John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. I thought this might be fun so I decided to join in.
Last week’s featured photo was one I took atop Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park in 2012. This week’s feature photo was also taken at Golden Gate Park, but in 2017. It’s of one of the two large windmills toward the west end of the park.
If you’re from the Netherlands, I’d imagine that windmills like this are a relatively common sight, but here in the U.S., you just don’t see too many of these relics from an earlier time. We are fortunate enough to have two of them in our beautiful Golden Gate Park.
If you wish to participate in this fun cellphone photo prompt, please click on the link to John’s post at the top of my post to see his photo and to read his instructions.
I get some interesting spam comments on my blog, most of which are captured by Akismet, WordPress’ spam blocker. I generally do a mass delete of all of my spam comments after checking to see if any legitimate comments got caught up in Akismet’s spam-catching net.
I thought it might be fun to select a particularly interesting or unique or outrageous spam comment and highlight it each week.
I’ve actually got two short ones to share with you this week. This first one was a really high “quaoity” comment made in response to one of my Story Starter prompts:
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This next short comment was in response to my “Who Am I” about me page.
Great post, I think website owners should acquire a lot from this web site its very user pleasant.
I’m thrilled to have my blog characterized as being “very user pleasant.”
Anyway, have you read some catchy spam comments that you’d like to share with us? If so, put them in the comments or create your own post and tag it #FSCW.
When Jim Adams gave us songs by Indie Rock or Indie Pop groups as this week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme, I was at a loss. I had to Google “Indie Rock Songs” and when I did, it didn’t help much. I didn’t recognize any of the songs or artists. Except for one. “Somebody Told Me” from The Killers. I recognized this song because The Killers is one of my daughter’s favorite bands and “Somebody Told Me” is one of her favorite songs by that band.
The Killers is an alternative rock, indie rock band. “Somebody Told Me” was a song released as the second official single from the group’s debut studio album Hot Fuss in 2004. The song was written by band members Brandon Flowers, Mark Stoermer, Dave Keuning and Ronnie Vannucci Jr.
When the Killers first started out, their music was little noticed by music buyers and the media, which is why “Somebody Told Me” has been released twice in slightly different forms. The first release was little noticed and had poor sales. But after being re-released, the single peaked at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, it charted at number 28 upon its first release in March 2004, becoming the band’s first hit in the Top 40. When it was re-released in January 2005, it reached number three. In 2009, it was voted at number nine in XFM’s Top 100 Songs of the Decade.
Flowers said the song is a look inside the mind of a young man laden with testosterone and libido. “We were going out to clubs a lot at the time,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “It speaks to a young man’s frustration, the difficulty of picking up girls.” Flowers was 20 or 21 at the time he wrote the lyrics and said, “I was just trying to write about what I was doing and seeing in these indie nightclubs in Vegas. I was listening to Pulp and David Bowie, trying to channel all of that stuff.”
Here are the lyrics to “Somebody Told Me.”
Breakin' my back just to know your name Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game A breakin' my back just to know your name But Heaven ain't close in a place like this Anything goes but don't blink, you might miss 'Cause Heaven ain't close in a place like this I said Heaven ain't close in a place like this Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight (hoo hoo) Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year It's not confidential, I've got potential
Ready let's roll onto something new Takin' it's toll then I'm leaving without you 'Cause Heaven ain't close in a place like this I said Heaven ain't close in a place like this Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight (hoo hoo) Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year It's not confidential, I've got potential
A rushing, rushing around
Pace yourself for me (for me) I said maybe, baby, please (please) But I just don't know now (baby, baby) When all I want to do is try
Well somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year It's not confidential, I've got potential
A rushing, rushing around
Now somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year It's not confidential, I've got potential
A rushing, rushing around
Somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year It's not confidential, I've got potential
It’s December 4, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “flabbergasted.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
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