omg, look at this. there really is more donna tartt going to happen. via, of course, the source of all things tartt. apparently the english-language version comes out on october 15th, but a dutch translation is published a month before that. ik hebbe nodig, nederlands aanleren. or something like that.
4/28/2002 05:09:46 PM #

 

i have a problem. and four of those (two cadfaels, the poisenwood bible which six separate people have told me to read, and american gods which i've wanted for ages and didn't think was out in paperback yet) are ones i've bought today. if this were drugs, i could get myself cured on the national health service.
4/28/2002 02:59:04 PM #

 

for anyone who's read/is reading earth's children, cro magnon-neanderthal hybrids are more of a probability than some of the theory's wackier proponants might suggest.
4/28/2002 10:41:22 AM #

 

oh bless. i am number three on google for the best love sentences. would you like me to post up some good chat up lines, honey?
4/28/2002 09:23:32 AM #

 

my eight from the eighties:

1. are you under pressure? the kind of pressure that you get from too much, too boring stuff to do. the worst. next question!
2. are you tuff enuff? no. how does the dime bar ad go? i'm like the armadillo, crunchy on the outside but soft in the middle. but i didn't tell you that. this snarly exterior is how i really am, right?
3. are you a material girl/boy? big time. i like gadgets. i like new cds even though i now have a cd writer and could download them for no money. i measure my book collection in feet rather than in numbers of volumes. and all my clothes are too big so i have to buy new ones. with shoes. oh yes, with shoes...
4. do you pump up the volume, pump up the volume, etc.? mmm, i love the bass coming up through my feet. we are talking about good vibrations here (oops, wrong decade). i'd forgotten all about this song; it was one of my brother's favourites. the annoying little sod. mum used to refer to it as 'that turn the noise up song'.
5. no, my first name ain't baby, it's... [Somewhat will do nicely, thanks.]
6. i would die 4... well, seriously, i hope for truth, justice, freedom of speech and democracy. in the spirit of the question, the vegetarian-sausage, vegetarian-bacon breakfast that i'm just about to eat.
7. i haven't ________ for the longest time. hmm. like deb, i haven't bought glasses; must get my eyes tested.
8. (thanks lee!) ever get on the floor and do the new kids dance? ew no. new kids were way beneath me. i was into being dark and goth by that point, so if i wasn't just swaying very slightly in response to a tune in my head, i would be giving you the hard stare.

what i love most about these questions is the digging up of songs i haven't thought about since they came out... that i hated at the time, in some cases, and now feel a nostalgic affection for.
4/28/2002 09:13:01 AM #

 

this week's aortal is oblivio. because michael barrish is a stunningly good writer with fucked-up fingernails.
4/27/2002 10:35:19 AM #

 

how not to haggle:
me (to dim figure inside dark charity shop): hello? are you open?
chap (carrying box of books outside): no, not really.
me (sensing weakness): oh sorry, i'll come back. i just wanted to ask you about the dictionary in the window. is it for sale?
chap: oh yes. everything in the window's for sale.
lady (carrying box of assorted beads): hello. what are you interested in?
chap: she's asking about the dictionary. i think it's thirty pounds though.
me: that seems very reasonable. they go for four times that on ebay.
[chap looks blank. patently, old gentlemen who work in charity shops have not heard of ebay.]
[lady back inside shows me fallen-off price tag that says fifteen pounds.]
me: but i'm sure it said thirty earlier in the week.
lady: it did. but then someone told us no one would give us thirty pounds for it.
me: i'll give you thirty pounds for it.
lady: we're open now then.

so i am now the pround owner of the compact edition of the oxford english dictionary, complete with magnifying glass. excuse me while i go read it...
4/27/2002 08:37:41 AM #

 

i have a nice day planned today. b has gone to fix his father's television. so i am going to go to the charity shop down the road to see if they still have the dictionary that i spotted in their window last night. then i am going to take my camera for a walk. then i am doing redesigny on the book pages. mmm. so that last got me thinking, georgia really is the most beautiful font. if you're seeing this in ugly times new roman, then do yourself a favour and go and get it. if you don't want to go to microsoft, then fontguy and the place with the very long domain name have it too.
4/27/2002 07:36:55 AM #

 

ooh, hello to sheila's sexy new site. go on, off with you and have a look. don't miss the photos.
4/27/2002 03:56:29 AM #

