I like to go through this site's logs to find out if anyone is linking to me. Last month I noticed that Howard Zinn's website somehow links to me. I was unable to find out where, or what they were linking to. I didn't immediately recognize who Howard Zinn is, but it turns out I know his work. He wrote the well-known book A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present. I haven't actually read that book yet, but I probably will someday. In this graph that I've already written about, his book would probably be to the far left.
Anyway, yesterday I noticed a very peculiar phenomenon. A site called kellyclarkson.ca was linking to a picture of my feet. What the hell? So I go to the site and figure out that Kelly Clarkson is the person who won American Idol. Well, now I know. The link came from the Kelly Clarkson Message Board, which you have to register for to read. So I swallowed my pride, and registered. Let me say that the quality of discourse on the board is not very high. And I don't think there's a male to be found there. But the picture of my feet was evidently illustrating a joke about big feet, on a topic devoted to short women. I'm not sure I even understood the joke. I don't know where that poster found my feet from, but I looked at her profile and found out she and I are the same age. Perhaps it's someone I know. But, I'm not about to start a conversation with someone based on a picture of my feet. It's just too weird.
Posted by ahyatt at April 8, 2003 09:02 AM