Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi told worshippers at overnight prayers in Tehran.
It’s the way that they walk, you see. So we must hide them in order to have a proper Islamic society.
Did Poseidon the earth-shaker ever lust after mortal women? I could imagine a great music video here for someone along the line of Haifa Wehbe or Madonna.
May
Pagan journalist Margot Adler offers an NPR piece on “do-good vampires” along with a book list.
She tells me that she has now read eighty-nine contemporary vampire books, as of this week. I am waiting for the definitive review essay.
(Via Erynn Laurie)
From Dark Roasted Blend, a selection of weird and steampunk toys, activating “the threshold between wonder and horror.”
Alien Clone Baby, anyone?
Readers in Los Angeles: the lizard people have been quiet lately, but you should still be on your guard. Helpful information is available
A recent “cattle mutilation” report had the gang at Querencia turning to me, because evidently I am their go-to guy on weirdness.
After a couple of weeks had passed, I cranked out a four-part blog post series at my other blog:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
But I left something out: what I called my “Berlitz full-immersion summer course in occult weirdness.”
I did write about that aspect of the experience for Fate magazine back in 1988. But I seem to have outsmarted myself and “filed” that issue in some very special place. It is not in the Box of Magazines in Which I Published Articles.
Naturally it is not available online, being from 1988. Too bad, because I had thought of scanning the pages and putting them on the web site.
Perhaps I could find a copy somewhere if there was sufficient demand.
Real search-engine queries that brought Web visitors to this blog:
Is Depeche Mode synonymous with homosexuality? [I don’t know; I missed the 80s.]
Booty shaking videos of Muslim women
Arvol Looking Horse fraud youtube [he is an American Indian activist on the “cultural appropriation” issue]
make shinto priest hat
food placed in creek for religion
[I have made food offerings at a crossroads, but in the creek??]
intercessory prayer for halloween sacrifice
Of course, now the Googlebot will index all those terms here . . .
Recently M. and I started to experiment with geocaching. Since our rural home is adjacent to national forest land and located just off a designated Scenic Byway, it is a fertile spot—there must be a dozen or more caches within five miles.
But what I noticed when reading geocaching sites and forums is that a particular term is used for people who are out and about but who themselves are not geocachers. It is important that the caches themselves be concealed from these people.
The term used for such people, of course, begins with “m.”
And apparently it is causing the Dallas Cowboys to lose football games.
How come ace Dallas religion blogger Rod Dreher has not been all over this one?