 

this week's friday five is, i am afraid, finally too boring to be worth posting. it relates to hobbies and collecting things. i think we all know that i am obsessive about books and am toying with knitting and photography. i would like to have more time to do both of those, but webby stuff always seems to get priority. if it wasn't for my pesky job, i'd have loads of time, of course. and i am still intending to go back to college (part-time) in september, probably to study maths and also possibly graphic design or something similar. hmm, must get that sorted. i'll probably go here as it's nearest to my house... looks... their website is horribly out of date, it's still talking about courses that started this academic year, i.e. last october. oh good, can put off getting off my arse to sort that out for a bit longer then.
4/26/2002 12:31:11 PM #

 

apparently i can now just email my posts to blogger and they appear here. how cool is that?!
4/24/2002 10:06:50 PM #

 

i am 88% an aging hypocrite.
4/24/2002 06:46:44 PM #

 

i thought it was made up by advertisers, but no. in the supermarket today, i heard a woman telling her friend that she had changed brands of washing powder and that her towels were sooo much fluffier. the friend, it must be said, looked about as interested as i am in the adverts...
4/24/2002 06:23:29 PM #

 

let you entertain me...

this week's cd from ebay is gomez's abandoned shopping trolley hotline. one of the things b got me for my birthday was a kick-ass set of speakers for my computer; the sub-woofer nicely doubles as a foot-rest. this cd sounds amazing on this set up; i feel as though i'm in the middle of a ball of sounds which almost make sense.

rather more scarily, i've just realised that it's only a week until the shelters of stone comes out, and i haven't even finished the valley of horses yet. i've ordered the mammoth hunters and the plains of passage. i could get them read beforehand, but it would be a chore. it's bad to read series' like that, i find; always better to leave the table just a tiny bit hungry. wondering if i could do it reading jean auel every other book... interspersed with, say, the alienist and the queen's conjuror, both of which are looking very longingly at me from the bookshelf.

i love it when my books get into this state, where, whenever i finish one, i can just go to the shelf four-foot pile in the hall, and pick another. that i've never ever read before. it's a pile of infinite potential.

but best, the dvd of the wicker man has, at last, arrived. the original film. and the director's cut. mmm. so if you're the person who stole the tape about a year ago, you can keep it.
4/23/2002 09:11:17 PM #

 

three weeks later, evan seems to have forgotten what day it is on april 1st...

in other evan-type stuff, has anyone else using blogger pro got the post via email thing to work? i've done all this and so far, nada.
4/23/2002 06:30:33 PM #

 

happy st. george's day, english people. later there will be morris dancing, and then we'll talk about how we won the war and the 1966 world cup. and the queen, god bless yer ma'am.
4/23/2002 07:51:15 AM #

 

my monday mission:

1. ever had a love that you still think of as "the one that got away?" what's the story there? mmm. yes. he was a very good friend. i was in love with him for years. he knew all about it. and didn't reciprocate. but we carried on being friends. very noble of him, i think.
2. what was the last book that you finished reading cover-to-cover? a morbid taste for bones.
3. did you ever get up and walk out of a movie? which one and why? planet of the apes. it was so dull, so without anything other than ape suits. b and i turned to look at each other and said at the same time, shall we go?
4. if we were to go out dancing, what song would you want me to ask the dj to play as i slipped him a $20? i can't dance, don't ask me...
5. what was the coolest toy you had when you were a kid? i didn't do cool. i don't think i really did toys. i did books, and writing. and sticks. a good stick was important. plus stuff we could liberate from the building site down the road.
6. when was the last time you felt lonely? this morning. hit a black hole like a wall. today was not a great day.
7. do you have any minor anal-retentive character traits? yeah. worky stuff. everything perfect, all today's tasks done today. some of tomorrow's too, if possible. can't leave the office with unanswered email. can't leave five minutes early, can't get back from lunch five minutes late. and i expect everyone else to act the same.

bonus: can't you see what I mean ? i've got my back against the record machine too...
4/22/2002 06:19:16 PM #

 

some new stuff on the book pages.
4/21/2002 05:54:43 PM #

 

my eight from the eighties:

