In my other life I am an artist working in a relatively unknown medium, but I’ve still managed to gain a following among collectors. In that other life, I get to use my writing skills in another way, by creating text-based art from original prose, poetry, out-of-copyright material, and ‘found’ material.
One of my greatest victories was finding a way to create art out of some reprinted and collected spam emails, along with the absolutely amazing names the perps came up with. What can you not do with ‘Bumpkin T. Paraphernalia’ and his cousins?
And I make money off this stuff, to date more than my published writing has made. Not Jeff Koons-levels of moolah, but more than craft-mall levels, I assure you. More than the spammers are making off of me.
So I’m a little disappointed with the quality of the bot-derived email comments I’m getting with this blog. Most of them fail the Turing Test just from their email addresses, to say nothing of the ‘message’. I am saving most of them, with the express purpose of creating art with them someday. But I won’t respond directly, engage the senders, or let this blog become a forum for their business efforts.
Please. Be a reader, a writer, a real person with something to say that actually ties into my feverish ramblings. Even if it’s uncomplimentary, if it’s interesting I might just leave it up.
At least be a little more creative with your spam. There’s an artist here who would like to profit from it.
I hate the spam messages that insult my post-writing abilities.
(Maybe they’re not spam?)
Those are just fishing for a reaction, Lizzy. Ignore them. I just keep getting counterfeit product advertisements with badly-generated text. An insult would be a step up. An insult I could dissect and mock.
I like your review site, BTW. I share your conundrum with ‘clean reads’ – I enjoy them, but I don’t usually read or write them.
For spammers: do you see what I just did, here? Learn from it.