Some of you will have heard about the Doonesbury-inspired “flash mob” at the foot of the Space Needle this morning.
To summarize, Trudeau depicted a character in the strip calling for a flash mob via her computer on Monday. Well, by the time Seattle got out of bed on Monday morning, someone in Connecticuit, so it’s said, had used the Dean campaign’s online tools to schedule the event.
I was asked to cover the event for The Comics Journal (via the good offices of one David Lasky), so I was there and talked to a number of folks, including Jake Metcalf of 8bitjoystick.com (I tried to give him the secret blogosphere handshake but he seemed unfamiliar with this site, if open to the possibility he’d dropped by). He took a picture of
Since I’m writing about it for the CJ and will do a bit for Tablet as well, I’ll go light on the detail, but it was a fun way to start the day. The participants did, in fact, hop up and down while chanting “The Doctor is in! The Doctor is in!“
Well I noticed this site in my referal logs. Is that the secret handshake?
Sure! perusing referral logs involves unwonding cryptic instructions, no?
First off, this is hardly random spam.
Okay, here’s what I did to obtain your e-mail address. First, I pulled up the Advanced Search option of the Google search engine. Then, I entered “flash mob” in the “with all the words” field. After choosing “20 results”, I then clicked on “Google search”. Before I sent anybody this courriel, I examined each website to ascertain whether there was an invitation of any sort. By invitation, I mean phrases such as “I welcome comments” and other like remarks.
In a sense, you passed the test. And that is why you’ve received this missive. In the event you received one previously, this one comes with new information.
For the sake of quick review, a 28-year-old female aide was found dead in the congressional district office of former Representative Joe Scarborough, currently an MSNBC luminary. The official inquiry into death of the aide, a Mrs Lori Klausutis, left some details open to further investigation. In the earlier note, I mentioned that those details nag at me, A Alexander Stella.
What’s more, I’m far from being the only one. There are dozens of websites that are devoting space to this curious happenstance.
So, for the sake of justice for Lori Klausutis, I’m asking recipients such as yourself to consider employing the phenomenon of flash mobs. If you would like like more details, you’re certainly invited to click on the following hyperlink:
flash mob for Lori
thanking you in advance for your time in reading this appeal,
warm regards
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A Alexander “Bogey” Stella
Oh, swell, likely enough, you’ll have to click on my name, ah, the one by the date. And, if that fails, try inserting in the address field of your browser the following U.R.L, namely,
http://www.bcvoice.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=142