1. my lucky number's... i don't think i have one. though i'm rather partial to 4.
2. are you super freaky, yow? yow indeed, my dear.
3. do you drink? do you smoke? what do you do? do drink. don't smoke anymore and feel like a different person for it, i'm a boring evangelist of an ex-smoker. wish i didn't drink either from the throbbing of my head this morning.
4. what *do* boys like? the woman who wrote gentlemen prefer blondes remarked later that if she were rewriting the book, it would be called gentlemen prefer gentlemen. and while that was almost certainly gay-bashing at the time, it's kind of funny now.
5. is heaven a place on earth? if you make it so.
6. have you ever been in a bizarre love triangle? triangle, yes. bizarre, no. just boring and stupid and ultimately painful. like such situations normally are.
7. do you get physical, physical? i did five minutes on my cycle yesterday, does that count? i have to do some exercise. i might have got thinner but my body's still got that squidgy edge to it. and i couldn't do a sit-up if my life depended on it. i want that lean look that says i can do things with my thighs that you have only dreamed of...
8. shout, shout, let it all out. people downstairs, it's sunday morning. make your kids shut up. or at least go outside. and while we're on the subject, drilling at 8 am on a saturday morning was a tad much too, neighbouroonies. as for dropping sweet wrappers in the hall, man, it's part of your house. you wouldn't do it inside your door, would you? would you? these are the things i can do without, come on, i'm talking to you...

thanks deb!
4/21/2002 08:47:30 AM #

 

the terrible thing about posting an aortal site is that you have to change it. gulp.

this week's lucky winner is cocky bastard and teller of prehensile tales, john halcyon styn. i realise that über a-lister mr styn hardly needs me praising him. and this isn't just because yahoo internet life (the actual article isn't online yet, presumably in the hope that you'll buy the wretched publication) made him their third most hated site on the internet. i hate yahoo nearly as much as i hate aol, so by some mathematical trickery about two negatives making a positive, i must love halcyon.

i owe him two debts. firstly, it was in his essay on independent's day that i first read the word blogger. this was at a time when i was becoming extremely disillusioned with the internet and felt that it had become nothing more than another tool of big business. i discovered, as we all know, that i had been very wrong, that there are an incredible number of talented, creative, intelligent and witty people out there, that exciting things happen here. if i hadn't been intrigued by the guy with the funny name and pink hair, i might still not have found this out.

secondly. i was not looking forward to being thirty. i remembered the girl who, at twenty, had thought she might change the world, and felt that not only had i failed at that, i'd failed rather miserably at making anything much of my life at all. it's difficult to express this to the people who know and love you in real life, because in part, it's an insult to them, as though they are not enough to make your life worthwhile. until reading john's constant celebration of love and creativity pushes me awkwardly to the conclusion that it's only another age to be and enjoy being. and be, the best i can. because what the hell else am i going to do?!

plus you gotta love a man who can make a fifteen meg flash file out of his life.
4/20/2002 05:06:12 PM #

 

you know you're spending too much time on the internet when... (a continuing series) ... you dream that you're buying clipart from mena on ebay.
4/20/2002 03:26:49 PM #

 

my friday five:

1. what's your favorite tv show and why? buffy the vampire slayer. the correct mix of people i lust after (alyson hanigan and anthony stewart head) and b-movie supernaturalism. mmm.
2. who is your favorite television star? is a star different to any old person who's on television?
3. what was your favorite tv show as a child? scooby doo.
4. what show do you think should have been cancelled by now? all soap operas. eastenders especially. the mixture of mundane real life and extreme drama is just... ridiculous.
5. what new show do you hope escapes the axe this season? haven't a clue. i don't think we get new shows in britain, just repeats of dad's army. which i hate.

and considering i hardly watch any television, i am surprised i could answer those.
4/19/2002 07:47:23 AM #

 

sorry, i can't be bothered to put the old stylesheet back. i'll finish it soon. am feeling too fat and lethargic to do it tonight. there are a couple of typos in 100 things and i can't even be bothered to go and put those right.
4/18/2002 10:01:25 PM #

 

on the day after budget day in the uk, halcyon's wrds entry on paying taxes joyfully is worth reading (again).
4/18/2002 12:30:21 AM #

 

if anyone is really, really bored tonight, 100 things about me, the longest meme in the world, are now up.
4/17/2002 11:48:28 PM #

 

my sister bought me this for my birthday. heartily recommended. there are going to be some big changes around here.
4/16/2002 09:59:20 PM #

 

count dracula needs to adopt an heir. i nominate prince edward, the leech. and sophie wessex, the greatest sucker in britain, would make the perfect countess dracula.
4/16/2002 12:15:38 PM #

