Archives for November 2000
This week my awesome namesake (November 30, 2000) This week my awesome namesake Tom the Dancing Bug explains the universe from its beginning to its end. Most interesting fact - the Universe has never won an Oscar....
The awesome 0sil8 stirs once (November 30, 2000) The awesome 0sil8 stirs once more, except this time if you're outside the US you're out of luck....
Help your gay children at Christmas... (November 30, 2000) A few years ago, while at University, I was quite active in gay politics - I was publicity officer at Bristol's Lesbian and Gay Society for several years. I made some nice posters, and stood in the foyer of student...
On tetrachromat women... (November 29, 2000) Super Vision gives tetrachromat women a more colourful world ... at the expense of their male children. [via Metafilter]...
A stupidly large list of weblogs... (November 29, 2000) Fuck me. I'm sorry, but fuck me. Introducing a stupidly large list of weblogs courtesy of Ghost in the Machine....
It may seem like a (November 29, 2000) It may seem like a slow day, but things are chugging along nicely behind the scenes. All I need now is slightly more time. A week off would be incredibly helpful. With Christmas approaching, you may think my dreams will...
I'm about a thousand years (November 29, 2000) I'm about a thousand years out of date - I didn't even know that the MediaGuardian was online. I'm a little surprised that they didn't follow the *****unlimited.com convention that they do over the rest of the site. Todays stories...
Celebrity encounters: Oxford Circus tube, (November 29, 2000) Celebrity encounters: Oxford Circus tube, 10.30am: Luke of CaptainFez.com infamy, wearing grey coat (pockets on the arse) and looking glazed and moist eyed. Morning old chap!...
I've looked everywhere. I've looked (November 28, 2000) I've looked everywhere. I've looked in Variety, Hollywood.com, Independent, Megastar, Gist TV, Fox News and CNN. I've even looked at entertaindom. But nowhere in anywhere that I have looked can I find anything to support Kerry's assertion that Robert Downey...
The benefits of mild sex... (November 28, 2000) "Gently does it: Mild sex can halve the risk of a heart attack" That's right, ladies and gentlemen - even pointless, lacklustre, unimaginative, dreary, workaday, missionary, vanilla sex with someone you are bored with can have tremendous health benefits. So...
Rebrand Democracy with Oh Messy (November 28, 2000) Rebrand Democracy with Oh Messy life....
I went to see Memento (November 28, 2000) I went to see Memento last night with a couple of friends from work. I'm still reeling a little. The people I went with seemed to find the film 'obvious' and 'boring'. I, on the other hand, came out frustrated...
Robert Downey Jnr has been (November 28, 2000) Robert Downey Jnr has been arrested again for drug possession. This time: Cocaine and Methamphetamine. I just don't get it. At some basic primal level I just don't get it. Why would he do it? Can someone explain that to...
A beautiful picture of the earth at night... (November 27, 2000) Assembled from a huge number of satellite images scanning the earth at night, this image from NASA is possibly one of the most stunning things I've ever seen. Be warned though - this is a fairly substantial download (500k-ish). [via...
If anyone owned plasticvag.org, captainfex.com (November 27, 2000) If anyone owned plasticvag.org, captainfex.com or notsodoft.com they'd get a ton of traffic off my typos. Send me your your amusing URL typos (not of course assuming for one minute that anyone thought the ones I did above were in...
I made my first post (November 27, 2000) I made my first post to Disturbing Search Requests today, after receiving a virtual plethora of visitors who came seeking, amongst other things "Office Slag Porn", "Breckin Meyer Naked" and "Sexy Gay Duck Men". I'm extremely depressed by the idea...
Gang of Mimes, Gang of Clones... (November 27, 2000) Film recommendation: The Warriors (1979) [*]. I watched The Warriors on TV last night, and I've never seen anything as funny in my entire life. Imagine New York in the late 70s. Imagine all the gangs are trying to find...
Happy Birthday Nick! (November 26, 2000) Regular readers will know all about Nick (aka Corny). For those of you that don't, he posted on kitschbitch.com while Katy was away, is a regular in the Barbelith Underground and he's currently working on getting fridgepoet.co.uk up and running....
Oh Underground Metropolis... (November 26, 2000) I've finally started the process of getting barbelith.com ready for its new role as massive, subversive, underground metropolis of orgiastic power. I feel very proud of myself....
