Author: Tom Coates

I swear to god, if the Barbelith Underground reboot doesn’t work this time, I’m smashing something. I’m going to get a great big fucking rock and throw it through Infopop‘s windows.

“Why do you fight, miniscule blonde one?” Today has been filled with a profound inability to connect to anything or anyone, the frustration of discovering that an application form that was supposed to arrive this morning hasn’t done, a couple of hours of Buffy and a fair amount of UBB dismantling. Had a bit of an existential wobble around 4pm. Comforted myself with the thought that I’m under a lot of stress, am very tired and haven’t eaten properly for a while. Do not, as yet, feel at equilibrium.

Evening in a Nutshell: Was late getting everything done, half-tidied bedroom, met Nick H and Davo at The Edge, drank a couple of drinks, behaved like idiots, had fun. Went to GAY, downed a couple of drinks, bumped into ****, bumped into Scott and friend. Danced like a maniac for an hour or so. Saw stunning man, stunning man engaged in ten minutes of full-body flirting, stunning man wandered off with boyfriend, got a bit pissed off, danced like an angry maniac, tried to get Nick to flirt with someone, tried to leave the dance-floor but they kept playing incredibly good crap. Saw stunning man while sitting and having a fag with Davo. Felt really tired. Davo leant me the money for a cab. Got cab. Got home, had sneaky shower. Talked to **** on AIM about his behaviour over the evening – decided he was a bit of an arse. Went to bed.

Ok. You’re all missing the point. I want you to vote for the other people (ie not me), so I get to see them naked. Jeez, people. Pay attention. So in attempt to guide your voting a little, I’ve found these old pictures of Matt and Mo lying around the place. Wouldn’t you rather see them naked?

The disturbing mind of Cal Henderson has come up with the most evil thing I’ve seen in years: which uk blogger would you most like to see naked? I have it on good authority that whoever wins this poll will take much of their kit off immediately.

I don’t even know what to say. The person who got me Buffy on video – wow. This has been the main symbol of my currently tightened circumstances – that the thing that would be my first frivolity sits on a shelf glaring at me. I actually got a bit emotional. I don’t know what to say.

Today on Barbelith: CCTV in a nutshell – “Britain leads the world in the use of closed circuit television to discourage crime on our streets, and enjoys the highest known proportion of CCTV coverage.”

More grotesque photos of the most recent Blogmeet (12 /6/2001). When will someone realise that the pallid complexion, RSI’d arms and over-caffeinated geek world will never photograph well?

Matt Haughey relaunches haughey.com as his professional site. It’s a startlingly simple and elegant design, using high quality images. The front page feels like a window. There’s something familiar to me about the text formatting on the images. It reminds me of something big in the graphic design world a while back. If anyone can see what I’m talking about, then mail me. It’s driving me insane.

Proposal: Combine weblog with diary and journal by making it possible to (1) post in advance, (2) assign times to events, (3) be able to choose whether the post should be public or private, (4) have private posts be viewable through a concealed login so you can check your itinerary on the go, (5) Build in ‘talk about this event’ functionality.