 

we found this chap at waltham abbey. he's carved from a treetrunk. i should have remembered the name of the artist, but i didn't.
4/16/2002 05:47:09 AM #

 

'i used to have your bad habit', he says.

for a second, i wonder which of my collection he's talking about. waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking that if this and this happens then i'll be out of a job and we'll have no money and have to starve in a box would be favourite. or being slightly drunk and wishing i hadn't given up smoking and sniffing people's cigarettes to see if i could possibly start again. (i can't.)

then i realise he's talking about the way my elbow is sticking into his face in an attempt to get my teeth into a non-existent finger nail. we do the rueful smiling thing. he surveys the backs of his hands.

'i bit mine for fifty years', he says. the neat white line of manicure tops tiny, scarred nails. 'you can tell, huh?'

when he gets off the train, i finish biting my nail. i enjoy it immensely.
4/16/2002 05:35:12 AM #

 

ladies and gentlemen. we have adsl.
find me some lovely big files to download now.
4/15/2002 09:39:36 PM #

 

if with the literate i am
impelled to try an epigram
i never try to take the credit;
we all assume that oscar said it.
[dorothy parker]

wild(e)
4/14/2002 11:18:27 PM #

 

review of year of wonders by geraldine brook.
4/14/2002 04:31:50 PM #

 

my eight from the eighties.

1. do you find yourself making love out of nothing at all? used to. then i met the love of my life. we've made love out of damned hard work. and lots of forgiveness, mainly on his part. every time i feel low, i remember that i must be pretty amazing because the silly fool's stuck with me.
2. all I need is a miracle, all I need is... well, i guess we'll all put win the lottery for this one. so, learn to be content, maybe?
3. if you had to live your life in one day, how would you speed your time away? this is a toughie. how could you bear it? i don't think i could do the saying goodbye to everyone i've loved thing... which leaves me with the option to smack [you] and [you] very hard around the head. gods know, you deserve it.
4. do you get so emotional, baby? terribly. but uncontrollable crying is just the price you have to pay for uncontrollable laughter. to which excuse i am sticking.
5. do you have too much time on your hands? no, definitely not. i would like double the amount of time i have now. or just to not have to go to work. i really do feel like it's a travesty to waste so much time on something so utterly pointless. !
6. sex is natural, sex is fun, sex is best when it's... ...up your bum. no, really, i only said that because it rhymes.
7. is there something I should know? nah, you'd be shocked if i told you. really.
8. (thanks srah!) do you come from a land down under? have you ever been there? no and no. wish i'd been to new zealand before lord of the rings came out though!

come on, join in!
4/14/2002 09:33:59 AM #

 

sometimes england is almost unbearably beautiful.
4/13/2002 02:42:49 PM #

 

today my dsl service goes online. allegedly. it can't find the internet. so i'm still using the old dial-up. except that the all-the-internet-you-can-eat-for-£13-a-month service is vastly oversubscribed. so i can't get on it. so i'm paying for the calls.

it's taken me half an hour to get into blogger.

technology. really. really. sucks. (sometimes.)

update[0]: i upgraded to blogger pro and got straight in. ha ha, no more waiting for other people to stop posting for me! definitely definitely worth $35.

update[1]: while it lets me in to post much more quickly, the slowness publishing seems to be at least equal to the freebie version. will keep you posted.

update[2]: the spellchecking thing thinks that the word blogger is a typo.

update[3]: i still can't get this damn thing to publish. i am really not impressed any more.
4/13/2002 01:38:14 PM #

 

reasons we love jeffrey zeldman, the latest in a long series. he gives us a list of doctypes. in case you were wondering, if you've got a webpage, you need one of these. otherwise the beautiful design that looked so lovely in your browser may just render as complete shite in something else.
4/12/2002 01:06:16 PM #

 

my friday five:

1. what is your favorite restaurant and why? at the moment it's ask in finchley where we went on wednesday. because it's tasty and cheap but feels just a little classy.
2. what fast food restaurant are you partial to? i'm not. unless you count the jacket potato shop down the road from work, where i have a potato with spinach and cottage cheese at least twice a week. i don't do burgers.
3. what are your standards and rules for tipping? i won't tip bad service. otherwise normally ends up around 20%.
4. do you usually order an appetizer and/or dessert? appetizer, not dessert. i have a very savoury tooth.
5. what do you usually order to drink at a restaurant? red wine, which i rarely drink anywhere else.

