My latest spam e-mail promises that if I click their link, I will get:

Totally nude photos of all 4 of Bin Laden?s wives in a lesbian love pile!

That seems quite a spooky combination of my last two posts. And imagine the search engine hits I’m going to get now! Thank you, spammers.

Commerce.

“I’ve seen ‘Wild at Heart,’ I’ve seen ‘Twin Peaks.’ I’ve already seen this movie.”
-my friend Paul, as we exited David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive”

While I basically agree with him, Lynch is still a welcome change from the grey expanse that has been the movies in 2001. He’s abandoned the measured reality of “The Straight Story” and gone back to the weirdnesses he’s famous for. It’s said that he shot this story as a possible pilot for a TV series, although I doubt the topless lesbian love scenes would have made it onto CBS. It is overdone and needlessly Lynchian, but it’s fascinating in its own way. And he does amazingly well with scares – even if you can see them coming a mile away, they still make you jump out of your seat. I would love to see Lynch do a full-out scary movie.

Now where did I put those “Twin Peaks” tapes?

I now have a modest store on CafePress where you can purchase t-shirts, mugs and mousepads to signify your love of ‘words mean things.’ Let me know what you think. If you should be good enough to purchase anything, my battered self-esteem thanks you in advance.

Although I am not a programmer (I just play one on TV), I have successfully managed to figure out a way to automatically download all my Blogger posts to my own database, which I’ll be using for my homegrown blog system. I didn’t want to just archive my Blogger posts when I went to the new system, and now I don’t have to. I am pleased. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Stockard Channing is now a regular cast member on “The West Wing.” This is a good thing.

Ron Jeremy Crashed My Windows 2000
As most people who read Top Ten Blog! know, there’s something of a running joke about hirsute porn star Ron Jeremy throughout the site. I personally find him funny, so when someone included the previous link in a topic about a baby shower, of all things, I went to the site. There’s a QuickTime preview of a documentary about the hedgehog-like sex star, and when I clicked on it, my normally-stable Windows 2000 installation gave up the ghost.

Right as my computer froze, a big-haired female porn star was saying, “I would rather work with Ron….” [CRASH!]

And I thought, “than be beaten with a bag of oranges? Than be covered with honey and tied to an anthill? What?”

Ron’s powers are many and mysterious. I wonder if he knows about Top Ten Blog?

I often have interesting conversations with my friends who know very little about the web. Last night as we were watching “Survivor,” I said something about my weblog. Wendy said, “So how do you find other people’s weblogs?”

Good question.

The traditional answer is, well, you follow links from one to the other. There are some small, limited-scope weblog directories, but none even approaching the scope of something like Yahoo or Amazon. After all, if you want to find web sites in a certain topic area, you go to Yahoo (or something like it); if you want to find books, you go to Amazon (or something like it). Wendy’s question made me more sure than ever that with the world of weblogs exploding like it is, a wide-scope comprehensive weblog directory would be a good project. No, it wouldn’t cover everything – but neither does Yahoo. I would love to go somewhere on the web to search a giant database of as many weblogs as possible, by all kinds of criteria. Thoughts?

Anybody heard from Suey lately?

Road rage – Wisconsin style
Yesterday as I drove along my narrow suburban street to the video store, I became stuck behind a bicyclist flanked by two rollerbladers (yes! rollerblading in Wisconsin in October!). I was suddenly overcome with an uncharacteristic flash of road rage, and shouted from within my nearly soundproof car, “GET OUT OF THE STREET!”

They didn’t hear me.