a thaumaturgical compendium

I thought the whole bibliomancy thing was pretty cool, so I wondered what it would look like for blogs. I wrote a short script that goes out, polls weblogs.com to see who has recently updated their blog, then visits each of these blogs and finds the 8th-to-last sentence. My favorites:

there are always pretty girls when i crawl forward.

Visualize a glowing golden button alongside of each image.

What colour is he – if you can find out and get back to me I’ll see if I can’t find out something about it on the net.

Last nights episode was no different.

You can’t run and hide your head in the sand like Spain recently did

I never pushed the publish button.

I’d live for your smile, and die for your kiss.

I mean seriously stupid stuff – even more stupid than the shit above.

Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Whew, I am so relieved that someone told me this.

The Bible speaks for itself.

Well yesterday my sister forwarded me a picture of my dad – and his cronies!

I mean, despite the fact that he humps his toys, he’s a pretty personable bird.

Is it related to an ork?

Somehow, we entered into semantic confusion.

As I was filling out the answers, I felt my brain hurting.

she kept saying she’d be waiting for me when I came.

Actually, as Anne noted, they can be read as cut-ups, making up a sort of story on their own. It’s pretty fun to read through all of them. Still some small bugs, as you will see, but kind of neat nonetheless. I may set it up to run periodically at some point.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 15th, 2004 at 7:53 pm and is filed under Bibliomancy, Projects.