This is one of the very few, if not only, online pictures of Shelley, or Burningbird, as she sometimes calls herself. Contrary to the character of her often contrarian online avataresse, she is actually quite shy. Even in this rare photo, you can see she is facing away from us. What hardly anyone (besides me) knows is that Shelley is an accomplished dominatrix. Yes, you read that right. In this other, supersecret life, she is known as Mistress Sheena. She has her own virtual dungeon and everything!

If you click on her photo to the right, you can see various allusions I've dropped over the years to our... let's say delicate relationship (though it can get pretty rough when she wears the thigh-high spike-heel boots). I once wrote a blog entry all about our special bond, you might call it. But I never quite finished it, as it contained HREFerences to someone I once knew (or thought I did) that were, to be honest, quite cruel. And as you know, it just isn't like me to be plain old mean. My motto is if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all. Which goes a long way toward explaining certain multi-month "vacations" I've had to take from blogging.

Yes well, anyway, as I just wrote something in email to Shelley and a couple dozen of your standard nethead whackjobs -- something that could be ever so easily misconstrued -- I went looking for that old unfinished blog post, thinking to take out those nasty links and otherwise spruce it up for company. However, I couldn't find the goddam draft. Can you believe that? Yeah, and I have search tools here that would blow your fuckin mind!

Turns out the file must be on that other machine that crashed and burned about 60 gigs of irreplaceable shit, including my great American novel, Been Down So Long Looks Lahk I Cain' Get Down No Mo. But losing that is nothing compared to losing the post about Mistress Sheena. Shelley, what can I say? I am so saddened by this terrible loss. But again, folks, you can click on the image below to recover what few hints remain.

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