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Ok, by now there aren’t that many regular readers of plasticbag.org who don’t know that I’ve got a bit of a fetish for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And of course, being English I have to deal with the horror that a lot of other people around the world are going to see what happens to her before I am. I don’t consciously true to avoid having it spoiled for me, but I am aware that it only gets me more and more frustrated.

So can someone tell me, is it true? I’ve just read an article about Buffy that has come through on the newsfeed I use for The Celeb Network – and it’s claiming that people have been shocked by the state of her at the beginning of the series. Here’s a quote: “But American fans were left distraught when the episode aired in the States recently, thanks to shots of their heroine rotting in the earth. One fan says, ‘The shot of her decomposed body was pretty sick.'”

Reminder The BARBELITH SERVER FUND needs you. [Full Story] If you would like to help pay for the cost of maintaining Barbelith and the Barbelith Underground then you can do so here:

You can: Donate $2.50 (around £1.75) a month
Or: Donate $5 (around £3) a month.

In bleeding edge news, Kylie Minogue keeps Michael Jackson from the No #1 spot in the UK. I never thought I’d be saying that. Nor did I think I’d be saying that when she’d been number one for three weeks already. Nor did I think I’d say that the Kylie single is an unbelievably good little pop song that I literally can’t bloody stop humming…

Yesterday and last night I was mostly writing the gay section for Time Out‘s London Guide. And I was also mostly not getting enough done. Despite Davo‘s help. I’m a bad man.

Now this could be seriously cool – an AIM BloggerBot.

Today I am mostly writing the gay section for Time Out‘s London Guide.

Yet again, Barbelith is creaking under the strain of bandwidth that I can’t afford to maintain. This month looks likely to be running at the 600Mb a day mark. And, remaining sporadically employed as I do, I can’t afford the $100 – $125 a month that this costs. So I’ve finally snapped…

VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS VIA PAYPAL: If you would like to help pay for the cost of maintaining barbelith (and the barbelith underground), then you can do so by donating $2.50 a month via Paypal. You can cancel your subscription at any time with no notice, via Paypal itself. It’s PURELY voluntary – it won’t affect your ability to use the site if you don’t subscribe, but barbelith really does need support if it is to continue running at this level.

If I can get fifty subscribers, we can pay the bandwidth bills and also move to Pair.com‘s “High Volume” account, which would give us room to nearly double in size if necessary. And if we can get one hundred subscribers, we can actually get a Barbelith Server Of Our Own. This would mean no more time-outs, substantially fewer massive server errors ever ten minutes, and a considerably smaller chance of the whole damn site going tits-up every six months. As soon as we get enough people to get a server, we won’t accept any more donations. This is literally JUST to cover bandwidth and maintenance costs.

You can: Donate $2.50 (around £1.75) a month
Or: Donate $5 (around £3) a month.

Recent Questions asked about Movable Type:

1) Is a search facility worthwhile?, Like in Greymatter?
2) Being able to delete multiple posts (and scroll through entries by page) would be really nice…
3) A limit to Blogger exports?

Footprints:

1) Does Derek take himself too seriously?

Quote of the Day:

Julie Burchill: “The Evening Argus is probably the only read in the world WORSE than Time Out…”

Ok. I give up. If everyone insists that I am the TheGrapevine, then I might as well admit to it.

Phew. A return to the mud-brown background of yesteryear after a month of stolen background. It was kind of supposed to be a joke, but I kept forgetting to turn it back.