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Adapted plot synopses (thanks to: Rob’s Will & Grace Page, using my names for the main characters (I find this inordinately amusing and could have put about a thousand of them up):

Pilot:
Poof’s poker night with his buddies gets interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Slag, who has once again broken up with her boyfriend and arrives to spend the night–much to the displeasure of Poof’s friend Queen, who was planning to move in temporarily while his own apartment has new flooring put in. Poof talks Slag into finally leaving her boyfriend for good, she marches off to confront him, but when she returns to announce that she has accepted a marriage proposal, Poof risks their friendship by telling her what he thinks.

Where there’s a Poof, there’s no way:
Slag claims that the reason she’s not dating is that she’s having too much “fun” with Poof–so she proposes that they try their best not to have fun. Meanwhile, Queen is seeing stars over seeing an IRS agent, so he enlists Poof’s help.

The truth about Poof and Dogs:
After Slag defies Poof’s wishes and brings home a puppy, Poof can’t resist the pooch and begins to treat him like a newborn baby. Meanwhile, Queen and Bitch worry about the dog’s effect on Poof and Slag and insist that the new parents go out for a night on the town.

So Mel gets evicted from the Big Brother UK house with a whopping 69% of the vote. My flatmate Mella rings me from the studio straight after the TV program and says that everyone in her family is really glad to have her coming home, and that the atmosphere in the theatre was pretty strange. Two hours until the full interview…

Wow: Twenty e-mails in five hours – all telling me that the TV show in question is not in fact called “Slag and Poof”, or indeed “Poof and Slag”, but instead is called “Will and Grace” (not far off – pat yourself on the back Tom). Here are some links about said program:

• NBC: Will & Grace
• Rob’s Will & Grace page
• The Essential Will & Grace

Now all I need to know is when this show is coming to the UK.

What are you supposed to do when you’re on holiday? I’m already bored, and I’ve only been off a day and a half. Ho hum. Guess I’ll tidy the flat and go pay some bills…

A quote from the letters column of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a comic book written by Alan Moore concerned with the adventures of the Invisible Man, Dr Jekyll, Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray and Captain Nemo (and a number of other 19th Century Roustabouts).

“Good show, young man. Our hats are off to you. While we are not entirely sure exactly who this “Danger Girl” to whom you more than once refer might be, we venture that she sounds like a vexatious little strumpet and is almost certainly deserving of a vigorous beating, perhaps with a taws or riding crop. Why I’ll wager you’d buy six issues if we did that, wouldn’t you, you cheeky little bounder? Here’s a shilling, don’t spend it on gin. When we were our age we were all dying of pleurisy up chimneys, but it was character-forming, and that’s how we beat the Hun. Now be off with you, before we tell your Father.”

Images from Star Wars: Episode II are released – and they have a sneaky / cunning way of letting people distribute them:

Well I said it would happen, and happen it has – plasticbag.org falls from six to thirty-one on beebo.org. I kind of knew it would happen eventually, but I have to say I am disappointed. I should probably have done the move several months ago.

I was going to go and visit a friend in Bristol for this weekend, but I heard yesterday that a close friend of hers died a couple of days ago. She’s come down to London to be with them, and I met her in Hampstead for a drink this afternoon.

Mere days after I finally convinced my boss to sign a deal with Amazon rather than with the rather appalling IBS, I read this:

Wired [Online Prices Not Created Equal]:
“Amazon apparently offers good discounts to new users, then once they get the person hooked and coming back to their site again and again, they play with the prices to make more money,” wrote one angry poster in the online forum DVD Talk.

A number of other posters in the same forum fumed about prices varying wildly for the same DVDs, depending on whether the surfer accessed Amazon from his own computer or someone else’s. Several angry Amazon customers emailed complaints to Wired News.

Amazon.com acknowledged that it’s been presenting different prices to different customers in its DVD store, but denied that it does so on the basis of any past purchasing behavior at Amazon.

The article goes on to argue that targetted pricing could be the way of the future, with people who are more likely to pay more for a product being put in a position where those are the only prices they are offered – and with this happening often without their knowledge. This so clearly has the potential to be horribly immoral that I can’t think that it will work – people will protest or governments / fair trade associations will intervene. But in the meantime I think this is a matter for protest: Equal Rights to Fair Prices!

So I decided to send Mark a message through AIM even though it was clear that he wasn’t there. I was just interested in the kind of message he might leave. He’s such a charmer:

“i’m at school. Stinkbadger, if you IMed to say you loved me, thanks babe, i love you too. Stinkbadger, if you IMed to say you hate me, fuck you jerk! and if you IMed just to talk, man up, and pick one of the two choices above, deal? see ya this afternoon around 3:00.”