plasticbag.org

I so entirely want to play this.

Mark is an arse.

An American, yesterday:

The ideology behind Barbelith and plasticbag.org laid bare: “The world is made up of two kinds of people: those who cling to the tired, old status quo and those who fearlessly embrace the new status quo. Me, I fall squarely into the latter camp. Not content to stick with the same-old same-old, I like to mix it up and put myself out there. You know, give the old heave-ho to the stodgy and staid. Say what you will about me, but no one will ever accuse me of being afraid to try popular new things.” [The Onion]

Tom reviews: The Living Daylights: “Unlike several of the previous episodes, this is a film with at least one foot squarely set in the real world. There are no vast subterranean bases, no plans to rule the world and a remarkable shortage of huge fluffy white cats.” Star Trek Generations: “The graceless ageing of the original crew and their self-satisfied ham acting don’t sit well with Patrick Stewart’s obvious intelligence and Shakespearean training – and make his reverence to Shatner’s paunchy hack seem almost degrading.”

Because sometimes it’s nice to be duped: “A friend of mine calls A&F ìthe poor gay manís Pradaî.”

Depressing but true. Someone spend the time to put together 1 of 101 Dave Eggers Jokes, format them like his memoir was formatted and stick them on the internet. The memoir was wonderful. The jokes are … not. They’re too mean-spirited. Which brings me to the thread on Metafilter which asks if anyone out in the community has been the target of a website parody or attack. The answer, of course, is that everyone has been attacked at one point or another. But that we deal with it. Case in point – still up and running and still secretly upsetting me: Plasticfag.org.

As has become unpleasantly normal, a new day means a new piece of bad news from the new media / publishing landscape to fill me with dread. Today? IPC closes key websites – most of which, it has to be said, weren’t particularly good or interesting sites. But still – not the point.

An insight into my barbelith posting habits reveals a singular interest in fanfiction and authorship, Buffy, sexuality and the recent Channel 5 movie, “Justice League of America”. That was way lame.

And no sooner had it came back, than Blogger search disappears once more.