Blog Family Robinson... (November 26, 2000) Read all about our favourite Weblog Family Robinson in an article on how technology can keep families together. [USA Weekend]...
Oh lovely Spike Magazine... (November 26, 2000) Thanks (I think) to SPIKE magazine for the kind words: "Two blogs I've been enjoying recently are plasticbag.org and Little Yellow Different. I think because both are concise, funny, honest and bitchy in roughly equal measure....
Who am I? (November 26, 2000) I was born on the same date as the man who runs this weblog. My parents were called Andrew and Sarah, but my mother died when I was two years old. My father remarried, but my stepmother was murdered in...
Oh wondrous Bartleby! (November 26, 2000) I'm slightly awed by bartleby.com - a website which contains hundreds of "Great Books" in their full form online. This includes the complete works of Shakespeare as well as stuff by Einstein, Tolstoy, Wilde and many others. An endlessly useful...
How shall I hurt Mark Olynciw? (November 26, 2000) Dicing with Death (1): Mark Olynciw refers to me as "deranged". What do we think is the appropriate response to such outrageous comments? Tar and Feathers? Chinese Water Torture?...
On Camden's Graffiti... (November 25, 2000) "At that moment, it finally began to dawn on Blue Ruin that the empire of the Barbelith Underground must now almost be ready to assume total world control." I was out in Camden on Saturday, at the Spread Eagle, and...
It can't get any worse than this... (November 25, 2000) It looks like I experienced the same awesome thrill as Meg and Luke the other night. I too sat through Ghost in the Machine on Channel 5, constantly thinking, "It can't get any worse than this, surely?". But it did....
A return to old templates... (November 25, 2000) PLASTICBAG.ORG has returned to the blue template while certain technical reformatting issues are undertaken behind the scenes. There will probably be a few anomalies over the next week or so. Please be patient with me!...
Another reason not to see Billy Elliot... (November 25, 2000) The insightful Mr Hon provides several exciting new reasons for me to not go and see Billy Smelly-Fart. Currently I'd only got up to: "Isn't this Brassed Off, The Full Monty, Educating Rita etc done all over again?" and "I...
The dirty thrill of buying stuff on Buy Nothing day... (November 25, 2000) There's a thrill whenever you buy something expensive. Particularly when you know that you can't really afford it. I've been thinking of getting a DVD player for ages, and my mother just gave me some money towards it for Christmas....
An Antivert for "Buy Nothing Day"... (November 24, 2000) If this works properly then you won't be able to read this until Saturday morning GMT. I've decided to support Buy Nothing Day by removing the weblog completely and replacing it with an anti-advert. I'm not particularly keen on the...
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Megnut vanished! (November 23, 2000) newsflash: Megnut.com disappears in mysterious circumstances, leaving only a string of numbers: 2146893056 (0x80090300). Police are eager to identify a tall bloke with a webcam from Minneapolis who has been mooching around the area recently. More information as we have...
Matt Webb must die... (November 23, 2000) I went out for a drink, pasta and Muji last night with Corny and Matt. Over the course of the evening, Matt managed to make me feel old, inadequate, clumsy, ignorant, techno-illiterate, backwards and - frankly - insufficiently blue. He...
Time Out New Yorks's Fifth Anniversary Party... (November 23, 2000) When I went out for Time Out New York's fifth birthday party, I didn't expect for one minute that the event would be as large as it was. Nor, for that matter, did I expect them to put up a...
On Metafilter Error Messages... (November 23, 2000) "Metafilter error messages have become the Oracles for information on weblogging elistism. More news at ten..."...
On the World's Best Newspaper Website... (November 22, 2000) The World's Best Newspaper Website? Astonishing, ground-breaking, "future of the web" kind of stuff - the International Herald Tribune's site screams class while being incredibly functional. It's not immediately intuitive because it really is such a leap into the future,...
Send me a copy of "Bust"... (November 22, 2000) I have no idea what this is, but it's really entertaining and I want to know more. Can someone send me a copy of "Bust"? While we are on the subject of strange sites, can someone please explain to me...
On Colorquiz... (November 22, 2000) An extraordinarily depressing view of myself as expressed by Colorquiz.com: Your Existing Situation Active, outgoing, and restless. Feels frustrated by the slowness with which events develop along the desired lines. This leads to irritability, changeability, and lack of persistence when...
On disinformation's redesign... (November 22, 2000) I must be the last person in the world to have noticed that disinformation has redesigned itself. It's strange to look at it now, with the X-files collapsing under itself and conspiracies and abductions feeling somehow like yesterdays news. I...
