the everyday adventures of sabrina

Aaron Hamilton to me — 8:57 PM (1 hour ago)

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information.

Best Regards
Mr Aaron Hamilton

honestly. can’t scammers even afford a pirated copy of Microsoft Word for its built-in grammar checker?

i think i’m sufficiently worldly in the ways of the internet that not much really surprises me, but this Megan Meiers thing both shocked me and really upset me.

what horrible, horrible, horrible people are these people to create a fake myspace account for the specific purpose of tormenting a depressed child? to incite others to join in on “the joke”? and then to disclaim guilt when she hangs herself in her closet, because it’s not really your fault because she was already depressed? what sort of vile person must you be?

i don’t think i even want to know.

Christening the new iMac
It’s not a computer of mine until it has its own copy of Moskau lurking in my Documents folder, waiting for an opportunity to cheer me up. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-hey!

Originally uploaded by sldownard.

I love this video. I’m not ashamed.

muy rain and wind and generally unpleasant weather == no baseball for niqui tonight after all.

i can has burgerlet however: hooray! cheezburger for everybody!

guess what i am messing around with at work today? NO, NOT PHOTOSHOP!

(inspired by I Can Has Cheezburger?, among others, and IM with b. BTW, if you have no idea WTF a lolcat is, see here. You non-lolcat-knowing loser.)

so nobody spoke up and said “hey, sabrina, I would love to go see Bloc Party with you!” this makes me sad. but not so sad that i put aside capitalism and turn into a sad hippie or something. one time i had managed to come up with tickets for a tori amos show at the auditorium theatre — tori amos having the distinction of the single artist i have seen more times than any other (i have seen her at least six or seven times, i kinda lost count). anyways, when i couldn’t get tickets myself i turned to teh intarwebs and found someone on chi.forsale with a pair, and bought them. and then i couldn’t find anyone else to go with me, because everyone mocked me for liking tori amos. (i still don’t care what you say. she’s wacky and fun to go see in concert because she is crazy.) i ended up eating the cost of the second ticket, which was something like $115. not fun — especially since i was extremely broke at the time. i remain sad about it to this day, and that was like 3 years ago. so, in an effort to not eat the cost of my second bloc party ticket — only about $35 or $37 or so (stupid %^&@*#^#!@&^#$ ticketmaster “convenience” fees; bastards) — i just listed it for sale on the ebay tickets scalper site, StubHub, where i scored my Scissor Sisters and Arcade Fire tickets.

wish me luck! i would be sad if i had to eat the cost of the second ticket. even more sad than just not having a friend to come along with me and talk about the show with afterwards. YOU WANKERS.

p.s. The Scissor Sisters show? i’d have blogged about it earlier but i am still reeling from the sheer amount of AWESOME. Ana Matronic is my hero!

i cannot help but think that a large number of people who stumble upon ziggurat.org from search engine referrals must be, ultimately, disappointed in what they find.

excerpted from my webalizer stats for the past few days, since i remembered to fix my access logs the other day to actually report on referrers:

Top 20 of 74 Total Search Strings

1. (56 hits, 20.66%) sex
2. (50 hits, 18.45%) doll
3. (19 hits, 7.01%) ziggurat
4. (16 hits, 5.90%) ex girlfriend
5. (15 hits, 5.54%) scared
6. (7 hits, 2.58%) girlfriend
7. (6 hits, 2.21%) psycho
8. (6 hits, 2.21%) sex doll
9. (4 hits, 1.48%) 1973 mach 1 mustang
10. (3 hits, 1.11%) Ziggurat
11. (2 hits, 0.74%) 1973 mach 1
12. (2 hits, 0.74%) EX%20SEX%20SEX%20SEX
13. (2 hits, 0.74%) EX-GIRLFRIEND
14. (2 hits, 0.74%) Matthew%2BShepard
15. (2 hits, 0.74%) SEX
16. (2 hits, 0.74%) car emblem
17. (2 hits, 0.74%) crock pot soap
18. (2 hits, 0.74%) doll pictures
19. (2 hits, 0.74%) doll sex
20. (2 hits, 0.74%) free ex girlfriend pics

all of this really makes me want to ask: is there seriously that much of an audience for free ex girlfriend pics? i mean. it isn’t very descriptive, is it? it seems to me that more specificity is recommended in googling for free porn. at least, if more specific terms were being provided, they wouldn’t end up at what is clearly the most popular thing i have ever posted.

or, hey, maybe they would’ve. this is a universe of infinite possibilities, after all.

OH NOES!!!!!11!1!!!!one!!1!1!! A Day Without Facebook.

i particularly like the line about how it is impossible either not to stalk, or not to be stalked, with the new feature addition. ummmmm…. just an idea, y’all, but how about … if you don’t want the intimate details of your life broadcast to everyone on the Internet, maybe you should consider not posting them on the Internet? i mean, you could be like me and only post stupid bullshit no one actually cares about… i’m just sayin’.

Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:31:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Leslie Burch
To: Junji
Subject: Fwd: He was totally disoriented. Could I have five minutes to. Forgetting to make the quarterly property-tax payment is a
hell of a lot more serious than forgetting to change the calendar page, and youre upset
because this is the first time you forgot something that big. But there was still that
strong, hurtful moment of guilt — like a quick deep stab-wound. So this was Memory
Lane, was it? I thought of gagging you, but gags are dangerous, especially if youre taking drugs that
affect respiration. (“I dont know where he gets. He hoped he would be okay. I know how
to hurt you. Annie was not swayed by pleas. He crawled into the parlor and that was when
he heard the drone of an approaching motor. The first two blows had perhaps not gone
deep enough to do much damage, but this time the crosss support post went at least three
inches into the kneeling troopers back, driving him flat.

what i like the most about these spams is when all the chopped up bits make an actual sort of story. a cracky story for cracked-out crackheads, but a story nonetheless!

ahh… memory lane… when i forgot to pay the quarterly tax payment and was stricken by a guilt so hurtful that i thought i was being stabbed, but quickly had visions of much larger problems, so i felt better in the end, despite my — quite understandable, i think! — disorientation. (the obligatory spammy link takes one to a hoodia diet pill site. (what the hell is hoodia? it’s got a stupid name, whatever it is.) i find that to be somewhat of a letdown after a story about the angsty horror of modern existence, kidnapping and assault, hallucination, and homicide. i really feel that the least they can do with such a lead-in is to advertise some sort of horror book club. though i suppose book clubs don’t do such a very great business in spam, so i guess i’m doomed to disappointment.)

From: Heath Patterson
Subject: Of sit go rattlebrained untenable extensive this baleful object presented itself to my view. I was very merry,
sound of which I thought had been borne towards me among the her with this discovery; but only said, I have not the heart to
In the back kitchen, I raved as became me. I went there, I down the hill. He told me, as soon as I came up with him, that
aspect had become morose, yielded to his better feelings, and underlet, and that I dont believe. The last man died here.

indeed. indeed.

oh. my. fucking. god. bill shatner rapping and dancing antony’s “friends, romans, countrymen” speech. it’s unreal.

this is all yesthattom’s fault. he sicced us on shatner doing “Rocket Man” and when i saw the link, i was compelled to click Shatner Raps. as now you shall be too! WATCH! HUMOR THE INJURED GIRL!

my shitty cameraphone picture of the Snakes on a Plane poster at the River East the other day is famous!

(it’s sans attribution, so i am not famous, only my picture. but these are the sacrifices one makes to climb one’s way up the blogfame ladder! at this rate, i expect to be within sight of the first rung within only a few more years!)