not much more exciting this week than last either.
4/12/2002 08:33:24 AM #

 

h. b. 2 me, h. b. 2 me, h. b. 2 mee-eee, h. b. 2 me.
4/10/2002 04:11:14 AM #

 

if you haven't already seen what's wrong with this picture, then check it out. might take a minute or more of looking, but you will know.
4/9/2002 10:42:04 PM #

 

i'm a poem!
4/9/2002 04:08:41 AM #

 

you need to read jabberwocky in latin, german and, of course, klingon.
4/9/2002 03:42:54 AM #

 

a found alphabet. even more cool than dean's normal stuff.
4/9/2002 03:14:38 AM #

 

one to watch. make sure you click the validation link at the bottom. quick, before he puts up real content!
4/9/2002 02:21:40 AM #

 

(told you i'd be awake at 3am!)
there has been a distinct lack of non-meme, real content around here recently, and i can tell you why. i'm scared someone might read it. a couple of people from work have taken my email address and looked at the domain name and said, oh do you have a website then? and i want to say, yes but don't read it in case i post about your [foible deleted on lawyer's advice]. similarly, there have been things i've wanted to vent about, and haven't, because i'm pretty sure the people involved read this, and i don't want to expose my hypocrisy.

having said that, i don't want to know who from my real life reads this. i know b does quote sometimes unquote, whatever he meant by that. but i think that if i know for certain that people who might appear in heavy disguise here are reading it, i will not be able to overcome my self-preservative self-censorship and say

publish and be damned. they want to sack me because i've posted about the way they [make it up; the truth is less interesting]? joe-bob doesn't want to speak to me anymore because i've told the world that really [yes, i know; i was shocked too!]? their loss. and, dear reader, your gain.
4/9/2002 02:18:02 AM #

 

i lost my monday virginity:

1. when was the last time your computer crashed? what happened? yesterday; i had too many windows open. it happens once a day. i've stopped counting. i need more ram. b, are you reading this?!
2. recommend a movie (new or old) for us to watch. the wicker man, if you haven't seen it. comparative religion.
3. when was the last time someone told you that you were attractive (and you actually believed them)? last wednesday, on my way home from work, a bloke staggered out of the pub and told me i was beautiful. i believed him because it was nice.
4. do you like to sleep in or wake up with the chickens? at the moment, i wake around 3am. my body clock is constantly wrong though. next week, will be sleep til midday.
5. are you gay, straight or bi? ever been tempted to go the other way? i'm married to a bloke. have been the other way and it was marvellous. i don't believe in this as a definition: i'm just sexual.
6. what will be the next computer-related purchase you will make? will be a pressie in two days' time!
7. what is your role when you are in relationships? a giver, a taker, or is it an equal balance? a bully. the one who acts like she doesn't need you. the one who, when she feels secure, gets bored.
8. bonus: would I lie to you? why not? i'd lie to you!

hmm i think that was interesting...
4/8/2002 08:44:35 PM #

 

review of fool's errand by robin hobb.
4/7/2002 04:55:39 PM #

 

my eight from the eighties:

1. are you true blue? as one of the thatcher generation, i can't help but assume this question is political. and therefore, no, i'm red and green stripes.
2. when's the last time you went steppin' out? i'm more of a shuffler, myself.
3. what's something your parents just don't understand? where they went so wrong. the only thing they brought me up to do was love jesus, and i just don't.
4. what are sweet dreams made of? warm sun, cold wine, deep lush grass, lethargy...
5. are you prone to burning down the house? strangely, no. the number of times i've put food on to cook and then forgotten about it, you would have think i had a long arson career, but so far, not.
6. it's the end of the world as you know it. how do you feel? i feel fine. i have these fantasies where the doomsday-for-the-human-race thing happens and i'm the only one left alive... and moving right along there... i once used this quote as the title of a college paper on anglo-saxon millennarianism. sadly that was the only good thing about the paper.
7. are you going to wang chung tonight? nooo... i'll maybe go to the pub though.
8. (thanks mikey!) why can't I get, just one... ? new job. i only want one, for goodness' sake! (would help if i got off my fat arse and looked for one...)