Where are all the Oscar films? (November 22, 2000) So it's nearly December and where are all the Oscar films? There's normally a good block of them appearing around now. More to the point, can you think of any movies from the last year that instantly said to you,...
I've been trying to keep (November 21, 2000) I've been trying to keep it on the backburner in my head, but I know that I'll feel completely appalling if I don't get to go. Last year around March it was pretty much all I could think about. I...
We're rapidly approaching adbusters.org's Buy (November 20, 2000) We're rapidly approaching adbusters.org's Buy Nothing day. I've always viewed this as an intelligent and resourceful way to demonstrate resistance, but I'm now beginning to think that I was wrong. Because this event does nothing so much as acknowledge that...
On an alarming trend towards sexual charisma in politicians? (November 20, 2000) In the old days it was much much easier. Politicians were only celebrities in America. In the Uk, they were scruffy, mad looking people, often with eyes pointed in different directions and with a chin continually covered in drool. And...
The PLASTICBAG.ORG Open Source Project... (November 19, 2000) The latest design for plasticbag.org is the creation of Interconnected.org....
Unable to process your request... (November 19, 2000) Sorry, Blogger is currently unable to process your request. We're working on the problem. Please try back later......
The secret passions of the weblogger... (November 19, 2000) What strange items light the fires of the world's favourite webloggers? My tour of the depths of the amazon wishlists reveals all: Jason Kottke (kottke.org) Book: Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp : And Other Essays Book: The...
Drink with me, Paul Rudd! (November 19, 2000) Last Wednesday, at the last minute and pretty much on a whim, Chris and his boyfriend and I went to see Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. If I'm honest, this trip had much...
Disturbing Search Requests... (November 19, 2000) I've had a counter on my site for the first time in about six months. Some of the information I have found out has been extremely disturbing. For example, these are the last ten search requests that led people to...
The fall-out continues... (November 18, 2000) Bloody Hell. The fall-out from the "You've Got Blog" article continues. After the suggestions of elitism from fawny.org, now comes The A-List Fan Club - a site purely dedicated to 'gentle' satire of the weblog hegemony. I hereby declare myself...
Hot Bitch/Safety Features... (November 18, 2000) Motto: You can't be a hot bitch in a car with safety features......
The seven new TLDs... (November 18, 2000) The seven new TLDs (top level domains) which will soon be available have been announced by ICANN. [ZDNet]. They are - .name .pro .museum .aero .coop .info and .biz - of which .name .info and .biz will be available to...
On Blogtrumps... (November 17, 2000) I spent a good three hours last night helping out Dan with his current evil scheme: Blogtrumps. He showed me his design for one of the cards, and I foolishly said I could knock him up an HTML version in...
Tombot... (November 17, 2000) MIRROR IMAGE: how I am described by Oh Messy life: "TOMBOT: Rounding out the propaganda squad, agent Tombot WILL NOT REST until dirty deed is complete. Knows you better than you know yourself. Stares death in the eye and asks...
Not So Soft redesigns... (November 17, 2000) Not So Soft redesigns. I've seen this one a couple of times during the development process. It utilises this cunning Blogger template system that Meg and I developed where, by staggering table tags around the body of the text, you...
Edible Insects for breakfast? (November 17, 2000) I got to work about half an hour ago, and I haven't had anything to eat yet today. I keep thinking I should duck across Tottenham Court Road to Sainsbury's. But then again - I was so late into work...
Friday morning. About bloody time... (November 17, 2000) Friday morning. About bloody time. I'm showered and refreshed, the world seems like a manageable place and I'm off to Oxford this evening with Corny to see the young Kitsch Bitch. Thank god for the weekend....
THE PLASTICBAG.ORG OPENSOURCE PROJECT II (November 17, 2000) I've taken down Grant Cook's design for a bit, while it gets fully debugged, and replaced it with 'old blue'. In the coming days we have a few more redesigns from the general public. Next up to the mark is...
THE PLASTICBAG.ORG OPENSOURCE PROJECT (Part One) (November 16, 2000) Our first guest designer is Grant Cook from access afr. As ever with a new design, there are a few bugs, but we'll get them ironed out in the next few hours. Don't forget, you too can rebuild plasticbag.org....
