Jaci Dawn

And I don’t mean the Museum of Spam, which some relatives of mine have actually visited.

Here’s a sampling of the SPAM I have accumulated on this blog over the past couple of weeks:

From Viviscal Hair Loss, there’s the profound comment: “It’s enormous that you are getting thoughts from this piece of writing as well as from our discussion made here.”

Makes me want to wear a metal colander on my head. Maybe that would protect me from the “thoughts”.

piracetam (a pharmaceutical company?) commented: We corresponded and spoke on the phone. I heard her passion and engaged. One thing led to another and all of a sudden I found myself on a plane to LA to photograph on a movie set with some of the most impressive, talented people in Hollywood film. I have to admit that part of what captured my attention is that Stephanie Martin co-wrote a script with her Wellesley classmate Jessica Walsh to point out the issues surrounding mustangs in the American West. She happened onto my web site and found some inspiration and formed a story where a magazine photographer has an encounter with a mustang named Phantom and ends up photographing a BLM round up of wild horses. No, it isn’t about me specifically–I wasn’t arrested (that would be EARLIER in my career) and I didn’t grow up in Nevada (Indiana), but I was intrigued that my life and my photographs of wild horses triggered a reaction from her, and something told me this would be an interesting experience.”

Say what?

The odd thing about this item is that 1) I grew up in Nevada and 2) one of my high school classmates is very involved in wild horse photography. This could almost be a believable story plot, except for the Hollywood portion. Maybe I should save it and use it for a NaNoWriMo novel plot in 2013. I wouldn’t think it’s plagiarism, since I’m stealing it from SPAM. What do you think?

maheshkumar235436886 had this dandy to say: Wonderful information, I had come to know about your blog from my friend nandu , hyderabad,i have read at least 7 posts of yours by now, and let me tell you, your website gives the best and the most interesting information. This is just the kind of information that i had been looking for, i’m already your rss reader now and i would regularly watch out for the new posts, once again hats off to you! Thanks a ton once again, Regards, Plots For Sale in Manitoba.”

There was a hyper-link in there that I deleted: Plots for sale in Manitoba? What kind of plots? When I think “plots for sale”, I think cemeteries. Why would I want to buy a plot in Manitoba? Isn’t Manitoba on the flat side? If I was going to go Canada, I think I’d go Yukon Territories.

Truth is, I am planning to go more “Sam McGee” a la Robert Service.

We Buy Any Car says: “I vindicatory like the rich substance you engage for your articles. I’ll bookmark your weblog and control erstwhile solon redress here regularly. I’m clean sure I leave hear plenty of new matter ethical here! Champion of hazard for the succeeding!”

I’m glad I’m ethical. I’ll take the title. “Champion of the hazard for the succeeding!” (vindicatory? is that a word, even?) (“erstwhile”? “redress”? – Sorry We Buy Any Car: “I do not thin’ that means what you thin’ it means” – Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride.)

tn pas cher: “Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is magnificent blog. A fantastic read. I’ll certainly be back.”

Hey, I like this one. A magnificent blog! A fantastic read! It’s like I “wrote the book in it or something.” (Nevermind the bad grammar – this person is full of praises for my blog. It’s probably a translation problem and should be “on it or something.”) I should have approved that comment.

Stephen Abramovitz: “Hello Web Admin, I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in your SEO optimization. On-Page SEO means more now than ever since the new Google update: Panda. No longer are backlinks and simply pinging or sending out a RSS feed the key to getting Google PageRank or Alexa Rankings, You now NEED On-Page SEO. So what is good On-Page SEO?First your keyword must appear in the title.Then it must appear in the URL.You have to optimize your keyword and make sure that it has a nice keyword density of 3-5% in your article with relevant LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing). Then you should spread all H1,H2,H3 tags in your article.Yada yada yada” (he went on and on and on)

Well. Stephen. You should have read the other comments first. tn pas cher likes my blog. It’s “magnificent” and “fantastic”. I reject your criticism, Stephen. I don’t need all that SEO, H1,H2,H3, mumbo jumbo. But, hey, in all fairness, maybe it’s constructive criticism. Right?

Jorge Bella is clearly another fan of mine: “Hey there, just became aware of your blog through Google, and found that it is really informative. I will be grateful if you continue this in future. Numerous people will be benefited from your writing. Cheers!”

Thank you, Jorge, thank you. You may now cease to applaud. Sit down, Jorge. Jorge! You’re embarrassing me! Shush!

Aw shucks!

Canada Goose Parka Trillium: “The truth is quite other than what you think.He was born in New York.I wish I knew my neighbor.He holds a position of great responsibility upon him.It’s very thoughtful of you.I’m happy to meet youI’m happy to meet youHe ran his horse up the hill.There comes a bus.There are mice in Mrs.”

I think Canada Goose Parka Trillium is just trying to type in enough words to win NaNoWriMo for 2012. If you just keep typing, maybe you’ll come up with a plot.

Oh, hey – I completed my novel for NaNoWriMo. 50,944 words. It reads a lot like Canada Goose Parka Trillium’s comment to my blog, but who cares?