This is not miracle. This is just SOFT TABS.

I get about three ads a day for Viagra or Cialis in my inbox, and for some reason, they're usually riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. This one I got last night really cracked me up, though:

Cialis Soft Tabs: perfect feeling of being men again.
Starts working within just 15 minutes.

SOFT TABS:
Info Site

You take a candy and get hard rock erection.
This is not miracle. This is just Soft Tabs.

You take a candy and get hard rock erection? Do they mean hard rock like Metallica? Black Sabbath? Van Halen? What the hell!

And the URL for that "Info Site" is also totally cooked -- looks like some gibberish that my 3-year-old would type: http://ahimbcdfjk.longpleasure.info/?eglxssryahimzctbcdfjk. I don't know what the friggin' deal is with these messages. Are they even trying to sell anything?

Jesus is back online again

Apparently the username jesus recently became available again after LJ deleted a bunch of old dead accounts. As brad just pointed out, they're off to a good start.

pencil carving

Click on some links from this page...

http://www.infofreako.com/jad/pencil/0list-e.html

unpublishable journal?

Jerry sent me the following quote after our lunch earlier this week, and I've been thinking about it off and on ever since. I spend a fair bit of time working on specific writing projects and also entering my reflections into this weblog, but it has been years since I've kept my own private, "unpublishable" journal for my own consumption. I have to admit that there are certain things that I would like to write about that are totally private, so I think I might try doing this sometimes.

I do think that keeping an honest, unpublishable journal is helpful. Include what you are thinking, what you are feeling, what you are responding to. Include what you are angry about that you heard on the news. don't talk about the news in terms of politics, but in terms of your own life. What does this mean to you? So these are my three recommendations: Read, keep an honest journal and write every day.

-- Madeleine L'Engle. 2002. "Words of Wisdom." The Writer. Jun, p. 27