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Weird evening / Weird party: After which I felt even more as if everyone in the entire world thinks I’m pointless and cruel. Weirdest part of the evening was weighing myself while trying to avoid conversation by hiding in the loo (where I was rung by someone I’d recently wronged ironically enough) and discovering that I’ve lost 12 pounds over the last couple of months – purely from not feeling like eating and being stressed. I’m now a trim eleven stone of firm muscle. Go figure. If it wasn’t for the ever-growing beard, I’d no doubt be having no end of sexual antics.

A strange place to find a link? Infonie.fr posts about Barbelith (translated wonderfully by babelfish: “The libertarian site of a revolutionary series of Grant Morisson: The Invisible Ones. Or how the data base can become political. Cliquez here for accéder with the site.” I particularly like ‘cliquez here’. See the link in context (if it hasn’t been removed already).

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Today, at 1pm GMT, the Barbelith Webzine was launched, after many many months of procrastination.

Destroy the evil GAP clones
“Thus began the GAP’s supervillianous campaign to end diversity and herd the world’s population into marketing categories.”
by Ralph McGinnis

Morrison’s Debt to Moorcock
Gideon Stargrave, King Mob’s possibly imaginary alter ego in The Invisibles, is based firmly upon Michael Moorcock’s ’60s cult hero, Jerry Cornelius.
by Lee Ravitz

Aum Shinri Kyo
“Clad in vibrant pink robes, Asahara preached about the coming apocalypse and how to survive it.”
by Grant Balfour

Chaos Magick in a Nutshell
“Life may be magickal in a nihilistic, incomprehensible way but it is still magickal.”

Queer Theory in a nutshell
“Queer theorists agree that sexuality is a historically specific construct and that our society oppresses those outside its categories of sexual normalcy”
by Jackie Susann

We are now looking for more features and opinion pieces – and for anyone who notices something horribly wrong to let me know (mail me)

A quick question about the BBC. If you read this piece of writing in the Weekly World News, would you believe it? “A Derbyshire housewife has sold what she says is a video of a flying saucer to a Hollywood producer. Sharon Rowlands, 44, from the village of Bonsall, in the Peak District, has reportedly been paid ?20,000 for the footage. And officials at NASA are said to have asked to examine the tape, because they believe it shows the same type of craft once spotted by the space agency’s own cameras during a space shuttle mission.” If not, how come we are expected to believe it when we read it on the BBC?

“Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems.”

“I told you my work is almost completed. Let me tell you now exactly what I’m planning to do. I’ve spoken of the importance of catastrophe to progress and change. Think of the minor accidents that made you and the others what you are today. Now imagine a mass accident if you will. Imagine generating a global catastrophe curve. What might happen then? How would humanity be forced to change and adapt? With the nanomachines I can do it. I can remake the world and everyone in it. I’m not entirely sure what kind of world will exist when I have finished, but I know it will be better for everyone. If I have any faith, I have faith in the unexpected. The unpredictable. I believe in the catastrophe. I welcome it with open arms.“

Simply as a response to those of you who have asked via e-mail, the reason why I look ridiculously stubbly on the cam is that I’ve decided that I’m not going to shave until I get a job – or at least a job interview. It seems an unnecessary extravagance at the best of times, and frankly I’ve always wanted to know whether or not my uneven growth could ever amount to anything resembling a full beard. The Quest begins.

Newsflash: Lance launches storyFUCK.

I’m at home, and I’m working on a site and it’s two in the morning and I lean over and put a random CD on, and a song comes on and suddenly I’m fifteen, writing in my journal, learning to play the song in question on the piano, wondering when I’d get to play it to someone and mean it. Thirteen years later and I still feel like I’m waiting for that opportunity – that it will apply to me eventually, at some random point in the future. It’s a cheesy song – there’s no denying it – but teenage songs stay with you. And I can still play it on the piano – I’ve tried to keep it in practice, just in case… (Something So Right)

You’ve got the cool water
When the fever runs high
You’ve got the look of lovelight in your eyes
And I was in crazy motion
‘Til you calmed me down
It took a little time
But you calmed me down

When something goes wrong
I’m the first to admit it
I’m the first to admit it
And the last one to know
When something goes right
Well it’s likely to lose me
It’s apt to confuse me
It’s such an unusual sight
Oh, I can’t, I can’t get used to something so right
Something so right

They’ve got a wall in China
It’s a thousand miles long
To keep out the foreigners they made it strong
And I’ve got a wall around me
That you can’t even see
It took a little time
To get next to me

Stunning insights from Anarcho-Boy: “It must not be forgotten that every media professional is bound by wages and other rewards and recompenses to a master and sometimes to several, and that everyone of them knows he is dispensable.”