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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2022.12.17

Somewhere out there is a chef named Melissa Werneburg. Somehow, I started getting email for her about a decade ago. Now it seems that her account has made the big time because I'm getting non-stop spam addressed to "Melissa". Since this is passing through Google's hands, I would have expected the spam to largely be filtered out but .. not so much. I wouldn't have guessed that spam would make a big come-back in '22 but here we are.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009