Actually, adding that Edit reminded me...
He's not to everyone's taste, admittedly, and I suspect that the ads down the left-hand side of the website will vary according to where you access it from.
But the realization that Jeff Green (not a bad English comedian) is pimping himself as an after-dinner speaker beneath an ad for Muslim Dating ("Meet & date Muslim girls free...Photos, chat, email" - http://www.Arabs4Dating.com) on Jackie Mason's archive page was weirdly incongruous enough to make me laugh:
http://www.jackiemason.com/showarchive/
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Edit: I have no idea if this will work on here or not, but cheers to helice for this visual addendum to the weekend entry (http://sensaes.livejournal.com/419329.html):
Giving those troublesome jocks an innocent run for their money, a child's eye view...
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02:24 AM: If sixteen pages is a "summary", that's a monkey's handbag and no one should be driving themselves home tonight.
G'night.
*Crawls to bed.*
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It's probably just as well that I'm a fan of temporal anomalies, because much as I jest about disliking change for its own sake, my grumblings pale in comparison to the defiant rigidity of today's blogging technology, and its refusal to bow to "afterthought-editing".
In fairness to LiveJournal, who frequently get the shitty end of the critical stick poked at 'em on here, they're not the worst offenders when it comes to haphazardly hosting the ravings and droolings of demented, egotistical, and generally self-serving arch self-publicists. Do I have an example for you? Of course I do...
http://sensaes.journalspace.com/profiles/sensaes
I've changed - or, rather, attempted to change - that profile a couple of times now, mainly in an effort to trim the fat, and eradicate the "first-day-on-a-new-blog" element (the references, now redundant, to the "Journalbot" who "friended" me by default, and the Roger Waters song lyric*). Despite achieving the desired effect both times, it would appear that the JournalSpace servers occasionally go through a process somewhat akin to involuntary ECT, or something, prompting this real-world exchange:
"I thought you updated your Profile on there."
"I did."
"Sorry, computer says no."
*Sigh.*
It's endearing because it's slightly reminiscent of those wilder, crazier days when some junior wagette would write something vaguely offensive (or legally dubious) in a website column, prompting a hasty retraction from her editor when the sirens started going off - said retraction failing to go up because of FTP client failure. The "drama" back then was a tangible beast, with claws and fangs.
This, however (and most fortuitously), is not of the same calibre at all. It's much more like seeing a screenshot of an old CeeFax page in a magazine, and thinking:
"Oh, I remember that...and it's not so very different now."
*I originally borrowed a line from The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking by the former Pink Floyd frontman - "Did you understand the music, Yoko?" - for the subtitle of Aeternus Arcanus for no better reason than that I happened to be listening to it at the time. Testing continues...
But the realization that Jeff Green (not a bad English comedian) is pimping himself as an after-dinner speaker beneath an ad for Muslim Dating ("Meet & date Muslim girls free...Photos, chat, email" - http://www.Arabs4Dating.com) on Jackie Mason's archive page was weirdly incongruous enough to make me laugh:
http://www.jackiemason.com/showarchive/
___________________________________________________
Edit: I have no idea if this will work on here or not, but cheers to helice for this visual addendum to the weekend entry (http://sensaes.livejournal.com/419329.html):
Giving those troublesome jocks an innocent run for their money, a child's eye view...
___________________________________________________
02:24 AM: If sixteen pages is a "summary", that's a monkey's handbag and no one should be driving themselves home tonight.
G'night.
*Crawls to bed.*
___________________________________________________
It's probably just as well that I'm a fan of temporal anomalies, because much as I jest about disliking change for its own sake, my grumblings pale in comparison to the defiant rigidity of today's blogging technology, and its refusal to bow to "afterthought-editing".
In fairness to LiveJournal, who frequently get the shitty end of the critical stick poked at 'em on here, they're not the worst offenders when it comes to haphazardly hosting the ravings and droolings of demented, egotistical, and generally self-serving arch self-publicists. Do I have an example for you? Of course I do...
http://sensaes.journalspace.com/profiles/sensaes
I've changed - or, rather, attempted to change - that profile a couple of times now, mainly in an effort to trim the fat, and eradicate the "first-day-on-a-new-blog" element (the references, now redundant, to the "Journalbot" who "friended" me by default, and the Roger Waters song lyric*). Despite achieving the desired effect both times, it would appear that the JournalSpace servers occasionally go through a process somewhat akin to involuntary ECT, or something, prompting this real-world exchange:
"I thought you updated your Profile on there."
"I did."
"Sorry, computer says no."
*Sigh.*
It's endearing because it's slightly reminiscent of those wilder, crazier days when some junior wagette would write something vaguely offensive (or legally dubious) in a website column, prompting a hasty retraction from her editor when the sirens started going off - said retraction failing to go up because of FTP client failure. The "drama" back then was a tangible beast, with claws and fangs.
This, however (and most fortuitously), is not of the same calibre at all. It's much more like seeing a screenshot of an old CeeFax page in a magazine, and thinking:
"Oh, I remember that...and it's not so very different now."
*I originally borrowed a line from The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking by the former Pink Floyd frontman - "Did you understand the music, Yoko?" - for the subtitle of Aeternus Arcanus for no better reason than that I happened to be listening to it at the time. Testing continues...