I am new to the blog-o-verse. And I can’t imagine there are a whole heck-of-a-lot of folks reading this thing. I’m not a famous celebrity, author, entertainer, politician, or, well, anything. I have no gold records, no books, no sell-out shows, no fame. I mention this not because I’m unhappy, but just to put things in perspective: in the blow-world I am a comparatively small fish. A minnow. A guppy. Roe.
I get a few comments from the readers. Here and there, now and then. Which is great, I love it, and it shows that someone somewhere is reading – which is nicer than yelling into an empty well.
What’s odd though is the amount of blog spam I receive. Dozens each week. All wanting me to link to it click on links. Motorcycle and fire insurance, Russian brides and Viagra, generic Lipitor, internet banking solutions, carpet cleaning machinery. And the really odd ones don’t link to anything – just a sentence or two of random words that make no sense when strung together.
Why? What’s the point? They get marked as spam ’cause WordPress is pretty smart, and who do they think they’re gonna reach? I know, I know, there is no “who”, it’s all auto-generated, but someone programmed it to do this. Are they just casting a net as wide as possible and hoping to snare the odd guppy one-in-a-million times? Or do some bloggers actually post this stuff? I can’t imagine who or why except for some very lonely person or a spam-based art project.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s a weird world out there.
Anyway, I’m listening to Otis Redding sing “Don’t Mess With Cupid” which is a stone motherfucker.
He really is one of my very favorite singers of all time ever. Just stunning.
It’s more productive to listen to genius than ponder the mysteries of the internet. So I’ll turn up Otis.
Happy Valentine’s Day. Love is good.