
Post Title: That Crazy Bokep, Always Oversharing in the Spam Folder
Bokep Bots: “Ooh, we have got to leave lots comments on this one!”
Note: I know about oubliettes. Those are different.
Check it out, I got a blog award! Me! Not the animals, for once! It’s the Sunshine Blogger award, and I was given it by Thomas Wikman of Leonberger Life and Superfactful:
Continue reading “The Sunshine Blogger Award”So here we are this week with the second and final post involving Thunderbolt and his sidekicks, as we present the final four members of the Slayers. These are the nominally more important ones, insofar as when the team got adapted for the Marvel Mania storyboard in college, they’re the four who didn’t get killed off pretty quickly; in fact, one of them eventually switched sides and joined the good guys. Read on to find out who!
Continue reading “The Early Years: The Slayers, Part 2 ― Menta As Anything”So as previously threatened promised, this week, I reached into the pile of old papers from my younger days and pulled out the Villains & Vigilantes character sheets for The Slayers. There are a lot of them (seven in all), so I decided to split them across two weeks*, starting this week with Starburst** (a flying energy projector and the leader of the group at first), Throttle (the speedster), and Monstrus (the brick).
So this week I decided to dip into my big pile of old papers that aren’t rejection letters, and as it happens, I’m still in the section that’s full of old Villains & Vigilantes NPC character sheets, and there at the top was a fellow will be familiar to anyone who used to participate in those games I ran, or who was writing on “Marvel Mania” at college back in the day: Magneto! Thunderbolt!
So recently, we (meaning me) have been watching a new show on HBO MAX called The Pitt, in which Noah Wyle plays an older, wiser Dr. John Carter, who has moved on from County General to take charge of the busy ER of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. No, I’m kidding.* He actually plays Dr. Perry Cox, who mentors/torments young physician J.D. … No, I’m kidding again. But there is a resemblance, don’t you think?


So a while back I set up an automatic rule to look for any comment with the name “Bokep” in it and send those directly to trash, because I was getting inundated with spam comments from that name, all with the same structure. After setting that rule I kinda just forgot about it, but then the other day I noticed that I had well over 400,000(!) messages sitting in trash, so I figured I would go take a look, and there was Bokep, still trying to get my attention with fake posts about playing football, going to his mom’s house, cooking dinner, and … OH MYYYYYY.
Continue reading “That Crazy Bokep, Always Oversharing in the Spam Folder”So this week I was reading The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, a low-technology steampunk adventure where they fly around in zeppelins, but shoot at each other with muzzle-load muskets, cannons, and flintlock rifles. Because why not?
Continue reading “Teaser Tuesday: “The Guns Above””So this week we (meaning I) watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which, as you may have guessed from the name, is the sequel to Beetlejuice. Presumably in another 30 years or so there will be a threequel called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and then we’ll really be in for it.