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November 09, 2005
suburban jungle bells
I'm subscribed to Yahoo's "Most Emailed Photos" RSS feed, and what my month's worth of research in this area has concluded is that we Internet people love us some boobs, booty, baby animals and giant art. If it weren't for the giant art and the boobs, I would have to unsubscribe. But seriously, it is a bit depressing to see some half-dressed catwalker or fricking baby something-or-rather replace the catwalker/baby thing from the week before. Let's mix it up out there!
Of course the week my husband goes back to Seattle, the Bean spikes a 101 degree fever within three hours of his departure and is sent home from daycare all red-eyed and clingy. He's been achy and cranky and terrible for the past two days. This morning I was preparing for a project status meeting and optimistically set up a little mise-en-scene with some of his favorite plastic animals to distract him. I even created a tempting animal trail, which led from one end of the couch to the animals. He did not take the bait but instead flopped around the couch asking for a series of things so rapidly that I felt like I was in Toddler Boot camp. Water! No...juice! No, water with ice (spilled)! MORE ICE WATER! Orange (not touched though lovingly peeled by yours truly)! Coffee (well, that was mine but he spilled it all over his two favorite blankets when I fricking needed it way more than they did)! I eventually had to move my meeting to an hour later so I could get the creep down for a nap.
I've yet to finish hand-crafting the eighty holiday party invitations for the SOCIAL CLUB I'm somehow now a part of so now I must go do that. If there's any way to win over a stodgy New England township, it's with glitter-glued snowmen scotch-taped to cardstock. Townspeople; love me, love my crafts.
Posted by Max at November 9, 2005 02:00 AM
Comments
I've been thinking about the Yahoo photo phenomenon for quite some time now, and I think I've finally figured it out. By far the most mysterious thing to me was that so many of the pictures of scantily-clad women were in the "Most E-mailed" section rather than "Most Viewed". I could understand them getting lots of pageviews, but for one person to actively e-mail, using the Yahoo form? Did not compute.
But then I realized recently that there are hundreds of thousands of pubescent heterosexual boys trolling the internet right now, and if there's anything that they like, it's pictures of scantily-clad women. I mean, if I'd grown up in this age, I know *I* would certainly be hunting down photos from the latest Parisian fashion show and sharing with my close circle of friends.
Posted by: Eric at November 9, 2005 02:14 PM