Let's review the rules:

On other sites, they provide content. If you like it, you come back.

Here, I wait until my traffic stats come in. If you've been good readers and have stopped by frequently enough, I give you something to read.

It's the "tough love" approach to blogging, and I feel that it's good for you.

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Did you miss me?

I missed you.

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1 I did. No offense to Cal Tech Girl, meant or implied.

Posted by: Darrell at November 24, 2006 08:43 PM (ohaAk)

2 I mised you. Cal Tech Girl is nice, but I missed you.

Posted by: Chuck at November 24, 2006 11:12 PM (Z9XDk)

3 Who are you?

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at November 25, 2006 03:14 PM (1hM1d)

4 Welcome back! I did notice you were gone, too. I did.

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5 Hello my boy I love you so much! Woold like anymore informatons about gambler help pseudo ephedrine side effects of medication evista klonopin anxiety cz jewelry Kind regards!

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If I print up a book of my poems, produced from when I was 15 to around 25, and sold it here, would you buy it?

It'll be a small volume of angry mutterings about the dark side of human sexuality, along with meditations on the importance of fast cars and loud rock music. Some rhyme and many do not.

It's terribly deep.

I think I'd like $12-$15 a volume for it.

Basically, I'm looking to make a quick buck, here. And who can blame me?

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1 One of the basics of marketing is the free sample - get them to want more by giving them a taste.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at June 24, 2006 05:55 AM (DdRjH)

2 Yes. I've considered that, but of course I cannot publish them all online, or there would be no point in anyone buying the book. So stay tuned. I'll start blogging a few of 'em.

Posted by: Attila Girl at June 24, 2006 09:31 AM (4IuF2)

3 How deep? We are pretty shallow, you know. We don't want to drown, either. And would there be porn? I mean "art"? I've heard that sells a lot of things these days. Research proves research works! How angry? Mo Do angry? The gentler sex doesn't like to mix sexuality with anger like that!

Posted by: Darrell at June 24, 2006 11:40 AM (Bol+p)

4 No, not MoDo angry.

Posted by: Attila Girl at June 24, 2006 09:47 PM (4IuF2)

5 Make it $3.00 and PDF. If it sells big you might get a print publisher to take it on. And don't worry about free on-line publication of the whole magilla, that only whets the appetite for a real book.

Posted by: Alan Kellogg at June 24, 2006 09:51 PM (hY1v8)

6 Sell it by the word. Make them real good words, and raise the price. Maybe 10 cents each. Hemingway was paid more than any writer in history, $5,000 for a 1,000 word article by Esquire. That's $5 a word, but, of course, he had a following at the time that extended beyond Key West.

Posted by: clyde at June 30, 2006 08:36 AM (6m+7s)

7 My words are freakin' prodigious.

Posted by: Attila Girl at June 30, 2006 10:52 AM (4IuF2)

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Wow. Three DDoS attacks over the weekend. Fortunately, our hero Pixy fixed 'em with his Australian kung fu.

With guys like Ace in Munuvia, we're going to have problems. But the jihadis just can't compete, because 1) Westerners can get help from the wimmin in solving problems, and 2) Christian, Jewish, and normal Muslim men get laid more than Islamonutters. So they can concentrate better. Even setting aside our chick brain trust, we'd come out ahead.

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Test.

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I would rest on them.

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Hm. I'm starting to think I need to get some more RAM into this machine, ASAP. I wrote a brilliant post—okay: it was stuffy, quasi-literary, and rather dull—over at The American Mind, and Sean's MT wouldn't take it.

I mean, my overwrought prose is safe in a Word file, but I need to fix this problem. The difficulty is definitely here, rather than at Sean's website, because I'm experiencing similar incidents with other interactive sites, and my relationship with my e-mail program has turned downright quarrelsome. (It has always reserved the right to decide that my password is somehow wrong, but it's doing this more and more often. In fact, I think it's determined to make me its punk.)

The computer is just . . . well, it's pale, and ill, a shadow of its former self. I know you guys try to discourage me from putting medications into it through the CD-Rom drive, but I thought a few iron pills might pep it up a bit. Or I could just stick some raisins in there . . .

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Clients to feed. Sorry.

You can always check out my blogroll, and let me know which addresses therein are obsolete. (I haven't pruned it in a while.)

Or, you know. Read an ook-bay.

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Blogads is once more sponsoring several surveys of niches within the blogosphere, and would like your responses to a few questions if you regard yourself as a reader of "political blogs."

I guess my being chosen to send readers over indicates that I'm considered a political weblog, rather than "politics + Joy's angst + household hints." That's all to the good.

Should you decide to take the survey have at it, and make sure to use "Little Miss Attila" as your answer to question #23.

Remember: more responses means sharper marketing of blogads. This translates into Actual Revenue for your favorite sites, and more Bitchin' Free Content you can read on company time. Everyone goes away happy.

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1 Where are those household hints? I've got a stain and no club soda. I'm screwed!

Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at March 01, 2006 11:34 PM (JAozc)

2 Try using a cigarette to burn away the stain. It always works for me. Bonus tip: Dye your underwear to match the color of what is above... Survey filled! Anything else?

Posted by: Darrell at March 02, 2006 10:07 AM (ZcVKO)

3 Not now, though you may be getting an e-mail from me later with sooper secrud orders I received this morning from Karl Rove.

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 02, 2006 10:48 AM (s96U4)

4 I'll be on warm-standby until further notice, Fearless Leader! Awaiting orders. Your system keeps giving a "Invalid [] range "d-c" in regex; marked by" message. I've misplaced my secret decoder ring. Can you translate?

Posted by: Darrell at March 02, 2006 04:43 PM (Z5mma)

5 Translation: I need to get help from one of the tech-savvy Munuvians. (Though they've been working on the "overexuberent blacklist" issue, and will soon be issuing guidelines for the low-tech people [like me] so we can de-spam quickly without screwing up the blacklist.)

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 02, 2006 07:20 PM (s96U4)

6 I knew they were "sweet nothings," I just did! And why does Karl Rove want me to clean your greasetrap? Not that I ever question his orders...

Posted by: Darrell at March 02, 2006 08:59 PM (PcgN9)

7 Karl would also like you to help me clean the stove. He's quite the neatnik, Mr. R.

Posted by: Attila Girl at March 02, 2006 09:06 PM (s96U4)

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. . . will mark my third anniversary as a blogger. Since I never got around to moving my archives over from the old site, I'll have to celebrate by seeing to that next month.

I'm also thinking of re-running some of my old posts from the run-up to our invasion of Iraq. This is my first entry ever:

I wish people would do their homework. I wish half of those who think they oppose our impending invasion of Iraq would do basic things--like researching international law (if not "just war" theory), Saddam's atrocities, and the opinions of the Iraqis themselves, who simply want to be free. The protesters here in the U.S. rail against a government that is trying to make it possible for Iraqis to protest *their* government. As opposed to the current situation, in which Iraqis of any stripe can be imprisoned and tortured for breathing a critical word.

All the "arguments" I hear against the war so far--with the possible exception of one--have been patent nonsense. None have been based in fact. Unless you count the made-up "fact" that invading Iraq will somehow line the pockets of those in the administration who have ties to the Evil Oil Companies. The only pockets likely to get lined are those of the French and Russian companies who have contracts with Iraq and are scared that a regime change will be bad for business. (And then there are the French and Russian suppliers of material--and the French outright building Saddam a nuclear reactor.)

It's crazy. Children all over California today left their classes to demonstrate for torture. And they don't even know it. That's the amazing thing.

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1) Someone should pick up my left-hand premium slot ("Little Miss Attila Gold"). This particular position has been very successful in the past for clients such as Americans for Rice and Conservative Thinking.

2) I'm making arrangements for my trip to DC, so please "renew" your "subscription" by hitting my tip jar (the Paypal button at left). Your cash donations will help to pay for:

• a red-eye flight to the East Coast;

• peanut butter, jelly and bread, hidden away in my hotel room to keep me from wasting away in the nation's foremost Fat Metropolis;

• one overpriced gin and tonic at the hotel (I'm trying to make my budget realistic).

If you're conservative, I'm going to D.C. to help the cause. If you're a liberal, I'm going to "fight from the inside." Either way, the world will be a better place with me covering CPAC. Gas prices will be lower, birds will sing, and your spouse will be available for nearly nonstop sex.

Thanks.

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1 Well, that last one certainly got my attention!

Posted by: Desert Cat at January 13, 2006 03:49 PM (B2X7i)

2 Do you provide a spouse too?

Posted by: Kathy K at January 13, 2006 05:09 PM (ntspN)

3 Just realized that might be taken wrong - I mean a spouse of my own - not a loaner.

Posted by: Kathy K at January 13, 2006 05:11 PM (ntspN)

4 There's an additional charge for that

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 13, 2006 08:35 PM (/y+/O)

5 Available to whom? I don't like the sound of this! I'll subscribe...but only if it is used for the final drink that gets you dancing on table tops...

Posted by: Darrell at January 13, 2006 09:54 PM (lv/gh)

6 Available to whom? Sheesh. Guys are so insecure. Fascinating, what a Y chromosome will do to a person. Do you need a digital pic of that table-top dance?

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 13, 2006 10:31 PM (/y+/O)

7 Yes, please! On second thought, I better stick to my imagination...I'm past my "best if used by" date...Enjoy your trip!

Posted by: Darrell at January 13, 2006 10:37 PM (lv/gh)

8 Note to the estrogen-impaired: Kathy's second comment crossed my first one "in the mail." I was joking about my services as a matchmaker, not a pimp. Although I wonder if pimping might be a bit more lucrative.

