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One of the best things about the internet for a guy like me is how you can just completely get lost in it, going from one random whim to another until you end up either reading about theoretical physics or porn. That’s pretty much the entire bredth of the internet. In that vein, let me start my update with a story about a short little wander I had the other day. Yes, you have to read it.
I was watching movies during work, as I often do, and came across Arsenic & Old Lace, which is actually a pretty funny movie in it’s own right, and I’d recommend it if you haven’t seen it. But I digress. From my story about rambling wherin I am also rambling. Of course, this little walk started out on IMDb, but there’s so little fun information on IMDb. Sure, you’ll get all the hard fact, maybe a bit of “trivia” and the most obsessive/compulsive list of continuity faults ever, but where’s the stories about the actors fighting each other and the director quitting in a huff due to jellybeans or whatever? So there we go to the next stop on our journey: Wikipedia.
We’ve talked about Wikipedia before on here, but hell, let’s do so again. It’s a really interesting concept, you know? Anybody in the world can add anything they want to this database of knowledge. The problem is that there are a lot fewer people who know anything than there are people who contribute to Wikipedia. This ends up in billions of pages about minor Transformers characters and detailed histories of Marvel comic book characters. So, I looked on the Wikipedia page for Arsenic & Old Lace. The page has a detailed summary of the plot, but that’s about it, and since I just watched the movie, that didn’t do me any good. Well, that dried up my normal “resources.” Guess it’s time to Google it.
On leg three of my trip, I consulted my good, personal friend Google. The first few matches were, of course, Wikipedia and IMDb links, and after that there was very little about the actual movie. Instead I got things like a bed and breakfast called “Arsenic and Old Lace” (which is a terrible name, by the way, since that movie is about people looking for a room to rent getting poisoned), an online wiccan supply shop that was probably designed at the height of Angelfire, and… several OTHER beds and breakfastses with the same name. The hell? I wonder if there are a string of hotels named Bates… but that’s a diversion for another time! As far as this story is concerned, I started clicking on random personal “fansites” of the movie. Here is where I start to get near the point of the update. Kinda.
From one of these sites, I managed to get to a “shrine” (you know, those internet shrines of people which are just some shitty background image tiled and like six really poor quality pictures of the person?) of Priscilla Lane, an actress in the movie. Then, at the bottom of the page… I came across something very, very strange…
Priscilla Lane - see more hot women
The hell? “Chikipedia”? Go ahead, click on it. Once you do, you’ll find yourself at Chikipedia, “the wiki of hot women.” Everything you’d ever wanted to know about any famous woman, as long as all you want to know about them is their body measurements, the fact that they have assets like “being hot” or “boobs”, and three misspelled paragraphs about their life and work. Oh, and about 70 pictures per person. Yes, friends, Chikipedia is one of the creepiest websites I’ve run across in many a day. It’s basically a stalker repository, written by stalkers for stalkers.
So, now you may be wondering why I spent all that damn time rambling just to get to the point instead of just GETTING there. That’s not how I roll, baby. I’m the wind. I guess I’m just a rambler and a gambler and I guess I always will. Rawhide. Wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah! I was going to say that I really didn’t have anything more to say other than I found some creepy website, and what kind of update would that be? Rambling is much more word-efficient. Welp, gotta go now. See ya.











