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An eBay saved search for items pertaining to artist “Jenny Holzer” proved quite helpful in locating a gift for my sweetie, so I’ve left an email alert for new items active in case it turns up something else I think my wunnerful gf shouldn’t live without. But the other day, eBay emailed me to let me know about this new auction of (dubiously) “Jenny Holzer”-related interest:

By the time I tried looking at the listing, it had been removed by eBay for some unspecified TOS violation, so I guess I’ll never know what was so “Jenny Holzer”-y about this Sony Playstation. . .

I can’t exactly explain why, but this particular juxtaposition of odd subject lines and unlikely sounding names struck me as funny when I recently checked a junk folder for false positives:

I often imagine text from spam as sung by Mark E. Smith of The Fall, (a conceit which has already helped inspire at least one song) but “Complacent Cowhand Combatant” sounds so much like a Fall song title, I almost feel as if I should know which single it’s the B-side of, and the entire text sounds very M.E.S.-able:

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