While I suspect it’s ultimately a futile gesture, there is something deeply satisfying about signing one spam e-mail address up for another spammer’s advertised services.
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I know at least one or two former members of the Penn State Monty Python Society read this website (and I certainly talk about the group often enough), so I thought I’d take the opportunity to let you know that the website has, at long last, finally been updated. As I wrote in last night’s issue of Completely Different, you’ll find:
- a completely redesigned, re-simplified layout
- in-depth information about the Society, including who we are, what we do, and what sort of ointment you should use in the unfortunate case you become infected
- local media coverage of the Monty Python Society going back as far as 1981, including our responses to articles written about us, as well as many articles you won’t find in The Daily Collegian archives
- the entire 2001-2002 collection of newsletters now available in easy-to-download PDF format
- a plethora of Completely Different articles and reviews from the early to mid-1990s, including Alyce Wilson’s “Choose Your Own Personal Hell” and an exclusive interview with Monty Python member Terry Jones
- mp3-format sound clips from the Monty Python Society’s best-selling 2001 CD, “Sex, Drugs, and Graham Spanier”
- links to other Monty Python societies and humorous websites, and not just cheap clip joints for picking up tarts — that was right out, we deny that completely
- a retrospective of past Monty Python Society events including, but not limited to:
- the Ides of October Mystery (from Wimpy the Gerbil and the Coke-In to Neuter the Lion and Squirrel Fishing);
- Homecoming (including new photographs and rarely seen background on no less than six different parades);
- the Mall Climb (inverting gravity from 1992 to 2002, often with gratuitous pictures of people’s butts);
- the Upperclassman Twit of the Year Competition (complete with rules and results);
- our spring 2002 night of live sketches; and
- our East Halls improv experiment, which left fifty dead and which many blame for current tensions in the Middle East
- and a guest book, which you may sign if you think you’ll have nothing better to do on a Saturday night
I don’t know how interesting any of this would be to outsiders, but I guess I could say pretty much the same thing about this weblog.
I don’t know what parallel universe my Weather Pixie is living in, but it isn’t raining here. In fact, it’s been about as sunny as central Pennsylvania gets in mid-winter.
Where does the week go? Once more from the top, the Friday Five:
1. Where do you currently work? Penn State University
2. How many other jobs have you had and where? I worked at a Rite-Aid drugstore the summer after my senior year in high school. Then at a seasonal furniture/pool supplies store for the three summers after that. I worked at the campus bookstore, run by Barnes & Noble, for just over two years after I graduated from college. At the same time, I worked in this office part-time for about a year and a half before the full-time position became available.
3. What do you like best about your job? They money. Before this I was earning only about $7 an hour. It’s also less physically demanding work than the shipping and receiving department of the bookstore (which is a mixed blessing), and I have much more freedom. I also have my own office, which is nice.
4. What do you like least about your job? Being honest here could get me in trouble.
5. What is your dream job? Writer, editor, bon vivant.