Today in the Referrer Logs
Imagine my shock on learning that I come in as the #2 entry in a Google search for "Adel Al-jubeir fan page." Actually, first imagine my shock that anyone would actually do a search for an "Adel Al-jubeir fan page." Do Saudi spokespeople generally have fan clubs? But let me make this perfectly clear - I am not a fan of Adel Al-Jubeir. In fact, I am quite far from being a fan of his. So anyone searching for his fan page is more than welcome to jump off a bridgemove right along.
My only consolation? That I'm not the #1 entry in such a search. That honor goes to Robin Roberts' Final Protective Fire. Go figure. I'm quite sure that Robin isn't a fan of his either.
Comments
Take comfort.
The searcher didn't do the search correctly. By not doing this: Adel Al-jubeir "fan page" all he or she got was this response.
In other words, zilch.
Posted by: Mom | December 8, 2002 03:08 PM
hey lesley,
no comments here about muslim fan pages. rather, i notice you're reading grafton's latest. i mention it because i used to be a huge grafton fan, but she kind of lost me around the letter j (tho i have read up through 'o'). i think she cheats by keeping her detective in the 80's, when she started writing her, to avoid the use of the internet and cell phones...what, there's no private detectives in the new millenium?
oh well. do you read michael connolly at all?
Posted by: skippy | December 8, 2002 03:54 PM
Hey Skippy. Grafton seems to be writing very chronologically, so that one book follows pretty immediately after another. I think there's another point to that, in that Kinsey is, IMO, very clearly Grafton's alter ego (the physical description of Kinsey tracks very closely to pictures of Grafton). But I do find it hard to remember that she's still in the 80s myself, as I keep expecting her to whip out a cell phone when she's in trouble.
Kay Scarpetta, at least, exists in the new millennium, although she's not a private detective. I hear Cornwell won't be setting the new Scarpetta in Richmond, which is good. I had gotten past the ability to suspend disbelief that every killer in Richmond goes after Kay and her loved ones.
I read one Michael Connelly book, "The Poet." I enjoyed it, but haven't picked up another one since. Perhaps I should, since I just finished "Lost" and am at a loss (no pun intended) as to what to read next. For Gregory Maguire fans, "Lost" is nowhere near as good as "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" or "Wicked." Although I still haven't finished Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. Perhaps I should pick those up again too.
Posted by: Lesley | December 8, 2002 04:29 PM