Tag: Craigslist
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Post 2000 and the blog continues
I had to check. I reached post 1000 on August 29, 2009. Today on December 20, 2018 I finally hit the latest milestone, post 2000. My expectation was that maybe I could reach post 2000 on December 12, 2018. Then if I were to take the blog down, as I hinted I might, it would…
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Our new not-so-naughty Internet
I used to make monthly reviews of Craigslist’s casual encounters section a feature of this site. I gave it up about a year ago because it wasn’t bringing in that much traffic anymore, but also I felt like I had read it all. It used to be that I could reliably find a few nuggets…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness posts suspended
Tomorrow the missus and me cross the pond to spend eight days in London, taking in shows and stuff. We’ll also tour both London and England for the first time, unless you count flying over it. Mostly we’ll be in London, but we’ll spend Saturday seeing Stonehenge, Oxford and Windsor castle, and then come home.…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: February 2017 edition
It’s the first weekend of the month and thus time for me to turn off my analytical brain and turn on my gawking brain. It’s that part of my brain that has me reading sites like People of Walmart and White Trash Repairs. In short, it’s that time of the month to revel in the…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: January 2017 edition
It’s a new year but some things don’t change. This includes Craigslist’s dubious casual encounters area, full of often mediocre ads and spam postings but still capable of little nuggets of surprise, outrage, amusement and gross out, sometimes all at once, if you have the tenacity to dig through them as I do once a…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: December 2016 edition
November turned out to be a dreary month here in Massachusetts. The days were very short but the persistent days of clouds and rain only made it drearier. So I should not be surprised that my Craigslist posts received but 224 web page hits in November, a respectable amount but nothing outstanding. Overall web hits…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: November 2016 edition
There is a lot of election fever going on a few days before a national election. Passions are running high. And speaking of passions, will they leach over this month to Craigslist casual encounters section, giving us discerning viewers some especially choice postings? Maybe there are some hot Democrats wanting to bag a hot Republican,…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: October 2016 edition
I tried to think of some other topic to write about, like the Pence-Kaine vice presidential debate. While I watched it, it frankly didn’t merit a post in part because it truly doesn’t matter. I’ve done a lot of political posts lately, as they are topical. At the moment there is not much to say…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: September 2016 (Hartford CT) edition
So I’ve been traveling – a four-day jaunt to Washington D.C. area and back – so I missed my usual first Friday of the month Craigslist casual encounters post. Since it’s been a while since I posted anything and no other topic immediately came to mind to blog about tonight, I’ll dig through Hartford, Connecticut’s…
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Craigslist casual encounters weirdness: August 2016 (Hartford CT) edition
TGIF is what a lot of Craigslist users are thinking, which also means that many of them want to hookup. So off they go to their computers to post their most lascivious and carnal needs in hopes that someone will answer the call. Most of them (particularly the men) are going to have their hopes…
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