Our story so far: Having consumed more beer than prudent, our hero, Idaho Don, has vowed to strike deep into the wild bloggosphere to hunt for the elusive origin of the 123 meme. (see here for part 1.)
Accompanying him on the trek is his faithful humanoid companion, Crazy Wolf. Master of the low blow; cunning yet surly.
Day 1. After carefully selecting the supplies for our mission
and loading the boat, we got underway.
We started in the familiar waters of The Squib. Evil Genius, and the man ultimately responsible for this blog series, so don't blame me.
Amazingly, we quickly left the territorial waters of Grand Humor-Blogwick
(Note to self: Must have Mark Rayner's true allegiance checked out)
and passed through the extremely literate home of “Enter the Octopus”
The day being pleasant, we decided to simply float for a time on the Information Super-River. A mistake, as it happens, as the rocking of the boat and the consumption of some of our supplies caused us both to fall asleep.
We awoke to a most frightening sight! We were being captured by a huge, unearthly, flying craft using some kind of powerful energy beam that lifted us and our craft towards it's ravening maw!
We appeared to be entering.....
The Twilight Zone
I remember little about the ghastly experiments performed on us by:
SF Signal "A Science Fiction Blog"
Big Dumb Object "A Science Fiction Blog" (There appears to be a pattern emerging.)
And the especially hideously named: Velcro City Tourist Board,
...except that Crazy Wolf was completely dissected and then reassembled. I recall this clearly, because the Aliens made a mistake in putting his skin back on inside out, but as it didn't seem to make any real difference, I decided not to mention it.
I have no idea what happened next, but in the morning, we found ourselves back on the river - apparently no worse for the experience except for extreme headaches, nausea, and a surprisingly diminished beer supply.
Intrepidly we pressed on, passing through a hamlet of several seemingly normal blogs (That being a relative term of course.)
Chips Quips : "The unpredictable ravings of Sterling W. “Chip” Camden, independent software developer."
The Vaguetarian Tea Room " personal blog by Tenni; a stay at home wife of a techno-geek and so much more.
and
Merrily We Roll Along A Canadian, blessed with "a sweet and often unintentionally, humorous man."
(Unlike me, who is often unintentionally unhumorous.)
After passing these blogs by, we came to a bend in the River and suddenly... the entire landscape changed!
Passing through a deep cleft in a Brokeback Mountain, we came upon a land of milk and honey.
"Look here Crazy Wolf! Have you ever seen such remarkable specimens? Strong, straight, handsome men. And so affectionate with each other. None of that machismo that is so common in Grand Humor-Blogwick! These fellows are truly in touch with their feminine sides! And happy? Why they tell you so almost instantly upon meeting you! It's: 'Hi. I'm Ronaldo. I'm happy.' Or something like that.
"Seems kind of queer to me that we don't see any women."
"That's because you have the intuitive abilities of a turnip, fool! Obviously these men revere their women so highly that they protect them from even being seen by the likes of us! No doubt women hold a special place here. I shall therefore call this land:
The Kingdom of Queens! (Thanks Spo-Reflections!)"
We passed through:
Spo-Reflections "A psychiatrist who writes his daily doings and thoughts."
Tiger by the Tale "I am a Gay man in my forties in the prime of life!"
(Note: See? There's that happy part again!)
mrpeenee "A Big City Queer with a Small Town Attention Span."
(Crazy Wolf: See? Told you it was a queer place.)
the notorious j.o.e. "i'm not sick, but i'm not well. and i'm so hot, because i'm in hell."
MY GREY GARDEN " Gay 30-something artist with a lot of opinions about a lot of things."
and finally:
MODERN FABULOSITY "The world sucks, we kiss it better"
As we swept beyond the Kingdom of Queens, leaving that cheerful land behind, I said,
"What an amazing adventure so far. We've climbed through fourteen levels of the 123 meme already and visited new and even occasionally interesting folk that we would never have known existed, but through our journey. And who knows what lies just beyond the bend Crazy Wolf!"
"Yep. Who knows. Only one thing. Stop calling me Crazy Wolf."
Indeed! What strange and amazing adventures await Idaho Don and (provisionally) Crazy Wolf next! How far must they travel to reach the source of the 123 Mime. And what will they do should they get there? And will the Beer Last???
Stay tuned for tomorrow's continuing adventure, as the:
Raiders of the Lost Crusader Temple Skull Meme continue!
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