So I’m known for having little patience when it comes to dumb linking policies. Just in case you’re not remembering the whole dumb-linking thing – this is when a company like KMPG says KPMG says you have to get permission before you’re allowed to link to them. It’s dumb. It’s a policy. It’s about linking. Are you with me yet? Anyway – lots of other people think this kind of thing is dumb too. And someone’s founded a weblog about it. That’s kind of cool.
I fear I may be alone in being utterly confused about Jason’s latest post about Andrew Sullivan. The sheer number of similes swimming around the place like laser-mounted sharks in a very small pool make, erm, those sharks, erm, get cramped and laser each other or something. One thing is clear though – Jason uses the phrase ‘self-congratulating hogwash’ about the ludicrous Andrew Sullivan and as such is very much my hero and ally.
Sometimes I think that I’m just like this poor (spoof) gentleman. So to make me feel better and superior, I sent the man concerned a little $1 donation. And the e-mail address the money is sent to? savemyhands@yahoo.com!
On a related issue – I asked Matt whether it would be a bad idea to get a t-shirt printed that said ‘AIM me if you want a shag’ with my AIM name after it. And he said, nope.
Now like him or loathe him, Peter Mandelson is Labour (and hence probably has his heart roughly in the right place) and a poof. So he can’t be all bad. More to the point, he’s clearly a very media-savvy gentleman with a certain flair for the dramatic and a not-entirely-shit web presence. Perhaps unsurprisingly the site skips over some of the more controversial aspects of his involvement with the political system, but remains essentially an extremely well-crafted piece of informational publishing.
Today my head feels as woolly as dozens of sheep. Ideas kind of have to fight for space next to smelly mutton and can’t make themselves heard over the relentless soft bleating from every direction.
Matt Jones’s site is currently on fire. If you’re reading anything about the net at the moment, you should be reading that and not whatever infantile ramblings I’m preparing of an evening.
So I was like talking to a friend at work and I asked him if he wanted to come over and play Halo all evening with Cal and I and he said he couldn’t and I said he was like totally whipped or something and he didn’t know what that meant so I like entirely showed him.
So my dad is seriously into golf, and plays all the time. He’s been into golf for years. I used to try and play a bit, but I was completely bloody useless at it, so I don’t do that any more. Anyway – my mother is a ‘lady member’ of the golf club – or at least used to be. I think she got bored of it. Anyway – the ‘lady members’ are very much there on sufferance. They don’t get to go into most of the bars, they don’t get to play on Saturdays and they are generally ridiculed by most of the proper members. But not any more! It now turns out that the golf club won’t get a drinks license unless they let women in as full members – and that means with full voting rights. It’s only a few decades late, but it’s still a step in the right direction…
So you’re given a choice between thing A and thing B.
And thing A and thing B are as nice as can be.
And there’s nothing you know that will help you, you see…
How do you decide ‘tween thing A and thing B?
Thing A has the glamour, the style and the verve.
Thing A is the best if you have got the nerve.
But that man who came asking and begging on knee.
He talked and he talked of the cool of thing B
Thing A was unsure, but then suddenly not.
Now that thing’s the thing that the other thing’s not.
But you already decided that B was for you.
Whatever dear reader should our hero do?
He went with his heart which said “you must be true”,
To back out on whim is the wrong thing to do.
And integrity means that you can’t just decide,
To laugh at the man to whom ‘yes’ you’d replied…
A month gone and what’s wrong? Do you feel you were had?
Has thing B that was promised so good gone so bad?
And if it is peace that you’re trying to find…
Thing A would have driven you out of your mind.