The funniest Myspace spam I have ever read. From Brenda/Tracy

Evidently this is part of two notes, one designed for a man and one for a woman. PLEASE NOTE where the author has a sex/name change in the middle of the note. It is where the !!!!!! is. And, btw he/she had me at "hello (handsome)".

Hello handsome
I like your picture and everything you said on your profile is interesting, anyway My name is brenda am from ohio But Presently in africa...am a sales rep in grocery store but i lost my job the Bcos of m late Mom .....That is why am into buying and selling of goods Beside i own a Little store down in africa..am the only child of my parent before i lost them that is why am here looking for a nice man to start a relationship with and i am new on this website and all i am after is just True love. I am looking for someone who is seriously looking for someone to spend the rest of his life with. I know what I want, I am looking for someone to fall in love with and spend the rest of my life with. My hopes and dreams would be for the rest of my life and eternity! Ive learned through life that love is something that should be cherished and should always be treated with care.I have alot of love to offer someone if its the right person cos I have been waiting a woman who i can love and beloved back.I want and need someone who wants to enjoy true love, and cares enough about it to not play games with it. If You are truly serious about finding Your soulmate , then I would love to talk to you !!!!!! I am a God fearing man and I close to him as I should be. I am a simple man looking for someone to share it with!!!!!!
Someone to make me happy all the time.Someone who is serious minded, always happy, nice,caring,lovely,trustworthy,Godly.I mean someone i can be pround to say this is my wife anywhere at anytime.
Let me know more about you if you wouldn't mind.i beleive you have seen my Picture and have also gone through my profile to see what i want.Get back to me if you think you this person that truely has true love, tell me everything about yourself, send me some pictures of yourself and ask me things you would like to know. I will gladly answer you and then we see what God can do cos i believe we cant get anything done on our own only with the power and grace of God.I hope to hear from you soon. you can add me to your yahoo messenger list so that we can chat better over there..My yahoo IM IS(Yahoo IM deleted - MHN)I Will be waiting for ur adding request Or You can right me on my personal email address which is (email address deleted - MHN)


Tracy

Music Man Jr.

Friday night, on the last night of the run, I went to Waverly Junior High School to see their production of "Music Man, Jr." Having just last weekend finished playing "Oliver Hix" in the Fifth Avenue Theater Company's version of "Meredith Willson's The Music Man", I wanted to see and hear what a Junior High version of the show would be like. It was short, for example, the barbershop number, "Sincere" was trimmed by at least 75%. Several songs were missing entirely, but remember that musicals in the 50s were 2 and a half to 3 hours long, and this show was about an hour and 20 minutes. I missed the longer version of the difficult to perform train scene, but I have to say in all ways, that the show exceeded my expectations. The vocals in general were really good. Harold was good, Marion was also, and all the leads had some stage presence. The choreography was missing in a couple of places, but what was there was fun to watch and fit the songs to a tee, especially the parasols during pick-a-little. I know how hard pulling something like that off is. People also do not realize how difficult it is for singers to synch with an instrument track on tape or CD. Conductors are much more forgiving and can cut a measure or vamp if needed. CDs don't do that. The staging was nice, and the stage was surprisingly large. I'm sure that was an extra as the Ohio School Facilities Commission doesn't just build something that nice as a standard measure. There were a couple of things that I didn't like, but I won't criticize anything, because I know that sometimes things happen in staging a show and you don't have time to do anything about it. Well, I will mention one thing that is generic and should hurt nobody's feelings. Marcellus's big dance number, "Shipoopie", was staged pretty far downstage, and he wasn't well lit, and he deserved better, but it was still a great number. I could understand the actors, and there were only a couple of mike issues. Costumes were good. Props and scenery were nice and not in the way. The best $2 I have spent on a live performance in a very long time. I may update this in a bit and add some of this things that amused me about the perfomance. I have to think about it because I wouldn't want anyone to see them and take them as "criticism", even though, that is what I'm doing.

Post play let down / DUNE/ Religion

OK, so Music Man ended on Sunday, we worked at the strike until evening, and then I went home and got sick. Missed two days of work, sicker than I have been in a long time. I went to work yesterday, and went home. I had a couple of things I should have done, but I'm not up to 100% yet. So all I've accomplished this week is catching up on laundry, and watching several DVDs, one of which was DUNE.

Last night the post play let down hit me. I know that it is normal, so it doesn't worry me. I'll be attending two parties this weekend and seeing friends at both and that will help.

And speaking of DUNE, the 2001 miniseries, if memory serves, completely avoids the term "Jihad". The life and religion of the "Fremen" in the story has so much Islam in it, that when I originally read the novel a number of years ago, I had to look several of the arabic words up to find out what they meant. Now we are much more aware of things, and evently afraid to use the word "Jihad", now that most people know what it means.

Science Fiction and Religion have often crossed lines. I haven't read all of the DUNE books, but I know one is called, "God Emperor of Dune", or something like it. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", is full of Christian religious images, and was amazingly inflential on me when I was a teenager. Asimov crossed over to write on the Bible, and his questions about the nature of life and existance let to some pretty cool Science Fiction stories. In "Ghostbusters", Gozer asks the boys, "Are you a god?", and Revelation is quoted. Both Science Fiction and Religion deal with hope and the future. Scientology and L.R.Hubbard are another case in point. Mormonism is a religion started by a visitor from space. I think Mary Baker Eddy wrote a Science Fiction Trilogy called "The Centaur Factor", which consisted of "The Centaur Centurian", "Centaur Riders of Precrasator", and "Battlefield Boston". Well, I made that up. But C. S. Lewis, one of the 20th century's greatest religious writers wrote a pretty decent S-F trilogy.

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

I know why people got on ships to come to the new world. It was to keep hope alive even if they died trying to do so.

Blondie, you have betrayed me!

So, I swapped a bunch of CDs out of my car, bringing in Leon Redbone, some Dylan (Blood on the Tracks), and a Blondie greatest hits album. I played the Blondie and the cut "One Way or Another" came on. I had this overwhelming compulsion to buy a Swiffer. I have seen that commercial so many times, but it didn't register at all, until I heard the song in the car. I hate being manipulated.