Loading ...12 people subscribe to the Shattered Prayer news feed. Twelve people we never hear a peep out of. 12 lurkers. Eek, creepy.
Twelve.
Maybe they’re disciples. Maybe they’re the rest of my coven. Who knows?
Well, I want to know. This is an audience participation blog, so don’t just lurk - participate. Even if its just to say hello and introduce yourself.
We’re some of the nicest folks you’d ever want to meet. Really we are. We’re easygoing, non-judgmental (except when we’re being really judgmental) and we don’t discriminate against anyone (though we occasionally mock people, or each other).
Okay, so three of you subscribe through Bloglines, which is a pretty convenient service. I used to use it myself. Three people subscribe through Netvibes, which is what I use nowadays. Three people use Feedblitz. One uses Yahoo, one uses Topic Blogs, and one uses something weird. I think that last one might be Bas. He’s savvy enough to use a feed-reader, whereas R the P and Mojo… They don’t seem like News-feed kind of people, but you never know. Shelley may also read us via feed (hi Shelley! *waving*).
But the rest of you - Come on now, all I’m asking is for one little comment. One little hello. We don’t bite.
Unless you want us to.
Buy me a beer!
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If they are the disciples, they’ll want to know what’s the buzz. Tell us whats a happening!
Mojo says they are probably all him at his various computer sites (business, laptop, etc.) I don’t subscribe. I’m so lazy I don’t even put Shattered Prayer into my bookmarks even though I visit it several times a day. Every single time, I type in “Shatteredprayer.com.”
Pathetic really.
I hate to say it, because it will lead the lurkers into further hiding, but since I read “Who are you?” as the title to this post, I have had a song in my head.
Is it “Who are you?” by the Who.
That would make sense.
But no.
It is worse.
It is Shirley Bassey.
Where are you?
Why do you hide?
Where is the moonlight trail
That leads to your side?
Yes. That is right. The stupid theme tune to Moonraker!
Just like the Moonraker goes
in search of his dreams of gold!
Come to think of it, Che, that last bit would certainly fit what is happening in your life right now. Although dreams of $3 from FEMA is hardly dreams of gold.
It won’t leave my head! Complete sappy crap that, by the way, had NOTHING to do with a space shuttle spy caper.
Where are you?
When will we meet?
Take my unfinished life
And make it complete!
It is funny that the same woman who sang that sappy theme tune also sang the more powerful (and capitalistic) theme tune to “Diamonds are Forever”
I don’t need love
For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me.
For when love’s gone.
They luster on!
Gold and Diamonds. That’s what you need Che.
I beg your pardon.
Of course I meant DAME Shirley Bassey.
Hey Big Spender!
Spend a little time with me.
Believe it or not, I type ’shatteredprayer.com’ into my browser everytime I come here. I have my back-end bookmarked, but not my front page. And I really don’t need an RSS feed for it - I already KNOW what I wrote. Its not like I’d pull up my RSS feed and go “wow! thats a surprise”.
For some reason, it doesn’t surprise me that you got the “moonraker” themesong in your head that way. Thats just you, gotta be different. However, I didn’t hear the Who song in MY head until YOU mentioned it, and now it won’t go away. I was never a big Who fan, and that song was probably one of their worst, and now I’m stuck with it. Thanks R the P.
So no one owns up to reading this blog except R the P? I can’t blame you people really. I write the damned thing and don’t want to own up to it. If I ever run for president or get investigated by the FBI, I suppose I’ll have to shut the thing down.
I did dream about my blog last night. Now thats pretty sad.
I apologize for getting “Who are You” by the Who in your head. I couldn’t get Dame Shirley Bassey (She’s Welsh, grew up in Cardiff — Who knew?) out of my head, so I went to You Tube and pulled up Moonraker (the best version was some fan video of Lee Adama and President Roslyn quietly in love). And then I listened to her sing Diamonds are Forever, and Goldfinger, and the theme to Love Story.
And finally watched her sing “Hey, Big Spender” in honor of Prince Phillip’s 80th birthday. That was a bit surreal.
She really liked those theme tunes.
