Category: Blogging

I’ve been getting a lot of SPAM lately – and fortunately (thanks to WordPress) it is filtered out.

SPAM…it isn’t just a weird pork product.

Thank goodness for the wonderful folks at WordPress and their SPAM filters.

I’ve been getting a lot of SPAM lately – and fortunately it is filtered out.

But  sometimes wonder WTF those SPAMMERS think when they send out posts in bad/broken English, weird thoughts and sometimes insulting comments. From what I’ve seen, WordPress bloggers aren’t a stupid bunch.

Below is the crop from the past few days:

 

keep informed and read a lot and you will be always writing awesome articles like this one. just an advice.

Heya i’m for the first time here. I found this board and I in finding It really helpful & it helped me out a lot. I am hoping to provide something back and help others such as you helped me.

i don’t get what you’ve said, but i always appreciate different points of views.

You made some really good points there. I checked on the web for more info about the issue and found most people will go along with your views on this website.

i totally agree with you in this subject, i identify myself with your opinion, that’s good.

I really like your blog.. very nice colors & theme. Did you design this website yourself or did you hire someone to do it for you? Plz respond as I’m looking to design my own blog and would like to know where u got this from. thanks a lot

please when you’re posting, do it carefully not to say the wrong thing.

Write more, thats all I have to say. Literally, it seems as though you relied on the video to make your point. You definitely know what youre talking about, why throw away your intelligence on just posting videos to your weblog when you could be giving us something informative to read?

Greetings , men! Do you enjoy having great pastime in a company willing sweethearts? We want to suggest being with greatest temptresses 

I was curious if you ever thought of changing the structure of your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having 1 or two pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?

__________________________ end of SPAM

The little nasty Internet robots have been working overtime if they found a blog written by me. But then again, I bet all bloggers get this.

I own my own URL for my personal email and it  took over 10 years for the SPAMMERS to find me. I wonder if that’s a record.

The problem with this stuff is that unfortunately there are people who take it in. I’ve had to tell the elders in my life NOT to open email they don’t recognize. I’ve had to tell the elders and my kids not to answer phone calls from people they don’t know. I’ve told them all about internet stalkers. We know the difference but unfortunately not everyone else does.

 

Why I want to be stupid famous

Why I want to be stupid famous

  1. So I can have another baby and give it a really stupid name.
  2. So I can get a really ugly jacked up hair cut and see how many women get the same style.
  3. So I can have my own show and flash my big boobs to millions of people (no, really, I do have big boobs)
  4. So I can be really stupid and get paid for it.
  5. So I can one day be on one of those “Whatever happened to…” shows.
  6. So I can be considered “fascinating” by the likes of Barbara Walters.
  7. So I can send my child with the stupid name to a guru when she turns 9.
  8. So I can send my child with the stupid name to rehab when she turns 16.
  9. So I can get $100,000 a month in child support from the father of the child with the really stupid name.
  10. So I can go to rehab every year.
  11. So I can wear ugly dresses in public.
  12. So I can have my own reality TV show and parents everywhere will say to their teens “WHY are you watching that CRAP?”
  13. So I can eat your brain.
  14. So I can drink and drive and not give a crap.
  15. So I can have an affair and write a book about it.
  16. So people will say “Why is she more famous than ______________ ? (fill in the blank with your favorite teacher, artist, scientists, writer, carpenter, doctor, fish and wildlife expert, food bank volunteer….)

 

 

Water Blogged

It was a dark stormy night…and morning. Despite the new roof I discovered my blogging days are numbered. The window in my “office”, which is right in front of my computer is leaking. Leaking is a nice word  – it is gushing and flooding my desk.

My hats off to the nice folks at Dell for making a mouse that can swim. I mopped things up and I’m trying to get a few things done before I move my computer to dryer ground (downstairs) and of course before I get some sort of electrical shock.

My mouse is now sitting on a copy of “Good Night Moon”. I didn’t even realize I had that but it was the first book I grabbed on the shelf next to the built in desk which is under the leaking window.

Where I live storms are big news. Light rain is big news. Streets flood, trees fall, some unfortunate reporter gets sent up to the mountains to stand freezing at Blue Canyon.

And like any writing/blogging idiot I’m blogging/writing. It makes me think of Clark – you know, the creature the kids find in the park in “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”. Clark is an exotic looking creature the children find in a giant jar of water and of course they bring him home.

So I’ll ring out towels and start moving my stuff (and more than likely steal a laptop away from my 13 year old).

In the meantime we have skate practice (artistic roller) and other things to do which will require me to go OUTSIDE.

Wishing you all a safe, comfortable and dry Sunday.

~ MT

Uncle Val’s Advice on Women (for Vampires but it works for everyone)

Just a little fun for a Saturday night – good advice with a little bite to it.

Click here for the story: Uncle Val’s Advice on Women (for Vampires but it works for everyone).

A need you dare not admit.

It is a dark stormy day…

Don’t worry this isn’t the start of a bad novel, and by the title of this post it isn’t a bad romance, bromance or tale of chocolate covered anything.

It is a link to poetry…STOP RIGHT THERE. Do not go away.

A lot of people claim they don’t like poetry. That is because it was force fed to them in Middle School and High School in the most boring way possible. And it was usually some horrible Victorian dribble about Grecian Urns or some long forgotten battle. Yuck, I mean, what 15 year old wouldn’t fall asleep (and if you were wide awake eating it up don’t worry. I liked the stuff too. But I was the exception.)

Anyway, thanks to the wonders of the Internet thousands, if not millions have discovered poetry. Words and feelings they never imagined. Words of beauty and discovery and hope and faith and longing. Words of horror and humor and fantasy.

And YOU too can write poetry. Just let the words flow.

In the meantime I highly recommend you take a look at the blog posting link I’ve posted below. You’ll be surprised at the variety of the poems featured. You’ll like it. Take my word on that.

CLICK HERE: A Need You Dare Not Admit: http://vampiremaman.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/poetry-on-a-vampire-mom-blog-why-ill-tell-you-2/

And as always – thank you for visiting West Coast Review.

~ MT

 

Wine, Spirits and Best Intentions

When I started the West Coast Review blog back in February 2012 I had every intention of creating the “go to” place for wine and spirit reviews, food/cooking, buying local, shopping, travel…

After letting West Coast Review sit for months I’m back…at least back forwarding blogs from others, including my alter ego sister blog (Vampiremaman.wordpress.com.)

I hope to start doing more original postings in the future. I live and work in Northern California but my goal is to create posts that will entertain everyone, no matter where they are.

For today…a review of some Bourbons, Vodkas and a nice Port. Enjoy.

New Favorites From Teddy’s Bar.

~ MT