The plasticbag.org open-source project... (November 15, 2000) Some of you may have guessed by now that I am not actually particularly keen on the current design of plasticbag.org, but that I felt I had to change the last one, which was generally not well-liked. Unfortunately the problem...
Truly the end of days... (November 15, 2000) Since the ancient times, the soothsayers of our culture have prophesied that the coming the apocalypse and the return to the light of the One True God would be heralded by the final completion of the redesign at lukelog. And...
On back-biting, sniping, competition and awe... (November 14, 2000) If I told you that there was a kind of person who wrote on a regular basis, was obsessed by the internet rankings of their writing, commented regularly on the work of other writers and tried to artificially improve their...
Newsblogger help required... (November 13, 2000) Could someone please explain this to me. Newsblogger says at the top of the page: "New feature: Customization! Now you can select which categories you'd like to appear in the drop-down on the left." Well... how? [After much further discussion...
Fable-dealing... (November 13, 2000) "Hey kids! Come over here! No really - I'm not disturbing at all! My overcoat? Yes I know it could do with a wash, but I wouldn't say it's a 'dirty mac' as such. Oh, all right then, 'mucky' perhaps,...
Matt Haughey wants me dead... (November 13, 2000) Damn it. I've done it again. This time Matt Haughey wants me dead [On Regional Metafilters]. All I can say is that I'm really sorry, Matt. "I think that we should be thankful that people care enough about Metafilter to...
Tiny design project... (November 13, 2000) Another Tom design project: Time Out / FT Shopping Homepage....
Popular Compilations Appeal... (November 13, 2000) Meg starts an appeal for someone to do a site: "... devoted to the tracklistings of popular compliation albums (I'm thinking specifically here of 80's faves Now That's What I Call Music... and Superchart." I completely second this - I've...
Seeking music from my youth... (November 12, 2000) Does anyone have Now That's What I Call Music 9 or an album called something like Hits 6 from the same year? Or alternatively an album released which was called The Greatest Hits of 1986. They all came out around...
Please excuse the redesign... (November 12, 2000) Please excuse the redesign. I'm really just mucking around, trying to find a calm centre to build stuff around. I've had such a weird weekend - had a couple of arguments, a couple of "calm discussions" (ie. arguments where you're...
The post beneath this one... (November 12, 2000) The post beneath this one is extremely badly written. This is due to me writing it while frustrated and at nearly two in the morning. Apologies to anyone who was expecting my normal degree of coherence....
On "Deconstructing You've Got Blog" (November 12, 2000) What a steaming pile of crap. Right it's time we set a few matters straight around here. It's time we got the weblogging house in order. The matter under discussion today is: Deconstructing "You've Got Blog". The form of the...
On local languages in Metafilter... (November 11, 2000) Perfect solution to the whole metafilter language debacle has been provided by Phil over at gyford.com with this perfect quote: "Love the filtered language/location idea, but I'd hate to program it myself :) One simpler solution would be for all...
Ha! I've done it! I've (November 11, 2000) Ha! I've done it! I've burnt the whole thing to the ground! Watch as I dance around in the ashes. Watch me skip and bounce - oh so happy! oh so happy!...
Star Wars in Lego... (November 11, 2000) The entire Star Wars trilogy re-enacted in Lego. It's like a childhood dream come true. Still makes my heart race a little......
On more ICANN idiocy... (November 11, 2000) ICANN idiocy, yet again. Rather than go for the more logical approach (as far as I can see) of dividing new TLDs into large types of site (my suggestions would be .kids, .gay, .news, .xxx, .info to start off with),...
On Regional Metafilters... (November 11, 2000) The whole Metafilter discussion has taken a couple of interesting turns in the last hour or so. Firstly, prol suggested a rationale for the suggested europe.metafilter.com: "The common language would be English. This would mean only people who write good...
The next UK weblogger meet (November 10, 2000) The next UK weblogger meet is this weekend in Cambridge, but another one is being proposed for next week in London - I've been fighting for Maida Vale as a venue, but that's really only because I live there. If...
The Guardian comes up with (November 10, 2000) The Guardian comes up with yet another quiz designed to show up your inadequacies as a human being. This one even has the snappy title: "Are You Dumb?". More designed for the English than for Johnny Foreigner, my department at...
I just want to reassure (November 10, 2000) I just want to reassure people that at no point in the past did I write a book called Creating a Self-Portrait....