And quiet people out there — are you afraid of embarrassing yourself by your comments on the Shattered Prayer?
How can you be?! I just said that I You Tubed Shirley Bassey! Now that is just gay! You can’t get any more embarrassing things than what we put up here.
All except Bas — he plays it cool. He never says what condiment he’d put up his butt. Stays above the fray. Gotta admire that about ol’ Bas!
I have to admit that I too had that song by The Who in my head as soon as I read the title. Unfortunately.
FWIW, Che, I have your RSS feed on my work PC and my personal laptop, but I only have two RSS feeds and they’re right in my FF toolbar. I don’t use any official readers. Too annoying. I have SP bookmarked on my FF Bookmarks Toolbar on all my computers. Can’t bear to type it in every time.
Not sure what the lurkers are about… maybe they feel a little shy given that we all know each other in RL? Don’t be shy folks, really!
Well, I have to get back to work. Looks like a winter storm is coming our way and I have to get home soon…
Shelley waving back!
I subscribe to you through both my work and my home email through feedblitz. So I’m two of the twelve. R the P is right it’s probably all of us subscribing from every machine we have. Now that’s pathetic!
I was subscribing through my work email until the blogathon of last year and then once I started sending you comments and you made me laugh even more than you already do with your postings I subscribed through my home account too. That’s my big ole subscribing story.
Now how absolutely exciting was that?
Shelley
Hooray - Shelley owned up to being a subscriber.
Thank you Shelley. Not many people would admit (under their real name) to subscribing to a blog that discusses butt-condiments.
So Mojo has claimed a couple of subscriptions, Shelly has two of the feedblitzes. And I have just discovered that I’m accidentally subscribed to this feed via Netvibes, so that accounts for one of the Netvibes subscriptions.
I guess I’d better explain how that happened before people start thinking I’m pathetic enough to subscribe to my own feeds.
I wanted to submit my feeds to Netvibes’ network, but in order to do that, I had to have the feed already on one of my Netvibes tabs, so I added myself long enough to get my feed into the network, but then forgot it was there. (Its on a tab I rarely look at). I discovered it today when I was organising my tabs. So…
thats my story and I’m sticking to it. But that still leaves 6 or 7 silent subscribers unaccounted for.
Fess up!
Guilty! Got a feed reader called ‘SharpReader’. Don’t launch it that much as i have so many subscriptions i get innundated with worthwhile news! Maybe once every forthnight.
And then ShatterdPrayer.com is my number one toolbar tab in FF. And i called it ‘Che!’. (Noumenal is two…
Sometimes i check from work through FF. (I hope you get good credit for hooking me up with FireFox Che!!) No feed though.
And i love DAME Shirley Bassey (didn’t know about the nighthood.. damn right too.)
I melt with her on The Rhythm Divine by Yello.
Anyone ever been to Cardiff? I’d like to go there one day. I’ve been to Wales to attend a wedding. I love the Welsh. The more since this Welsh woman tried to teach me to say ‘cheers’ in Welsh all night. Can’t even remember what it was, but it became more difficult with every pint…
But back to feedlurkers.. I’m sure ShatteredPrayer is attended by scientists of various social sciences.. mmm.. NSA… Secret Service.. FEMA? Mmm.. Relatives. Exes. Future exes?
Shelley the Most Secretive
(Hi Shelley!!!! :Hug
Anyone else… Yeah… Well anyone! Please dial in and join the fun!!
I know how to say ‘caterpillar’ in Welsh. Can’t spell it though. I also know how to say ‘caterpillar’ in the Isle of Wight language. (Wightish?).
You might be wondering why caterpillar is a word I know in many languages, but its not something I can explain in words. A picture is worth a thousand words, but its a picture I’ll have to import from my old, fried HD.
Bas, whats Dutch for caterpillar?
It’s a ‘rups’.
Like ‘ups’ as in ups and downs but with a horrific rolling-tongue ‘R’ in front.
I think ‘grubs’ might be related
And if you need anything from that HD, i think that could have well survived. It’s probably just sticking it in another system and retrieve the data. If you miss important things, it’s worth a try…