Doc WordPress vs. The Phantom Referrers !

Phantom Refererrs Beware! Doc WordPress will bring You Woe !

Okay this is war !  I thought I would have a nice little photo-blog for my photography, experiments in digital art , and place to wax the floor philosophical and poetical. What do I get ? An infestation of Phantom Referrers ! Spam Ghosts haunting my blog stats ! Digital Vermin & Vandals invalidating my visitation data !

Yes, I know I am not the only one with a WordPress blog  who is suffering . I am also aware that the WordPress Support  Brigade is doing battle even as we speak, um, type.  But, I am not going take it sitting down.

Ranting and venting can get release the tension. Now for some creative self-expression and maybe just a little revenge.  The term Phantom Referrers got me thinking. It sort of sound like a nasty villan from the old pulp magazines. The kind that featured  mysterious action heroes and detectives that were the fore-runners of todays comic and graphic novel superheroes.

Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger,  and The Spider, now those guys could take out  Phantom Referrers with one hand on the mouse and the other with a fist or a really big gun! Those intrepid explorers from Amazing Stories and from Weird Tales heroic barbarians like Conan would enter the blogosphere save the day & the data and, get the girl too.

And that was my answer to this Horde of Digital Devils ! Doc WordPress, that Daring Explorer and righter of wrongs, who delves deep into the mysteries of the blogosphere!

What you have at the top of this post is first issue of Adventures in The Blogosphere. The cover I designed  is based on a Doc Savage cover from 1949.

The titles on the cover sidebar are from my previous posts. I selected ones that fit the pulp magazine style that would be found in Weird Tales Magazine. In fact H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote the Cats of Ulthar, published most of his work in that magazine.

The cover story is an original Conan tale

And the Timethief is real ! Anyone who has looked for an answer to a blog on the WordPress forums have benefitted from knowledge and blogging demystifying  wizardry. I certainly did.  Her blog is excellent.  I hope she does mind being featured on the cover. With a name like Timethief it was a perfect heroic fit. Not all pulp heroes wer guys.

So what can you expect from this new pulp magazine. I hope from time to time to present some digital illustrations from Doc WordPress’s oh So Secret Files on his Battles with the Phantom Referrers.

The Shadow may know what lurks in the hearts of men,  but I know how to turn their page content into found poetry and digital graphics. All it takes is wordle and a little creativity.