Dog Days and Comment Spam
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Monday, August 09, 2004 at 03:30 PM [GMT-6]

We're in the sweaty throes of the dog days of August, and, yes, it's sweaty even on the fringe of the Llano Estacado. This muggy weather demoralizes and demotivates me, and it's a chore to simply press the keys to create this post, let alone put any useful thought into it.

I went six days last week without blogging, which is the longest non-vacation-related dry spell since the Gazette started up way back in ought two. But it's not entirely true that I was ignoring the blog, as I spent several hours during the week dealing with a fresh onslaught of comment spam (pitching V*I*A*G*R*A and, of all things, cigarettes...the latter, I suppose, to accompany the post-game show after partaking of the former).

I've had it up to here with comment spammers. They're scum o'the earth types, and if Dante was updating his most famous work, he'd have a new and special circle of hell reserved for them. You know the really bad thing about comment spammers? They don't care. They don't read blogs, and even if they did, they wouldn't give a tinker's dam about my ire toward them.

Thanks to them, I've shut off comments on all previous Gazette posts. I'll try to remember to open new posts for comments, but I'll be shutting them off after about two weeks. I feel like a Spaniard, giving in to the terrorists. The only difference is that what I do will, at least, stop the spam.

Dog days. Comments spammers. I'll be glad to get past both of 'em.