My friend Cordelia has been begging and pleading for me to see what I can do to get her a Gmail account. If you knew Cordelia, you would understand why that's odd; this is not the kind of girl who pleads for anything, ever. She takes what she wants, and if you give her shit she snorts in derision and burns cigarette holes in your shirt while sipping her boba.
The reason this came up is that Blogger offered me a Gmail account as part of a beta test. So I signed up, and it's cool, but the only really special thing about it as far as I can tell is all the storage.
But apparently not everyone sees it that way; I read somewhere that there are people offering a lot of money for a Gmail account. So I went to eBay, and sure enough, when I checked there were 317 people selling their Gmail accounts. The highest bid I found was for $100. I mean, what the hell?
This reminds me a little of the beanie baby craze. Broad-backed presbyterian ladies with sturdy legs would bitch-slap each other for those things back in the day, but last week I saw a pyramid of them stacked up next to toilet paper at 7-11, going for $0.50 each.
