Year: 2001

Must Click: Possibly the best thing in the world ever, Sean Nadeau’s celebration of my upcoming birthday trip to Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music has had me collapsing with laughter all morning. You have to see this.

Now you can search plasticbag.org in order to find out when precisely it was that I bitched about the User Interface at your favourite site. Will the thrills never end?

“I’d hate to be like certain people I know. They break their necks and can’t afford to get them fixed.”

I am an absurdly funny person. It’s the only conclusion that I can draw from the sheer wit on display in my review of Dr Dolittle 2. I mean – that line “John Dolittle, media darling, must turn from animal conversationalist to animal conservationist…” (do you see what I did there) is pure genius, and completely doesn’t collapse under skim-reading. God. Look at how funny I am. I may die.

Ah well – no good deed goes unpunished: Dragonthief .

TOM IS EVIL Last change to brighten my birthday by buying me a present from my wishlist. Anything on the ‘Dispatched within 24 hours’ category (if bought today) should arrive on Thursday, thus making me a very very spoilt weblogger. Show your love with money today. Buy me shit.

The orgy of Tom-love just keeps on oiling itself up and writhing in erotic glee. Malpractice is the first site that I have seen that uses my free-for-use template (as seen here and available here). There are a few revisions to it, which frankly I think improve it dramatically. But I guess that was the point of it – to make something simple and basic, fairly elegant, that people could personalise as they saw fit. If you see anyone else using the template, let me know.

Received an e-mail from someone I knew at school today. He’d been wandering around plasticbag.org. It’s an odd feeling – you put a lot of your life on display on one of these things, but you somehow don’t expect it to be read by people you actually know. And every time someone new does read it, you feel exposed for a while. Having said that, I’ve made it a mission to be as open and up-front as I can about stuff. So hey. Hope you’re having fun, Ed.

God, I’m really popular today for some reason. Everyone’s being really nice to me. I wonder what that’s about. Next up we have a site review from 2xy.org=f(ab)! :: adored. My favourite (surreal) line goes as follows: “I mean, if I were in his shoes, I’d be extremely wary of unbidden strangers who lavish me with thick praise. You can’t be too careful on the Internet these days, especially if you’re as popular as Tom Coates.” What a strange world it is in which we live. Nevertheless consider me astonishingly flattered. And yes, I’m afraid I will link to anyone who says really nice things about me. I don’t care if that’s whoredom or not.

It’s a bit of a Tom-love-in today. Thanks to Mark Kevin Hall from Hidden City for the present and saying all that nice stuff about me.