Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Take that (yer bastard)!

Right Mr and Mrs Comment Spammers, you can lick my decals baby! Because now I have put some kind of spelling test on the bit where you leave a comment so now you will be so utterly perplexed (because paid comment spammers are famously illiterate and can't even pronounce words like "hguzxiwig", let alone spell them when there is a bit of visual noise, the big losers).

I don't really understand either.

But hey everyone, feel free to leave a real comment that isn't directing me to the business you are cyber-promoting. You all tell me you like this blog thing to my face. So get involved. Otherwise I'll think that you bitch about it to your keyboard when no one's looking...

Ooh and on the BBC Collective website (my new favourite thing) they are streaming the entire new Sigur Ros album. But they won't be doing it for long. It sounds lovely.

4 comments:

circletide said...

The album is an interesting prospect sir; a veritable jumble sale of hushed ambience and piano-resonance with only a little bit of big-band fade-in just to keep your brass pulse alive. The artwork of the CD is the thing that really impresses people though, embossed and stenciled, with space for shopping lists or lyric interpretations. These aesthetic flourishes impress those too busy to actually listen to it, like entrepeneurs and mothers.

I'm not sure why I wrote that. I think I just felt sorry for you, what with the spam and all.

Enjoy Bombay, especially the continental breakfasts in jukeboxed "European" cafes among the Mumbai youth with their ohmigod Hindi slang and penchant for skin-whitening. And the strange, urgently permeating smell of beans. And the hilariously titled Wankhede cricket ground. And the funny rocks along the harbour. As the old saying goes, "Once Colaba is found, towards cholera you are bound."

All the best for the subcontinent old bean, thinking of you and your endeavours. Will be jealous constantly.

Adam xxx

P.S. You'll make friends with a guitar.

P.P.S. Note the double syntatic subject/object implication in previous sentence... MA quality shining through.

Anonymous said...

Bloody hell Green...

Just got your e-mail, you exotic creature. Terribly jealous and very impressed. I should have suspected some sort of hippy expedition last time I saw the hair, but was fooled into thinking it was for comedic value.

Have a superb time, my dear. I will read your blog with interest. Just remember, nobody really cares about the banal day to day things that you get up to. Give us an overall impression and more of the wit that we know and love.

Much love from wee Edinburgh where I want to live forever and ever.

SianyB

PS: I've got a proper job as a press researcher, looking at moving into magazine journalism. Hurrah! Anyone else reading this comment, you're probably not interested, so stop reading a message not intended for your greedy little eyeballs. Go and make some tea, or something.

Anonymous said...

Come on then Circletide put your back into it get blogging again!

Hope all well on your trip Rangy keep us all informed, all the details.

circletide said...

All right then, the tolling demands or, er, one have brought me to my senses. Here you go...

http://fireonthelifeboat.blogspirit.com/

Happy now. You will be...