Tonight is the Time Out Christmas party. Last year I managed to be savaged by everyone in the advertising department, embarrass myself in front of this bloke whose presence now raises nothing but ire and get frustrated and aggressive while waiting for a cab [last year’s entry]. This year it’s held in the office (they ran out of money) and I have the terrible feeling that the level of debauchery will be substantially lessened. More later.
“Hello, my name is Tom. I will be your host for this evening. I am so utterly clueless, that I have for the first time today noticed that Nikolai produced an MP3/parody version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” a couple of months ago in which plasticbag.org was mentioned. I would like to apologise for my lax behaviour, and I promise to try and do better over the coming weeks.”
Somewhat unfairly, my fellow English webloggers (no names mentioned) consider me obsessed with the size of my stats. This is despite the fact that I decided about six months ago to stop even getting stats for plasticbag.org, a resolution I only broke thirty days ago in order to check that, y’know SOME people were still finding their way over here. 30 days: 15,000 page impressions. I’m turning off the counter now. I’ll have another look in six months time.
Finally someone has capped the whole AmIHotOrNot.com series of parodies. If you are bored with (deep breath) , AmIKottkeOrNot, AmIGeekOrNot, AmIGothOrNot, AmIMonkeyOrNot or AmIPresidentOrNot then now is the time to get down to fairvue.com for Nikolai’s epic AmIAGoodParodyOfAmIHotOrNot.com?
I’m in the middle of working on a button that people can come and click on which will just take you to any one of the various links from the last four days of plasticbag.org. At the moment it doesn’t work on all browsers (and if you have any advice or solutions, let me know), but you can test it out here if you’d like: surprise me. [One of the (many) browsers that this doesn’t appear to work in is IE5 (not 5.5) for PCs. Sorry!]
I have two moods when I’m out with people that I don’t know that well. Mood One: Absolute silence and discomfort. Mood Two: Aggressive, over-the-top and vulgar. See if you can guess which one I was in last night? [clue]
Rollcall: Luke, Meg, Jen, Katy, Matt, Catherine, Dave, Kylie, Dan, Mo. Thanks to Meg for the gallery.
Important news for all right-thinking people:
THE REAL DEALS
THE BREEDERS played a secret show in LOS ANGELES last night (December 12), the first time KIM and KELLEY DEAL had played together in over six years, NME.COM can exclusively reveal. Following the show Kim Deal explained to NME.COM that she and sister Kelley had moved to Los Angeles midway through 2000. She also revealed that they were planning to go into the studio in early 2001 with Steve Albini to begin recording a third Breeders album.
There’s an extremely interesting article [“Escribitionists”: Web Diaries and Self-Representation] on weblogs and subjectivity that I read this afternoon which has me thinking once more about the nature of this medium that we call blog. I’m not going to go into my thoughts on the matter immediately, because I want people to read it before I have my say. I’ll amend this post later with my full thoughts. [via metafilter]
Blue Posts (1): Despite my almost total exhaustion (a direct result of a combination of going for a drink with David, Matt, Jen and Dean last night, waking up at 3am convinced that someone had climbed up the scaffolding and was trying to break into my flat and having to get up at 7am in order to go to the loo before the builders turned it off for twelve hours) and almost total penury (DVDs, credit card bills [New York] and exhorbitant phone bills), I will still be attending the Blue Posts extended weblogging pub crawl this evening. See you there?
Derek Powazek expresses his anger at Neale‘s AmIKottkeOrNot site. Then he starts posting to the Discussion part of Neale’s weblog (8.12.00).
Jason doesn’t seem that phased by the whole thing, and frankly I don’t blame him – it seems to me that the whole enterprise is flattering at best and slighty cynical at worst – it certainly doesn’t seem to be personally offensive to anyone concerned. One thing is clear from this, however. Derek probably would not respond well to a weblogger doing a parody “Powazek, the Web Avenger” site.
