A world wide web of LIES

Get it? It’s on account of their name looks like an abbreviation of my hometown? Maybe when this bubble bursts (dot-bomb 2.0, anyone?) and wipes these jokers out, the local Chambre O’Commerce can put the domain name to better use.

Anyway, they seem to have this weird idea that throwing in a completely unrelated thumbnail image in with each search result does something good. Example:

Maybe if that really was the cover of my CD, it’d sell better?

And then we pass the savings on to you.

(That title up there’s copyrighted, by the way.)

So I saw this jewelry ad, and at the bottom it said “jewelry enlarged to show detail” or something like that. Since this ad was on the side of a bus, and the rings pictured were three feet tall, I was actually a little relieved.

(And I can just see someone at some point chewing out a jeweler for not having the giant rings like on the bus ad. PS—watch out for that coffee, it’s hot!)

List of legendary creatures from Japan

The best part is how specific some of these creatures are. My favorites, in list form (of course):

• Kappa—a famous water monster with a water-filled head and a love of cucumbers
• Kurage-no-hinotama—a jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
• Makura-gaeshi—the pillow-moving spirit (this one seems to like to torment me nightly!)
• Tankororin—an unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster
• Tōfu-kozō—a spirit child carrying a block of tofu
• Uma-no-ashi—a horse’s leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby (I want to come back as one of these!)

I got all hopped up on Red Stripe and tropical drinks and too much sun until taking pictures of toy robots on the beach sounded like a great idea. Also, my li’l brudda got MARRIED!

(I was supposed to “blog this” yesterday, damn)

I saw this today while checking on my peeps:

Was it a lucky guess? There isn’t a place in the profile editor for entering your weight, is there?

BTW—I’m not overweight, I’m festively plump.