Author: Teel

Everyone should go check out today’s episode of Skinny Panda (that is, the episode for Friday, February 7th, 2003). It exemplifies the use of stick figures for political commentary. Also, stick figure sex. Seriously.

Most years I simply forget to go. When I do go, it is usually on Sunday afternoon when the deals are the best but the selection is the poorest. I’ve been looking at the official VNSA Book Sale website and apparently thousands of people show up well before they open Saturday morning to get the best books. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get out there this weekend, as I’m busy all day Saturday and … well, I don’t really know anyone else who might be going or wants to be going on Sunday.

Oh, and I don’t have much money.

But I do crave books. Especially cheap, used books. I’ve managed to get some good books there for great prices. I wonder if it makes sense to pick up even more stuff to move up to Pine.

The Tempe Police are right now patrolling my neighborhood, looking for a ‘dangerous suspect’. The first couple of times I heard the patrol car go by, all I could identify was that someone or something was going by with a loud radio or something. After the third time they went by, I managed to hit mute on my TV long enough to hear that … whatever it was was in Spanish. The fourth time, it was in English, but I didn’t notice it fast enough, and just made out something like “stay in your homes…”

I searched online fo rlocal news that might reveal something to me, but I couldn’t see anything. Based on the volume level, I felt I would probably have to leave my home to hear the announcement clearly. The next time it went by, I was ready for it, TV muted, myself hovering by the window… and it was in Spanish again. I opened my front door, but remained behind the sturdy metal screen door locked with a deadbolt, and after the Spanish version, it repeated again in English. Apparently, they are searching for the dangerous suspect using K-9 ‘units’, which seems like the real reason I ought to stay in my home… apparently there are attack dogs patrolling the area. Knowing me, they’ll probably think I’m a dangerous suspect. I’m staying inside.

Continue reading A Suspect In Your Area

So a couple of days ago I removed the links and hooks into Kiss of Shadows, but failed to delete the actual files for some reason and people still kept looking at them. No problem, right? Except that I looked and 25% of the traffic so far this month to Modern Evil has been people who searched google for some variation of anti-valentines day and got to Marie’s year-old post on the subject. Over 500 visitors in the last four days have looked at that one page and nothing else on the site.

So I just deleted the entire kissofshadows directory and set it up to redirect anyone who clicks google links into kissofshadows to the main Modern Evil page. Hopefully the google link will stay up for another couple days and 500 new people will find out that there’s something new and interesting to look at besides some old post about Marie’s bad day.

I just got an unsolicited ‘junk’ (or SPAM) phone call. Not from a timeshare or a long distance company or a bank trying to refinance my home. I got a call with the offer of a free adjustment at a local chiropractor. If I sign up now, I can receive one free treatment for only one can of canned food, you know, for the homeless. I sort of wonder what the rest of the spiel would have been, but I cut the young woman off pretty quickly with “I’m not interested.”

Now, if she’d been offerring to lengthen my penis…