From Siobhan.

It's been a rough day for eccentric criminal geniuses

Have you ever wanted to get even with spammers? This dude certainly did.

Adweek's take on CBS's capitulation.

When CBS last week pulled The Reagans from its sweeps schedule, no one was more surprised than advertisers. Although sponsors traditionally shy away from controversial content, even media buyers said the network's cancellation of its two-part movie smacked of censorship.

Well, thanks for all your hard work Terry Lalos (who worked on this series), but CBS is a pussy.
Irking both Democrats and Republicans, CBS on Tuesday dropped plans to air "The Reagans" and sold the controversial mini-series to pay-cable network Showtime in moves it insisted had nothing to do with conservative complaints that the film was unfair.

Collection of 26 Beanie Babies from Ex-Wife



Because e-bay only keeps their listings for a month, I'm going to cut and paste this one here. Somehow it reminded me of Nick.

Let me begin by explaining some very important details, this way I do not get 100's of silly emails asking me to photograph the hind end of some stuffed animals. I DO NOT KNOW crap about these things. This belonged to my ex-wife who had about a 1000 of these Beanie Babies and when she moved, this one box of these got left behind, and now I am selling the goofy little things. Whatever money I make from them will be spent at the local Home Depot on tools and other cool stuff. I do not know which of these babies is retired or new, or whatever. I will list them in no particular order. I will tell you what its name is on the tag, if it has a plastic box or something. All these critter have been stored indoors, and are from a non-smoking home. Again, please do not send me emails asking me to photograp this or that. I am starting the auction at $10.00 and at that price I figure you all can take a chance. I understand from a friends wife that people are afraid to get fakes. FAKES? Fake plush toys? I was amazed. I thought people forged money, not childrens toys. Well I can only say, that 99% of these goofy toys were bought with my money, from eiter the local Hallmark Store, or one of the dozen or so Southern Craft/ collectibles stores I had to go to on a weekly basis buying these ridiculos toys years ago. Happy Bidding! Please take these critters from me so I can buy tools.

Final Notice and Disclaimer: I know nothing about these stuffed Beanie Babies. I offer no proof of anything. It is a stuffed animal, get over it! I don't think my ex-wife was in the Black Market Beanie Trade..but then again, I didn't know she was having an affair either! Thus no gauruntees! All have theior little Heart Shaped tags on their ears.


Ants - Armidillo
Almond - Bear
Knuckles - Pig
Humphrey - Camel
Tiptoe - Rat (I must have picked this one) Pig - Zodiac Pic (huh?)
Chipper- Chipmunk or Squirrel (Not Sure)
Neon - Sea Horse or Sea Serpent
Goatee- Goat
Prickles - Hedge Hog
Steg - Dinosaur (Stegasaurus I guess)
Manny - Mannatee
Paul - Walrus (Hey I get that joke..koo-koo-ka-choo)
Rabbit- Rabbit (Zodiac Critter)
Sheets - Ghost
Rainbow - Lizard (cameleon?)
Batty- Bat
Peanut - Elephant (comes in a plastic see-thru box)
Britannia - Bear with British Flag
Germania - Bear with German Flag
Eucalyptus - Koala Bear
Web - Spider (I must have picked all the ugly ones!)
Beak - Kiwi Bird?
Scaly - Komodo Dragon or other lizard..not sure!
Mystic - Unicorn
Nuts - Squirrel
(Not Pictured) Mickey Mouse in Hockey Uniform

ALL OF THEM HAVE THEIR LITTLE HEARTS TAG ON THE EARS!


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On Sep-19-03 at 12:47:48 PDT, seller added the following information:

A very kind Ebayer wrote me an email and said the following:The valuable beanies here are Steg (dinosaur), Humphrey(camel), web (spider) and peanut (elephant). They are worth considerably more if they have the red heart hang tags and if the tags are in good shape - no creases or tears. If you wouldn't mind giving me more info on those. Also, if you added more info to the auction I'm sure you could get more $$ for your tools!

To answer her question: I looked and to the best of my looking at them all. None of the ones she mentioned have any torn tags or creased tags. In fact NONE of the little critters have messed up tags. People have been telling me these critters are worth alot of money. I know nothing about them, and told you everything you need to know up in the description. I make no claims on value, and to be honest. I am amazed anyine pays more then a dollar a piece for these things. What happened to collecting STAMPS? Pay what you want for them! IT ALL GOES TO HOMEDEPOT !!!!!! and BEER!



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On Sep-21-03 at 12:21:32 PDT, seller added the following information:

Okay all you people with nothing better to do! ENOUGH WITH THE EMAILS! I thought I was clear with all that. Here is an Email that I just got from some lady who felt she will try to save my sould or something! Read Below:


Very clever listing; however it is very likely you have some fakes (counterfeits) among the listing and I suggest you pull them from the auctions until you have them authenticated. Humphrey the camel is an example. It is a requirement of eBay as well as unde the provisions of the U.S. Criminal Cpode that a seller know the authenticity of a trademarked item s/he is selling. Also, an authenticated rare beanie will bring lots of money on the auctions. I'll let you know the others that are likely fakes, and further it is very unlikely your ex would have left behind these rare ones. If she had 1000 beanies, she knew what she had and their value. To sell counterfeits of a trademarked item wold make you a common criminal. Are you being honest? If so, cancel the auction, relist the common beanies, and send the rest for authentication. It would be well worth it financially and would make you honest. Taisha


WELL TAISHA! I don't CARE! I told everyone in the begining everything I know and don't know about these STUPID animals! I ahve an idea for all people that are so worried about this.....DON't BID! I dont care! I am so upset that this clown of a woman figured out my SUPER PLAN TO SCAM MILLIONS FROM THE UNKNOWING BEANIE WORLD! I FIGURED I WOULD RETIRE FROM THIS RUSE! What a dolt she is! I have blocked her from my bidder list, that way she can cry about it. Some people are UNREAL! GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My friends Doug and Candace were expecting a baby on Hallowe'en and by gum, it looks like the little monkey showed up right on time. Their friend Mary, just sent the following email this morning:
ARRIVED! She just had a 9 lb. 12 oz. girl!! No name yet - everyone is
healthy and happy!!

Not a lot of details, but if anyone should, by natural law, have a child on Hallowe'en, it's them. We'd been hanging out with Doug and Candace (Doug is the clown on the right here. a bit more of late, bonding on the whole pregnancy thing and excitedly contemplating the changes that will bring to our lives. A couple of weeks ago, I spent the day at their place learning how to make a proper beer, in honor of the babies of course.

Now that their girl is born, it feels like Trucker is just around the corner. When I heard the news this morning, I felt the first pricks of terrified excitement, like when you finally reach the top rung of a ladder to a high dive board.