4/7/2002 08:53:31 AM #

 

and because the onion missed this one, here's the news story of the week:
101 year old woman dies: world in shock
4/6/2002 05:04:26 PM #

 

happiness is an email like this:
dear ms muchly
thank you for your recent pipex xtreme application. we are pleased to confirm that we have received your paperwork and have started the order process.
the conversion of your telephone line to adsl should be complete within 7 working days.
yay. bye bye dialup. i'm sooo happy.
4/6/2002 04:21:33 PM #

 

the bad thing about replacing the vinyl with cd is over there, in an envelope with the credit card company logo on it. the good thing is that i'm listening to things i haven't listened to for years. and fuck me, but king of america is a good album. i always forget this because it gets overshadowed by blood and chocolate, which has on it the only song that i remember exactly the moment when i first heard it. janice long did the 7pm to 10pm show on radio 1 and was intensively educating my 14 year old self in what sort of music to like. she played i want you. there was a silence. a gulp. a small voice saying shakily, i think i'll just play that again. and she did.
4/6/2002 10:13:01 AM #

 

though i have to feel suspicious of any test that asks if you would leave school if you could, i can't help being delighted with the result.
stolen from snarkywench.
how much of a freak are you?
4/6/2002 09:18:32 AM #

 

the internet mapping project is an excellent idea. everytime someone hits that page, another dot is added... you can see the beginnings of northern europe and america now. make dots and spread the love.
4/5/2002 03:31:48 PM #

 

pcs will not play celine dion's new cd. and who can blame them? i'd rather eat chilli ice cream.
4/5/2002 12:21:04 PM #

 

hmm. ebay's on its weekly shut down. blogger's servers are overwhelmed. coincidence?
4/5/2002 09:41:33 AM #

 

my friday five:

1. what are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day? drink coffee. don't function without it.
2. what are the last things that you do at night before going to bed? check the internet's still there, remove makeup, clean teeth.
3. what daily routine have you recently added to your day? remembering and being sober enough to remove makeup.
4. what routine do you wish you get rid of? anything involving housework. which i never do anyway...
5. what's the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don't do it some point within your day? computer stuff. i'm such a nethead.

and, thanks to the wonder of british summer time, i now only have to get up at 6am to do these too! shame they're so damn boring.
4/5/2002 05:02:37 AM #

 

i like this. i found it here.

countdown

nine things you wear daily:

1. glasses
2. lip balm
3. mascara
4. wedding ring
5. bra
6. jeans
7. hair additives
8. toenail polish
9. my attitude

eight movies you'd watch over and over:

1. the wicker man
2. blue velvet
3. bill and ted's excellent adventure
4. the others
5. the pit and the pendulum
6. the royal tennenbaums
7. wild at heart
8. a knight's tale

seven albums that matter:

1. david grey : white ladders
2. elvis costello : blood and chocolate
3. ocean colour scene : moseley shoals
4. emerson, lake and palmer : pictures at an exhibition
5. leonard cohen : i'm your man
6. sex pistols : anarchy in the uk
7. art garfunkel : fate for breakfast

six objects you touch every day:

1. computer keyboard
2. coffee mug
3. shower
4. the book i'm reading
5. bank card
6. passenger-side car door

five things you do every day:

1. check email
2. blog
3. drink coffee
4. kiss b
5. read

four bands/singers that you couldn't live without:

1. leonard cohen
2. suzanne vega
3. the kinks
4. xtc

three of your favorite songs at this moment:

1. marilyn manson : tainted love
2. badly drawn boy : silent sigh
3. travis : flowers in the window

two people that have influenced your life the most:

1. st. paul
2. j r r tolkien

one thing you could spend the rest of your life with:

1. b

memo to self: start posting real content, not just memes. and coming up in not very long, the friday five.
4/4/2002 08:01:10 AM #

 

see comments to post before last. people screwing dogs can be found here, here, here, here... oh god i'm really bored. i can't afford to sign up for the proper porn but there is definitely person on dog stuff at each of those links.
4/3/2002 10:08:48 PM #

 

kottke has a mini-interview with g. beato, the proprieter of cooking with bigfoot. while g.'s thoughts on making the independent web financially viable are interesting, skip on by until you've seen his cartoons. definitely worth a subscription.
4/3/2002 12:28:31 PM #

 

this is a great story. internet porn is falling in popularity and being overtaken by ecommerce. yep, the internet is not just a place for looking at pictures of people fucking dogs. (let's see what that sentence does to my search engine results...)
4/2/2002 06:52:23 PM #

 

what more can i say?
4/1/2002 02:45:16 PM #

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