Monthly Archives: March 2001

I heard about this a while back and was dead chuffed to get the following forwarded to me today… Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase which they will stitch onto your shoes, under … Continue reading →

I’ve re-done, and updated, my reading list. Funnily enough I’ve been reading a lot more since feeling knackered. Maybe escape is needed?

More net toys. Having had a little AOL Instant Messenger icon at the top of the screen since loading Netscape many moons ago I decided I might as well sign up for it. My AIM name is peteash10. I’m usually … Continue reading →

This is my good friend Dave. Dave works for Mill Film who did the special effects for Gladiator. Dave’s team won an Oscar. I get the feeling Dave’s been waiting for this day since he knew what an Oscar was. … Continue reading →

Went to the doctors but the doctors was closed. Well, at least we have low taxes. That’s something.

Baptist Church of True Truth PLEASE tell me this is a spoof…

I’m going to the doctors’ tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll be able to get an appointment immediately but I’ll make one. Today I was off sick. Thing is I don’t feel ill, just very very tired. Sunday I slept all … Continue reading →

I seem to be having a non-net week. As mentioned on Friday, I’ve been a wee bit tired of late, something that’s been dragging on and off since before Xmas and it’s getting a bit annoying all told. This weekend … Continue reading →

GAPACT has arrived and it is called: Passionate About Bookselling in the form of a nine page document packed full of “quotes” from “booksellers” about increasing sales. God help us all…

This last week I’ve been absolutely fucking exhausted. There’s a big mirror in the lift to our floor with very unforgiving lights and I had a good look at my face last night. I do believe I’m a wreck. Need … Continue reading →

John Peel just read out my email about Bal Sagoth. The last time you played Bal Sagoth it cheered me up for a week and tonight the timing was perfect. I don’t think you’ve made such an important difference to … Continue reading →

You will no doubt be aware of the Anthea Turner autobiography debacle which generated vast quantities of schadenfreude last year when it failed to sell 2000 copies across the country. Well, I have good news. Very good news. The BBC, … Continue reading →

atavar.guardianunlimited.co.uk michael atavar has produced a series for newsprint … [i.e. three dots] archived on the guardian unlimited site. link to each title separately. or read his e-say why? contextualising the work  [blue dot] 50 years on a mcdonalds sign … Continue reading →

In the “boxes from my mother’s attic” were some back issues of Private Eye from the mid 90s. In Eye 861 (16th December 1994) there’s this amusing feature on the Daily Express: The Express turned its gaze on “The Barrons … Continue reading →

Jez has just carried eight tonnes of comics down from his attic… Funnily enough, last weekend, when I was picking up a sofa from Winchester in a big van, my mother gently insisted I remove some of the boxes of … Continue reading →

Well, wadayaknow! My remove-request bounced! So the message can be legally considered spam after all. How nice.

Interesting sig on a piece of blatant spam: This message is sent in compliance with the new email bill section 301. Under Bill S.1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th US Congress, this message cannot be considered SPAM as long … Continue reading →

It seems the rest of the world has discovered the bookseller’s anal hobby of looking for weird texts on the books in print database. What will they make of Garner and Bailey’s masterwork The Law of Sewers and Drains or … Continue reading →

Cook`d And Bomb`d has loads of Chris Morris stuff to download, including whole episodes of his delightful sense-filled ramblings. Get in there.

Muppaphone. Kickass monkey-brain fun! 1812 Overture played on fuzzy balls! (Thanks LMG!)