Day: September 28, 2004

From an interview with Bruce Springsteen in today’s Salon:

The free press is supposed to be the lifeline and the blood of democracy. That is the position of responsibility that those institutions have. Those things are distorted by ratings and by money to where you’re getting one hour of the political conventions. No matter how staged they are, I think they’re a little more important than people eating bugs. I think that for those few nights, the political life of the nation should take priority, and the fact that it so casually does not means something is wrong. If you want to watch people eating bugs, that’s fine, I can understand that, too, but let’s do it on another night.

Maybe — I don’t really believe this, but just maybe — if they had the candidates eating bugs…

So much of the spam I get is illegible garbage, it’s almost nice to get some that’s for an actual product — even if that product is only technically legal, and even if the website in question may not itself be legitimate. (I don’t receommend you actually buy this stuff.)

But still, it’s not an ad for viagra — or whatever the misspelling du jour happens to be — and that’s something. Not much, or enough, but something.

I got another piece of spam that apparently used a scene from Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance as filler. Not quite as good as Maxim Does the Classics (found through Bookslut), but it’s something.