Errata is a web journal written by Robert Davis who has neither spent a night in a ghost town nor pulled a turnip from the earth. He doesn't even know if turnips grow in the ground. Perhaps on trees, like candy corn. Therefore, Errata is a non-commercial project.

Observation #1: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious."

Observation #2: It may be appropriate, when leaving a movie theater, to say "mysterious" at the top of your lungs. Bring your eyebrows together before you say it. Effective!

Observation #3: Same for books. Even at libraries.

There is a prize for people who correctly guess the thing about Metropolis, Nevada.

Except where the text specifically states otherwise, Errata's vagaries are indicated vaguely and its authors are indistinct in the traditional way of the Internet, except where the authors lay claim to their work. In some cases Robert Davis lays claim to work that is not his own but has been abandoned like so many ghost towns. Except where held presently, fistfuls of dirt are suspended via dispersal, or dispersed via suspension (in the air), and thus their dissolution is their transcendence, or their transcendence is their dissolution. And yet our eyes tear, and our vision is impaired, demonstrating for the umpteenth time that one entity's gain is another's fit of sneezes. Except where indicated, storms shall outlive the clay upon which they rain, unless storms are improperly delimited by their clouds, which dissolve, rather than by their inevitable return. Thus the clay loses, unless the clay is said to own the storm, to use it to make itself heavy, to make itself cling to white garments, refuse dispersal, cake upon the facades of abandoned buildings, and sit like Man [sic] upon the earth where it is pelted by a storm that it owns. In which case the clay still loses, if you ask us.

Some of the above is legally binding and should be considered a mental contract between Errata and those upon whom it acts. The bit about the prize should be considered an overstatement insofar as prizes differ from dirt and prize dispersal differs from dirt dispersal. Please recall that ownership is a weight and, therefore, hope that you do not win the prize.

One day Errata or its representatives will call upon you for a favor. It is expected that you will hop-to without delay.

You may contact Robert Davis by email unless it's about the rock that was thrown in anger. The rock is more properly called a clod. Why do you continue to raise the topic?

6 February 2008

Dudley Moore and Me

I'll admit that I sometimes look at the web server logs to see who's linking to this site or to see what Google searches are landing here. And today was the big payoff. This is what all such navel gazers are hoping for, I assume, which is discovering that someone found their pages by searching for this:

did dudley moore have a shriveled up leg?

That's a damn good question. And you've come to the right place. The reason that Google ranks Errata as the number one result for this intriguing query is obvious, and I'm just glad to have provided some help to whatever college student, Jeopardy champion, research assistant, medical practitioner, or archeologist was performing said search.

It lands, by the way, on this random page from our archives, back when Moore's shriveled appendages occupied more of our time than I'd like to recall. Ah, youth. We've since moved on, but we remember our (shriveled up) roots.

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Reader Comments

February 6, 2008, 09:07 PM

Michael

That's definitely one of the best search referents I've seen. Might even take the cake. I've had a few interesting ones here and there. At my old blog, I once talked about Bardot's nude scene in Godard's Contempt to make a point about the film's producer, and subsequently got visits from people looking for nude photos of Bardot. My old site was, for at least a while, one of the top hits for searches combining the words "Hitler" and "Nuremberg", which was worrying -- I realized it was because I had referred to a review that characterized a scene in an animated film that was akin to some of the Nazi rallies at Nuremberg.

But Moore's shriveled leg? That's classic.

February 6, 2008, 11:16 PM

davis

And thanks to your comment here, maybe I'll soon be a destination for nude Bridgett Bardot queries, too. I owe you one, Michael! ;-)

Actually, one of the most common queries that lands on my site, disturbingly, is "inger nilsson nude".

February 7, 2008, 07:50 PM

Michael

I just had to search "inger nilsson" because I didn't recognize the name (though I searched without the "nude"). Now I know what you mean by "disturbingly"!

February 8, 2008, 04:16 PM

girish

Rob, my blog happened to log its 300th post this week and so it's particularly sobering to know that even now, the search term that brings most people to it (by far), other than my first name, is "Emmanuele Devos" because I posted a perfectly ordinary, fully-clad jpg of her once long ago. (Rob, you'll be pleased to see that to throw off future Devos-hunters here I intentionally misspelled her first name as you did Bardot's...)

If I transitioned over to running a full-blown DevosBlog, I'd be all set.

February 8, 2008, 05:07 PM

davis

Oops. A total accident on my part. Sloppiness instead of forethought.

Congrats on 300, Girish. You're lucky to have a name that's easy to Google. People looking for a Robert Davis never find me in that sea.

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