• Hot Off The Presses

    Holy Hottie: Stripper Evangelist

    April 1, 2006 - By 

    The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Ex-stripper evangelizes to sex industry RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The phone rang — again — and Heather Veitch answered in her three-bedroom tract home. It was another radio station, this time from Detroit, and the disc jockey wanted to hear the tale of the stripper turned evangelist. “I don’t try to change their life,” she said of the women she seeks out at strip clubs. “I just want them to have a relationship with God.” Amazingly, this does not appear to be an April Fool’s joke. The same story shows up on a lot of…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga - Wonderful Spam, Beautiful Spam

    Only The First Of The Month, and Already…

    April 1, 2006 - By 

    Whoa. Last month I cracked the lid open a little, and I'm still not sure why. My stats page logged 9,030 unique visitors. Probably 8,999 of those were spambots and trackback zombies, but still. Apparently the mere mention of H.R. 4437 drove a lot of visitors here. Huh? All I did was link to an article. Anyway, today being the first of the month, I checked to see what people are searching on today. And the result is pretty predictable: Search Keyphrases (Top 10) somali woman 2 7.6 % newton tomb 2 7.6 % capaccio bros 1 3.8 % having…

  • Favorite Things

    Google Romance

    April 1, 2006 - By 

    First, there was Google. Then, there was Google Mail. Then, Google Images/Video/Maps. Now, there’s Google Romance. If you’re single, this is way, way better than eHarmony, and no annoying ads on late-night TV. They seem to have coordinated with local radio stations, such as Chicago’s WXRT, for this promotion. Isn’t it romantic? Although, it’s a shame that today is the Final Saturday Flashback for WXRT. We’re in the last hour now, so we’re listening to songs from 1978 that Ruined The Nation: Boogie Oogie Oogie and so forth.