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 13, 2006 10:41 PM (/y+/O)

9 Available to whom? As long as I get to watch.

Posted by: Desert Cat at January 13, 2006 11:37 PM (xdX36)

10 Confess, Desert Cat, you somehow managed to be thinking about Angelina Jolie when you wrote that. I sacrificed that digital picture for the sake of your political career, I'll have you know, LMA! Those things only help when you are trying to get elected in Italy. Too much of the campaign budget is already allocated to keeping all your past "excesses" away from the press. The budget being what it is, we will have them riding city buses all day long.

Posted by: Darrell at January 14, 2006 12:20 PM (cUMtc)

11 It's okay about DC's wife--I already sent Daisy Cat a note, informing her of the new rules . . .

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 14, 2006 05:50 PM (/y+/O)

12 Ha! You didn't either, else I'd have certainly heard about it.

Posted by: Desert Cat at January 16, 2006 11:07 PM (xdX36)

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Please do so.

And for the question that has to do with "how did you first hear about Little Miss Attila," please do not reply:

• We shared a pitcher of Sangria at Bicyle Shop Cafe in the 80s; you were sooooo fucked up.

or

• I had a wild, yet longstanding affair with your husband before he was your husband.

or

• I lost my virginity to you.

Thank you for following these guildelines.

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1 The Cotillion . . .

Posted by: Sissy Willis at January 03, 2006 03:52 PM (mrcD4)

2 But if they're true?

Posted by: Desert Cat at January 03, 2006 07:11 PM (xdX36)

3 Especially if they are true! ...The Campaign Staff

Posted by: Darrell at January 03, 2006 10:23 PM (XeCgX)

4 Glad someone's got my back

Posted by: Attila Girl at January 03, 2006 10:43 PM (zZMVu)

5 I've been pondering why I visit this site (not that you asked except in the initial surver), and by extension why I visit the other sites in my favorites list. Some blogs I like because of their free ranging nature and links to things I don't have the time to search out on my own (Instapundit, for example). Other blogs I like because they post thoughtful commentary and provide new perspective (Power Line, Belmont Club). Some, like yours, I visit because I enjoy the blogger's "voice." Writing style, attitudes, opinions, whatever. And those blogs invariably also have another feature, which is the interplay in the comments, especially when the blogger takes part. In the early days of Slate's "The Fray" I was a frequent participant. I gave up around the 2000 election, when some commentors began wishing for Dick Cheney to have a fatal heart attack. In my proud history as a Bill Clinton Despiser (VRWC membership number in the low three digits) I never heard anyone wish for the things to happen to Clinton and his cohorts that are routine amongst the fever swamp of the left today. So the give and take of civil debate is good, as is the friendly banter among people who have never been face to face. But the Sangria thing, and the virginity bit? Was that you? Sorry, I was really wasted that day. I meant to call, but your husband and I went to Cabo the next morning.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at January 04, 2006 09:27 PM (eguza)

6 Beautiful atrocities. The link to Fuck the Palestinians.

Posted by: Stuart Fullerton at January 04, 2006 11:01 PM (vBxdP)

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Darleen's on duty, I see. Cool.

I'll be leaving tomorrow morning at an obscenely early hour and flying to Hawaii to accompany my husband to a charity fundraising event for a few days.

If anyone has on-the-ground information about the weather conditions in Honolulu, let me know. Otherwise, I'm just going to pretend that I'm going to the East Coast in the summertime (that exotic humidity thing), but I'm taking a jacket in case the wind off the sea chills my thin California blood.

I might check in one more time before we head out, but I'm going to try not to make this another "pre-trip all-nighter," so we'll see. And naturally, I'll at least try to say hello from the land of Five-O. I'll be pretty busy out there, however—and I know you're in good hands.

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You're a doll.

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Which means that I'll very likely go back to the local Genius Bar, point to my PowerBook, and say "make it happy again!" (The Mac people really look forward to these little chats.)

Then I'll go and get ecto to streamline my blogging life. Yay!

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1 I love Ecto.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at September 23, 2005 01:03 PM (UquFN)

2 The Mac people really look forward to these little chats. I'm sure they do!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 23, 2005 05:15 PM (QriEg)

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I just wanted you to know that some of our best people are working on my technical problems, and we should have entree-size entries soon. By "our best people," of course, I mean Pixy Misa.

He's going to try creating a medium-length entry here, so we can see if it's something related to my computer (which it probably is).

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From now on, this blog will be structured like the movie Memento, and will not make sense until the very beginning/end. Also, it might be a little fragmented.

But that will make it more interesting.

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Sorry about the broken link in the entry below. My lords and masters at Movable Type have decided that changing a closing to tag to [/a] vs. [/i] would make the post too long and ruin everything.

It's like being on a verbosity diet.

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. . . maybe MT has my best interests at heart. My traffic is up, so I suppose the shorter posts are working.

It's a sobering thought, if you want to know the truth.

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. . . it might be something horrifyingly simple, like I'm typing evil control characters into my entries by mistake, since I'm a lousy typist?

But I've been a lousy typist for years, and why would MT choose this particular moment to judge me for it?

(Not that I'm taking any of this personally, you understand. But you try being rejected by a computer program and see how you feel!)

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