Have you heard of Extenuating (November 10, 2000) Have you heard of Extenuating Circumstances? No? But you've heard of Daily Doozer, right? Daily Doozer was always a great read - bloody ace weblog. Well. Dan wrote DD, then took a break from weblogging and came back with Extenuating...
On creative etymology... (November 10, 2000) Notice the similarity in pronunciation between these two words: "Homey" (as in homeboy, contemporary American street-slang) and "Omi" (old gay palare for man). Palare had a word, "omipalone" (Oh-Mi-Pal-Oh-Nee) which was a combination of Man and Woman ("palone"), and which...
In the spirit of resistance, (November 10, 2000) In the spirit of resistance, here are a couple of snippets of important information from adbusters.org. First comes the event that should be de rigeur for every intelligent, creative weblogger - the Creative Resistance Contest. You have until December 1...
Your chance to talk to Naomi Klein... (November 10, 2000) Naomi Klein, author of the wonderful No Logo is going to be answering questions this afternoon (1400 GMT) over at the BBC's site: [Quiz Naomi Klein]. For those of you who aren't familiar with her work, here's a brief summary...
On more weblogs from London... (November 9, 2000) For those of you that didn't know, plasticbag.org is brought to you live from sunny London, where the sun never sets and where 'party, party, party' is the name of the game. If you are interested in reading more weblogs...
On hesketh and hiwire... (November 9, 2000) A few really well (and recently re-) designed corporate sites, as mentioned by zeldman: hesketh.com and hiwire.com....
This is a post specifically (November 9, 2000) This is a post specifically not aimed at young Fran from timeout.com. There's a really interesting article that might interest you over at the BBC: "Women 'getting dangerously drunk'."...
On europe.metafilter.com? (November 9, 2000) Prol is keen to have a more local brand of metafilter, but wants it to be europe.metafilter.com rather than uk.metafilter.com. While I can completely understand her reasoning, I can't help thinking that the reason we are asking the wonderful Matt...
I'm not sure this will (November 8, 2000) I'm not sure this will work, but I'm trying it out nonetheless. I saw Sourground doing this and thought it was a pretty good idea (mainly for my family should they be reading). So here is it: my amazon.co.uk wishlist....
The approach of my 9000 day birthday... (November 8, 2000) According to beebo.org/lately, it will be my 9k/day birthday on November 30th. A full 9000 days old. No wonder I'm exhausted all the time. Our Lord Jesus Christ, however, will be celebrating his next "thousandth" birthday on Thursday, 23 May...
Cortex to Brainsluice... (November 8, 2000) Congratulations to Dave, ex of Cortex on the move to brainsluice.com and the extremely successful redesign....
On plasticbag.org on a PC... (November 8, 2000) Ew. Just saw plasticbag.org on a PC for the first time in months, and frankly I don't like the way it looks at all. I mean, it all pretty much works, but it just doesn't look right. Some reconsideration might...
Knocked off another epinion while (November 8, 2000) Knocked off another epinion while I should have been tidying up the flat for my flatmate's imminent arrival in the morning. This one's about The Patriot. "But in this - the first year of the new Millennium - there are...
On watching "The Patriot"... (November 7, 2000) In this - the first year of the new Millennium, there are a whole new batch of bad-guys to hate and fear - the people who may come along while you sleep and replace your children with crude duplicates carved out of root vegetables - the people who wear exotic clothing and move in an almost sinisterly stiff fashion - mindless drones of cruel masters, the menace is now ... British ...
A Metafilter for London and the UK? (November 7, 2000) Reasons for Matt Haughey to assemble london.metafilter.com / gb.metafilter.com or uk.metafilter.com: [Regional Metafilters?] British webloggers are the single largest group of English language webloggers outside the US. British webloggers are unable to participate in the large blocks of American-specific content...
Storming lyrics from an epic (November 7, 2000) Storming lyrics from an epic song. We may never see their like again: He has a powerful weapon He charges a million a shot......
The person who wrote the (November 7, 2000) The person who wrote the piece below has asked to be credited for it, as is her right. Her name is: Marcia van der Beek and her e-mail address is clog@dutchbint.org....
Handbags at dawn for this (November 7, 2000) Handbags at dawn for this particular "bint": "***** of ***** wonders why he wasn't invited to a uk webloggers meeting in London last Saturday. Nothing to do with you, David. I wasn't invited either, and I'm in London. I think...
The thing I think I (November 6, 2000) The thing I think I dislike about work in general is the way that one is forced to censor what one wants to say if you are saying it in the public arena. If I have problems at work, if...
