the blog quebecois

Every now and then (like, every five minutes) I check my referrer logs just in case somebody's stumbled into the place.

Occasionally I'll track their IP number back to see what city their ISP is located in. Far flung, exotic locations like Duluth, Minn., or Penticton, BC. God, the romance of it . . .

I wonder, too, when one of the "regulars," like 24.201.189.# of Montreal doesn't show. Was it something I said? What if he's fallen and can't get up? Maybe I should phone the police?

Why do I do this? Because this is The Blog That Cares.™

Also, my traffic is paltry enough that I can afford to memorize every hit and what I was wearing at the time. You won't see, say, Glenn Reynolds offering this level of attention to detail. Is it because he gets 50,000 hits a day? Or is it because his is The Blog That Doesn't Care ™ ?

I leave it to the reader to decide.

There is one Google search string, though, that turns up in my logs about once every two or three weeks, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.

It's "Wendy +Mesley +nude".

For the benefit of American and overseas readers, I should explain that Wendy Mesley is a CBC television infobabe, who sometimes anchors the national news.

This is what she looks like:

Really, it's not a great picture, but it was the only one I could find on the CBC website. She's actually quite vivaciously pretty, in a Diane Chambers/Shelley Long sort of way, for those who remember the Cheers sitcom.

Now it is true that "Wendy Mesley" and "nude" appear on a page of this blog, but they were in separate entries and had nothing to do with each other. That's not the way Google sees it, though, and so I'm one of five or six Wendy +Mesley +nude pages that it records.

Yet this poor fellow (it could be a woman, I suppose -- not that there's anything wrong with that!) returns again and again to his (or her!) quest for Wendy +Mesley +nude.

This is either a case of severe infatuation or of severe short-term memory problems. There is no naked Wendy Mesley flesh here.

Sure, I'd thought of running this blog as the exclusive Wendy Mesley Nude Pix! site, but then I'd need to install popups to help pay for the increased bandwidth, and I'd have to disable my comments because they'd fill up with stuff like, "Woohoo! Wendy rocks!" and "do u know wendys email addy?" and "I am Wendy Mesley, and if this site isn't taken down by tomorrow, you'll be hearing from my lawyer."

There seems to be, too, a shortage of nude Wendy Mesley pictures. You would think that most young, attractive, ambitious female journos would have a nude pornofolio, just in case the big TV deal fell through. Alas, there doesn't seem to be one of Wendy's.

Maybe she's saving it for Playboy. Or maybe she just hates men. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

But dammit, one of my readers really really wants this, and who am I to judge the contours of the human heart or the lusts that beat therein?

So I called in some favors from unsavory players, and I eventually dug up this more-or-less authentic picture, which dates from Wendy's earlier days as a Japanese schoolgirl (safely over the age of sixteen, I think).

Now because some of you are reading this at work (you know who you are), I will not scandalize your office by loading it automatically. It isn't too risqué, but one can't be too careful these days. You may view it here once the boss or Ms Grundy has left the room.

All I can say is that the girl has quite the head on her shoulders.

We'll get back to the ethical problems about reading blogs at work some other day. In the meantime, continue to do so, because I can use the traffic.

In fact, if you stop reading this blog at work, I will tell your boss. Remember, I know where you are, or at least where your ISP is.

Why do I do this? Because this is The Blog That Cares.™