I just received an anonymous comment on a post from some months back which comes across as utterly puzzling on a number of levels. First is the fact that it's a comment which has no bearing upon the post it was left on. Second because this is the second anonymous comment left on that post in the last day. Third because, although it has the broken, gibbering cadence of a spam bot, there exists within it JUST enough valid information to make me wonder.

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I just left a bad, blog on jonny's comic store page, it was postivly negitive, I see you around high gate. say comments about people that cant defend then self like geoge lucas, mcg , really lets see some of tese people do a mvie. I know who you are thrugh billie... the my way or the high way guy, i live with kyle the guy you through ice at. anyway you've tot me about satan who he is, and I know you love art so, check out my movie on you tube, [I'M NOT GOING TO POST ITS TITLE SO AS NOT TO ADVERTISE HIS PRODUCT, LOL], as far as jonny he's way smarter than me I'm a heavy metal comic guy. I got a grade 10 education but i get things done. fuck fanboys that cry. i'm actually a musician first,anyway dude if it sucks oh well....


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I do live near a mall called "Highgate", where I do indeed spend a good deal of time. I once had a casual acquaintance named Kyle who I did indeed speak ill of, and who I knew through a fellow named Billy. There's bits and pieces of other factual or near-factual stuff in there. So is this the product of some complex data mining software? Just random chance that it happened to score some hits? Or a genjuinely deranged and incoherent person hammering away at his keyboard in a drug haze, trying to recall any little tidbit he knows about me? 

And again, having had two different anonymous comments on that one post - neither of which had to do with the contents of that post - is too much to be coincidence. Something about that post - and it's neither a recent nor particularly interesting post - has attracted some interest or something.

Anyone have any insight? Anyone got similar comments recently? 

EDIT: 

I've done some digging, and it seems this IS in fact a local film, and the Kyle which I mentioned above is indeed involved in it, which would seem to indicate that someone involved in the film specifically tracked down my blog and posted an anonymous comment to a months-old post in this manner in order to convey this information to me.

I wonder what it says about the changing face of information technology that the spam-bots are getting eloquent enough that we can mistake them for people, and the people are getting inarticulate enough that we can mistake them for spam-bots. Are we on our way to some point of convergence? Or will we eventually be able to spot spam-bots on the basis that they're inhumanly eloquent; well-spoken and well-mannered in a manner which no human being can be...? 

Edit 2: 

Somebody - presumably somebody connected with the above post - keeps on posting anonymous comments here which speak at great and venomous length against them. Not that I view myself as above criticism, nor that I view this particular criticism as being altogether invalid, but I make a point of not addressing criticism which comes from anonymous sources. Sign your name, and we'll have a discussion. Leaving off by calling yourself "THE ICEMAN, HUNGOVER PROPHET OF YMIR" isn't going to cut it.