I deleted about 60 spam comments on this site, this weekend. I don’t know why I am being bombarded. Amusingly, one began with the word “Hastur”. Perhaps Old Ones are spamming my blog. I will just have to find an anti-spam WordPress plug-in (I think they exist?). [Update: The first spam I received after this entry began with the phrase "please forgive". So that's not creepy at all, then, is it. Hmm.]

I was THIS CLOSE to seeing Coraline over the weekend, but it didn’t work out (as in I then remembered I had a church nursing home service and it’s hard to justify skipping out on visiting widows to go see a movie).

Did anyone see Coraline yet? I did read the book. Next I will have to read The Graveyard Book. Speaking of which, it is the 8th anniversary of Neil Gaiman’s blog, and I suggest you go check it out. It’s excellent.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/

One other dissapointment over the weekend – I found a gift card for my favorite craft store that had already expired in 2007. I feel like I earned negative money over the weekend.

While I’m plugging ineresting websites, let me get in a word for Cabinet of Wonders.  This site is a wonderful (no pun intended) aggregation of information on things true and/or quirky. It’s much better than my blog, so go check it out right now. It has photos! I always intend to have photos, but I usually type this up during lunch at work, and don’t have access to my camera. Not a good excuse at all.

I was looking at some excellent photos of clockwork at the Cabinet of Wonders site, and pondering the whole Steampunk genre, and wondering how clocks actually work, and found this great site that explains the mechanics of, er, mechanisms: http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/mechanisms/ 

I will be looking at that one a lot later today.

Tags: clockwork, lame excuses, lovecraft, neil gaiman, spam