Conjurer of Monikers
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January 23, 2012
Of the 5,000+ spam comments posted to HiLobrow each month, a few slip past WordPress’s filters and land in the “pending” queue, where we editors manually decide their fate. Sounds annoying, but I get a kick out of it — not only because of the non-stop flow of positive feedback (“The content on this article is really a single of the most beneficial material that I’ve ever occur across. I love your publish, I’ll occur back to verify for new posts.”), but because of the made-up monikers. They’re as good as — no, better than — the character names in a Philip K. Dick novel.
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PS: The title of this post is an homage to a great short film by Dan Zukovic, about a man (played by Zukovic) gifted/cursed with the ability to come up with perfect band names.
PPS: If one of these names turns out to be your name, let me know and I’ll transfer my admiration from the spammers’ ingenuity to your parents’.