I wrote an epinion about (November 6, 2000) I wrote an epinion about Requiem for a Dream. The review in a line? "This is a brilliantly made, visually stunning, well-performed piece of perfect cinema, that if you have any sense of self-preservation you will NEVER, EVER go and...
Here's a new game for (November 6, 2000) Here's a new game for you. This one is called "What Kind of Person Buys That". I was wandering through Amazon.co.uk today, and I stumbled upon a book called Hacking Exposed. Apparently people who buy Pixies albums are interested in...
Not a real man. Not a real poof. (November 5, 2000) OK so it's a standard conversation. You're out with women and you're chatting away about someone who's just fucked them over in some way and they say things like, "All Men are pointless", or "I've never met a man who...
This is why Matt Webb must die... (November 5, 2000) Grrrr. Matt is too talented. I hate Matt. I wish Matt would die rather than knock up really cool little natty links pages in the middle of the night on a whim, when it takes me months to find the...
On mucking around in Dirk... (November 5, 2000) Do this immediately if you are a weblogger yourself: Go to Interconnected.org [DIRK] and do a search for weblog. Do this particularly if you happen to run: megnut.com, notsosoft.com, Captainfez.com, Blogger.com, Interconnected.org/home, Evhead.com, Extenuating Circumstances, camworld.com or riothero.com. Someone's been...
Sometimes - just sometimes - (November 5, 2000) Sometimes - just sometimes - I do something so unbearably evil that I astound even myself: You Know Who You Are!...
The immortal Meg has an (November 5, 2000) The immortal Meg has an article published today in the Observer on the TV drama Attachments (which I have managed to completely not see as yet). In it she writes: [Attachments: Are you Attached?] The business model for seethru.co.uk is...
So I'm wandering around Chez (November 5, 2000) So I'm wandering around Chez Andy, thinking how nice and orange everything is, when I see this white blotch with "Hello I use Organizine, the wave of the future". This looks really interesting, so I think to myself, I'm going...
If you want to see (November 4, 2000) If you want to see pictures of someone who looks a bit like me, only fatter (oh and some other weblogging types) mooching around seedy bars in Soho, then all you have to do is get your fat arse over...
RE: Sex in Zero Gravity (November 4, 2000) RE: Sex in Zero Gravity [from Wired] According to Stine, it was "possible but difficult." Stine also explained that the tank experiments revealed that sex in zero gravity would be easier if a helpful astronaut was available to assist the...
The dark satanic cult of (November 4, 2000) The dark satanic cult of the UK weblogging community met up again last night for Thai food and a booze-up in Soho. Statistics for the event are being quantified as we speak, as are the (gulp) photos (damn you Meg...
People who say that there (November 3, 2000) People who say that there isn't enough personal content on my site (and there are a couple) should learn to read between the lines, if you ask me. I can't be expected to spell everything out!...
More brief excepts from a subterranean diary... (November 2, 2000) Just a snippet today - this time about last weekend: "Friday night decided I had to do something to pull me out of the exhausted self-hating funk I had been in, so i went out for a drink with Nick...
I've got to get me (November 1, 2000) I've got to get me one of these: [bark with me: WOOF WOOF]....
Things not to do when (November 1, 2000) Things not to do when you want to sucessfully pick up men: Be in love with someone. Be hunched over a beer. Glare at everyone who approaches you with a DIE BITCHSCUM DIE look on your face. If you can...
Here's an interesting article for (November 1, 2000) Here's an interesting article for you all: "The number one thing that correlates with a region's high-tech success is the concentration of gay people living there."[E-Village People from Washingtonpost.com via Metafilter]...
Brief excerpts from a Subterranean Diary... (November 1, 2000) Excerpts from a Subterranean Diary: I've been spending a lot of time with Nick H. recently. We went out boozing on Friday night where I (kind of) pulled this air steward bloke, and then I spoke to him on the...
My flatmates leave for holiday (November 1, 2000) My flatmates leave for holiday tomorrow, which leaves me with the flat to myself for a full five or six days. It's going to be both lovely and slightly disturbing, as I'm in a bit of an isolationist space at...
Ridiculous quote of the day: (November 1, 2000) Ridiculous quote of the day: "Hello! You might be eligible to be featured in amiHOTorNOT's newsletter of the hottest men and women! If you are interested in being featured, please do the following..." Of course this might have something to...
