metablogging

There was something in the news about the blood of young mice being injected into older mice, which apparently, scientists have discovered, perks them up no end. It seems surprising that science has taken so long to discover what horror films have known for years.

Talking of horror films... if I have been neglecting this blog somewhat of late it is because I have started another blog, somewhere else on the internet, called Unworldly Views. It has already received favourable comments from such internet luminaries as 'cheap auto repairs' and 'hair loss remedies'. 'Hi dear', begins the former, before going on to suggest that readers will 'definitely take fastidious know-how' from my writings. No-one's ever told me that before.

'Hair loss remedies' goes so far as to say that he – or she – has used my post to 'obtain information on the topic of my presentation topic, which I am going to deliver in university'. And I'm sure that will go very well. It's certainly heartening to discover that my brief review of A Nightmare On Elm Street Part II: Freddy's Revenge already commands that kind of respect in academic circles.

More recently, 'acid in stomach' has added his or her comments – surprisingly positive, given his or her name, though slightly opaque: 'Glance advanced to more delivered agreeable from you!', he/she exclaims, before wondering how we might 'keep up a correspondence'. With great difficulty, judging by your English.

If this is spam, at least it's building me up. Perhaps I should investigate more closely the e-mails my junk filter at work blocks, choosing instead to tantalise me with such headers as 'Why Internet was born?' and 'Amazing enlargement effect'. Wonder what the latter is selling? Magnifying glasses is my guess. After all, they are only promising an 'effect'.

Then there is the document that arrived 'for my review' ('ACTION REQUIRED') from someone known only as 'gumdrops193'. Which did rather diminish the intended air of businesslike seriousness – 'Sorry, can't talk now. Just received an important document from Gumdrops.'

Another one arrived the other day that seemed to have wearied of these subtleties and just yelled: 'PORN!'