Lately encountered in the spam-trap of my email account with my former workplace:

***Manhood»» Elongation Secret: African Tribesmen Ritual***

Given that I have had had some historical interest in the kinds of concerns that might lead to being taken in by such solicitations, I succumbed to the temptation to open this in quarantine space, and ( Read more... )

Okay, compared to vaginal steaming* and the jade egg business, which we observe she still defends, I boggle forever, this looks, on the face of it, positively sane and none-woowooish?
Gwyneth Paltrow Is Selling Vibrators
Okay, I'm pretty sure that the model she is selling is not entirely unlike any other model on the market? (without actually ( Read more... )

Yes, my dearios, I have been approached, yet again, by an extremely dodgy exploitative scam fake-academic journal publisher: I am writing this email with regard to your research paper [actually a book review]. I read it and felt that your work is worthy of admiration. I have shared the finding of the paper with my colleagues. Other scholars of our ( Read more... )

Well, I wouldn't be, in her posthumous shoes, as it were.
Okay, I was slightly interested - and a bit beswozzled - to see in one of the promotional emails that flits pasts my gaze from Amazon, The Complete Works of O. Douglas: Scottish Historical Novels, Including the Memoir of the Author. At what is admittedly the attractive price of 99p for the ( Read more... )

Bad sex award cancelled as public exposed to ‘too many bad things in 2020’
However, if you're really missing the dreadful ways in which some novelists write about Ye Carnale Acte, Literary Review Twitter is tweeting selections from former years.
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I am not sure if this counts as Bad Sex, weird writing about the topic, a weird topic to begin with ( Read more... )

Having problems with cross-posting to LiveJournal - it's been very slow over the past couple of days and today doesn't seem to be x-posting at all, but I'm not getting 'failure to cross-post messages', so I'm not sure what's amiss.
Also I had a message the other day that somebody who I don't think was ever subscribed to this journal had ( Read more... )

Last week a book I had been much looking forward to (latest in a series that has not been as prolific as perhaps one might desire) theoretically became available to one's ebook reader.
Except, upon opening it, the version one had received had an author's note saying it was a Pre-order/Preview unedited draft version, not the final, ready for sale ( Read more... )

Thinking about the recent plagiarism scandal -
Okay, I don't know what a law professor in Brazil earns - and of course, one does not know how much of the surrounding story was true, either - and maybe she was hiring cheapo ghostwriters because her salary would not run to dearer ones (although dearer ones might, we suspect, have cavilled at being ( Read more... )

Received via my Former Workplace Account, which has pretty strong spam traps in operation:
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Dear Subscriber,

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But I was slightly boggled to see a cfp for this conference appear on a reputable scholarly mailing list, because it reminds me all too much of various scammy journals and dodgy conferences on topics that strike me as just a little bit too broad and general in their remit to be entirely serious and reputable. 2018 International Conference on Gender ( Read more... )